215-217 Piccadilly,
West End,
London,
W1J 9HN
0871 971 4510
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I totally agree with the comments made below. I too went to see Suzanne Vega yesterday evening. You had the choice of paying £60 for dinner + show or £30 for show only. Now I fully accept that those dining would be sitting but I also expected there to be designated areas for standing. There was limited space along a corridor to the back of the room and everyone else was asked to stand at the bar. So basically you are asked to pay £30 to prop up against the bar and then be shoved out of the way by passing waiters every few seconds as they continue to serve the diners. As the view from the bar was terrible, people began chatting loudly throughout the set and all in all, I don't think anybody was happy, the diners were annoyed at having people stand over their tables whilst they ate and with the noise and those standing were appalled that they'd paid to see a show they couldn't really see at all.
The venue should be beautiful but it is spoiled by the way you are treated by staff, the lack of provision made and courtesy shown to those that have paid to be there and the extortionate price of the drinks. A real shame.
Don't pay for standing tickets at this venue. Went here with some friends to see Susanne Vega and the experience was awful. Essentially you are crowded at the back of a restaurant with almost no view of the stage and continuously harassed by irritable waiters ordering you out of their way. All for £30! Not only that but you'll pay £8 for a gin and tonic. If this place allocated room in view of the stage for the standing tickets they sell, halved the price of drinks and employed staff with some actual manners, then maybe it would be worth the money. As it is they are just ripping people off.
I went to Pigalle's as part of a birthday party. I'd been lead to believe that this is a classy, upmarket establishment, so expected the staff to be efficient, yet they seemed to have no idea which area of the club they had previously agreed to reserve for us. They explained that it was a difficult bit of administration for them, as they had 2 reservations that evening. Eventually it turned out to be a tiny corner, next to the toilet. We had a table which could comfortably sit 5 people, leaving our party of 30 rather cramped. The smell from the toilet was fairly overpowering at times and went a long way to ruining the mood of the evening, not to mention the band, who came out with gems like "We're going to play some rubbish songs now, so we can save the good ones for later" (PRO-TIP: Learn more good songs!)
Drink prices are extortionate, which would be acceptable if there was something amazing about the rest of the venue. Sadly there isn't.
I feel that 1 star is a little generous, sadly the website won't let me choose 0.
I had read some bad reviews of the Pigalle Club after I booked dinner there for my other half's birthday. If I had read the reviews before booking I would have gone elsewhere but I am very glad I didn't.
The staff were very friendly, polite and efficient. The food was good, certainly had far worse for the same or more money. Drinks were expensive but again no more than most places.
I will go back to Pigalle when there is someone playing who I want to see and feel like treating myself. Oh and my other half liked the place as well.
I went to the Pigalle Club for a friends birthday (she was performing there for the occaision) and it was fantastic! She and her band deinitely made the evening, but the house band was also upbeat and funky. There were loads of people there, but it wasn't over crowded.
Also there were loads of attractive people at Pigalle. You feel very classy when you go there, but make sure you get others to pay, it's way expensive!
The Pigalle Club was quite a disappointing night out. The band was great, the food was okay and some of the staff were moderately friendly. However a very unfriendly and rude bar manager managed to make the experience very unpleasant. Some confusion over drinks prices prompted a really unprovoked tirade from this man which was extremely upsetting. And it didn't stop there - he made sure to approach us again at the end of the night as we waited in the cloakroom queue to make some more snide remarks!
London is a very busy place at this time of the year but I have never come across as rude a person working in bar or club as this man. I would advise not going to Pigalle Club unless you want to be treated like a piece of dirt on someone's shoe!
I celebrated my 30th birthday at The Pigalle Club on Saturday night and thought the place was amazing! Although we had a small confusion at the beginning with my tables they were soon sorted out.
The service was a little amateur but the food at The Pigalle Club was great - despite me being worried about this due to several bad reviews I had read. The band were amazing and everyone got up to dance. We had two great tables and although the bill was high it was worth it for the special occassion.
I'd say don't be put off by the bad reviews...if you want a great night out with sophistication and something different then try The Pigalle!
If the music at The Pigalle Club was nice and the surroundings quite charming, the standard of the food was appalling! Industrial pate they named foie gras to start, hardly edible fishes as a main. For the sake of our stomach, we did not even bother to see what dessert means to the chef.
The service at The Pigalle Club was really poor, we hardly saw a smile, we almost felt like apologising to be there. Of course, everything was over-priced (we should even be paid to eat that food). We felt sorry for the dating couples around. What a waste of time and money!
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