![]() ![]() You can either take a seat and have a meal, or order some tasting plates and have a light snack with your drinks, to energize you for a night or partying. The Tao also offers a restaurant selection of Asian fusion cuisine. The bar includes no seating and wraps around in a horseshoe shape, making it easy to order drinks. The seating is mostly open benches, which encourages mingling and talking, but there are some options of smaller tables. If you feel that there is not enough energy when you first arrive, stop, have something to eat, and wait a few hours. The music starts out quite soft earlier in the night, to cater to the restaurant clientele, and builds up as the night progresses, turning into more of a party atmosphere. The dance floor is reasonably sized, and when it's packed you will feel an atmosphere really getting going. It makes for perfect lounging to have a nice drink at the end of a long day, catch up with friends, or meet new people. ![]() The booths are fairly comfortable, upholstered in pleather and with plenty of room for individuals or groups to gather round or spread out, enjoying the environment as they please. The decor in Tao Club New York is basically a work of art in and of itself. The warmth of tea lights and chandeliers and the roughness of the bricks in this New York nightclub creates an amazing blend of textures and colours that will leave you wowed. Combining graffiti portraits of traditionally dressed East Asian women with club lighting and disco balls makes for an amazing environment. You will find the red and gold tones of the building from the outside quite inviting, and you will feel drawn inside. Both are ran by the same people and to the same standard, so where you go just depends on your personal preference or where you happen to be at the time. ![]() ![]() There are actually two Tao clubs, one uptown and one down town. The manager was apologetic and offered desserts but by this point we just wanted to leave, eventually after some discussion items were removed from the bill and we left, so very disappointed.Tao Club in New York is an Asian bistro and nightclub. Finally when asked if all was ok Our waiters attitude was so poor, he was rude and arrogant to our complaints and walked away without discussion, he returned with a menu to point out that we had ordered appetisers, then offered the dessert menu, when we asked for the bill nothing had been taken off as good will for the poor food or service, when we said we were unhappy to pay the full amount he stormed off to get the manager. When we received our remaining dishes they were off poor quality, the pad Thai was overly sweet and lacking flavour, the jasmine rice hard and cold, like it had been sitting for hours, the coconut shrimp was ok but again cold, our order of jasmine rice was unnecessary due to the prawns being dry, I would have expected the waiter to advise of this to allow us to have made an adequate selection. We received 2 of our 5 dishes, which were luke warm, we expected the other dishes, but were told there was not enough room so they had decided to serve separately. We decided to share a number of dishes and took some advice from the waiter on which to try including appetisers and items from the main menu, we asked for it all to come together. We were seated on a very small table in the main dining area, which was fine, we were happy to be seated. Just after 8 we were going to leave and were advised our table would be ready shortly. At 7:30 we asked how long until a table would be ready to be advised we could use the table we were sitting at until 8, not acceptable and told them we would wait for a proper table as the ones in the bar are sofas and coffee type tables. On asking one of the staff we could use a reserved table until 8pm, fine we thought, we'll have a table by then. We went to get a drink in the bar but had to wait for a seat as even though we were early 6:30, all tables in the bar were reserved. On arrival there was an issue with our booking, it had been cancelled, originally we had booked via open table but decided to call to book directly instead, which we believed to have been done and spoke with the staff who confirmed on an email, with no booking we were advised they could fit us in if we could wait which we did. To start on a positive the venue is absolutely stunning, a definite experience and a must visit, only for a drink just to have a look as I don't think you would see many places like Tao, sadly we now know that to be good an bad. We booked back in November as a special night out to celebrate joint 40th birthday whilst in NYC and were highly disappointed. ![]()
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