Now That’s Class Lounge

Xmas eve and im here, end of 2015. Nowhere id rather be. Embedded smell of partying in the air, tunes mellow as can be. Merry Xmas! Til next year.

A living hell. All the workers are grouchy bitches, they’re boss is some cross dresser named Baby Jane, it’s nice that the owner hires mentally deficient girls, but they shouldn’t be serving drinks.

The bartenders don’t ignore you, the interior is what’d you’d expect. The touring bands and indoor skate park make this place unique.

Melanie is awesome and very beautiful, she’s very attentive and the calamari (Thai Peanut) is amazing… I’ll definitely be back!

My first visit to NTC did not disappoint. Drunk lady passed out on the bar? Check. Intoxicated crackheads advocating keeping other crackheads out of the bar? Double-​check. Girl from a band brushing her teeth in the bathroom? Triple-​check. Dirt cheap drinks and a random, indoor skateboarding ramp? All the checks.
The bartender was a sweet little lady with an English accent. Go see her on Wednesdays and she’ll take great care of you. The riff-​raff was on point and quite entertaining, yet she handled it with poise and grace. Just about the only thing I didn’t like were the guys who smelled the entire bar up with body-​odor, slinging racial slurs in Italian like it was A-​OK to be an a-​hole. Nope. But they aren’t the regular clientele.
Can’t wait to come back to this divey piece of awesome.

This is a dive bar paradise. I fell in love as soon as I walked in. The bartenders aren’t dicks and know how to pour a good drink. You might catch the hep from the bathrooms, but that’s part of the charm.

Came on tour and a year later I still think back on the gig fondly. One of the coolest venues in the midwest. There’s a friggin’ half quarter pipe in the room where the bands play. Highlights: Ate a solid vegan cheesesteak. Drank some cheap booze. Management was friendly/​accommodating.
Now That’s Class rules.

All my best memories (and the nights I cant remember hah) are thanks to this shitty little paradise. Awesome beer prices, kickass shows, bizarre conversations to have and weirdos to party with. Vegan nite on tuesday is soo delicious. And now on Wednesday’s Richard makes incredibly delicious handmade pupusas on a little griddle!
I love when they have random themed parties like the luau party forever ago with a hottub the parking lot! And fun stuff like sweatpants sundays. Horrible fest was what we all looked forward to every year… this year its called «not horrible fest» haha. But I’m sure itll be super rad either way. Bartenders make strong ass drinks and treat you like an actual human bean haha… and drink specials are always on point. Ya cant beat 4 dollar shots of good bourbon either. Oh, and the jukebox is amazing too.

The scuzziest of the scuzz-​punk bars. And I wouldn’t have it any other way. Great place to see wasted youth and chair slamming.
Stay for Mr. California’s Happy Hour!

Drinking here often will have you wondering at every other bar you go to, «wait, is there vodka in this?»

Cheap booze. Good music. Great live shows. This bar keeps it real. One of my favorite.

Skateboarding welcomed with their indoor ramp. Live music in the basement. This is a place for me.

Best bar in Cleveland hands down. Cheap booze, a gig every night, the ultimate jukebox and gnarly quarter pipes to skate. The home of punk in Cleveland. Join the fam

I’m not really sure what to make of this place yet.
it’s super super grungy. like to an extreme.
I’m just here for the delicious homemade vegan food.
I really don’t fit in with the people who are regularly here. I walk in all confident, and then the longer I stay the more ridiculous I feel. drinking helps alleviate that of course, but the thought is always there.
it’s alright. the delicious vegan food makes up for it.
the music is always friggin weird tho. don’t really know what to think of that too. it’s sounds like experimental music all the time. which basically is just noise. i mean yeah everything is noise, but it sounds like just noise, not music…
anyway, i’ll be back here tuesdays. like the other dude said, don’t know when veganism and punk rock became a thing but whatever.

We went to see Off With Their Heads the other day and had a great time. I’ve always been a fan of the skate ramps you can sit on during a show. Very cool.
The sound is good for such a small venue and I always have fun when I’m here. Of course the bathrooms could be better but that’s true of most small punk clubs. Am I right or am I right, eh?
NTC has a fair beer selection at good prices. Overall, one of the better small venues.

Met up with some old friends here and they have great beers and whiskey to drink. If you dont like this place your a dick… I dont know when veganism and punk rock came together but whatever. I leave that up to the college kids and hippies. The lyrics to «College Boy» by Sheer Terror sum it up the best. You will hear everything from Mr. California to Parkers west coast hip hop here. Its always a blast. Ill just bring a pack of raw hot dogs in and eat em on the shitter next time if I get hungry…

Went to this place Friday 25JAN around 7−8pm. It was darker inside than it was outside!!! Really, the only way I could find the bar was by the light of the two people on their laptops sitting at a table! I love going to vegetarian places, so this was a HUGE disappointment!!! After waiting a few minutes for service at an empty bar I left.
NEVER AGAIN!

Definitely not a bad place, as long as you know what to expect!
It’s pretty obvious that most of the patrons are «punk,» and most of the music is, as well. I happened to go on a night when the music was not punk music so I had a good time, but my first trip there, I kind of hated the music and it killed it for me. Could just be me, though, and if you like that music, you’ll have fun!
It was pretty clean when I went there but also not super busy. They have a nice front patio and a back space, too. The concert area is fairly small but good if it’s not crowded. Cool décor and even some skate ramps, which is neat. Overall, not a bad place.

Seen two shows here: A Wilhelmina Scream and Teenge Bottlerocket. Will be back for more! Cool venue, skate park and bar.
Everything however, is a crumbling dive.

Nothing says Sunday Funday like a good Vegan brunch. NTC has one of the best of them!
We were greeted by Louis CK on the huge projector screen and little bits of paper that helped guide us towards the perfect vegan Bloody Mary (btw, can vegan and bloody really be used in the same sentence?). I ordered mine with a salad; a whole stalk of celery, pickle, olives, okra and some vegan beef jerky that tasted suspiciously like jerky. The Bloody was delicious and they had plenty of options for hot sauce, wasabi, etc.
For «brunch,» which, btw, starts at 3pm like a good rocker bar’s brunch should, I ordered the BBQ Tofu. Served warm on a ciabatta bread, I was very pleased with it’s BBQ/​Buffalo sauce taste. Most everyone else at my table got the sausage, egg and cheese sandwiches which again, tasted suspiciously like sausage, egg and cheese sandwiches. It makes me wonder what’s in normal sausage that makes it so easy to mimic without meat. I think that’s the point?
The sides all looked good and my only complaint is that maybe I wasn’t exactly feeling $ 5 worth full, but then again, I’m not exactly well versed on the price of vegan meats and tofus. Having another Bloody… or two, helped, and then we played Mortal Combat to further distract us from the fact that we had that «not so full» feeling.
Anther side note: It may smell a little strange and be a dive punk bar but it’s really not that bad when it’s day-​time and the lights pouring through the glass block windows. I was pleasantly surprised! I think I may be partaking in their vegan fare more often and not just using NTC as an occasional stop on bike-​night.