Riff Raff’s

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What to expect from me:
1.Complimentary entry on my guestlist.
2. Complimentary vodka & champagne at your VIP table.
3. Skip the queue.
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Trying to go to this place was literally the biggest mistake of my life. Me and my cousin were denied entrance because we are black. While we were standing online, one of the bouncers abruptly asked us to get off the line with no explanation. We asked him why multiple times and he finally said it’s just because they don’t want you in there. We are among only white people, but we were the only two people asked to get off the line. It was heart breaking, we were so confused. This is something that I honestly had to share because this is pure racism. Oh and I forgot to mention that the bouncer called us bitches TWICE for no reason.

I have been out to several nightclubs around NYC and there is nothing that compares to Riff Raffs. This place is well known for the tribal face paint they put on their guests, the giant tiki group drink and the great girl: guy ratio.
When I arrived with my friends, already having booked a reservation on the Riff Raffs Website, I was greeted by a VIP host immediately. The coach check is conveniently located right when you walk in & they were helpful suggesting to take a picture of the ticket in case I lost the ticket. We then walked right in skipping the line outside and were brought to our table. The table was pre-​set w straws, napkins, glasses, 3 mixers (cranberry juice, orange juice & club soda). Our waitress was standing next to our table upon our arrival and was very personable.
We then got our bottles that we ordered within a few minutes.
Overall our experience for the night was amazing. The party was filled with great energy and the crowd was enjoying the open-​format music all night. All of the staff was very friendly and hospitable to our needs. I’d highly recommend my friends to going to Riff Raffs. Five Stars!

ZERO STAR IF I COULD!
steer clear of this place. first time i went, it was just all underage or privileged little girls & boys. the doormen are rude and denied me entry the second time. mind you. i’m not fat, my hair was done, i’m in proper clothes & heels but yet turned away cause one of the door guys was racist. lol. mind you, i have no problem getting into upscale places from vegas to miami to international clubs to here. i decided to go there because my friend wanted to go there. the inside is small and not even remotely close to upscale so i don’t know why they were being selective. after being denied entry, so i took my money and drop it at Marquee instead… which is a MUCH BETTER club than this whole in the wall called «riff raff’s». save yourself the headache! go somewhere else that’s worth spending your money on. and oh, if the owner is reading this… please fired your entire staff. we will never be back there ever again and i do hope your lowkey underage business fail soon. kisses.

The staff were incredibly rude and condescending… not a great vibe

I’m not sure why so many people are hating on this place. The staff was extremely friendly. I can see your experience being really different depending on the crowd that night since it is a small place, so just make sure to come with a good group of people you actually want to hang out with. Duh.

I’m not sure what the hype is. Maybe it was fun at some point but it seemed like a lot of trashy people from Jersey — I’m from there, so I’d know. The door men try to make it seem exclusive and difficult to get into but the people who get in are not interesting or extraordinary by any measure.

Ok, so hear me out people. So, Riff Raff’s used to be one of the hottest NYC club to get into… like years ago — maybe even a year or two ago, but today — not soooo much. I’ve been here recently for a birthday and it has fallen waaaay back. Here are some issues you will encounter going to Riff Raff in this day and age:
1) This club is filled with washed-​up or extremely young college promoters. So every table you will see is pretty much a promoter table. Their table will include a wide range of people you don’t want to hang out with and the infamous enormous tiki drink that’s filled with overly sweet corn syrup jungle-​juice plus cheap vodka that will guarantee a nasty hangover like you never had + possibility of some disease from sharing all those straws with random strangers. TIP: LOOKS LIKE A GREAT IDEA BUT DON’T DO IT!!! DON’T DO IT FOR THE ‘GRAM, DON’T DO IT FOR THE SNAPCHAT. No matter how drunk you are… go make /​buy yourself a drink. You’re welcome.
2) Everyone getting so damn excited about getting paint on their face (really, mostly tourists and underaged girls and people who don’t know any better). The novelty wears off… like reallyyyy fast. Everyone in the club does not look good drunk with face paint on… it’s actually pretty scary. Also, it’s really a bitch to get the paint off, especially at 4AM, and I know half you people don’t wash your face when you’re drunk.
3) Creepy ass dudes. And you can’t run away, because the club is small.

Well…
1) None of the girls who come with promoters dance, and if you dance they will frown upon you
2) if you don’t come with the «regular girls» they will look down upon you and try to make you leave their table even if you come with the same promoter
3) I just got back from the doctor’s because my ears have been beeping since Friday night when I went there, cus the music is so loud, and I now have a mild case of tinnitus. HOW FUCKING AMAZING.

I am rarely so unimpressed with a place that I feel it necessary to write a review, but this place is that bad. The club is subpar at best, the doormen are super rude to patrons and they pack that place way too tight. Hope they figure it out, the competition is steep and riff raffs sucks.

I feel like I need some sort of «I Survived _​_​_​_​_​«t-​shirt for this place. Because really, my time here wasn’t as much about living as it was about surviving. I think 2.5 stars is about right for this place, but this is quite dependent on whether or not you have a table. If I came here to fend for myself, I’m fairly certain I would have knocked this down a star.
NOTE: This is coming from someone who strongly anti-​clubbing and had never been to a club in NYC before Friday night.
So, I came to Riff Raff’s this past weekend for a friend’s birthday. I read the reviews beforehand, so I was prepared to face impossibly rude staff and an impossibly small space. Both of these things did in fact materialize while I was here (though nothing abominable happened with the bouncers, I will give them credit for, I suppose, being only subtly brutish as opposed to unnecessarily so?). I headed over to the space with two friends who are also averse to clubbing, so thankfully I was among my people.
I will say that the bouncers scan IDs, so the reviews about this place being full of 18-​year-​olds are a bit suspect. I was also very cognizant of what the crowd was like once inside, and I didn’t get the sense that it was littered with underage folk.
While my friend did indeed have a table, calling it a «table» is a bit of a stretch. The best word I can think of would be «platform». Or, the cruder «mini alcohol island». You get the point: it’s a small platform with tons of glasses/​bottles packed precariously close together. The crowd around the table is, as one would expect, also packed precariously close together. From a distance, this looks dangerous in so many ways. Plunging down like vultures on a carcass, club-​goers fill and re-​fill their glasses with vodka, OJ, Patron, cranberry juice, champagne and the like. So not only is this dangerous because chances are, you will end up drunker than you bargained for, but given the sheer surface area of the «table» (or lack thereof), I imagine that spillage is quite a common occurrence here. In any case, getting a table here IS a better deal, because you can get plenty buzzed without buying drinks at the bar.
Re: the space itself. It is, as many have reported, oddly small. Maybe my imagination was misinformed, but I always pictured clubs in the city to be massive. I get the sense that Riff Raff’s just happens to be smaller than most. They pull a nifty little mirror trick in the back of the establishment to create the illusion that the space is bigger than it is, so it’s doesn’t seem *quite* as claustrophobic as it would seem otherwise. It’s still a shame though, because I love dancing and there wasn’t much room to do so here. I did manage, though, which was a lot of fun once I stopped caring about how ridiculous I look dancing (i.e. disinhibition i.e. symptom of drunkenness).
Finally, music. I *did* enjoy the DJ, but again, this only started to set in once the effects of the alcohol started to set in. Upon entering, all I could hear was earthquake-​level bass. I think my issue with this place is that it only becomes fun once you’re properly inebriated. Several friends have told me similar things about Riff Raff’s. I’m all for going out, having some great cocktails, dancing the night away, etc., but I’m never going to endorse a place that seems to revolve around excessive consumption of alcohol. Some may argue that that’s New York for you, but I’ve been to a LOT of bars in the city, and I’ve never experienced anything quite like this.
Again, take my review with a grain of salt: this was my FIRST club experience in New York, and this review is coming from someone who has never liked the idea of clubbing to begin with. To each his/​her own.

Worst staff. The doormen were rude with no customer service/​respect. Never going back due to their attitudes. I had a group of friends inside with a table and I arrived separately. The bouncers did not let me in and claimed they didn’t know the promoter, however the promoter came out a few minutes later and they clearly knew who he was. The first couple times I’ve been here I had a great time since the music was good and the face painting was a cool toich, but this last time completely ruined it for me and my group.

It you are over the age of 19, I’d stay clear of this place. The guy in line of front of me last night looked so young, he might as well have had his «sports themed» bar mitzvah at Chelsea Piers last week.

I love dancing, and I love clubbing. I did not love Rif Raff’s.
A group of us came in as guests of one of the promoters which was great. Free access to bottle service should always be a good thing; however, standing at the end table near the entrance ensured a night of being stepped on by every person coming and going, and every server with ice buckets, bottles and mops. Lots of people pissy from the get go. Why did a friend and I get firmly shoved when someone was walking through our table’s area? No idea. Let’s class it up ladies and gents.
The place is tiny inside, and the tiki theme was lost on me until I read about it in reviews. I assumed at first the face paint had to do with some sporting event.
Music was meh. Quick snippets of some top 40, some 90s throwback, and some unknown other stuff whose beat wasn’t always that exciting.
Probably a guy’s paradise. Tons of ladies — though for a door that tries to make people wait so long I expected people to be a bit more nicely dressed.
Been, seen, done.

After going clubbing in LA and NYC, they have a lot of similarities with the lines, bouncers’ behavior, and «system» to get in. However, if you don’t mind that and just want to dance — that’s the club life. I’d try to find a promoter or bottle-​buying friend for the hassle-​free experience.
I came here for the afterparty of the office’s holiday party and it was SO much fun! A co-​worker got a table by the DJ. Lots of vodka, too much fun. The bottle service girls come around with highlighter paint and they paint your face. Apparently there’s a tiki-​theme.
The DJ was amazing! This is probably why people keep coming. They played progressive house and always kept the party going. There were a lot of people celebrating something that night.
Fun night!

Came here this past weekend for a bachelorette party. I have to say, looking at the reviews beforehand made me very nervous about going… I would say that all of the reviews are pretty accurate.
The bouncers are jerks. They literally checked all of our feet to make sure we were wearing heels. They made us stand out in the 18 degree weather for 10 mins even though the club was empty when we finally got in. The one guy in our group had to pay a $ 40 cover to get in. They also kept calling all the women ‘females’ which is a huge pet peeve of mine. I actually stood up to the bouncer on that one and he called us women from then on which was nice.
We had everything set up with a promoter, so all us girls got in for free and we had a table with a free bottle of vodka which was really awesome! I actually don’t drink vodka so I went to the bar to see how much drinks were… wells were $ 18. Ridiculous so I didn’t get one and decided to stay sober for the night. I was probably the only sober person in the whole place but it made for some great people watching. And I still had fun!
DJ was actually really good! Played a lot of Jay Z which I love. Place got pretty packed… kind of a hot mess. The ratio of girls to guys is like 4:1. All of the girls look 19 and all of the guys look like rich frat boys spending their allowance money. A lot of people seemed like they were on drugs. My group stuck out like a sore thumb because we didn’t have 10 pounds of make-​up on or our hair perfectly curled.
Overall it was a fun experience for me because I got in for free. But seeing how expensive everything was here, if I had paid this would be a 1 star review. I would only go back if I had the hookup again.

Guys, have some respect, find a better establishment.
Showed up at 2am, was required to pay a $ 450.00 tab to enter without seeing the vibe when I was with a small group. Once you get inside, you’ll find its small, crowded and the music is only decent. By all accounts, Its AVERAGE when compared to other NYC venues. They offer face paint, but so does the street fair. After living in LA and frequenting NYC venues, this has to be the bottom of the barrel doorman douchery.
Please do yourself a favor, get your face painted somewhere else and support establishments that hire quality staff members.
Overall, I would give this zero stars and have a round table discussion on business management. Management, please contact me, I’d love to discuss how you treat paying customers

A tiki-​themed club in the Flatiron district?! WHAT?! I arrived around 12:30 on a Thursday night to meet some co-​workers who had a table in the back. The line out the door wasn’t really a line, more like a cluster. Thankfully one of my co-​workers was outside smoking so he was able to get me I’m pretty quickly.
I checked my coat (the coat check attended recommends taking a picture of your ticket with your phone because… no ticket no coat. We then whipped our way all the way through the club past the bar to the back where we had a table with bottles. This was my first experience with bottle service so it was all a bit overwhelming. I was also basically sober (everyone had been drinking at Riff Raff for an hour plus a holiday before that) but I loosened up quickly.
The DJ was great… the sound quality was great. The music was on point. Great mix of house and dance club music. Current songs, remixes etc. the crowd was definitely feeling it. The crowd was rowdy and dancing up on the couches, tribal face paint on (sorry I missed that). The pomp and circumstance around bottle service is crazy to witness. Sparklers shooting out of the bottles… it’s completely over the top and amazing at the same time. The staff/​servers at Riff Raff definitely put on a show, if you’re willing to pay for it anyway. Luckily my name/​credit card was not on this tab.
Speaking of the staff and servers… cheers to them. They had to push through the crowd to get to our tables and were total professionals. Handling all of the drunkenness like they have to I guess they have no choice. The drinks, mixers and garnishes kept coming and fresh glasses were always in ready supply. Kudos to the bussers who cleared dirty glasses away quickly and often.
Needless to say, I had a blast. Definitely an experience to remember.