Boogalou
Venue Brief
Ponce de Leon Avenue restaurant-lounge in Midtown serving soul-food plates, crab legs and hookah, then turning up the hip-hop and R&B for weekend nights.
Venue Details
- Vibe
- UpbeatCasualDancing
- Age guide
- 25-45
- Dress code
- Smart Casual
- Cuisine
- AmericanSeafood
- Demographic
- LocalsYoung Professionals
- Music genre
- Hip HopR&BOld School Hits
- Price
- $$$$
- Open season
- Year-round
- Clientele
- LocalsAmerican
- Offerings
- Table ServiceShishaValet
- Open times
- Mon 4 PM – 1 AMTue 4 PM – 1 AMWed 4 PM – 1 AMThu 4 PM – 1 AMFri 4 PM – 3 AM BestSat 11:30 AM – 3 AM BusySun 11:30 AM – 12 AM
- Vibe score
- 5.3 / 10
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About Boogalou
Swings hang in place of stools along part of the bar, tufted orange banquettes line the walls and chandeliers run the length of the long room, which makes Boogalou easy to recognise in guest photos. The kitchen covers Southern comfort food with a seafood lean: lobster tails, snow crab legs, fried chicken, collard greens, mac and cheese and fish tacos all recur in reviews and pictures. Happy hour draws an after-work crowd on weekdays, and it stays open until 1am Monday to Thursday. On Friday and Saturday it runs until 3am, and the room turns into a lounge party with hip-hop and R&B and hookah at the tables; weekend doors open at 11:30am. Opinions split on service: table servers get praise, while several recent reviewers describe curt bartenders and one paid $53 for a burnt hookah. A dress code applies at night. Google puts it at 3.7 from nearly 2,700 reviews.
