Club Café
Venue Brief
South End bistro and video bar on Columbus Avenue, a long-running LGBTQ+ gathering place that moves from dinner and drag shows to dancing on weekend nights.
Venue Details
- Vibe
- Live ShowsUpbeatDancingCasual
- Age guide
- 21-3025-45
- Dress code
- Casual
- Cuisine
- American
- Demographic
- LocalsYoung Professionals
- Music genre
- Commercial HitsHouse
- Price
- $$$$
- Open season
- Year-round
- Clientele
- LocalsAmerican
- Offerings
- Table ServiceBrunchPrivate Dining
- Open times
- Mon 4 PM – 12 AMTue 4 PM – 12 AMWed 4 PM – 12 AMThu 4 PM – 12 AMFri 4 PM – 2 AM BestSat 11 AM – 2 AM BusySun 11 AM – 12 AM
- Vibe score
- 8.2 / 10
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About Club Café
The front of the house is a bistro with white tablecloths, a piano and street-facing windows; further back, a video bar with screens and a small stage hosts drag and cabaret shows before the late crowd takes over. Hours run from 4 PM on weekdays and from 11 AM for Saturday and Sunday brunch, served buffet-style, and the bar stays open until 2 AM on Fridays and Saturdays. The kitchen covers comfort food and bar plates, from brie-smothered disco fries to shepherd's pie and poke bowls, at around $20–30 a head. Music is chart pop and dance remixes, and reviewers who come for it call it excellent, though one warns that this is a bar and restaurant first rather than a full club. Several queer women report heavy-handed treatment from staff and security. Google rates it 4.0 from over 1,400 reviews.
