La Danse

About La Danse

Neon script on a hedge wall and purple uplighting set the tone in this downtown room, which works as a hookah lounge and kitchen from early evening and a Latin, R&B and hip-hop club later on. The early hours are the value play: reviewers report a four-for-one drink special between 6pm and 7pm and $15 hookahs until 10pm, with blueberry-watermelon a named favourite. The menu is bar food with a Mediterranean streak, from gyro meat and shrimp over yellow rice to lamb chops, wings, cheesesteaks and loaded fries. Later in the night bottle servers work the tables and the crowd skews young. Google rates it 4.4 across 150 reviews, most of them praising the staff, the security and the atmosphere, though one visitor found it empty on a Friday and noted a 20% gratuity already added to the bill. Weekends are the nights to go, and a group table with a hookah is the usual order.