Mr. Dallas: first look at Joyce

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On Saturday, sampled the first weekend of the16 months-in-the-making Joyce Champagne Lounge and Nightclub last mentioned here.

Promising start-up after a couple of fallow months. (Of course, said the same thing about opening weekends of Aura, so grain-of-salt this.)

Upsides: Banging DJs, as in Candleroom-level phat, were spinning: Richard Blake and Justin Bell. Good sound diffusion, too. Appealing decor, if you're not too tired of the white-on-white deal, which Mr. Dallas isn't quite yet. Sleek, patched-in early adopter clientele.

Downsides: No actual "champagne lounge" yet. That comes in mid- to late-September when the second-floor terrace opens up, according to owner John Reardon. No flow around the bars and through the middle of the room; big nights are going to be hard to navigate.

Archived Comments

Posted by Buck @ 9:59 PM Tue, Aug 05, 2008

I'm no journalism major but, what happened to
the who, what, when and where? Where is this
place and what reason (if any) should any of
us want to spend any money there?

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