
What People Are Saying
from Google"Not a friendly place if you are over the age of 22. The doorman, charging a $15 per person cover charge, would not even make eye contact. I used to love this place. I don't intend to visit again. This use to be a great live music bar, that is no longer."
"Welcome back Penguin! Version 2.0 is absolutely amazing! The food is excellent and staff very friendly. High quality ingredients and well prepared by the chef. Everything is great, especially the wings, steak sandwich, and burgers! The remodel of this place is superior. They did a great job overhauling the interior to class it up. Live entertainment during dinner (kid friendly), and dueling piano after 9pm. Great times."
"Fun time, the college kids came to have fun which was a good part of the ambiance. I bit chilly at first but the people warm it up. Upstairs they had a DJ with different type of music, and have another bar overlooking the pianos. The picture with the neon lights was on the ceiling going down the stairs. Oh yea it opened late, I think I believe it was 10pm and not a lot of tables, apparently college students like standing, there was seating an hr later but that was this day, I would still get there when they open if that is important to you."
"We went in on a Friday night and had a group of 10 people and requested several songs- spent over $100 and for mediocre performances. Then when we requested a few songs and just expected them to be played without having to pay anymore money, they ignored us. And we were at least more than half the people in the place paying money so it was super disappointing"
"I used to love Penguin before it was rebought. It is our Mom’s Weekend and we decided to come to enjoy some nice music. We got there right at opening, paid cover and found a table in the back. To preface, this table was COMPLETELY available and had no reserved sign whatsoever. Around 10:30, a worker comes to our table and tell us all that we need to leave the table. This was completely out of the blue, and he said it had been reserved the whole night. We were all confused because our waitress said NOTHING about this and had been taking care of us all night. The manager ended up coming to the table and saying we needed to leave or else they were going to call the cops (for sitting at a table?). Our waitress came over and ended up admitting that she knew the whole night and it wasn’t her job to tell us. The manager ended up comping half of our tab, but when we left we saw him give high fives and hugs to the men who took our table (clearly his friends). This was absolutely ridiculous and my friends and I have lost all respect for this business."
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