The business banked on the idea that karaoke in Chicago didn't have to mean a dive-bar sign-up sheet or a chain's private-room formula — the rooms here come with a 2-hour minimum booking, a one-hour deposit at reservation, and a 48-hour cancellation window, the kind of structure that signals the venue is serious about turning a table, not just renting out a room with a TV in it. It's 21-and-up with valid ID required, open late — 7 p.m. to 2 a.m. most nights, pushing to 3 a.m. on Saturdays — which fits a neighborhood that's historically closed up earlier than the rest of downtown-adjacent Chicago.
No happy hour or advertised drink specials turned up in research, on the site or anywhere else; the pitch here is clearly the full private-room night out, not a discount hour. For a Chinatown that didn't have a dedicated cocktail bar at all until 2022's Nine Bar, a second concept this specific — craft cocktails built specifically around a karaoke format — says something about how fast the neighborhood's bar scene has actually been moving.
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