The Cutting Room

I saw a jazz show here last Thursday and could not have been more impressed! For a location in midtown I was pleasantly surprised as it has the «cool» atmosphere and décor you would expect to find in lower Manhattan. The crowd and the band fed off of each other leaving the entire venue full of life. To top it all off, the food was delicious and the service was exceptional.

The Cutting Room is one of the best places to go to when visiting New York. Their outstanding musical performances and great food makes them one of the highlights to all my visits. It is a must go to anytime you are in the area.

In a neighborhood that isn’t particularly known for it’s live music scene, The Cutting Room is a welcomed addition that I highly recommend. Not only does the place bill great acts but the food is surprisingly enjoyable. I’ve been here for multiple shows and while the venue isn’t tiny by any means, you can easily get up front, producing the feeling you’re at an intimate show with your best friends. Love the way they geared the atmosphere towards everything and all things music — I could stare at the guitar chandelier for hours. And be sure to look up, both at the ceiling and the stairs. You won’t be disappointed! Classy yet funky, the Cutting Room has my vote.

One of the best venues to see music in the city! Great vibe, great sound quality and great food & drink. Highly recommend

Love coming here for happy hour drinks and food. The flatbreads are great and the 24^th Street Burger is a personal favorite of mine.

I live in Murray Hill and I wanted a nice intimate place to bring this girl that I recently started dating. If you know Murray Hill… there aren’t too many nice quiet spots.
We found this spot literally just by walking by and decided to give it a try.
Luckily we did! Now this spot is one of my favorite spots in Manhattan. The atmosphere is super intimate and the drinks aren’t expensive at all.

Over the last few years I have come to know the Cutting Room as one of the exceptional food and music venues in Manhattan. Not only do you get a great show every night with high-​end food and drink (the bar has a wide variety of craft beers and cocktails), but to top it off the staff is also incredibly friendly and accommodating. The Cutting Room is good for a ton of different occasions — happy hour, concerts, dinner, parties with co-​workers — you name it. Check it out when you have a free night and are looking for a great show. You will not be disappointed!

Seriously an awesome place. In a city with so many damn options, this place is a go-​to for reliable good tunes and food. Also really love the décor of this place — definitely a classy joint. Great to take a date as long as they’re not #basic. The guitar chandelier is awesome, it looks like it’s out of the Experience Music Project in Seattle (if you’ve never been, it’s an awesome museum). I’m in Manhattan pretty frequently for business and always love to check a good show when possible — this is a great spot and will highly recommend
GET THE PORK CHOP OMG GET THE PORK CHOP. Still salivating thinking of it from my last visit.

I came here to see Puddles the Clown, and he was of course amazing. But I also ended up discovering Simply Three during the same show and fell in love with them. They do dramatic and lively instrumental versions of popular songs (I teared up during their cover of Hoziers Take Me to Church– shut up, it’s a moving song, alright?). They also had a muscial/​comedy act whose performers names I can’t recall. I loved the variety of the show and none of the performers had trouble keeping the audiences attention.
Given the reviews I wasn’t expecting to like the venue as much as I did but I really enjoyed myself. There’s a bar area up front that showcases their much talked about guitar chandelier, a lounge area off to the left, and in the back an intimate stage area with dining tables. There also appeared to be a small balcony area upstairs. The bathrooms are hidden and out of the way, behind a door, down a a couple of corridors, a staircase and dressing rooms, but you’ll get there eventually.
The décor is beautiful. Amber colors, intimate and artsy, with art all along the walls by the stage.
I didn’t find it hard to get a waitresses attention as others did, I was never without a drink for too long. Service wasn’t exceptional but it was fine enough. Their burger and fries were solid. Don’t come for the food but if you need to nosh on something there are options.
I think this is a great choice for an intimate, sit-​down venue that still showcases compelling artists.

I love this place, it is classy but casual. I frequently come for an after work dinner and show. Food is good, staff is super friendly and I’ve gotten to see some of my favorite bands here. Best place to hang out in midtown.

I came to know The Cutting Room 6 months ago when my best friend started working there as a band booker. What’s a classic place that not only honors and promotes great live music but also allures younger generations of music lovers!!!
I love the sound of the room, the room décor, and the enthusiastic audience. Best of all, not one show has been the same as the other ones. Broadway, folk, classic rock, or pop, you name it, you got it.
The venue definitely gets my vote! Check it out for yourself and I guarantee that you won’t regret it!
Cliff

This was an excellent lunch spot (alone or for a meeting as music there but really background). I had a really positive experience. I would recommend this place without a thought and plan on coming back. The neighborhood tends to be ethnic or expensive. This was good new Anerican meeting many food needs and the atmosphere and service GREAT. Old memories of music and great meals back in the day and am looking forward to again following the performers returning. Take a look at the draft selection and always check in on the lunch special. Quite a deal for $ 10 (and always tip on the actual value… the service staff here deserves it).
Heads up, if something not right let management know so they can correct it… they really do care about their patrons based on my experience.

This is a Disgusting spot! Don’t ever come here!!! The food is horrendous and the staff is terrible

The facility and ambiance are quite nice, but I always experience terrible service here, especially at the tables. This used to be my department’s default happy hour location but we had to abandon it as it would take 20 minutes to get a drink, despite it being entirely empty.

Came here to see the ‘Wonder Show’.
Been sitting here for…27 minutes, no one came by to take our drink or food order yet…
Show supposed to start at 7:30pm? It’s 7:43pm and counting… and 29 minutes waiting for a wait staff to come by.
Had to get my own beer from the bar downstairs, and miss the opening of the show. Oh, 45 minutes and still waiting for waiter to come by…
Oh, well, no wait staff stopped by throughout the entire show…
Total wait time: 145 minutes; total waiter that came by: 0.
What great service! It’s not a race thing, is it?

Slow service!!! Good food but had to wait an eternity for it.
Great beer and brew special here if you are looking for a nice little lunch spot. Just expect to wait if you come here.

Décor is nice. Getting to the bathroom requires going through a maze but no issues or complaints here. I got tap water without hassle and there was seating up in the balcony section. No nasty temperature issues that I encountered.

I came here for a charity comedy night and wasn’t wowed. The show was scheduled to start at 9, but the doors didn’t open until 8:45ish, so by the time everyone was seated, it was close to 9:15. Not a huge deal, but still annoying.
Pros
Views of the stage are fine — no one had a bad angle of the comics.
Cons
–There is no air conditioning or circulation! Everyone was sweating profusely and the air felt very stuffy. (I can’t help but suspect they do that so you order more to drink.)
–Service is sloooow. Staff is nice, but once the show starts, it’s really hard to track them down.
–Food is pretty standard pub-​type food, nothing will wow you but then again, you shouldn’t expect 4 star cuisine at a venue such as this.
–On top of the ticket price, there is a $ 20 per person minimum you must spend. Luckily, everything is so overpriced you will have no trouble reaching that minimum.

The place is very nicely decorated. I found the club part to be an excellent venue to watch and listen to music. There is also seemed to be a very active bar scene.
The food was actually good (Caesar“s salad, Margherita Pizza, Chopped Chicken Cobb Salad) and service was efficient.
The drinks were kind of weak and the wine pours were pretty short. It does get pricey when you add the inflated food costs to the $ 20 or so per person admission to the show.
Coat check is not complimentary. I think it was $ 3. No major complaint but when I went to pick up my coat, I had $ 2 ready for a tip and then had to scramble to find another dollar. Knowing this in advance might have saved me some mild embarrassment.
Again, I was very impressed with the décor of the place and the room is excellent for sitting back, eating some good food, and enjoying the live music.

Although The Cutting Room is stone’s throw way from work I haven’t had an opportunity to visit. That is until a friend called and asked me if I wanted to see Ron Wood and Mick Taylor from the Rolling Stones play a set of Jimmy Reed blues songs in a fairly intimate setting. I was in with only a half hour’s notice.
And thus my first visit to TCR began with my waiting in queue to enter. This particular show was a blues gif by what look like octogenarians and the audience reflected the musicians. I speculated that it might not have been as pleasant waiting outdoors if it were raining and the line was full of Marilyn Manson fans? Nevertheless between the sassy lassie behind me and the aforementioned octos there was me – midlife in all my glory and waiting patiently to marvel at what could be my grandfathers play blues guitar. My experience got better from here…
Alas it was my turn to be humble with the face controller in charge – whom would easily qualify for the fourth Reich by the way he grilled me. Yes mon furour I smartly replied as I pushed my way past the threshold. He wasn’t amused. I’m in! Victory at last.
Upon entering I felt I was magically transported from the streets of NYC to a Disneyesque theater sans oversized, happy rodents in bowties. But wait, was that Earl Slick that passed by? Hey there’s Little Steven over there (he ain’t so little anymore). In fact the joint was crawling with RnR celebs. Missing was Keith. He was rumored to be the guest in Ron Wood & Guests. No Keith but great show nonetheless.
Since this is less a review about the show than about the theatre let me say that its a great venue for an intimate show. The food is pretty good too and the shoe-​string fries are outrageously good.