Tango

Always a good time if you sing, sing along, and stay at the bar. I’ve been to tango many times for reserved rooms and just to hang out at the bar. It starts getting good at about 12 am on the weekends when the crowd picks up. They have good happy hour prices but it doesn’t get pack for that. The food is normal nothing amazing just something to fill your stomach with all the drinks.
I prefer to go here for the bar than the reserved room, I just find you have a better time and the service is a bit quicker.
Overall, affordable prices, good times, and many songs to choose from.

I’ve working in Philadelphia nightlife for about 5 – 6 years so I’m aware about how things work including bottle service and helping each other within the industry in order to help Philadelphia nightlife as a whole. I came in last night with The Unlikely Candidates as they had just finished a sold out show at Milkboy down the street. We were told to go to Tango to get a table and have some fun singing karaōke, eating and drinking. The bar was pretty slow and no one had bought bottle service. I tried to talk to the bartender about giving us some kind of deal on bottle service since no one seemed to want to buy a table last night and The Unlikely Candidates were willing to pay at a discount since we were the only patrons willing to buy bottle service. Being a bottle server, I know how much bottles cost at wholesale so I thought I offered him a decent price on the bottle plus we would’ve bought food and taken care of the server since we were hoping to be taken care of. The Unlikely Candidates drove from Fort Worth, TX to Philadelphia to perform at their sold out show and I was truly embarrassed as to how we were treated in the second bar that they’ve ever visited in Philadelphia. Also, as a bottle server, I know that if one group of people buy bottle service more will probably follow. However, the bartender insisted that we needed to pay full price and he did not care about the band’s first introduction to Philadelphia nightlife. I asked to speak to the manager last night since we were being treated so rudely but was denied and told the manager would tell me the exact same thing. We decided to give our money to Yakitori Boy instead and had an amazing time and the employees there even apologized about how we were treated at Tango. I’ve gone to Tango a lot in the past, mostly on Mondays for industry night since I work in the industry and like to support my friends guest bartending. However, I probably will never return because of the way we were treated and I’m pretty sure The Unlikely Candidates will never be there again, but they’ll probably go back to Yakitori Boy for their after party. I was really upset about how we were treated and from the Philadelphia nightlife I know, we usually all help each other out and that’s what I was trying to do last night. Very embarrassing and disappointing!!!

If I could give this place zero stars I would. I think how this place does there pricing from the upstairs bar and downstairs bar is totally shady. The first time I believe I was over charge was last Sunday. I got a shot of Jameson and a glass of ginger ale. I 20 bucks and got back $ 10. 5 bucks for ginger ale? I went last night with my brother in law he orders two shots of henny and 2 bottles of Corona. He asked the bartender how much, the bartender stood there a couple seconds to contemplate how much to charge, his answer was $ 40! So each drink cost $ 10 or a shot cost $ 15 and the Corona is $ 10! Wtf?! I honestly believe that some of these bartenders are over charging and pocketing the money. I hope whoever owns this place is going to look into what their employees are doing! If anyone goes here ask for an itemized receipt! This place is shady!

I go to Tango a couple of times a month with a group of my friends because we don’t know what to do once we’re in Chinatown. Depending on what day you go. drinks are priced differently. Go on the weekend shots are $ 13 (Hennessy) Coronas are $ 7 a bottle. Service is ehh… I like friendly bartenders. Friendly bartenders. better tips. Food is okay. But I rather go to Yaki for their skewers. The reason I gave them one star is that when you write something bad about them (your opinion) they go crazy and start trying to attack you. My opinion isn’t going to stop thousands of others going to hang out at Tango.
If I talked shit about McDonalds on social media. is McDonalds worker going to go crazy mad.
Thanks but no thanks.

I had fun here. The food was really good. The wings were excellent. Crispy with lots of flavor. I also had the scallion pancake which was very good and the chicken dumplings. They were not made really well and did not taste very good.
The karaōke itself was fun. Our reservation was for 11:45. The room was big and fit our 8 guest easily. The song selection was not that great. But the more popular songs were there. The drinks were kind of expensive. With the gratuity already added on the bill was really high. I’d go back but only if I had another Groupon.

If you’re brave enough to venture into China Town after a few cocktails, and have a few more, you are going to have a great time singing Journey, and possibly
journey in Chinese, at Tango!
Not sure about the food, too busy singing.
Kenny — this one is for you.

I came here a few times but I still prefer Yaki– than this establishment. The food is mediocre and I just don’t like the feel here. Maybe it’s bad feng shui, Idk.
However, my husband loves it here. He likes their massive tv, and we both do like the contemporary style. Also, the servers and bartender seems pretty friendly and nice.

It’s $ 11 for one can of beer. This place cleans out your pocket book. How could a canned beer possibly cost $ 11? I suggest avoid. They’re in cheap chinatown area and their prices are worse than Manhattan, NY
Absolutely random and ridiculous pricing. I cant buy four beer cans for $ 50 why?! It would cost $ 12 across the street

A few trips to this spot (some time ago) didn’t leave a terribly impressive impression on this writer. That’s not to say it was an awful experience, though my time here left me indifferent.
In all honesty, this place would function best as a straight up bar/​lounge, sans karaōke. What… since you’re located in Chinatown you NEED to include a karaōke component? That logic eludes me (unless there’s a semi-​racial implication in the Chinatown/​karaōke analysis). But I’d support the straight up bar/​lounge concept because of the space. It’s very narrow, with layout being (what I’d describe as) a dumbbell; thin stretch of bar with two medium sized areas to situate one’s self at either end of the bar. This doesn’t include the private rooms for karaōke, which I’ve not had the opportunity to try.
The depth of the food selection is impressive, boasting mostly Asian fare (not surprising, considering what part of town this place is in). If memory serves, the chicken skewers I had here were tasty.
Most importantly though, the place is labeled as a karaōke joint; honestly though, there are better ones in the neighborhood that treat karaōke as the actual purpose for going (e.g. Yakitori Boy, upstairs), as opposed to just a tack-​on/​afterthought (this place).

It was pretty pricy on even a Sunday afternoon (4pm)… Like $ 50 an hour. I would expect some kinda happy hour but then again coming from nyc we’re spoiled with happy hr deals for asian karaōke. However one good thing is that it includes food, so instead of going to a bar, you can drink $ 50 worth and get the room for free! Theres also a ton of food from chicken wings to ramen if you dont wanna drink
The karaōke system was definitely above average — it was a touch screen monitor, which i liked a lot! The mic kept running out of battery 3 times so that was annoying.
One tip is that if youre thinking about signing up for more than an hr, dont. When an hour hits, they give you the bill very slowly. They collect it slowly too. And they take it away slowly. So we got like an extra 30 minutes for free lol
Overall if you hv a group of 5 ish and wanna drink this would be a good place

Tango is a really weird place and I was not impressed. A large group of my coworkers reserved a karaōke room as a goodbye party for one of our coworkers. I’m not sure but it sounded like maybe someone found a Groupon for the room. I immediately was freaked out by the place because when I got there a handful of my coworkers were in the downstairs area waiting for people to arrive. The bouncer was incredibly aggressive and strict. He insisted on searching through everyone’s purse and then he wouldn’t let me diabetic friend keep her orange juice. She explained to him that she needs to have a sugary drink on her in case her blood sugar gets low and he still said no you can’t have it. She ended up leaving as a result. The other weird thing about downstairs is that it was eerily quiet. There was no music or any background noise and I felt like I was being too loud just casually greeting my friends.
After a thorough and invasive purse search they allowed us to go up to our reserved room. The room itself was kind of neat because we had our own private karaōke equipment and we could play whatever songs we want. The karaōke system was kind of hard to navigate and the selection was so-​so. I guess as a part of the groupon or maybe it’s always this way, we got to pick out $ 100 worth of food and non-​alcoholic drinks. The food was so-​so, nothing truly exceptional but not bad either. Beyond that first $ 100 and all of the money for drinks went on one large bill. This made it very challenging when we had a group of probably 30 people. We were not allowed to go out to the bar area to order drinks individually. It made for a huge headache to try to sort out how to pay for everything.
Eventually our time ran out in the room and we moved into the main upstairs area, which was small and cramped. Actually there was a lot more space up there but for the hours that we were there they had the biggest part of the room roped off for seemingly no reason. I ordered a drink at the bar and annoyingly you have to pay $ 15 to use a credit card. I spent so much more than I intended to due to that dumb rule.
One of the only reasons that I didn’t give this place a 1 star was because they had somewhat decent drink specials. But really after the way they treated my friend and her diabetes they probably actually deserve one star. No, I wouldn’t be happy about going back to this weird ass place.

Great service! awesome bartenders!!! Was just there this weekend and had a blast! They accommodated us to exactly what we wanted!

Such an unexpected good time! We booked a private room for two hours (fee is waived if the group spends $ 100) and had 6 people. We had a server come in whenever we needed food/​drink and I liked how the drinks specials carried over into the private rooms as well. The music selection was great but the system took some getting used to. The food was good but we never got silverware or napkins after repeated requests. Regardless, we had a blast and two hours flew by too fast. Our friends keep asking when we will all go again and I think it will be soon!

Tango was great this time around. A friend and I split the cost for a private room with food (we did a groupon) and all-​in-​all our time here was pretty good. The waitress was very friendly and accommodating, and I liked the private karaōke lounge. The room fit our entire group of 8 pretty well. The couches were also modern and comfortable.
The food here is pretty good. Nothing extraordinary really, but the wings were top-​notch. No complaints there. One thing did stand out and that was the Sangria. I had the white sangria and it was delicious.
I only shave off one star for part of the karaōke experience. Yes, the mics all worked, and the sound was pretty good, but there were a few malfunctions where the karaōke flickered or stalled. Also, yikes — the search system is difficult and not user-​friendly at all. We got accustomed to it after a while, but why not have something that makes it a lot easier? In our case, we were already on the clock for our time in the room. All the better to not have a confusing time choosing songs. Also, the food struck me as expensive. Even with $ 50 to spend, we went over for the items we ordered. The drinks started at roughly $ 10, and gratuity was built into our check, which I guess was to be expected with our size group.
Overall, this experience was better than the last. Right down to the bouncer who greeted us this time (a different guy). He was a lot better as well. I’ll go back again with friends.

I wanted to like this place more but there were too many things that could have been better. I give Tango a 3.5. My friends and I reserved a room for karaōke, we were taken to the room pretty quickly but once we entered the room, things started to go downhill. The room was large but it was dirty and smelly. My friends found some of the seats with what seemed to be puke stains/​marks on them. We tried to request a new room but unfortunately there were no other room available. Next when we tried to order food, we learned that they have taken away their season/​sushi because they were changing their menu. This is a pretty big deal especially when ¹⁄₃ of the menu was sushi. I hope they increase their menu in the future. The service wasn’t bad as the waitress came in and out with our food/​drinks moderately fast.

I came here for happy hour with my boyfriend while in Chinatown. The $ 2 bourbon/​curry chicken skewers is what caught our eyes. We were a little peckish from walking around the city all day and they had a great happy hour going on. We ordered coconut shrimp, crab Rangoon, bourbon chicken skewers, curry chicken skewers, and seafood dumplings from the happy hour menu. For the price I can’t complain too much but it’s definitely bar food and very fried which I’m not a fan of. I would probably get the bourbon chicken again if anything.
The drinks were the crowd pleaser for us. We got the $ 5 belvedere cocktail which was belvedere with whatever you’d like. We had it with a splash of cranberry and orange juice and that was pretty tasty.
Overall it was a nice atmosphere but I don’t think I would go there to eat at full price due to the quality (fried) of the food. But it got the job done and we got out under 40 bucks for two people so I think I would go back for drinks.

I love eating but I also love belting some Top 40’s hits with my friends. Give me a microphone in one hand and some grilled meat-​on-​a-​stick in the other, and you’ve got a happy camper.
We came on a late Saturday afternoon because we had some under-​21s in our group and they’re only allowed in before 9pm or something I think. It was kind of an awkward time but I didn’t mind – the place was relatively empty so we were able to avoid the nighttime crowds! Plus, our servers were always very attentive in coming into give us water refills and taking away dirty plates.
The karaōke system was a little tricky to use, but our server Rachel was more than happy to walk us through it. Their song selection is pretty comprehensive and varied, they even have that silly Ew! song by Jimmy Fallon and
if that’s any indication. Food was pretty good — we ordered the bourbon chicken, steak, lamb, fish tofu and fish ball skewers; salt baked wings, pork and veggie dumplings, scallion pancakes and Tango fries (aka just regular fries). I really liked the steak and lamb skewers as well as the salt baked wings. The dumplings were greasy and I’ve definitely had better scallion pancakes elsewhere in Chinatown. But I can’t complain, Tango isn’t known for their food (and I don’t think really aims to be?) so it didn’t detract from a wonderful experience!
I would definitely recommend getting a Groupon for this place (especially when Groupon is having a 20−30% off deal!) because it’s cheap and comes with money to spend on food! I will be back… but probably only with a Groupon. If I wanted a cheap karaōke fix on any other day, I’d probably go to Rodeo at 69^th St.

Tango is well-​priced with great karaōke and endless song options, including the most recent hits. The thai chili wings and fries were delicious appetizers to enjoy as we belted our hearts out.
The service was less than ideal, however. They did not bring us our food until 5 minutes before 2 AM, 45 minutes after we ordered. Shortly afterwards a waitress came and yelled at us for staying beyond closing time, even though we had just been served. Then the host at the front briefly misplaced my friend’s ID and credit card that he had given to reserve the room. Everything was found but our fun karaōke night closed off in a rather unpleasant way.
Also keep in mind that Tango closes at 2 AM on Saturdays, NOT at 3 as Unilocal says!

Had to update my old review to bring their review up a few notches! I recently got an awesome Groupon for Tango – spent $ 52 for 10-​person room for 2 hours and $ 50 to spend on food. I reserved the room from 8−10pm on a Thursday night and we had such a good time that we stayed past midnight! The room was quite reasonable outside of the Groupon – $ 50 per hour and since there was at least 10 of us, we didn’t spend too much extra. The cost actually got comped because we spent so much on drinks!
The actual karaōke was fun. I really like how updated the system was – we were able to find top 40 hits. Although they do a good job with the music, the actual program was not very intuitive. I did appreciate our server taking the time to give us a quick tutorial – if she hadn’t we would’ve never figured out that we had to search artists by initials and not their name. Some people in our group came late and didn’t hear the tutorial and couldn’t figure out how to use the system. Other than that we were able to adjust the sound accordingly and skip songs when we realized we didn’t know them as well.
Food: pretty decent. I have to say we had a difficult time spending the $ 50 over the course of the 2 hours because skewers and appetizers are reasonably priced. We tried a variety of skewers from rib eye, fish balls, lamb, chicken, Japanese sausage etc. I really liked the rib eye. We also had Crab Rangoon, which was pretty good. We also ordered all of their sushi rolls – Spicy Tuna, Alaskan, Crunch, Spicy Kani, and California– (they had a special that night), which were very tasty. We ended up going over the food by $ 20, but that’s okay because we really enjoyed it. Drinks were decently priced – this is where we spent a lot of our money on.
The outside room seemed pretty packed on a Thursday evening, so people must have been really enjoying themselves in the main room. Overall, I’m quite pleased with my latest experience here. It’s a big step up from the last time I’ve visited!

Weekday happy hour deals are wonderful! 5−7pm every weekday you get $ 3 drafts, $ 5 house wines, and a slew of yummy finger foods or small portions.
We had a room for karaōke through the groupon deal, and it conveniently was during said happy hour. We ordered SO MUCH food! Bourbon chicken skewers were yummy, crab rangoons were addictive, seafood dumplings were really tasty. So much for so little. I am more than satisfied. As for the karaōke, really cool and normally worked well. Two minor issues, the search feature sometimes wouldn’t bring up the artists that you could find if you scrolled through the pages. Also a few songs came on the speakers very quietly for some reason without us touching the volume. The surround sound and acoustics of the room were awesome once they were at the right level.
Bartenders and servers genuinely nice people. The open karaōke volume upstairs though was a little too loud and on some high notes, my eardrums were in pain.
Overall great time and great happy hour deal.