Encore

I normally do not like sports bar type of places but the fries here were incredible. The best I’ve had in a long time. They give you a choice of 4 different seasonings (we chose cajun), and the bowl they bring out is enough to feed 4 people, I swear.
Bring your friend, order the fries and some beers, and watch the game.
Good fries.

I would have given 5 stars to Encore after the first time I had been there. However, after the FIASCO that went down with my birthday here, I have A LOT of trouble recommending this place to anyone.
Encore is actually a really fun place and concept. A bi level Karaōke place in Chelsea where the «patrons» sing while the whole crowd sings along and dances (and by patrons, I mean staff who are supposed to be serving me $ 15 Heineken’s but are too busy singing to do so). This is like blaming a toddler for being a brat– it’s really not their fault but the fault of parents who are in charge of them. As a place, Encore is great. Their management however, is atrocious and bringing this place down big time.
Anyone who knows me knows I like to throw a big shindig for my Birthday– it’s just what I do. I research and call places to find one that can handle a large crowd of my friends– somewhere trendy and fun. I and my «assistant» (cough Gabby whose not really my assistant, but we like to seem important so we say she is cough”) contacted their «event manager» SEVERAL times to confirm everything for weeks on end. I should have known I would have issues– this guy had some sort of retrograde amnesia– he would forget everything we had spoken about the phone call before. Needless to say I was nervous– The «open bar» started at 9 (and by «open bar» I mean nothing of what was promised to me by their «event manager») — I walked in, the area that was promised to me was by no means ready, the DJ that was promised to me showed up 2 hours later (as did the Karaōke), and the manager accused my guests of having people with open bar bracelets get drinks for them. He then had the bartenders inflate prices on the drinks for anyone in my party and cut our open bar short while trying to refuse admission to some of my guests. This went on the WHOLE night. I spent half of my party fighting with the manager even after I brought in 100 + people. It was absolutely ridiculous– never in my life have I been treated like this. Then I get my tab and it’s a whopping $ 160!!! How does one’s tab get to $ 160 after an open bar and their Birthday no less??? I had no more energy left to fight so I left — No Encore needed!
To end on a positive note, I must say the bouncers and the bathroom staff were really nice and attentive.