Dragon’s Den

What an incredible place! My favorite family friendly establishment in the area, where else can you bring your kids inside to see music! Great and friendly crowd too!

My review is about their Latin friday nights!
They are held upstairs where they have a bar as well, and enough space to dance. Their Latin Friday Nights start around 11pm are FUN! The DJ they have in house definitely knows the best of both worlds (latin and american), putting beats that attract everyone. By 12am the place gets packed! If you come, you have to dance. It is difficult to just stand there and not engage. Drinks are ok priced, sometimes a bit expensive.
Bring friends, dancing shoes and your love for some salsa, bachata, reggaeton, etc!

Another cool place that we ran across during the lots of time that we spent around Frenchman Street. We were told when we sat at the bar that the place was a really late night spot, so it wouldn’t be too crowded for a while. This news was very welcoming for us, as we wanted to just chill for a bit in a low key place. The drinks are simple… nothing too fancy… but are strong and cheap. The bartender was very nice to talk to as well. We really enjoyed the local bluegrass type band that was playing as well. I like that they have a big courtyard out back as well. We will definitely be checking this place out again on our next trip… maybe a bit later when it’s hopping!

The people that work the door are very rude and unaccommodating. We had been at the bar for hours when all the sudden our bar stools were taken away and we told we had to stand. The bartender graciously went and spoke to these women and got 2 back for us since we had been there buying drinks all nite. Then a friend walked outside to smoke and he was told he would have to pay $ 20 to get back in. They were incredibly hard to deal with and I will never step foot in that place again. There are so many wonderful bars around there, I suggest you try one where you can be respected as a supporting patron.

Lame. Rated PG-​13 upstairs.

stopped in during fqf for a beverage and music. cool place. would love to come back next time i’m in town.

Terrible DJ’s…poor guys. It took two of them to spin music and still couldn’t do that right.

This place is hit or miss, sometimes it’s filled to the brim with people and just an awesome party environment. Other times it’s quite lonely in there.

A good place to find local edm talent. Kudos to Dragon’s Den for taking bass seriously. Among the resident DJs are Unicorn Fukr and Carmine P. Filthy. «Bass Church» every Sunday at 10 pm, $ 5 at the door, $ 10 after midnight. Cash only. No smoking.

This place is wacky.
The Dragon’s Den is a freakin’ BLAST if you go on a Sunday night and are under the influence. That’s during «BassChurch,» a dubstep show that bumps all night long. It’s an unusual spot, with some artists selling their work in the downstairs, half-​way outdoors bar area.
Upstairs is where everything gets foggy — for everyone. Lights are flashing and there is dancing, sweating, and other general club-​related madness that one would see in a movie about reckless individuals. It’s fun. Weird. Wild.
Then sobriety hits. The reality is, a great deal of young 18+ locals hang here. It’s fun when you’re wound up and ready to dance, but if you’re just seeking a chill night with a friend, seek elsewhere. However, if you’re ready to get strange, by all means, there’s nowhere else to be.

New Orleans is Austin multiplied by a thousand! It is a place filled with both debauchery and beauty. On one stretch of street you will find trumpeters, salsa riders, out of towners and locals. And on another end hipster bike riders and goth metal~heads. It’s a city that lives to party and the vampires of Anne Rice’s lore surely haunt the streets, even in daylight. In the pockets of humid, thick– layered night hides clubs meant to be seen and some meant to be hidden. Beneath the street dwellers and people too tragically attractive to be walking the earth is a dive bar called, The Dragon’s Den.
The Dragon’s Den is a small bar made even smaller amidst the crowd that clamors to get in it. It is a two story tall club quaint but a tad claustrophobic. Looking into the building, before it opened you can sense its historical relevance to the city. The patrons line up like minions seeking to score tickets for rare show, but in this case a good time.

The bar opens when the staff feels like it is darn time! There is a small corridor that serves as an entrance. It opens up to reveal a courtyard with tables and a few chairs; a haven for smokers, the inebriated or those who are getting their second wind to become more inebriated alike. Inside the main room is a miniature bar with a musical stage to match its intensity. In this case the area was filled to full capacity by eleven.
Abita, the famous beer from Louisiana, is the celebrated drink of choice here to our great Lonestar brand. But the bartenders here can make you just about anything. Which brings me to them and the door person. They were really nifty! The bartender was really quick and attentive, going from one end of the counter to the other. In addition, as I have stated in the past the secret to a club’s success is in the door person, as he or she sets the tone for the night. For that matter the door staff is really good, herding sober and drunk people alike to their proper place.
If all I have stated means this place should be a 5 star joint then why did I only give it three, well.
This place reminded me of Headhunter’s in Austin. Although divey like the fore mentioned similarly, its size prevents you from having a good time. For example as you are enjoying the music here middle-​aged moshers fall into you and knock your drink (s) right out of your hand. And that takes away from the experience a little bit. It feels more like a filling station where you would gas up on booze and go to Check Point Charlies, a cooler spot a few clubs down.
Another issue I had was the flow of the music. I didn’t like the down time between bands. In my opinion I think the music should be going on at all times and snapping away. But then again my impression is that the bar situation here lends to an experience where you hop from spot to spot, purely on the basis of convenience to the next club.
My biggest issue here is in terms of the security. When an establishment serves patrons alcohol of course there is going to be some level of drunkenness and misbehavior to be expected. The key is to keep its potential from escalating into something much bigger that’s uncontrollable. It seems like the drama is part of the admission here whether you like it or not. Nothing speaks louder to Shakespearean theater when alcohol and testerone are mixed and some bloke is throwing bottles and screaming expletives. Really? In some ways a little danger and the unexpected makes for an interesting experience or sometimes… it can kill the mood!
Again, I am not telling you to skip this place. New Orleans is one of the most colorful places on earth, with a set of characters to match. The Dragon’s Den is one of the characters that seems to fit in this alternate universe of clubs, bars and dives. And of course in an area that welcomes Mardis Gras as its neighbor chaos is not only expected but encouraged. I suggest if you choose to go this route to go with a group of friends who will keep an open mind but more importantly will have your back.
p. s. When you can purchase a bottle of Jack Daniels at an Exxon in New Orleans as easily as you can a bottle of Dasani of water, well that shows you how seriously they take their partying!

Ah The den.
This is the first reggae club I’ve ever been to. I went freshman year of college and fell in love. The DJ is super cool and plays all my fav songs. & it’s 420 friendly.
You know what that means,
Puff Puff Pass
Slow Wind that ass.
Love this place and probably always will

It’s def a dive bar, but I went on a Sunday night, and they had an AWESOME DubStep DJ playing. This is what I was looking for ALL NIGHT! They are liberal with their hula hoop policy as well, as hooping was permitted inside the bar :)

Pretty wild place. They do a lot of different types of shows here, from electronic to funk to rap. It gets pretty loud and pretty crowded but everyone is definitely partying in here. We came to find some friends for Shanghai Nights and there was a huge crowd. If you’re lucky you can score a seat on the upstairs balcony and stay cool, hear the music and watch everyone on the street.

Tis a good live music venue, and boy can it be LOUD. I’d pass by again, but I’d think twice about paying a cover.
The bathrooms are some of the dirtiest I have experienced in the United States.

I spent most of Lundi Gras and Mardi Gras here. The main bartendar and manager, Preston knows how to treat his patrons, man does he fly!
They have a downstairs, upstairs and outside «hidden» courtyard each area giving off a feel of it’s own. As the locals already know, this is the place to hear great music and be treated right.

I’ve been here twice, once for reggae night with DJ T-​Roy and once for turntablist Rob Swift. I like the venue and style of the place because I’m an «asiaphile» and I like all things dragons. Some may consider this place a «dive bar» compared to other places in the city but I like it, Dragon’s Den definitely has character with cheap drinks and great music.

This past Saturday the venue hosted awesome jazz /​rock band The Other Planets. Really good space, plenty of room to pack folks in, very close to the band, separate from the bar. Plus a large balcony for fresh air.

Not being a stranger to the L.A. party scene, I had some friends in town and we were looking for a place that had some good jungle and D&B to party too. Came to my olé trusty Unilocal and found this spot tucked away up a block from frenchman st. When we got there, we paid the $ 5.00 cover charge and went out back to the table patio area. The lighting is bad but for this type of crowd, you really don’t want light up in your face. We sat around for about half an hour before I went to use the restroom. The restroom was old and small but the toilets were CLEAN and they had TOILET PAPER!!!
They have two small dance floors one downstairs with a bar which has good seating and one upstairs which was somewhat cramped.
The DJ are good and there is AC downstairs but upstairs you are cooled by industrial fans around the bar and stage. The stairwell is steep and dangerous, so watch your step.
It is a great after hours party spot but come with your own friends because this is a very tight local group and everyone kinda sticks to their own. All in all it was a nice place to listen to some good Jungle tracks…

Ooh Dirty South, you make me feel so good.
When family reunions with NO natives involve James Brown and Fela Kuti cover bands at bars called the Dragon’s Den, one would be inclined to don their best sparkle-​plated, bootielicious pants, complete a buns of steel workout and head on over ASAP, right?
Or, is that just me?
Considering the name, I pictured either a dark, cavelike atmosphere, or perhaps just a renaissance faire club gathering — neither appropriate for sparkly bootie pants to achieve their full shine, but that’s okay because a) I forgot them at home, and b) tuns out the cover bands were nothing more than sets by a local DJ in the upstairs room. But hey, that’s not the bar’s fault, so perhaps the negative star simply goes to the messenger. Oh, and no, it wasn’t a D&D fanclub, if that wasn’t obvious before.
The crowd was eclectic and immediately hit the miniature dance floor, and I have to admit, the funkified mix delved into the back, spider-​webbed corners of the JB catalog: both good signs. The beer selection was fairly sub-​par (think along the bud/​bud light lines), but the bar was stocked otherwise and service was friendly.
The balcony on the second floor was great for the crowd-​claustraphobic (aka — me), that is until 40 more people joined and had me thanking god that major earthquakes didn’t hit Louisiana. Should you be afraid of falling floors, I’d stick to the downstairs patio…
Overall two thumbs up, but next time I’m bringing those pants no matter what anyone thinks!