Taxi’s Pianobar

This place is hit or miss on the live music. I’ve been several times and it’s always different.
My advice is to check your credit card statement and keep your receipts or better yet just pay cash. More than once my card has been charged more than it should have been for the tip. Usually 5 or 6 bucks more than intended even when I wrote «cash» on the ticket and dropped a $ 10 tip in the jar. If you can ever get a hold of someone to let them know you better have your receipts.

Always quick service with the bar. They always have great music and karaōke. Thumbs up Taxi’s !!

Had an ok time. Atmosphere is ok. The live band was way too loud, there was no way anyone could have a convo without saying «what?!» a thousand times.

This place blows.
Live (crappy) music is too loud; basically you’d rather have a conversation with anyone than listen to shitty 90’s music covers.
Drinks over priced and mixed/​made incorrectly.
Boo.

I see a lot of complaining so let me throw my 2 cents in on a few things, and no refunds;
— I will not knock the overcharging bar tenders. I know nothing about this, but thank you for the heads-​up on it. I haven’t experienced it, but that doesn’t mean it hasn’t happened.
— The owner is Taxi, he plays the drums at the bar. His job is to engage the audience. Don’t complain when you are being encouraged to join in, just join in. Don’t want to join in? Sit in the back of the bar.
— I was here when it was J’s Bistro, and when J’s actually opened. Yes, I’m an alumnus. It’s the same thing, but with a different owner. That can change things, but it seems like he’s trying to open the bar up for more interesting events; bands, open mic night, etc.
Again, it’s just like J’s so don’t compare the two like their ever so different.
— It’s a bar people, not a 5 star restaurant.
— It’s also in a college town, so it’s not the same expereince when you’re not in your mid to early twenties.
My sister, brother-​in-​law, my best friend, and I return every year for homecoming and always come to Taxi’s, formally J’s, for some fun and drinks. We’ve even adopted a tradition, which Taxi and the piano player (s) don’t like but a $ 20 encourages them to play the song anyway.
We don’t order food, but when I went to school in San Marvelous I wasn’t exactly impressed with anything. Thankfully, the «bistro» has been removed, because this was never a bistro to begin with.
It does get crowded, and I’ve seen this place so packed that it’s pointless to move. Last year, 2012, it started out crowded until the bar crawl group of drunken frat boys and sorority girl left. Only then were we able to find a table. We mostly laugh it off because we were all young on campus once, only I wasn’t a drunken idiot and hopefully they avoid this place when I’m there.
I don’t like the smoke. I haven’t smoked in 3 years. It irritates my eyes, it inflames my sinuses, and I stink. I understand that there are smokers, but until they change the laws down there I’ll just have to suck it up for one night a year. It would be nice if there was no smoking indoors.
We have experienced poor service, but it’s a bar and they don’t hire career servers/​bar tenders… unless they do now. You just do your best to remember who your server is, and try to close out before the mad rush at the end of the night. Sometimes you will get a great server, so tip them well.
This place is fun, but being in a college town you have to deal with some compromises. It’s nostalgic for me to go here, and I have stories from back in the day as well, so we try to go for homecoming. One thing I’d like them to do is learn other songs, or newer songs. I do get tired of hearing the same stuff.
CHEERS!

I only know this place from having done comedy at the Open Mic which they do on Thursdays from 9 – 11 or around that. They have the comedy in a lounge down in the basement, only have been on the bottom floor. It’s basically a dive bar for college students, sometimes they have bands or later on they have karaōke. It’s not a place I would go unless I were about 25 years younger and in college, nothing much more to it than that. Have never had good or polite service, they always act like they could care less if you’re there or not. Anyway, it’s a cool place for comedy, they guys who organize it are cool and are good people. They call it «Comedy In The Lounge» and I would recommend it, can be quite raucous and blue in there, so be prepared!

Holy terrible. I remember meeting the owner once and he was drunkenly yelling at my friend and then myself even though I was not involved. Been dragged in here by friends who loved it when it was J’s bistro, tried to enjoy it but they do such a great job of not letting it happen.

I love that the place has a piano and occasionally decent music. The bartenders are, as mentioned previously, scumbags. I’ve been overcharged for a tip before but lost my receipt and could not prove any thing. I was with friends who wanted to go here, otherwise I would not return, and this time I kept the receipt. Over charged again! Pay with cash at this place if you must go, it can be a fun place but the bartenders are truly pieces of ungodly shit.

Once upon a time I loved this place. That time was when it was J’s Bistro and we would enjoy going in for drinks, food when they had it and loved the sing along piano bar entertainment. I haven’t been in since this became Taxi’s and I won’t go back. The smoke smell is AWFUL. I smoked a long time and don’t mind people smoking even though I quit. I was in other bars that night before going in Tax’s where people were smoking and it wasn’t that bad. The back room at Taxi’s reeked of cigar smoke so badly I and a few friends could not stand to stay in the room. The main room smelled so strongly of pot I am surprised I didn’t get a contact high. The crowd is mostly younger grunge stoner looking people. I will never go back here, It was awful and I could not wait to get out of there.