Pharaoh Karaoke Lounge

They have a guitarist here who is incredible, perhaps the most talented I've seen in a Korean karaoke in the US. We were hunting down songs from the '80s with amazing guitar riffs in solos just to hear him shred them. The main limitation in Korean karaoke systems is the selection of music, which does not tend to be as comprehensive as Japanese karaoke systems. But we had a great time.

THEY WILL LIE TO YOU TO CONVINCE YOU TO COME. We called ahead and they said they have room. They didn’t ask us for a name or tell us we should hurry because rooms were filling up. And yet we show up and they tell us they don’t have rooms. THEY WILL WASTE YOUR TIME AND MONEY. GO ANYWHERE ELSE.

This was a really fun night for a group team outing! Great catalog, music, and service.

Great place for a couple of film grad students to let loose and have a great time! We ended up staying an extra hour. Once we learned how to work everything we had a blast! Everyone sung their hearts out and put on their best performances. We had an XL room, didn't have all the songs that we wanted to perform but we made the most of it.

Great spot for birthdays

TLDR: good deals but staff messed up twice, wouldn't accept fault, tried to shift blame, and charged 20% gratuity for a small group anyways. Would recommend elsewhere, like Gaam karaoke, or be very explicit in reservation and when you arrived I hate writing this because I've enjoyed coming here previously, but last night was such an annoying experience because of the staff. I called several times to reserve a medium room ahead of time, put my name and card down. We arrived in two groups, one on time and one later, but they somehow gave our room reservation to a different group that apparently had the same first name, and didn't consider checking with the card I put down. Then they wouldn't seat the first group because of the mixup until I arrived to clarify things. So we originally were going to start at 9pm, but didn't until 9:20-9:25pm. They tried smoothing it over by sending extra snacks, but then at 10:46 they notified us our 2 hours were somehow over? Because they somehow recorded that we arrived at 8:46pm, despite the first group having a parking ticket, validated by them, that was at 8:54pm, so it wasn't even possible we arrived or started that early. I had to discuss things with staff, and they decided to give a "complimentary" 15 minutes. Pssh. Then at the end the 20% auto gratuity was a real kicker given our size of 5 (smaller than what most restaurants would consider charging automatic gratuity). The entire time the staff and manager kept acting like it wasn't their fault or that they couldn't fix things - just accept that you made some mistakes and these interactions would've been much smoother. My group was very excited to come to celebrate my friends birthday, and we still had a good time, but these sort of issues make no sense. I would've kept coming for larger groups and events, but not after this. If you do come with a large group, make sure to be every explicit in your reservation, keep notes of arrival time, etc. I've been to Gaam karaoke also in Ktown - no major food deals, but if you just wanna karaoke then it was no issue at all. Smh. If the owner or staff see this, there are other ways to provide smooth service besides free snacks.

Had a great experience here. We got a private room and sang our hearts out! Food was also pretty good, but I was so drunk I couldn't tell honestly.

Pretty dishonest. Pro tip: if you call to ask about rooms and prices, make sure to ask what's available, do not give them a number of ppl til you hear the rates FIRST. My friend called to ask if they had any rooms available that night, she was quoted 330$ with tax/ tip by the woman on the phone for a room of 8ppl and that that was the only option available. I thought that was high and that maybe she assumed we wanted a premium option so i called not 5 mins later asking if they any rooms available for tonight, the same way my friend did. The woman on the phone said she needs to know how many ppl, I told her idk maybe 10. She told me the only room available was for 15 ppl for 440$ not including tax/tip. I asked if she was SURE that was the absolute ONLY room available regardless of amount of ppl and she said yes, not knowing we called a few minutes prior asking the same exact thing and she gave a different answer. Obviously the more ppl, the higher the price, but again i called asking for availability and options, and i was lied to about what rooms were even available. Idk yall, it's super sketchy.

Drinks at the bar were subpar. Mai Thai was pretty bad