06/04/09

Best Place in Broad Ripple

by brandy0281

I have been going to the Red Room for about two years and it is one of the FEW places I will go in Broad Ripple. My fiance and I had our engagement party there and it was handled perfectly. The food was fantastic, the atmosphere was so romantic and upscale....Our guests had a great time.

I've read the previous reviews and I'm surprised...our service has always been great, the music is ok-not the best but current and great for dancing, and the people there are always hot. My girlfriends and I love it!

• Pros: hot people, good music, great food
• Cons: crowded, not enough bathrooms

10/12/08

It is ruined

by noturs

It is amazing how someone can take the class right out of a place RR used to be a great place with great people. Now it is just a bunch of INDYS finest yuppies! Not to mention the owner has no class what-so-ever!

05/03/07

Apparently has gone down the tubes

by kmeelah

The Red Room to me is a waste of a very nice space. I didn't get to see it when it first opened a few years ago and I bet it might have been very classy at first. I do like the physical atmosphere there. It has a candlelit and very warm-looking decor. That warm look is deceptive though; it was freezing cold inside the night I was there (late April 2007). They had ceiling fans going full blast in anticipation of the crowds, which did arrive after a little while (around 11 PM). What wrecked the experience more than anything for me was the horrible music selection. An iPod would have done a better job as a DJ (or maybe one *was* the DJ). For example, they played Sir Mix-A-Lot's "Baby Got Back". Not just as a joke or for spice, they played it seriously from start to finish. This was back-to-back with Avril Lavigne's teeny-bopper stuff, Usher stuff from like four years ago, etc. Top 40 and stuff that's not old enough to be old-school and cool to hear, just slightly old and stale. This was played at earsplitting volume. A bouncer I chatted with claimed that the music selection is basically the same no matter which DJ is there. It was so smoky that I, a non-smoker, had a slightly raspy smoker's voice for about 3 days afterwards, probably because I had to yell to talk while inhaling it. I didn't try any drinks or food, so I can't say anything about them, only mention that they appeared to have a shorter menu than they used to. I saw no mention of tapas or anything, but maybe they're still there. They don't seem to enforce their dress code much, so that whittles down the "classiness" a bit (i. e. a few raggedy jeans, t-shirts and dirty sneakers were around). I don't plan to go back unless I hear they've gotten a decent DJ, or I might go check out one of their salsa lesson weekday nights. The people in the pictures from that look nice.

• Pros: Nice and intimate physical space and location
• Cons: Loud, bad music, smoky