Nikki Midtown

(212) 753-1144

151 E 50th St
New York, NY 10022 40.7563 -73.9718

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Neighborhoods: Midtown Center, Midtown

nikkimidtown.com/

Hours:

M-Su 12:00am - 12:00am

Last updated 10.17.11

Category:

Arts & Entertainment, Nightclubs, Bars & Clubs, Restaurants, Singles Bars, Lounges, Bars & Pubs

Payment Methods:

American Express, Visa, Discover, Diners Club, MasterCard

Bar & Pub Special Features:

Happy Hour, Bar Menu

Bar & Club Type of Music:

DJ - Electronica, DJ - House

Bar & Club Special Features:

DJ, Romantic Nightlife, After Work

Smoking Permitted:

No

Editor's Tips

What People Are Saying About Nikki Midtown

Featured Review

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The Scene – New York's version of this chic international club chain is a swept-up, breathtaking space, somewhere between heaven and a harem. The sweeping main room luxuriates in countless pure white pillows, hanging feathery white angel wings, bamboo posts, and almost-Polynesian carved pale wood tables dashed with white votives. Providing shocks of color are vivid orchid centerpieces, a slowly-rotating opalescent spotlight and, most noticeably, the mod servers in white go-go boots and turquoise mini dresses with naughty circle cutouts in front, rendering bra-wear impossible. –…

Editor's Tips

What to Drink:
The sugar-rimmed, cherry-topped Nikki's Delight--with vanilla vodka, blue Curacao, peach liqueur and Puckers--may sound like a too-sweet alcoholic ambrosia, but the sugar rush and tropical-candy flavor are enjoyable.
Look Good:
There are other Nikki's in St. Tropez, South Beach, Sardinia and Marrakech, so replicate the tycoon/heiress fresh-off-the-yacht look for best results.
ambiance
85.71000099182129% positive
  1. “The other times were pleasant, fun, good crowd.”
  2. “The music was fun, mostly dance music.”
  3. “The atmosphere is not as nice in person as it appears on their web site.”
  4. “Got in no problem (a bit after 11 pm), no cover charge, the ambience was nice, the bartenders were friendly, the drinks are same price where you get at any other decent lounge/club, and the music was shockingly good.”
  5. “Nikki is in a great location to meet friends or business associates.”
  6. “Crowd was fun and somewhat looking, not to mention seeing some celebs.”
  7. “believe (and it seems that most everyone else has similar thoughts) that Nikki Beach is done and their Nikki Midtown location seems to be a good indicator of this downward spiral.”
drinks
74.35999870300293% positive
  1. “My girls and I LOVED Nikki - we had no problems at all at the door, and when we sat down at the bar, the bartender was extremely nice and very helpful.”
  2. “The venue is fantastic - one of the best bar/lounge venues youll find in the city no question.”
  3. “Before I could even order a drink I was harassed by staff and bouncers.”
  4. “ordered the Caipirinha, I finished about 1/10 eventually, one piece of the strawberry was definately cut from a poorly washed knife, my friend didn't like hers and had it exchanged for a white wine.”
  5. “Although the drinks are pricey, the waitstaff is friendly and the food is delicious (especially the calamari with the side salad).”
  6. “Accented with warm lights the front room holds a bar, standing room and two couches with tables in the back.”
  7. “This a great club to dance and enjoy great drinks.”
  8. “monday. i would recommend actually any other bar, club, lounge, even street corner, over nikki midtown.”
  9. “Got in no problem (a bit after 11 pm), no cover charge, the ambience was nice, the bartenders were friendly, the drinks are same price where you get at any other decent lounge/club, and the music was shockingly good.”
  10. “Specialty drinks are yummy.”
  11. “The drinks were totally overpriced and watered down.”
  12. “It's a shame the place has poor waitstaff, over-priced/watery drinks, an egotistical manager, and generally a sleazy crowd.”
  13. “Finally, other than the upper-level bar (which plays hardcore hip-hop and rap), there is no place to stand around and enjoy your drink.”
food quality
60.60999870300293% positive
  1. “Tuna was pretty good, but the Mahi dish was overcooked and so inedible that no one finished their dishes.”
  2. “Not the common cougar, no sir - I'm talking hot, monied cougars fresh off the op table and starved for it.”
  3. “The appetizers were tasty, but the main courses were not anything to be desired.”
  4. “The food was mediocre.”
  5. “There food is very good!”
  6. “But, the experience with the ear-deafening music, horrible food and unappealing crowd was so crippling that I would avoid this place like the plague!”
  7. “The tuna was excellent and the Mahi Mahi was delicious.”
  8. “Dinner itself was below average--someone's chicken was too dry, someone's fish was too oily, etc.”
  9. “Although the drinks are pricey, the waitstaff is friendly and the food is delicious (especially the calamari with the side salad).”
  10. “Specialty drinks are yummy.”
  11. “This place is just a joke, bad food, bad service and the management needs to be fired.”
overall
90.90999603271484% positive
  1. “think the layout is pretty nice and the place was well decorated.”
  2. “great place to dance”
  3. “Thursday nights are the best nights to dance on the runway, but, as the the other review said - by 2am the place empties out even more.”
  4. “We asked them to turn down the volume a notch, so that we could enjoy a nice birthday dinner, but the volume remained high thru out the evening (maybe it's the acoustics of the place?)”
  5. “great place, not like the original”
  6. “If you want a upscale club but don't want the hassle at the door this is a good place to go.”
  7. “this is a really nice place.”
  8. “great place”
  9. “had gone to Nikki beach a few times and thought it would be a great place to throw my 25th birthday party on a Saturday night.”
  10. “At 11:30, things went downhill - the music turned into semi-hardcore techno, got very crowded to the point where no place was a good place to stand.”
  11. “Amazing music, great sound system, the tables that run down the middle of the place turn into a catwalk type dance floor when the club opens up.”
return potential
100.0% positive
  1. “Example would be if you went shopping and found the perfect outfit, but it took you two hours to pay for it, would you go back to that store?”
service
61.39999866485596% positive
  1. “My girls and I LOVED Nikki - we had no problems at all at the door, and when we sat down at the bar, the bartender was extremely nice and very helpful.”
  2. “This was just one example of the poor service.”
  3. “It's a shame the place has poor waitstaff, over-priced/watery drinks, an egotistical manager, and generally a sleazy crowd.”
  4. “The staff are rude and nasty.”
  5. “Although the drinks are pricey, the waitstaff is friendly and the food is delicious (especially the calamari with the side salad).”
  6. “really wanted this place to be cool, but when you dont care about your customer and just care about hiring a sexy staff, well, I give it one year until doors permanantly close, heads roll, and all the white clothing is packed in a Dagastino shopping bag”
  7. “guess I did not fit the profile they were looking for and was not wealthy enough to hang with the cool people.”
  8. “The music was great, the crowd was hyped, and the staff was really nice.”
  9. “there should be queues of people waiting outside - desperately trying to beat the door policy and get in to hear the best international DJs.”
  10. “This place is just a joke, bad food, bad service and the management needs to be fired.”
  11. “Sure, people are allowed to dance on the table, but for those who don't enjoy self-exaltation and grinding oneself against people you don't know, there's really no where to "hang out”
  12. “The crowd was great, and our waitress treated us like gold!”
  13. “For instance, the bartenders are nothing but rude idiots.”
  14. “The only way in was to tip the door guy or order a $500 bottle service for a group of 5 girls.”
  15. “If you are on this site claiming you had great service.”
  16. “the worst and rude door people: they just try to find a reason to make you buy more bottles”
  17. “The back room is huge with a large wooden table and couches for bottle service to the back, left and right.”
  18. “Before I could even order a drink I was harassed by staff and bouncers.”
  19. “Got in no problem (a bit after 11 pm), no cover charge, the ambience was nice, the bartenders were friendly, the drinks are same price where you get at any other decent lounge/club, and the music was shockingly good.”
value
52.779998779296875% positive
  1. “Very cool place but overpriced.”
  2. “The drinks were totally overpriced and watered down.”
  3. “Although the drinks are pricey, the waitstaff is friendly and the food is delicious (especially the calamari with the side salad).”
  4. “Got in no problem (a bit after 11 pm), no cover charge, the ambience was nice, the bartenders were friendly, the drinks are same price where you get at any other decent lounge/club, and the music was shockingly good.”
  5. “No cover charge, Corona is around 8 US Dollar which is quite expensive.”
  6. “The back room is huge with a large wooden table and couches for bottle service to the back, left and right.”
wait time
50.0% positive
  1. “Now part of a global set of beautiful upscale venues, Nikki Beach is the first in a long line of successful beach clubs around the world.”
  2. “The rest of us were crammed together and forced to listen to some sort of slow style hip hop that had a lot us yawning.”
5 Star Rating: Highly Recommended

05/10/11

ROCKIN' JAMMIN' SCENE can't wait to hit it again

by rrrighton at Citysearch

Girls and Guys dancing on the tables, drinks and bottles flowing, music that stayed with us after we left, and a great mix of all shapes, sizes and styles, with one thing in common; having fun. Loved that it didn't look or feel like the cookie cutter 'just left wall street... 'I'm too cool for you' crowd. Unlike other places, there's places to sit when you have to without buying a table. The main room was bouncing but even the bar area was alive.

Positives: DJ (Raffael DeLuca), service, table dancing, setting and atmosphere

Negatives: main room a little small and you might spend more money than you want because you are having such a great time and won't leave!!

5 Star Rating: Highly Recommended

05/09/11

FANTASTIC EXPERIENCE!!! very cool vibe and will go back

by noname11 at Citysearch

Read the negative reviews and not sure we wanted to go ....but heard from people I trust that the scene was cool... made the people who wrote bad reviews look just plain cranky! (or they went on a bad night, but thankfully not there when we were there!) Went on a Saturday night, food was good (admittedly not great), the service was really GREAT, the manager was attentive, LOVED the furniture and decor... felt like the beach!.. and the music was AWESOME! (props to DJ Raffael aka RDL) Everyone was dancing all night... drinking and partying like mad. Saw lots of fireworks with the bottles going to tables. Great mixed crowd. The bouncers were cool and jiving to the beat. Could be the DJ was really good and/or the crowd was having fun, not causing problems for the bouncers. Loved it and will definitely go back.

1 Star Rating: Poor

04/23/11

Horrible Bouncers! THEY SHOULD JUST CLOSE!!

by fifilabella at Citysearch

The service is crap

The bouncers are all uneducated, and obviously have a stick up their ass.

They don't know how to deal with people AT ALL!!

All they want to do is argue with everyone to perhaps feel like they're doing something.

They are ALL sexist and racist!

The furniture is in horrible shape.

The 'runway' is just calling out for someone to sue the owner.

It's small and SO not worth waiting in line for!!

1 Star Rating: Poor

03/01/11

Very snobbish service, very rude security. Overcharged us

by Polina11 at Citysearch

The service was TERRIBLE and the security men which were all over the place were bothering us the entire time we were there. The idea I think was the make their patrons feel small and controlled. We did not leave a tip because they did not let us use the table for more than an hour (we paid $800) and the service was terrible, but they added $150 to the credit card anyway. The furniture had wholes in it. The music was so so. The lines are not worth the wait.

1 Star Rating: Poor

11/20/10

NEVER COMING BACK HERE AGAIN

by tgirl88 at Citysearch

I have never been treated so badly at a NYC venue. I had table service set up and about 60 people coming for my party. I got in contact with the manager and was told that there wouldnt be any issues and we would get our table as soon as we got there. When we got to the door there was a huge line and we were told that they were only letting in 4 ppl at a time and that "paying customers" were getting in first. When I told him I was bringing him 60 paying customers he blew up and told me he didn't want my business anymore. And then told the bouncer to not let me in. All 60 people had to leave. We went Turtle Bay a few blocks away and had a blast. I will NEVER EVER EVER go back to nikki beach after being treated so direspectfully. And sorry Jay you just lost out on a lot of great business.

The Details on Nikki Midtown

Place Categories:

  • great place
  • good music
  • fun good crowd
  • overpriced cool place
  • mediocre food
  • worst dining experience
  • extremely nice bartender
  • pricey overpricedwatery drinks
  • barely full club
  • great bottle service
  • rude staff
  • bad service
  • like nikki beach
  • nice birthday dinner
  • great sound system
  • poor waitstaff
  • excellent tuna
  • decent downstairs
  • good paying customers
  • lame vip space
  • best international djs
  • pretty decent set
  • poor quality djing
  • enjoy drink
  • not recommend venue
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