Sunday, May 16, 2010

Talayna's

Mike Talayna's Jukebox on Hampton is a sick Karaoke Bar. It's not cheap, the staff isn't always so friendly, and the crowd can be disappointing. But at Talayna's, it's always an experience.

It might be a cab driver and two nurses sharing a break, drinking coffee and singing Janis Joplin to crickets. It might be a wall to wall dance party. Or it might be a beer bottle breaking over somebody's head and somebody else catching a face full of mace. Any which way, you are surrounded by mirrors, neon and disco balls.

That "Most Beautiful Room" banner on the wall out front wasn't for nothing.

6 comments:

Pancake Master said...

It used to be obnoxious to me how many people I knew who said/spellt/pronounced Talayna's as Talanya's, but now I think of it as more a fascinating (and seemingly extremely widespread) local cultural misnomer. I wonder how that started!

Anonymous said...

So Talanya's use to be a pizza parlor at the location where KAYAK Coffee is now by Wash U. Mike Talanya was a jitterbug king in the 1970's and spent many nights dancing at Al Singer's Terrace Lounge on DeBalivere. ( a little history)

Maureen Grady said...
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Maureen Grady said...

awesome, mister.

DoeHands said...

I would follow you to the ends of the karaoke earth.

Anonymous said...

The place is a dump.