The Gardenia

Living-room-like, with table-service-seating for only a little over 60 patrons, the space is purposefully intimate, and the staff is studiously respectful to performers, who have come to appreciate the space as the quintessential “listening room,” where patrons pay rapt attention to each performance, and extraneous distractions are conscientiously minimized. Unsurprisingly, therefore, the space tends to attract musical artists for whom lyric and melody are paramount, who as a consequence naturally gravitate toward the Great American Songbook of the 20th Century, and who come to the club to perfect the art of storytelling through music.