696 Engishtown Road
Hazlet, NJ 08831
Middlesex County
Phone: (732) 723-9425
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by Sharan S. on I've only been here once and it was a notable experience. I made the trip out of the valley to come here and I was intent upon spending the whole night at the club. So, I had my group sign up for the guest list, $5 instead of $20 before 11 pm. You sign up individually online and get a verification email which you click the link to confirm. Surprisingly half my group's names didn't register, they showed the e-mail to the guy in a booth and he still wouldn't let them in for the reduced price. I was really frustrated with that! So my advice for anyone trying to get on the list is to sign up more than once using a different email or three. At this point I was already frustrated with the entry people even though they were civil if not impersonal. The inside of the club is huge and gorgeous, decorated with an eastern influence. There are two bars on the main floor. One is in a well-lit room off to the right of the entry area (the bartender that was there last night is quite rude considering his ignorance on making drinks) and the other is on the left hand side of the dance floor on the way to the lower level. Above the second bar is a seating area with big white couches you can watch the dance floor from. The main dance floor plays mostly techno music and has these crazy fog machines that periodically pump thick fog into the crowd which has plenty of space to dance in, there are also gogo dancers. There is plenty of seating with little booths around the entire floor. A staircase beyond the second bar leads downstairs, you have to watch your step here because I saw a few people slip down the stairs, especially in heels. Anyway, downstairs is like entering an entirely different club. There are two rooms here, one looks like a spin off of the upstairs techno floor and is quite small, but decorated in the same white sofa, colored lights manner as the upstairs. I think it is used for private parties. There is another, much larger room, with low, gritty ceilings that is devoted to hip-hop music. It has a bar at one end and a few sofas shoved into an alcove in back. The DJ spins from a room that looks like it's carved from a paper mache boulder. The place looked like it was meant to be underground, and compared to the main floor, very neglected. So the club itself is pretty fun looking, but the crowd is downright awful. Guys definitely outnumber girls and some do not take a hint when you say no or snub them. They can be downright creepy. The club also seemed to have a lot more Asian people than I expected. Drinks were on the expensive side, it cost $24 for two mixed drinks from the bar up front, but that might have also been because the bartender was a douche bag. He didn't know half the drinks we were asking him for and was really rude about it, not even bothering to ask if we knew how they were made. Just so you know: the small techno room downstairs shut around 1:30-2 am, the hip-hop room shut at 3, and the main floor shut at 3:30 am. Definitely an interesting place.
by Julie P. on Just visited on Saturday and I cannot say enough great things about Ecco. Starting with the valet service, which I normally don't like (especially, when I can easily park myself) -- but it's free parking in Midtown. So, I can't complain. PLUS the attendant recommended the fried goat cheese app... and that's where the food magic begins: Fried goat cheese app: perfect, thin, non-greasy batter with just the right amount of sweet honey coating each little cheesy morsel. Salchichon (cured meat): apparently this is Ecco's recipe, made especially for them by a local butcher (?) -- yummy. Piquillo peppers stuffed with braised shortrib: I could have eaten a platter of this. Really. The meat melted in my mouth... Squid a la plancha, salsa verde: squid was cooked perfectly. Chili-braised pork with garlic and homemade pappardelle: parpadelle was cooked well (still had just the right amount of bite), and the pork delicious. Traditional salade niçoise: A deconstructed presentation. Every ingredient was cooked well and the salad was dressed just right. Marry this with amazing wine and incredibly attentive & informative service, and you have achieved the tri-fecta of restaurant nirvana. TIP: do not, no matter how tasty the homemade bread is (and it IS, believe me), fill up on the bread :) I will be coming back here very, very soon...
by Jeffrey Krumenauer on So I finally made it over to 330 after hearing so much about it lately. I'd been before the remodel for a few private events and had never really liked the place. We went down for Donavan's Cinco De Mayo party last Saturday and it was off the chain! I don't normally say things like "off the chain" but there's no way to describe that night other than that. I honestly can't tell you what they even changed with the remodel because it had the same basement feel to it but I'm sure they did something! There's two bars, a dancefloor, and a small table area. What really impressed me was the crowd that night. A place isn't anything without a good crowd and this one had it. They weren't ghetto or pretentous. Could be Ritch or could have been the promoter but I'll definately end up there again to find out.
