337 North Hull Street
Athens, GA 30601
Clarke County
Phone: (706) 369-9767
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by Christopher James M. on This place is ridiculous. I've been here twice, and on both occasions I've been dissappointed. The first time was for my friend's going away party. Having planned the event, I successfully managed to get 20 people to go. The guestlist closed at 11 pm and having gotten at the door at 11:03, I was denied guestlist access, regardless of me telling them I brought a lot of people in for business. Yes I know there's gotta be a cut off point, but come on. Once inside, the drinks were poorly poured, and the beer was flat. The second time was last night. Having been in the front of the line arriving pretty late, around 11:45, the bouncer yells "MAXIMUM CAPACITY". SHORTLY prior to that, he was saying how it's "1 in, 1 out". Enough people were exiting to let everyone in. Then, I step aside assuming that we "wouldn't get in" and this bouncer goes you can't stand here. I was on the sidewalk and I say this is public property. He responds in an angry tone saying "No it's not" and that I'm disrespecting him and he's actually yelling at me saying hes got "Brothers in there who can take care of me". Mind you, I was not arguing back nor was I talking back to him just simply standing my ground (no pun intended). Being threatened by an employee like that is unacceptable in the service industry. Anyway, my 1 star is purely based on the customer service. Never suggesting this place again.
by Milan Salle on REALLY wish i could give this place the BIGGEST zero star in the world. Went here last night for dinner. When we first walked in there was no one there. Really, that should've been my cue to turn our whole party around, but of course we didn't. We ordered the 3 combo fried rice (beef, shrimp, chicken), sea bass, Asian carne asada, sexy roll, and a some lobster roll. Immediately, I smelled something kind of off in the food and it was confirmed by my friend who said that the beef was bad. Bad beef??? I mean, i can kind of understand bad seafood, but beef?? We immediately alerted the server who was very apologetic and took the fried rice and carne asada back with no problem. We ordered the salmon and one more roll and proceeded to wait FOREVER. The wait took so long that we even tried to cancel our orders, but alas! Kress- you outsmarted us again and got us to eat more of your crappy food. Even taking the beef problem out of the equation, the food overall was just crappy. There wasn't anything spectacular about this place. Just another failed Asian fusion place with tiny $20 sushi rolls. Before the food came out, we briefly considered staying here to party. We had heard about the VIP rooftop, but, honestly, if we were about to blow $1k on a bottle service then we wanted to see what we were paying for first. The server arranged for some guy (manager?) to take us up and and half an hour later, he finally came by. He basically told us that he was too busy working the door to let look upstairs. Uh, excuse me? There's one-two-three-four-five... 10 people in the restaurant INCLUDING THE STAFF!?!??!?! Oh, Kress, this is pretty much the moment that I just wanted to flip the table. Other than the douche bag, the servers were very very nice and efficient. Three servers were attentive to us and more than apologetic to the crap food they served us. They even took off one of the entrees. For four people, we ate and drank $151 + $30 tip. Will I ever come back? Only on the off chance i wanted to get mad cow disease and get punched in the face by the manager will i ever step foot in this place again. The Kress? EPIC FAIL!!! You'll be receiving a nice visit from the health inspector soon. Consider it a present from me to you.
by Porter Darcus on This has got to be the weirdest club/set of clubs EVER. getting to the first floor club is impossibly easy --there's no line if you say you're on the guestlist (which they don't even check) and they also don't ask for ID. is that weird or what. what i can't believe is that i paid 20 bucks to get in. to possibly the grossest club i've ever been to. i kept blinking and hoping that if i open my eyes i'd be somewhere else. granted the backroom with the long bar is kinda cool but the whole place is so empty that you can see stuff you aren't supposed to see i.e stashed cardboard boxes, gross walls etc. and the people. omg. i thought i landed in the worst high school party ever (prob 'cause they don't ID). drinks were gross, not strong and just tasted like s***. i was out of there in like, 10 mins. okay so here's where my night starts. i heard the rooftop was better from some reviewers so i decided to check that out. and apparently you have to go ALL THE WAY to the back of the building to access that. how weird is that? at least they were a lil more exclusive there. i wanted to check out the basement but apparently that was another 20 bucks (even though it's the same club WTF) and after the very-gross first floor i was NOT going to waste more money that could go towards poker. thank god the bouncers were total sweethearts and let us into rooftop with no hassle:) rooftop is SO MUCH BETTER (which explains why i did;t give kress a one-star) people are hot, views are great, drinks are decent and the cabanas/couches are awesome. if you're going to go to kress DO NOT waste your time at first floor just head straight to the roof.
