Vango Lounge & Skybar

I was visiting and saw an eventbrite link for this spot and decided to check it out with my friend. It was free before 10 with the eventbrite link. We were able to get a decent table on the rooftop also around this time. The service was amazing. Our waiter Asan was very attentive! We ordered food and drinks and got everything in less than 30 minutes. I ordered lemon pepper wings and Spanish fries and everything was really good. My friend ordered shrimp Alfredo and said the pasta was seasoned well also. The manager was also very friendly and checked on us. The Dj was decent for the most part.The hookah was ok for the first 45 minutes then started to get that burnt taste but overall I would come back here for the vibes.

Food was amazing, the staff was also great. We had a wonderful time for my husbands bday get together.

I'm visiting Philly for the weekend and found Vango as a suggestion on tik tok for nightlife. We arrived close to midnight on Friday June 3, 2022 and they charged us $20 for cover entry (male and female). They also told us that there were no more people allowed in the rooftop so we had to stay in the inside. We ordered regular the hookah which was $29 and I ordered two long islands which were about $10 each. They were pretty strong but the cups were small so I wasn't as tipsy as I would usually be from two long islands. The drinks were good though and the ambiance of there establishment was as very nice. Very cute, plenty of places to sit as well. The bathrooms were a little small inside of the stall but just get in and out lol. I was really impressed with the hookah as it was veryyyyy smooth and the hookah man did a great job changing out the coals for us without being asked.The only cons I would say is having to pay ti get in without having the benefits of the rooftop access (although they said it was full to capacity). Also the music was just decent. I'm from Texas so maybe I'm just a bit picky but they didn't play a lot of new songs and a lot of the songs seemed like they were from a 2000's playlist. But overall the establishment was very nice.

Very tacky, drinks are expensive and not worth its price. The atmosphere, energy and everything about this place was very ghetto. Over priced for no reason. The service was okay but that's about it. There is no care into this place at all. They have a nerve to want a $20 COVER CHARGE out of you when the interior of the place is a mess. Tacky and ratchet!

*sigh* my last time I'll listen to anyone's recommendation without without doing my research...Why do bars (not nightclubs) charge a cover charge?....$20. I'm from out of town so I'm thinking this place would be really nice for a $20 entry fee. No. We went to the rooftop but the city view was blocked by decorated walls. We wanted to get a table with bottle service but we noticed the waiter was quoting a higher price to us and a lower price to other groups. I just want my $20 back! LOL

After I searched for quite some time to locate the Vango Lounge & Skybar, not because they are a mere door with a large sign in large orange letters that read VANGO over it, but because I am not good with directions. "LOL!" The exercise was alright. Anyway, I went to open the door when a large African American male previously preoccupied on his phone stopped me. He said he needed to see ID and needed to check my bag. I carry large pocketbooks with a lot of items, stuff and things, so when he repeated to me several times that I had a lot of stuff and things in my pocketbook I wasn't surprised. Plus I didn't give him a hard-way-to-go because I knew that he could have refused me entry because I had a large pocketbook. MY BADIn business things can change in a matter of seconds, so when I got through the door after being frisked and told to go to the roof, I was greeted by a large man who looked foreign. He told me that the downstairs was closed and I was to go upstairs. I didn't give him a hard-way-to-go either because I was in the middle of changing a part of my attire when he approached. Also pulling my pocketbook back together.I reach the upstairs bar lounge and was greeted by a waitress. She asked me if I wanted to sit outside or inside. I started to take a seat inside, but when I went to sit down she told me that the table I chose was reserved and I could sit at the bar. I declined the bar and chose to sit outside? ~Skybar Lounge~The skybars' lounge atmosphere was twinkly. I was glad that it wasn't very crowded and the music was not loud or full of bass. It was a horrible selection though. The tables were a little small and if the place got packed you would be cramped. A waiter came by at one point and wiped, very briskly, a table or two. I imagined that was why the tables looked as if there was paper stuck to them with old information on them. I was told by my waitress that the place was now under new management. There was a trash can that had debris around it, but I didn't concern myself with that. My waitress, I thought, was very gracious. She recommended drinks, hookah flavors and foods. We discussed how to add the 18% to the total bill and I was ready to enjoy my night. Still like it says; "If something can go wrong it will."I ordered 2 drinks. One tasted like a punch, which it was, but had very little alcohol in it. I am no lush, but a $14-$18 drink should give a buzz - even if it is just a little one. The other drink was FANTASTIC! It had the right amount of tequila mixed in with the other flavors and a swollow was good, good and good. Unfortunately, these drinks were served, to me, in small plastic cups. Cups that you would give to a child. I noticed that other patrons has their drinks served in glasses. The kind that you would get if you weren't supplying half your drink to the strange man sitting at the bar that watched you drink, hookah and eat the entire time you stayed at the lounge. This could have just been my imagination. I then ordered a hookah, which I was told lasted about 2 hours, if I wanted to mix and match flavors I could up to 3 with no extra fees and orange mint is not one flavor, but 2; althought, the scanned QR code menu reads it as 1. The hookah was nice. I am a newbie so me getting a little dizzy was not to be exprected or expected. I'll leave that up to any replies I get on this review to tell me if I should have been. I did get a new set of flavors after about an hour that I was told there was no charge for. I then received my 6 piece of wing-dings. Almost every restaurant advertises wing-dings as chicken wings, THEY ARE NOT. Then again I wonder If I gave the other pieces of my so called chicken wings to the strange man sitting at the bar that watched me drink, hookah and eat the entire time I stayed at the lounge. I repeat, This could have just been my imagination. They were quite tasty, well cooked and the dipping sauces, there were 2, were also quite tasty. I stayed at the lounge about 2 hours, give or take and was asked, prior to ordering, if I wanted to start a tab or pay now. I decided on the pay now option. Since I ordered one thing after another I had several receipts. I didn't concern myself with that until I got the final receipt. My final receipt had my 2 drinks priced, my hookah price, my chicken wing/wing-ding price, the gratuity price and then I noticed 3 other prices. For a grand total of, I won't say, but I will say that I will not be returning to be overcharged for a meal with drinks and hookah that was clearly less then $50Well, that is my experience and review of the Vango Skybar Lounge. If anyone reads this befor the pictures are posted check back I should have them up for viewing.

Service was disgusting to say the least. No city views at all! Hookah as watered down and that's after two attempts! Then while leaving and trying to find my way out; some bouncer rudely tells me it's private party....... Instead of helping me get out. Then I tell him I am leaving or trying to leave to find the exit; he tells me to leave then. The place had more empty chairs then people. This is after making a reservation and then getting there and the outside bouncer attempting to tell me it's a private party. Going in; we saw multiple staff who gave us no direction on where to go or where to sit...... even calling the place before hand ; the person on the phone was rude; answering the phone like he was home. Never again ......

Decent hookah bar in a great area. They have rooftop seats and nice lounge ambience. There was a line and there is a cover ($10) but hey it's Saturday night what do you expect. Plus place was packed!Hookah was great, not exactly the flavor I asked for but it was smooth and came out reasonably quick. The drinks were strong but also expensive! Not a cheap place but not overly expensive either. The lemon pepper wings were 5 star worthy! Great crispy wings with just the right amount of seasoning. Music also was on point all night! Good job DJ Overall I'd come back! And I'd recommend

DO NOT RECOMMEND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!$20 CASH cover, that they don't mention at any point during your reservation nor do they have an ATM. We had to go down a block in the rain to find an ATM we could use. Security makes rude disrespectful comments. We had to pay a $75 reservation fee and they didn't even ask us our names until the end. We paid a cover charge for plastic cups and all of our food came in plastic baskets. The drinks were okay in their plastic cracked cups. The DJ was subpar, we saw the server four times. He refilled drinks and charges us without asking. The bathrooms were actually laughable.. I'm 5'9" and the toilet paper holder was above my head STANDING.. this place was a MESS

Music was amazing. Cute lounge. I just wish there was more of an unobstructed view if the city.