The Stand

The new location of The Stand achieves a pretty impressive feat: It’s a comedy club with food that’s no joke. Executive chef Harold Villarosa (Rayuela, NOMA) has created an expansive New American menu with plenty of crowd-pleasers like brick oven pizzas, rotisserie lamb leg, mushroom lumpia and smoked mussel tartine. The food is good enough that it’s worth a visit to the plush and inviting first floor restaurant even if you’re not catching a show on the basement stage below (which offers a smaller version of the upstairs menu.) On the downstairs stage, you can catch talent like Janeane Garofalo, SNL's Chris Redd, Nikki Glaser, Ari Shaffir and more on a nightly basis.