Partners Cafe

Came into Partners tonight for an after work drink & had a lovely time. The bartender was so friendly and eager to make me feel beyond welcome. I came in alone so he made conversation and kept me company. My after work bar from now on. Thanks Paul Xo.

Partners is my favorite bar in New Haven hands down. No cover fee and the bouncer is a cutie! There’s nothing like striking up a conversation and making new friends at the downstairs bar to start off the night. The bartenders are always willing to give drink recommendations and the when it’s time to head upstairs, you know the queens are about to put on a killer show! This is the place to dance freely, meet new friends, and leave judgement at the door.

Had a great dance upstairs! The starburst drink that the bartender recommended was really good.

The atmosphere here is too pretentious to black people, not POC. The security guard is way too aggressive unnecessarily. I made a mistake thinking the basement was open due to the ingress and egress of other people. But it wasn't and his reaction to me compared to the white girls was segregated. Treat me as equal. Tell everyone to move, not just me and my crew. Also, people here are not friendly. Tried chatting with some folk and I felt bad for speaking. Just a weird vibe and not being from here.

My friends and I have been to this place a couple times in the past. Today he asked us for our IDs for the first time. He was rude and upset about having to service us from the begining. We provided him with our ID and he said we had fake IDs. Which was a lie since we have been there before. This person seemed to be under the influence of alcohol or some other substance.

The Diva Socials are back! on the last Saturday of the month I just went to one last night and it was wonderful, attendance was great drinks are good dance music was good, everyone had a great time. I'll be back July 24th you've been warned.

Whenever I go to New Haven, I make sure to stop at Partners. It's a staple of the community and I have so many wonderful memories attached to this building. Make sure to check out the BiP mural outside!

Had an extremely bad and stressful experience here last night. The owner has some sort of strange obsession with my boyfriend and is always accusing him of doing things he’s not doing. Last night he refused him entry and when my boyfriend tried to ask him why, he started screaming and threatened to shoot my boyfriend if he didn’t go away. Even the bouncer looked ashamed to have to work for such a racist, xenophobic evil piece of a man. Don’t come back here unless you want your POC friends to be threatened to get shot. So triggering.