Emily G.
Yelp
I am reviewing strictly based on the Karaoke experience, as I did not get food or drink.
Reservation experience: Be sure about your plans before you reserve! You have to call to make a reservation, and lock in the time, the size room, and give your credit card information. There are many rules that they run by with you and also send you via text (on phone), including if you don't cancel before 24 hours, there's a $100 fee. If you come more than 15 minutes late, they charge you, and other things. It is understandable because they don't want to risk losing money on those who flake. But I was getting anxious at remembering all the rules and hoping they don't charge for something.
Some friends and I went on a Tuesday evening because they have the buy 1 hr, get 2nd hr free deal, which came out to about $82 total, for the small room. It was only 4 of us, so we could have gotten away with a smaller room, but the "5-10 people" room size was really nice. There is a large bench with two large tv screens on both sides that plays music videos/ lyrics.
Song selection: Interesting set up in that the music selection is by touch screen and in the corner of the room. The staff walks you through it, but finding Kpop songs was a bit difficult and took a bit of time getting used to. Especially key, for Kpop songs (I didn't try songs in other languages), the lyrics are in Hangul, not romanized. It was still fun, but definitely a challenge, as I am used to Karaoke places that have romanized lyrics as well.
It was not too difficult to find because there is a sign outside for Wok & Roll, multiple signs on doors pointing to the specifically Karaoke door. You walk up flights of stairs to get to the "check-in" area. It is quite dark (it was 6pm so it was sunny outside but felt like 10pm inside haha) inside; it gets you in the mood for Karaoke! but also feels slightly strange and eery also since it's so dark and the check in room is not very intuitive.
The general experience let me rate it 4/5, because we had fun and I'd come again and consider it a good option to enjoy Karaoke (especially for kpop). However - there is such a strange STENCH from the time you walk into the building, through the hallways. Luckily it did not smell in the room but everywhere else it had a strong (bad) bathroom/plumbing smell, which was weird, please check that out !!! (if it's a permanent thing, that would probably make me give it a 3/5... )
Overall I think it's great there is a Karaoke (with private rooms) right in DC. Especially they have a huge menu of food options, which I have yet to try. It's definitely a good option instead of ubering back and forth to Virginia suburbs.