I came on a holiday around 4:00 and there were still many rooms available. They gave us a massive room for just the 5 of us, but shortly relocated us afterwards to another room because there were technical difficulties in that room. They were attentive on fixing any issued we faced. Staff spoke English and Cantonese. The karaoke application they have is limited with English songs, so we mainly used the YouTube app. But the downside is that you can't queue up the next song, but this wasn't a big deal with us. Room was spacious and the sound system was loud and clear. Each person gets two free drinks included in their admission. read more

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It's literally been decades since I've been to this kareoke legend! Take One y'all! They've spruced up the rooms so they're clean and comfortable. The staff is so so nice and friendly. Most of all accomodating! And affordable. Like, sometimes you just want to chill and not spend a ton. Because it means you can do it more often! At about $15/pp for hours and hours A nice selection of snacks and drinks also! Song choice-wise, we did wish there were more classics like Backstreet Boys or Boyz to Men. I think songs from the 90s are popular because they're very recognizable melodies that are easy to sing. I hope they can expand their song choices! Will definitely come back! read more

Take One Karaoke & Lounge - Karaoke Near Me - Markham, Ontario

I've been coming to TakeOne since I was a young kid. Karaoke is one of my favourite pastimes with my friends, and it never gets old because I'm still singing the same old songs LOL This place is literally one of the OGs of all karaoke bars in the GTA. A lot has changed during the past: the song selection system, the mics, the pricing, or management style, etc.... nothing is keeping me from coming back lol. Our usual go-to is Noon-K aka 12-9pm Karaoke. Admission is $10 cash at the door, or you can pay debit for a small transaction fee. ** Make sure you get a wristband after you pay. You also get 2 free non-alcoholic drinks (place orders at the front desk when you're ready). After 9pm, it is $15 cash at the door, and the same situation if you're paying debit. ** Make sure you get a wristband after you pay. No free drinks, but you can order and pay per drink (alcoholic and non-) at the front desk. All in all, you really get the bang for your buck. It is the perfect spot to get your singing craving satisfied, and probably the least expensive karaoke spot you will find in the GTA. read more

No one to greet us when we walk in. We had to find someone. We find out that there's only one employee working the whole establishment at the time. Shame. The choice of songs is lacking. Hard to choose songs on the device. Bad spelling on the screen for the lyrics. Or the music may not sync well with the lyrics. It happened with a few songs. Shame. The place seems dated and not that clean. I'd avoid drinking too much because the washrooms are kind of ew. Shame. Finally the place seems a bit shady. Especially located within a building with available exotic massages? Don't bring your kids there. Shame. read more

Service is lacking, the device to put songs in is bad, its hard to navigate and to choose songs. This is a karaoke establishment and their main system is a piece of garbage. They just escorted us into the room and leave you there without explaining how to use their device. Service is bad. I recommend not to come here and instead go to other karaoke place. read more

Take One Karaoke & Lounge - Device - Karaoke Near Me - Markham, Ontario

$15 plus tax (cash or debit) for all night booths, and they close around 3am. Pretty good deal if you ask me. Booths are quite spacious. We were 9 total and there was plenty of room to sit, stand, and move around. Music selection can be done via an app that you download to your phone. The app could be a bit more user friendly but it sure beats using the remote. Now to music selections. They do offer decent selections of English songs but the list could use an update. Some songs were non karaoke but rather just the music video. I can't comment on Asian songs but I did notice that there were plenty of them. Great service. Staff will quickly and gladly recharge your mic so don't hesitate to ask. Overall it was a great night and I'm surely coming back. read more

This is my go-to karaoke spot because it's cheap. However, the experience I had was terrible and should be a staple example to business owners that even 1 bad interaction, will diminish any credibility you have built, and make me not want to go back. However, other than this one experience, it's still a standard karaoke place. Basically, one of the girls here gave me extreme attitude after I presented her my yelp coupon. She said they don't accept it and YELP has a system error as they still haven't taken it down. So folks, yelp offer is no bueno here. Song selections aren't bad, they don't have a large plethora of english tunes, but all the classics are there! read more

Take One Karaoke & Lounge - Karaoke Near Me - Markham, Ontario

Make sure to check in on Yelp for a free basket of wings!! Max 2 per room. That itself makes Take One worth it. Minimum $25 per person and that $25 can be used towards food or drinks. Food: great selection of snacks that are made fresh and have good portions. Drinks: they don't serve pitchers of beer here, but they have a large selection of import and domestic beers and also shooters and liquors. Fair priced at about $7/beer or shot Music: large selection of songs! Lots of Chinese and English songs. Very easy music selection because you can download the app and do everything right from your phone. Service: service is really quick and the staff are very nice Parking: free on site parking read more

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Not the best karaoke spot I've been to. You only get 2 mics per room which is annoying having the share mica with more than 2 people. A lot of the songs don't have subtitles and the subtitles in other songs move too fast for the music. The app you download to use as a remote control is glitchy and a lot of the songs aren't in English, either. The food is super cheap so you definitely get a good bang for your buck. The selection of food is pretty questionable (picture of menu attached to this review) and the food we did end up getting was mediocre at best. The staff were all very friendly and accommodating. I've been to nicer karaoke bars so I probably won't be back here. read more

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this is my go to karaoke spot ! although it isn't the nicest in aesthetics, it's price really makes up for it. From 1-9 it is $9.99 per person for as many hours as you like and it includes two non alcoholic drink. including tax and service fee it comes up to around $13 per person. also if you check in on yelp you get free chicken wings ! it's only one basket per room as they just changed it and you get 6. the food here during happy hour is also really cheap with many items under $5. the song selection is not the best as it is mainly older music but it has classics like Taylor swift ! I also don't like how the Chinese and english music aren't seperated which can be annoying. the app that the location used does crash often so you have to enter the code in again multiple times but the songs are still saved which is good. the drinks and chicken wing are surprisingly good. I typically get the non alcoholic Shirley temple and it is great! the chicken wings are juicy and crispy with some salty flavouring on the outside. another con about this place is the service. I couldn't find them at one point for 15 min cause the tv crashed and I needed help. turns out all the employees were singing in one room. but still with the price it can't be beat so I'll be coming again read more

Take One Karaoke & Lounge - Karaoke Near Me - Markham, Ontario

This is my favorite affordable Karaoke place in Markham. In all, it is still the most cheapest and greatest Karaoke. They have lunch special daily menu even you don't come to sing, perhaps come to eat and enjoy some songs a bit. read more

Take One Karaoke & Lounge - Karaoke Near Me - Markham, Ontario

I have been coming to Take One since high school. Always a good time with happy hour and night time service. Just found out they expanded the happy hour recently from 1-9pm daily and the price is still $10 per person including 2 non alcoholic drinks. I come more often for night time and you usually need to spend a minimum to get a room but is totally affordable when you share with friends. You can use the budget to spend on alcohol (like the new flavours soju) or food (my fav is the cuttlefish balls and instant noodle). read more

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This is my go-to place for Karaoke. Pricing is reasonable (they have happy hour deals!), they have a wide range of foods and drinks (both alcoholic and non alcoholic), and their song selection (both English and Chinese) has grown IMMENSELY over the past few years. It is not the prettiest place, but it does the job for a decent price point! read more

I always have this dilemma where I want to give a place four stars, but end up giving them five if I had an overall good experience. After a massive dinner with coworkers + the bff @ tsuki izakaya two weeks ago, we landed at this karaoke spot since someone in the group knows the ppl that run this place. There are so many karaoke bars in the area that are comparable and maybe even one that is noticeably better. However, I've come to this one several times and never had an issue or any complaints. First, parking. It's free, but the lot is always busy at night since there are other social establishments in the same building. We were able to get parking in the front without having to wait long on a Friday. The karaoke bar is on the third floor with your choice of stairs or elevator. I've been here before and always knew the elevators are seriously old and slow. Every other time I've come here, I take the stairs for this reason. On this night, we all decided to climb in since we were all too full to walk up. We pressed *3 and it stayed on the ground floor for a while and the doors wouldn't open. It was more funny than scary because we just knew how these old, sketchy elevators are. Since we were on the ground floor, we were able to get the doors open and walk out safely. I wish I looked up the capacity for that elevator, we were a party of 8 (and although full) fit comfortably in the elevator. I don't know how to upload videos on yelp, or else I would show you what happened. (Crappy Snapchat screenshot to come). Although we normally get the all you can drink (aycd) deal along with the huge party room, complete with idarts and a beer pong table... On this particular night we were a group of 8 looking to have a more chill night. We were hooked up with a really big room that could have easily fit double the amount of people. The room had clean floors, tables, seats and walls. We were also given dice to play with. The bathroom (I went twice throughout the night, were clean both times. The first stall was missing toilet paper the whole night, but that was the only off thing. We ordered a lot of beer (mix of Heineken and Coors light), a bottle of Johnnie walker black label with pitchers of green tea and some Red Bull. Beer was ice cold. Johnnie walker and green tea is still my fave when coming to karaoke. The green tea pitchers had too much ice, so we asked for another pitcher with less ice so it wouldn't water down the liquor. The Red Bull was nice if you need some extra energy to last the night. We also got some (what I think were) complementary food dishes. Fries were good and came with ketchup. Curry fish and beef balls are always good snack food. We also got some free chicken wings do the yelp check in! Shoutout to yelp for the extra hook up. The music was fine. I like that a lot of the music videos matched the music (most songs we chose did not have some weird random video playing in the background). I also like that you can download an app to queue your music. They could improve the search feature on this app as it was a little difficult to navigate. I think you could only use the search bar to search by song title, it would be better if you can search it like this and by artist name. I also wish they updated the playlist a little more often. Had some new music, but could have a better variety of old and new songs. This place does not have the traditional books to look through. After hours and hours of singing our hearts out, *I think* everyone paid around $40.00 bucks a person. Staff was really friendly and easy throughout the night. Came whenever we needed something (service button works), brought things out quickly, took a few photos of the group and left us alone when we wanted privacy. The bill was easy to pay for and they all told us to have a goodnight on our way out. They were all very welcoming and nice. Sorry for the bad photos. They are Snapchat screenshots (stupid photos don't match yelps size format or something). I'll rmb to take awesome photos (not using Snapchat) next time. read more

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$10 for afternoon karaoke from 3-9 pm. Very affordable. App is available to download for song selection. Easy to use. WiFi is not as stable as it could be. Drinks are subpar. I do not recommend honey and ginseng as it tastes like soap water. Washrooms located outside of the karaoke facility are extremely dirty. Many western songs did not have lyrics. Overall, very economical entertainment. read more

This karaoke place is located on the 3rd floor and unless you have a large party, the washroom is outside and the opposite side of the elevators. On weekends after 10 p.m. it's a flat $25/person before tax and tips, so you have a $25 credit to spend on anything you like until 3 a.m. with last call around 1:30 a.m. Anything extra will be on top. They are very strict with IDs and everyone would be asked the moment you arrive and ask for a room. The decor was very modern and the seating were all new and very comfy, but maybe it was just bad luck for my and my BF, but their karaoke system or TV screen didn't work for us for about 20 odd minutes and one of the employees was too busy promoting the place's app and songs by Bruno Mars to care to resolve this important issue for us. The app was very easy to use, but every few minutes or so, it would log us out and ask for the access code again to get in. Luckily, they have a pretty good selection of food and beverages, so making the most of the flat $25/person was not too hard. The cheapest item was green tea or hot honey lemon water for $4.50. Our lamb skewers were $12 for 4. Dumplings, fruit punch and salt and pepper tofu were all around $7.50 each. However, I did not like how loud the music playing outside in the lobby was as it protrudes into the closed karaoke room in between song selections or quiet break time. Soundproofing can be better overall. Many of the English songs did not have proper MVs and they practically labelled all western music as Eurpoe, not even Europe, but Eurpoe... I like Ten23 so much more and it is just 5 minutes south of Woodbine on Steeles. To be honest, if I had known that I needed to book a room there first then I would not have come here in the first place. I would recommend this place for larger parties though and those who like to eat, drink and sing at the same time. $5/hr with food and beverage is not bad, but the service could have been a lot better. We asked for another mic and they just ignored us, because it was missing the on and off button and they told us that we just have to get a stick and push into it really hard... First time I went to the washroom around 10:30 p.m. it was clean, after multiple glasses of water later, I had to go back 3 or 4 more times thereafter and someone had barfed inside one of the urinal... and even when I last went inside at 1:30 a.m. it was still not clean. Lazy management. read more

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Came here on a Saturday night. Elevator is pretty sketchy in the building. One of then wouldn't move, so we had to get out and take the other one. Service wasn't great. They were friendly, but everytime we asked for something, the staff would just disappear and not come back. Asked for the yelp check-in chicken wings, and was told that it's not applicable to weekends. The guy said to check the terms and conditions. I showed him my yelp screen which didn't have any terms and conditions. He still said no, the owner probably wouldn't allow it, especially on the long weekend. Not sure why this wasn't stated anywhere then?? Would've been nice to know beforehand. We ordered some food and drinks. DON'T get the curry beef/fish balls. We ordered the mixed plate (half fish half beef) but they must've thought we ordered full of each, cause that's what we got. The flavouring on these made it pretty inedible. It tasted like we were eating smoky burnt fish/beef balls. The deep fried cuttlefish balls were decent. Fries were meh. Honey lemon water was fine, but that one's pretty hard to mess up. In terms of the karaoke, the room was fine, and the song selection wasn't bad. Some songs had the real music videos which was nice. Most though were the landscape/girl/guy generic karaoke videos. At one point the system crashed and we lost our song list. They had to restart the computer and we had to re-select all our songs. read more

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Went during happy hour on a Saturday before 9pm. The price of $10/person seemed worth it since you get 2 non - alcoholic drinks included and a check in gives u a free basket of wings. We mentioned a friend was vegetarian so they accommodated with spring rolls which was nice of them. The Shirley Temple I ordered was good but the milk tea was a bit too sweet. With regards to the actual karaoke portion, we downloaded the app but it didn't work so we had to use the remote from the system. It was a bit outdated and extremely hard and time consuming since we couldn't search for a song, but had to scroll until we saw one we liked. Some videos had lyrics that were not timed properly and came up too slow. Other songs we tried didn't have lyrics at all. Overall, money was worth it for the drinks and food but karaoke was extremely outdated and needs improvement. Would doubt a repeat visit. read more

Summary: an nice karaoke place uptown. Tip: download the Mobile app in advance A group of us went here during weekend happy hour. The place is inside a building, which is a bit hard to find. Apparently this place has been opened for many years. The song ordering system is a bit strange, you need to download a mobile app to order. Some of my friends have technical difficulties. We spent half an hour try to debug it. Somehow, it does not work on some Android phones. The happy hour is $10 + tax + tips that includes 2 drinks, from 1 to 9 o'clock. The drinks here are pretty nice, recommend the milk tea. The English song selection here is pretty limited. They got a lot of Chinese songs. read more

Such a fun place with an amazing selection of music and cheap drinks! What else do you really need for a great night?! They have newer karaoke machines that can be controlled through the app, so you can pick pretty much any song you want unlike the old school karaoke places that use a book with preprogrammed songs. The lady at the front was super nice too. Can't wait to go back and sing my heart out! read more

I was there with my friends two nights ago... It was my first time to this karaoke... They have the option of night time happy hour for anyone who doesn't want to drink alcohol, for $15 per person you can sing your lungs out till closing (and 2 alcoholic drinks included) Foods and drinks are pretty good. We ordered the wings and deep fried spicy tofu snacks and both r yummy :) and the Shirley temple drink is good too Staffs r friendly and helpful. And we particularly love the app which we can use that to pick songs as supposed to just having the remote control. Take one will b our choice of karaoke from now on :) read more

Take One Karaoke & Lounge - Karaoke Near Me - Markham, Ontario

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I went here two times. First time I loved it we had our own room and we had a wire which we could connect and play our own music. The staff were friendly and helpful when needed. Due to my good experience I decided to go here for my birthday. Second time I went here last Saturday for my birthday I absolutely hated it and possibly won't go back. To sum up the night we all ordered drinks upon arrival. Three of us ordered Virgin drinks because we do not drink however the other four of my friends did order alcoholic beverages. We were just singing and having a good time and half an hour later the attendant comes in and asked us if we would like any more drinks to which we replied "no thank you" and she left however about a minute later a male worker barges in and starts searching around our room. We were all lost and asked him what he was looking for so we could assist him. He was silent and kept searching and made us get up while he searched our jackets and also went into my friends purse. He then found nothing and left and my friend and then said he was looking to see if we stuck in bottles since we weren't ordering more. I was furious that he though it was okay to just barge in and start searching us without even asking our permission. I approached him and told him how wrong that was and that we don't drink so we didn't order and how I don't even have to explain myself to him. Complete bullshit. He literally ruined all of our moods. I expressed how uncomfortable he made us and how we would definitely not be coming back. He said how it was routine however my friends who go there often told him no we come often and this is the first time so it's not "routine". He apologized and brought us free shots to "make up" but we still told him how stupid and discriminating that was. Definitely do not go especially if you're brown they prejudge and treat you like you're criminals. Absolutely ridiculous. read more

Great price and hours for small and large groups. Although you can search new songs on YouTube I wish the system itself was updated with more recent songs. read more

Went with four friends to this KTV spot. When you first go into the building it does feel a bit sketchy because it's older and you have to take stairs to the elevator to the third floor. Once we got there, we were asked if we had a reservation but we didn't so it took a bit longer to get a room. The lady recommended that we call to book a room for future purposes. We ended up getting a smaller room because we had no reservation. The seats were dirty when we got in so we had to just clean it ourselves. There's a strong scent of cigarettes inside the building as well but not as strong in the rooms luckily. The sound system was easier to navigate with the DigiKTV remote app you can install in your phone via their complimentary wifi. Their song selection is decent but it still didn't have all the new songs. For pricing, they had a deal for happy hour Monday to Sunday $10 per person when we went from 1pm to 5pm. The deal did not include drinks or snacks like other KTV places. Overall, this place wouldn't be my first choice for KTV but it's a pretty generic KTV place that I'd probably return to one day. read more

Been here numerous times. Friendly staff and will try to accommodate you as best as possible. Happy Hour until 9pm (starts 1 pm?) for $10 a person (includes 2 basic drinks). What a great deal! They also gave you a coupon for one person free on next visit. On one visit, other people's voices were broadcasted in our room for a few seconds intermittently - perhaps something to do with the signal. Not too big a deal (maybe 3-5 times an hour on average) we had a good laugh over it. read more

Take One Karaoke & Lounge - Free basket of wings when you check in on yelp. - Karaoke Near Me - Markham, Ontario

Don't do it! They make their own UGLY rules... 15% gratuity added to the bill without any advance notification, not enough serving staff... just way too expensive. read more

Awesome service - Love the Digital KTV app that everyone can search songs on their phones. Newly renovated rooms with great service. Don't forget to check in using Yelp - you get a free basket of wings read more

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Not a bad uptown location for karaoke! A bunch of friends and I checked this place out a few weeks ago and quite enjoyed our time there. The songs are relatively up-to-date but some songs only had the music video without any lyrics. They also have an app you can download before going there. It was a little glitchy at the beginning but ended up working fine for the rest of the night. The app allowed us to choose songs and move songs up/down depending on what we wanted to sing next. It's relatively easy to use if you know the song title you want! Service was also good for us. The people came in quickly when buzzed and answered our questions about the app or about food. The only downside is that the building that It's in smells like cigarettes even though there are signs that say no smoking. The elevator is also kind of sketchy. During non-happy hour, cost is $20 per person (minimum). The $20 per person can be used towards food/ drinks. So if you exceed $20 per person, you obviously have to pay the extra but if you don't exceed or meet the $20 per person in food or drinks, you still get charged $20 per person. There's no charge for using the room & you can use the room for as long as you want. read more

This place has been opened since I was a kid and it's still open and operating with a change of owners over the years. They offer a $10/person happy hour with 2 non-alcoholic drinks where you can sing from 3pm - 8pm every day. They also offer $20/person happy hour with 2 non-alcoholic drinks where you sing from 9pm - 2am. They also min. room charge cost if you were to order alcohol. Alcohol is approx $7 for domestic beer and $9 for import, hard liquors start around $80 depending. Mixers are extra charge, $20 per pitcher. They have multiple rooms available, small, medium, large, party size. But don't expect this place to look nice, it's looks a little sketchy and old since there haven't been any renovations since it has opened. Certain sound systems in certain rooms are pretty bad, the rest are just bare minimal, but I guess you can't really tell once you have some alcohol in your body. They have wireless mics for some rooms, but then you have to ask for them because it's only certain rooms that have it set up. Wireless mics don't work really well and runs out of batteries very quickly. The sofas in the room are old and some crackled due to usage over all the years. Service isn't as quick as you expect even though they have multiple of staff working on a weekend night. Don't order food unless you want to wait an hour for it because even alcohol takes a long time so food obviously takes much longer. Songs are not the newest up to date but surely they do have "newer" songs. Taxes and tips are already included in the bill when you pay, most convenient so you don't have to calculate. **Overall, this is one of the cheaper karaokes in town, and that's the only reason I come, but other than that, there's way more choices in the area if you want better service, sounds, atmosphere, etc. read more

After our failed attempt to try a new joint, Mi Lounge & Mix2, we came back to our trusty Take One. Take One has also adopted the downloadable app to select songs system which I can't say I'm a fan of. It would be far more efficient for these karaokes places to have at least one tablet per room with their app already downloaded and ready to go for the users. At least this way, you can expect a more seamless transition from their older remote & song binder system. As expected, Take One stepped up and delivered with much more efficient drink service, courtesy to help out with the app failures and being so accommodating when we arrived with some 2 hrs to closing. I wouldn't hesitate to return to Take One for our next sing-out outing in Markham! read more

As soon as you get inside the karaoke room, you can feel the floor is so sticky. I am not sure if it is because of the 'design' of the floor or because it is so dirty. The ceiling have holes, windows blinds are broken so they cover the windows with black tapes/stickers. Seats are broken. Toilet floor is also very sticky, the lock of the stall are damaged, so you can't lock the door when you are doing your business. Food ordering method is a very interesting experience. They give you piece of paper to write down what you want, but the back of the paper has been used for other orders before, so when you place your order make sure they look at the side for your order, otherwise you may get something else. Server is not usually available, and you may have to wait ten minutes at the front desk to clear your bill. Food are overly salty, for them, it's probably great strategy to get the customers to order more drinks; not so good for customers... For some reason, their specialty cocktails are bad, taste like diluted drinks. The good thing is... You can use their App to choose song from your phone so you don't need to use their dirty remote. For those who is willing to come to Take One, if you are expecting to 'enjoy', be prepared for a bad experience unless you have very low expectation. Take One was okay yrs ago, they probably won't last long if they don't change their bad management and make sure everything is well maintained. read more

Went there on Friday during happy hour (before 9pm). Service was rather fast (maybe not many customers?). While there appears to be plenty of food options, on our visit they didn't have 2 kinds of snack that I wanted. Lots of Chinese songs available, but not so much for English songs. The rooms aren't soundproof and you can sometimes hear next room's music when your music stops. read more

I saw the 3.5 stars so I tried here. Very old and low song ordering system.. Can't believe the good reviews... and the waitress was so rude. Don't spend your time here. read more

If you check-in here on yelp, you get free chicken wings (2 per room)! They honored it during the happy-hour. Selection of songs was better than some other k-places i've been to. The service was also much better too than most considering there was maybe one or two people manning the operation. The only place where i'd be a bit meh about was the food. The person making the food kept using the same seasoning on everything :3 Also, when we ordered 5 hot lemon tea's, they just gave us a pitcher, but then when we ordered 3 hot lemon tea's, they gave us in individual mugs. Price: 4/5 Service: 4/5 Food: 2.5/5 Price Point: 3.5/5 read more

We did our after party office party at Take One, since it was convenient for all of us. Located on the bottom floor of the building, the place definitely needs some renovations done. But overall the rooms were ok, and the song selection was good. It cost our group of 7 roughly $300 for drinks and some food. Minimum spend for weekend is $25 pp. read more

Friendly staff, fun atmosphere, loads of musical selection to choose from. I'd definitely go back.

Came here with a bunch of friends and was really surprised at how cheap it was. For their "happy hour" on a Friday night which for $12/person includes 5 hours of belting it out in a private room and 2 non-alcoholic drinks. Cheeaaaap. While the navigation of the music system is a bit of a pain and they don't have a book for reference for the price, it's pretty good. They have all your karoake classics (Journey, Richard Marx etc), enough N'Sync/BSB to relive high school/university days to the newer stuff like Bruno Mars and the Biebs (disclaimer - I did NOT choose nor sing to any of his songs). They also have a pretty good amount of actual music videos to go along songs so you don't have to sing along with a random 80's video montage. Plenty of parking and service is prompt. read more

TAKE ONE AND TAKE NO MORE. First of all, why these people choose to operate a business with ZERO value in customer service is beyond my knowledge. When my friends invited me to Take One because of their $10/per hour karaoke starting from 1pm to 9pm I didn't expect a 5 Star Lounge, however what I do expect is some respect as a patron that is visiting for the first time. We simply wanted to be in a comfortable environment to sing. From the start I was not feeling the vibe and initially wasted about 15 minutes with the guy trying to reboot the system. When it did reboot, the sound didn't work, the screen went blank and then the mic didn't start. We asked for assistance consistently because of all the issues we were experiencing, but soon felt like a nuisance asking for help by the response of a lot of eye rolling and impatience shown. At that point I was ready to leave and take my business elsewhere, but my friends wanted to stay. They weren't busy so they could have easily switched us to another available room instead of dealing with our constant "interruption." After some time of singing 9pm quickly approached and "happy hour" was coming to an end the lady barged into the room to drop off our bill. "No rush" she said with 20 minutes remaining. Then it was 8:50pm and we were just finishing up a few final songs, again she barges in and asks us if we're ready to pay and they only accepted debit and cash. OK! First of all, we could have stayed longer if we wanted to, but she never asked us. Secondly, can we finish our last songs before being rushed out to pay? We still had 10 minutes left and 15 of it was wasted from the start without compensation. Thirdly, where is the line-up? She was super rude and had no manners. I'm a guest and I feel unwelcomed. I won't be returning as a customer or suggest it to anyone I know. There's definitely some mediocre karaoke bars around the area but it's better to pay slightly more than to receive the terrible service from Take One. Clearly, it's all business and they don't care to give people a good and relaxed experience. read more

My friends and I only frequent this Karaoke joint. We usually come in the day time and leave for dinner. They have an app called DigiKTV Remote that you can use to select songs on the queue, works with android and iphone. This convenience makes the experience much more fun to select what you want without waiting for the remote. Food and drinks are pretty good here. If you want to drink I usually do the red wine (cheap stuff) and jugs of sprite, this mix tastes good and loosens people up to get their diva on. The honey tea is good too if you're going hoarse. They give coupons that is equivalent to one person free if you come back within a month. Bill is tip included. The owner is really friendly, we had a birthday once and she came and did shots with us. Definitely a good time! read more

Not that I want to further perpetuate stereotypes about Chinese people who love to Karaoke, play Dance Dance Revolution, and... okay, so I suppose I am perpetuating the stereotype. What? I love to sing! We ended up at Take One after eating and drinking at the Dragon Pearl Buffet for William T.'s 23rd birthday. It was a quick zip up the 404 and we were there in a flash. Parking was plentiful when we arrived at 10PM. It is located on the third floor (elevator access). The elevator was a bit sketchy as it bobbed up and down once we got in it and the fan made a weird noise. My friend lamented something about "Do they really have Asian massages here?" so I'm assuming that there is a massage parlour of some sort that is located in the building. The second floor is home to a snooker bar, which I believe is owned by the same people. While being led to our private karaoke room, we walked through a dark hallway, with scant lighting that flickered on and off - sh!t did I end up in the massage parlour by accident? Nope... but we might as well have been walking into a room of tantalizing masseuses waiting to give you the daily special. When we finally settled in to our room, glasses were brought as well as dice sets. For those of you who have never been to an Asian karaoke lounge, the dice sets are for drinking games. We ordered a pitcher of vodka cranberry, 2 pitchers of sprite mixed with red wine, and a dozen beer. The food is not included at Take One like some other places in Scarborough. The karaoke menu is a little frustrating to navigate through, and I found their selection of English songs to be a little outdated/incomplete. The sound was not working as we watched a muted KTV while waiting for a staff member to arrive. You can access the staff by pressing the SERVICE button (the only button with a human head silhouette) and someone will magically show up. Its like having your own butler - sort of. The furniture is starting to show signs of wear and tear and could stand to be replaced. At the end of the night, it was $40 per person. I would probably go to Club Mirage at Market Village when I'm in the mood to sing next time. read more