Speakeasy Salsa · Fall 2026 · Six nights in the lofts on West 23rd Street

Salsa and mambo nights in rooms worth dressing for.

MAMBROSO produces salsa and mambo nights in New York: a numbered season of nights in two lofts on one block of West 23rd Street. Every night has a lesson and the signature open bar. Five of the six are floor nights — the lesson, partners changing every song, then the floor until close. The sixth is a lounge night, where the room is built for listening and talking instead. Members first; everyone else when the doors open.

As featured in Time Out New Yorka dressed-up atmosphere that feels considerably more glamorous than your average night out.Time Out New York · August 2026

Become a member The six nights

Opening Night · October · Loft in Flatiron

Loft in Flatiron · a Speakeasy Salsa nightShot by @novastar.media

The season

Six nights, one idea each.

Speakeasy Salsa runs as a numbered season — six nights from October to December, no two the same idea. Every night: doors at ten, the signature open bar, twenty-one and over. Tickets and membership are on Luma.

Opening Night
A Filin night · a DJ set, the floor open
The club opens on the feeling songs, carried by the DJ: the floor open, the lights low, a first night for dancing close.

OctoberLoft in FlatironMembers first · then by approval
Mambo & Mahjong
The host's birthday — come dressed
Tiles on the tables, a floor laid for the night, and a set built for talking over until it isn't. Play, talk, switch.

OctoberLoft in FlatironMembers first · then by approval
Backroom Bachata
Lights low, one bachata lesson, then the room gets close.

NovemberLoft on FifthMembers first · then by approval
Vinyl & Vocals
Two years of MAMBROSO
Two years from the first night, on the records the brand started with, and a singer for two live sets.

NovemberLoft on FifthMembers and their guests
Filin
The feeling songs · live vocals, low light
Havana borrowed the English word feeling and made a music out of it — jazz harmony under a voice, sung close. One singer, two sets, the lights down.

DecemberLoft on FifthMembers first · then by approval
Holiday Descarga
The year's last night · a special surprise guest
Dressed up, the biggest floor, the DJ's longest set, a toast at midnight.

DecemberLoft on FifthMembers and their guests

Doors

Ten o'clock.

Come dressed. Members walk in on their name; everyone else has applied and been answered.

Half past

The lesson.

Every night. A beginner lesson, partners changing every song. Never danced? This is where you start.

Then

The floor — or the room.

Floor nights: two DJ sets, never a set list, the floor open until one, capped so it stays danceable. The lounge night: the room stays at talking level and the night is what is happening at the tables.

All night

The bar.

Open bar with the doors; last pour at half past twelve, thirty minutes before close.

Nos. 01 and 05 are Filin nights — the Havana music that took its name from the English word feeling. No. 01 opens the season with it on the floor, carried by the DJ. No. 05 is the lounge night, where the room itself is the evening: live vocals, the lights down, the music kept low enough to hear each other. No. 02 puts tiles on the tables beside the floor. No. 04 adds a singer, two live sets between the records. Same door, same bar, same ticket.

The floor at the Loft in Flatiron mid-song, the room full — Loft in Flatiron · the floor

The singer at the mic at the Loft in Flatiron, red — Loft in Flatiron · a voice

A couple dancing close at the Loft on Fifth, deep red — Loft on Fifth · the floor

Every photograph and every clip on this page was shot on our own nights by @novastar.media.

Since November 2024Sixty-seven nights in New York4.6 of 5 across fifty reviews on MatchboxTime Out New York · August 2026

The rooms

Three lofts, one block of West 23rd Street.

Every night this season is in a Flatiron Loft Collection room — three lofts on one block, run by one house, where our host is a managing partner. Not a rental; the address. Each night names its room, and the suite and the door come with your ticket.

20 W 23rd St · Suite 4

Loft in Flatiron

The room the club opens in. Brick and neon, an eighteen-foot bar lit from behind, a pool table, a system built for a DJ, and light that changes colour as the night goes. A dance floor is laid for the night, and the tables are kept for the ones who came to talk.

This season Nos. 01 and 02 — both floor nights. The season opens here on the feeling songs, and the tiles come to the tables later in the month.

The opening room, and the tables
Holds one hundred twenty; we cap it well under · New York's Best Event Space, 2022 · @loftinflatiron · the venue ↗

20 W 23rd St · Suite 5

Loft on Fifth

The floor. Two and a half thousand square feet of it, dressed: a gold thread of chandeliers running the length of the room, a bar built into the wall, a disco ball turning over an open floor, and three lounge rooms off it — one curtained, one in red velvet — for the conversations that leave the floor. A private roof upstairs with two fire pits and the skyline.

This season Nos. 03, 04, 05 and 06 live here — the lesson and the DJ on the main floor, the bar open with the doors, the roof open, weather permitting, with the pours indoors.

The floor room, and the roof upstairs
Holds one hundred; we cap it under that so you can turn · Peerspace Open Door Award, 2023 & 2026 · @loftonfifth · the venue ↗

14 W 23rd St · Penthouse

14 West Loft

Three doors east and up: the whole top floor. Rooms that read like a very good apartment — art on the walls, a record player, a bar — skylights above, windows down one side, and a private terrace at the end of them over West 23rd. The most intimate of the three: sixty people, and everyone can hear each other.

This season Held on the house’s book for the members’ formats — the nights that want the whole floor to themselves, and the ones that should end on a terrace.

The top floor, and the most intimate of the three
Sixty guests · skylit rooms · a private terrace over West 23rd Street · the venue ↗

The rooms, on the nights

What a night actually looks like.

Every frame below was shot in these rooms, on our own nights, by the same videographer. Nothing is staged and nothing is stock.

Couples dancing beneath the gold pendants at the Loft in Flatiron

A couple in a close embrace on the floor at the Loft on Fifth, lit red

The foliage wall at the Loft in Flatiron lit red

A woman in a black top smiling against the red-lit brick at the Loft in Flatiron

Two musicians at the Loft on Fifth: a singer at the microphone and a percussionist at the congas beside him, lit red

A musician at the microphone with the band at the Loft on Fifth, guests on the floor beneath the chandeliers beyond him

Two guests holding hands and smiling against the red-lit brick at the Loft in Flatiron

A woman laughing mid-dance at the Loft on Fifth, her partner's back to the camera, deep red

A guest laughing at the Loft on Fifth, red

Dancing on the floor at the Loft in Flatiron

Hands on percussion at the Loft on Fifth, red

Two dancers' hands meeting at the Loft on Fifth, red

The DJ console at the Loft in Flatiron, the room red behind it

A woman with long blonde curls in a black lace top dancing at the Loft in Flatiron, the brick lit red behind her

A musician singing at the keys at the Loft on Fifth, lit red

A microphone on its stand at the Loft in Flatiron, the singer blurred behind it, red

The full floor at the Loft in Flatiron, couples dancing under the pendants

A bartender shaking a cocktail above their head behind the bar at the Loft on Fifth, the lit shelf and the brick behind them, all of it red

Guests beside the MAMBROSO screen at the Loft in Flatiron

A couple dancing at the Loft on Fifth, red

Shot by @novastar.media.

From the first night

Two years of nights.

How one night in a penthouse became the nights above. Every frame here is from one of our own nights.

November 2024
The first night.
A penthouse with the city in its windows, a DJ, a show — and a room that came dressed for it.
December 2024 – February 2025
Then, one a month.
The first night became a volume a month in the penthouse: a tree in the windows in December, a show in the middle of the floor, red for Valentine's.
March – May 2025
Then a speakeasy.
Two of the volumes moved to a speakeasy: low light, a voice on the mic, a solo under the spotlight.
July – November 2025
Then rooms across New York.
After the last volume, the night went visiting: a summer night at a cocktail bar in Queens, an intimate evening in the West Village, and a season of Sundays in Brooklyn, with a band.
2026
This year, the lofts.
Speakeasy Salsa opened at the Loft in Flatiron in January. Live-music nights followed in February, the 14 West Loft in March, the Loft on Fifth in April. This fall: six nights, members first.
The nights, in the gallery above ↑ The fall season ↑

Shot by @novastar.media.

Membership

Members first.

Every night opens to members first, then to everyone else by application — answered within a day. Two nights a season are for members and their guests only: this fall, the night MAMBROSO turns two and the Holiday Descarga.

A membership is monthly, walks you in on your name, and — with the guest tier — brings one person with you every night. A season pass covers the six nights without the membership. Every membership and the season pass include the signature open bar.

The founding cohort: twenty-five memberships at the founding rate, open until our second night or until they are taken. The founding rate is held for as long as the membership runs unbroken.

Membership on Luma

Rates are on the membership page itself — nowhere else.

Founding memberThe founding rate, capped at twenty-five, closing on our second night.
Founding + GuestThe same, and one guest with you every night.
MemberMembers-first access to every night; walks in on the name.
Member + GuestThe same, and one guest with you every night.
Season PassThe six nights of Fall 2026, one purchase, no membership.

Private events

We also produce your night.

Birthdays, anniversaries and big parties; company nights, client evenings and holiday parties; weddings and the nights either side of them; and the entertainment inside somebody else’s event — a lesson, a DJ, a singer, percussion, dancers. Photography and video, and food and drink, can come with any of it.

In house or in yours. All three lofts on this page are ours to book, which is the simplest version: one conversation for the room and the night together. But the night travels — we produce in whatever space you already have, or in one you are choosing.

Tell us when, how many, and roughly what the evening is. You get a written proposal back, not a call you have to take.

Private partiesBirthdays, anniversaries, engagements, a room for fifty friends.
WeddingsOne of the three lofts for the reception, or a venue you have already chosen — either way the dancing is ours: a first-dance lesson, the DJ, live percussion, dancers. And the nights around it: the rehearsal dinner, the welcome party, the after-party.
CorporateTeam nights, client evenings, holiday parties, offsites that need an evening.
Entertainment onlyWe bring the music and the floor to an event that already has a venue.
ProductionSound, lighting, staffing and the run of the night, start to close.
MediaPhotography and video of the night — stills, a recap, or both.
CateringFood and drink arranged alongside the room, so the evening is one conversation instead of three.

House rules

Stated once, kindly.

Twenty-one and overID at the door, every night.
DressCome dressed. Nights with a theme say so in the subtitle.
The doorMembers first; the public by approval. Two nights a season are members and their guests.
The barOpen bar, last pour thirty minutes before close. Doors at ten, close at one, so last pour is half past twelve.
Phones on the floorFilm the room, not the people who did not ask.
The floor decidesNo partner, no experience, no pressure.

From the same host

Two more ways onto the floor.

Each runs under its own name, with its own door.

Met Dancing

A singles night, on Thursdays.

October to December, in the same Flatiron lofts. Through November, a lesson built for a room of strangers starts the night, partners change every song, and then the DJ has the floor. The two in December are vinyl lounge nights. Come alone; most people do.

metdancing.com ↗luma.com/metdancing ↗

XXavier

A beginners’ class, on Sundays.

Our host teaches Foundations: a twelve-week beginners’ cohort in Chelsea, from October. For his current students, every Speakeasy Salsa night is complimentary, through the XXavier Student membership — the training includes the floor.

xaviertejeda.com ↗

Salsa and mambo nights in rooms worth dressing for.

Six nights, one idea each.

Opening Night

Mambo & Mahjong

Backroom Bachata

Vinyl & Vocals

Filin

Holiday Descarga

Ten o'clock.

The lesson.

The floor — or the room.

The bar.

Three lofts, one block of West 23rd Street.

Loft in Flatiron

Loft on Fifth

14 West Loft

What a night actually looks like.

Two years of nights.

The first night.

Then, one a month.

Then a speakeasy.

Then rooms across New York.

This year, the lofts.

Members first.

We also produce your night.

Tell us about the night

Stated once, kindly.

A letter before every night.