An intimate event space at 72 Hudson Street — semi-private groups of 35 up to full buyouts of 125, with open bar packages from $40 per person and a custom menu built around your night.
The Waiting Room is a below-street cocktail lounge and kitchen in the heart of Hoboken — exposed brick, a canopy of string lights, warm neon, and a bar long enough to hold a crowd. It's the rare event space in Hoboken that already looks like something before you decorate a thing.
Because the whole room is one connected space, a private party here doesn't feel like a function room bolted onto a restaurant. Your group gets the atmosphere, the bar, the sound, and the staff — and a single events contact from first email to last call.
Check Your DateWhether you're bringing ten people for drinks, hosting 35 for a birthday, or taking the whole venue for a company holiday party, there's a version of this room that fits.
Not every group needs a buyout — but every group should be expected. Send us your date and our events team holds space at the bar, has it staffed for your arrival, and sorts food if you want it. All the looking-after, none of the paperwork.
Your own section of the room with a dedicated bar area and staff, while the venue stays open around you. The easiest way to host a private party in Hoboken without a full buyout.
The entire venue is yours — every seat, both bars, the sound, and the door. Corporate parties, holiday parties, and milestone celebrations that need the whole room.
We're a cocktail bar first — so an open bar here isn't a folding table of well liquor. Pick a tier, pick a length, and we handle the rest. Prices are per person.
Open bar pricing is per person and covers the whole group for the length you pick. Food, semi-private setups, and full buyouts are quoted on top — tell us your date and headcount below and we'll come back with the full number, not a brochure.
Share your date, headcount, and what you have in mind. Our events team comes back within 24 hours with availability and pricing — no obligation.
Your date, a rough headcount, and what you're celebrating. That's it — about sixty seconds.
Availability, a written package with real numbers, and one name to reply to. Not a call centre.
Nothing's booked until you say so. You don't need a deposit to ask a question.
Rather talk it through? Email maf@thelightgrp.com — The Waiting Room, 72 Hudson Street, Hoboken.
Our kitchen builds every event menu from scratch around your group — passed bites while people arrive, family-style platters for a seated crowd, or stations for a full buyout. The cheesesteak egg rolls are non-negotiable. Everything else is up to you.
Dietary needs, a cake, a signature cocktail named after the guest of honor, a projector for the slideshow, a specific arrival time for 80 people — tell us in the form and it goes in the plan. Every event gets a written package before you commit to anything.
Build My Package
72 Hudson Street, on a night that's going well.
Semi-private events start at around 35 guests. A full venue buyout holds up to 125. Under 35 there's no formal package, but send it through anyway — our events team will hold space at the bar and have it staffed for you rather than leave you to chance it on a Saturday.
Three packages, priced per person: Beer & Wine at $40 for two hours or $45 for three; Classic Open Bar (house mixed drinks, beer and wine) at $50 for two hours or $60 for three; and Cocktail Open Bar (all cocktails, seltzers, beer and wine) at $60 for two hours or $70 for three, with premium liquor available for $15 more per person. If you'd rather cap the spend, we also run consumption bars and drink tickets.
Regularly. Holiday parties, team offsites, client dinners, launches, and end-of-quarter nights. You get one events contact, a written package, and proper invoicing — no chasing anyone down the week of.
It varies by date and how much of the room you're taking — Friday and Saturday in December is a different conversation than a Tuesday in March. The open bar prices above are firm; anything on top of them goes in a written package before you commit to anything.
72 Hudson Street, Hoboken, NJ 07030 — a short walk from the Hoboken PATH and Terminal, with parking garages nearby. Easy for a Manhattan crowd, easy for a Hoboken one.
Weekends and the whole of December go first. Send your date through the form and we'll come back within 24 hours — if we can't hold your date, we'll say so quickly rather than string it out.