This was not the first time my wife and I -- and eight friends -- visited Terra Blues, but we'll think twice before we return. It wasn't that the only food to accompany drinks is a an over-priced paper bag of honey-roasted peanuts, and a little cardboard tub of bland olives -- no, it's that Terra Blues is a bar first, and a blues destination second, located in an area over-run with NYU students and tourists. The manager, twice during the music performance, asked the band, Hazmat Modine, to lower their volume. No doubt, it was because the yahoos in the back were having trouble hearing their loud conversations and loud laughing during the music. The manager should have, instead, asked the barflies to respect the music, the musicians, and the folks who came to hear the music, not themselves. It was that that gave me pause, plus asking for a check and seeing no detail, just 2 x $20 for me and my wife, in addition to the $20 each in cash you have to give the man at the door. Nowhere on the Terra Blues website is there mention of a $20 per person minimum in ADDITION to the entrance fee. Not a big deal, $40 per person to hear the music -- but, Terra Blues, $40 is too much when you're pretending to be a music venue, but are really a bar, and the loud talking obscures the music, especially during quieter pieces. Birdland, Blue Note and Vanguard are music venues.