For five years, D.C.’s reggae home was at Patty Boom Boom, a dance club on U Street NW. When the club closed in 2015, leaving Cloak & Dagger to open its place, the neighborhood lost a place to dance to island sounds until the wee hours of the morning.

“If you ask anybody in town what they thought [of Patty’s], they would say it’s a wild, cool, fun place,” says Jay Bynum, one of the former head bartenders at Patty Boom Boom. “There’s not a day or week that goes by and people don’t ask about it.”

Every night was a memory, Bynum says. Live bands would play on Tuesday nights, and DJs from New York would often stop by to spin. It was a small space with a sound system that made you feel like you were in a concert hall, even when there were only 50 to 100 people there, he says.

“It was that type of place that wasn’t just for islanders,” Bynum says. “The whole community was there; there were no ill vibes. It was like you were in Jamaica.”

The good vibes are returning next week: The Patty Boom Boom team will host Wicked N BADD, their first pop-up event, on Tuesday at Marvin’s rooftop deck, just around the corner from its original location. Bynum now works at Marvin, and the restaurant’s co-owner Eric Hilton also co-owned Patty Boom Boom. It’s the team’s first chance to revive the club in four years.

Guests can expect to see Bynum and Tim Slayton, another popular face behind the bar, at the event.

“To this day, people still recognize us,” from the Patty Boom Boom days, Bynum says.

When it comes to filling the space with the spirit of Patty’s, Bynum says they plan on bringing back the classic drinks, DJs, and Jamaican jerk patties that tied Patty Boom Boom back to its classic reggae roots. Expect $6 rum specials, $5 Heinekens, and tracks from DJ Mutaal.

“We’re bringing almost everything back, just not the old building,” Bynum says. “Patties, spicy beef … just a different location.”

While the dance hall’s signature patties were previously made in-house, they’ll be in the hands of someone new next week: Bynum says the community recommended Nick Owens, a Howard University alumnus, to bring his Nick’s Jamaican Jerk Seasoning to serve guests at the event. Coco bread, plantains, and Jamaican beef and vegetable patties are also on the menu.

Tuesday’s event is the first of a potential series of Patty Boom Boom pop ups. Bynum adds that reggae will be back at Marvin either way, through their African Reggae Wednesdays series starting March 20.

“We’re going to bring the reggae vibe back over the summer,” Bynum says. “Patty Boom Boom is the foundation of that, big time.”

Marvin’s Patty Boom Boom pop up Wicked N BADD will take place on Feb. 26, 6 p.m.-1 a.m., free entry.