[3] Mark Deming of AllMusic said, "Man About Town doesn't boast much in the way of radical steps forward.

[5] Ken Capobianco of The Boston Globe said, "Highlights album come when the songs stretch beyond Hawthorne's solo comfort zone".

It fills a very real void in an increasingly crowded and grossly jaded pop music world.

[9] Charles Waring of Record Collector said, "Containing 10 songs and with a running time of 30 minutes, it's tantalisingly brief but never short of quality".

[10] Rachel Aroesti of The Guardian said, "For the most part, he remains in relatively banal lyrical territory on this fourth album, but what he's able to do with some aplomb is capture the majestic effortlessness of the Motown sound".