The Royal Roost was a jazz club located at 1580 Broadway in the Theater District of Manhattan in New York City.
Beginning in 1948 the club began to showcase the likes of Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Fats Navarro, Dexter Gordon, Tadd Dameron, and Max Roach.
The presence of so many prominent bebop musicians performing at the Royal Roost led to the club being nicknamed "the Metropolitan Bopera House," a pun referencing the club's close proximity to the nearby Metropolitan Opera House.
By the early 1950s, the jazz component of the Roost was moved to Watkins's new club, Bop City.
The Roost was the site of bootleg recordings of both Ella Fitzgerald and her then-husband, Ray Brown.