Truth & Alibi

This place is cool if you need a table at a discount considering it’s amount bars with no tables but I want to know why my bottle tasted like half water and I seen dead roaches every corner I looked. Disgusting place but super cheap if you’re hurting on money. Also staff looked like homeless people paid 10 dollars for the night. Idk what to think of this place. One word. ew. #uptownovereverything

It’s a cute little speakeasy club in Deep Ellum. You have to know the password on that particular day in order to get in. When you walk in, you are greeted by the bouncer, then you tell him the password (which changes every week), finally the bouncer opens the «secret passage way door» to the actual club. It is a relatively small club, so it gets pretty packed on a good weekend. Typically they play hip hop to get the crowd going. As far as drinks goes, price range is what you’d expect for a club in Dallas. It is definitely worth the experience. Other than its semi-​speakeasy theme, there’s not much that makes it extravagant or out of this world.

There is zero organization to the line, if you can call it that. You literally have to push your way to the front, otherwise people just fill in from the sides and cut. When we finally pushed our way to the front, the bouncer was literally asking about number of people in parties behind us. And it wasn’t one of those situations where only Barbies get in. Ratchets of all ages, and some Meth heads were rolling in too. Finally because I just wanted to see if it was worth it we walked ourselves in after some girls literally just walked to the front, said «please,» and got in. Inside looks really pretty and a fun little night club. Downside, it was 90% wall to wall SMU kids. You could smell the roofies and daddy’s money. We got a drink quick after barreling over some kids. Found a little spot were some couches were and started dancing. After about a half hour some girl comes over and starts picking through our jackets saying she is looking for her jacket. We had to shoo her off because she looked like she was literally trying to take one.
A few minutes later she comes back and starts going through our stuff again, this time she picks up my purse and opens it to look inside. My fiancé snatches is and says some choice words. She then tries saying, «we paid to reserve this space…» I cut her off because it’s 1:30 am, literally not one person had sat in that space since we walked in, and you don’t pay to reserve anything. I had to get in her face to try and Get her little brain to understand that even if she reserved that space where no one was, she has no right to pick up my purse and start going through it.

So thats the crowd. Go at your own risk.

This is a nice club. Great music, cool décor!!! Super fun place!!! Will definitely go back!

This place is literally the worst Candy Store I’ve ever been to. I stood in line for Candy for 30 minutes. 30 freaking minutes. When I finally got to the front they asked me for the password. «What password?!»
There’s a password for candy now?!
I will not go back. I never got any candy.
I don’t recommend this place to anyone looking for a good time or for candy because you will just wind up disappointed.

People don’t show up til midnight or later, plan on arriving after bar hopping. It’s cool because you have to go through a candy shop to get in. You also need to know a password, so be sure to know the password lol. Bartenders friendly, although the drinks were ok. I ordered a drink with ginger ale and it tasted more like cherry 7up? Anyways, Order your drinks simple here. Cool spot on Thursday nights in deep ellum.

T&A is too casual of a lounge and not managed well enough to justify paying for bottle service.
The club/​lounge is nice and a the DJ is decent, but management was disorganized. We waited about a half hour for a bottle, then 15 minutes more for glasses/​mixers. They gave us a crappy table after we paid for bottle service, right next to the door. Everybody was walking through our table and when we told management about it, they did nothing about it. Our waitress lost my credit card, rather than trying to look for it, she insisted I was drunk and raised her voice at me. More management gets involved and finally another waiter finds it where our waitress misplaced it next to a cash register. Management apologized to us on our way out.
Might go back there for a low-​key casual night, but not for a table.

Went here on a suggestion from a friend that went with her co-​workers the weekend before. Overall we had a blast! Great music, excellent drinks, and the staff was generally very nice. The crowd is rather mixed in all aspects which is right up my alley. We did not have any issue with doorman as others spoke about, but we did get there rather early following game. Will definitely plan to return!

I had a very solid night. Came here for a friends birthday and got in pretty quickly. We went back to the front for one of my friends but the bouncer didn’t let him skip the line which was strange to me because we had a table.
I don’t know about prices, but it’s not a crazy price higher than any other place you get a table at. We got four bottles. I think in their concept, they were trying to go for a classy scene but it’s kind of ratchet. No complaints there because the music is really good! I’m a big fan of the light up menu!

It was my first night out to the Deep Ellum area and my first night out in Dallas. I heard hip hop music coming from a candy store so we HAD to scope out the scene. I didn’t know the password (which can be found on their FB page) but they let us in anyway. Good music on a Friday night, chill spot, trendy décor.

It was very intriguing to me when I first heard about the concept of this place. The front of the bar is disguised as a candy store, tho I’m not sure if any of them is actually edible lol, wasn’t there long enough to check them out. In order to get in, you need to know the «secret» passphrase of the night, or have a booked reservation for a table there. I was lucky to know an infamous frequent patron there to get in quickly without any hassle lol.
The bar is decorated nicely inside with the elegant chandeliers and royal looking chairs/​tables. The owner of the bar is actually also one of the bartenders, so that says a lot right there about how much he cares about his bar. The drinks are a lil pricey, but I think it’s worth it for a place like this.
Even tho it’s labeled as a cocktail bar, it’s actually more like a club. I don’t think it was ever meant to be a club when there’s really no designated dance floor. People just kinda pick a spot and start grooving to the music or whatever move they are in the mood for. The serviced bottle is actually very expensive, at least a few hundred bucks. If you’re lucky, you get a table away from the bar, instead of the ones right in front where people would walk all over your area. It does get overly crowded inside after midnight on the weekend, so if you’re not one of those who cares too much about personal space, you’ll be just fine :)

How fun are secret entrances and speakeasies? Usually the ones I go to are chill, but this one was playing fun music to get people dancing. They played top hits to some not-​as-​recent goodies that you hadn’t thought about in the last two or so years — it was fun!
We went earlyish on a Thursday night and had no issues getting in. We were able to settle in, take a look at the menu, and get a few drinks before the place got busy. About an hour in, that’s when the crowd started pouring in. As we left, we saw the line and were glad we went when we did.
The drinks were good and the bartenders were friendly!
If I still in Dallas, I could see myself coming back here for sure.

Pretty cool because of the secret password and music. Nice place. Nice bartenders. We paid $ 50 to get in through the back for 8 people. They decide to take all of us out because some girl complained since she threw a toilet cleaner in my face and I decided to tell her that’s not right. We left.

My guilty pleasure… don’t tell anyone.
They play all my favorite songs I don’t admit to loving…
Drinks are little pricy but dancing is free!

Yeah, Im giving it a five. Bizarre club and theme.
Store front is a candy store and when you walk by with all the distractions in Deep Ellum it is kind of unnoticeable. Colorful and entertaining but its frikkin candy. Inside its an epic club with what appears to be over 100 oil paintings of individuals. These appear to have been collected at estate sales and are randomly weird. Its fairly genius. The chandeliers are reflecting the multi colored lights and its just cool inside. Upscale crowd and not a meat market. I doubt a group of guys could get in (reading some reviews) and its very diverse and absolutely not any racism exercised as a review stated. Bring a hot date and I bet ya get in. Its gender selective or balanced like all good clubs. No disrespect, but a bunch of broke 21 year olds looking for hookups when bottles of Dom are floating around makes no sense for the crowd they serve.
Managers, bartenders and massive door dude are all super friendly. This isn’t a place where you can nurse some Bud Lights all night so guys bring some $$ and females. Of course a group of hot girls can get in anywhere!

We got a table for 10 — which had a $ 300 minimum. They pushed for us to quickly meet that minimum by ordering a $ 300 bottle of Ciroc. No thanks we’ll just order drinks and shots. It was before 930 when we got there with no one in there. Cool, so let’s hurry and order our drinks before the crowd gets here. If the cocktail waitress was ready… no? OK new tab started at the bar.
Fast forward to when it gets crowded. Random people keep sitting at our table and we have to let them know it’s ours so our people have a place to sit down. No idea where the security is to help us out. Some girls dancing near by continually push our chairs in so they have room to dance while our area becomes a jumbled mess of tables and chairs. A confrontation arrives and finally security comes over. But not to help us. He grabs the chair and puts it back where it rightfully goes and proceeds to lecture our group and allow the girls to be in our space. I was the one that informed him we reserved this table space and had one of the receipts to prove it to which he screamed back «Oh ya? Show me your receipt!!!» I gladly showed him. He backed off and eventually ushered the girls away from our table.
Final rating is two stars. Don’t expect reserving a table will mean you have your people’s own space. Random people will use it and no one will do anything about it. Or maybe they will. I guess we were too cheap and only ended up spending $ 700. Maybe we would have been better treated if we bought bottles all night long. The people there are whatever. You’re always going to have douchey/​bitchy people where ever there’s alcohol and dancing. However, we were more than disappointed at the lack of security and service. Just because it looks cute and the music is fun doesn’t mean you should ignore the unruly crowd and treat those with table reservations so poorly.

I’ve always have fun here but what’s the point of booking a table to spend $ 850+ on bottle service when they don’t let you come back in through the back door after a smoke? When you finish your bottle they will clear the table with a quickness and charge extra up the ass. When they clear the table they will kick you out of the area.
The other time we had bottle service we were charged an $ 100 for 4 redbull. When I emailed and asked if I was going to get charged like that again, they didnt bother to respond back.

Pretty cool place. My fiancé and I were intrigued by the T&A sign (thinking it surely couldn’t be what it sounded like) and looked it up online. The password is easy to find (we found it on Facebook), and we loved the Speakeasy feel with the candy shop entrance. Really cool atmosphere inside — it’s almost like old school décor combined with new school music, but it works. We just had a couple drinks, but really enjoyed our time here!

A pristine colorful candy shoppe entrance manned by a large intimidating bouncer in black and two plump ompa lumpas in white clown suits and bright green bob wigs promised a delightfully odd madness perhaps not in keeping with the vacuous top 40 disco pumping inside as hot white females in short cocktail dresses clutched their purses as they slide through the exclusive admission doorway.
«Do you have a reservation?» The large man formally nosed down at us in our artsy urban street boy attire.
Befriending couples at the back door wasn’t even successful for entry on their sold out anniversary party night, where all the tables were booked.
Deep Ellum gets bougie. We hooked over to stone deck pizza after wasting a good 15 minutes attempt.
«We couldn’t get in.» We told someone.
«You’re better off.» He remarked.

This is a chill speakeasy spot/​club that I checked out this past weekend. The interior décor is pretty awesome — chandeliers hang which reflect the light so it creates a funky feel. The bartender ended up running my friends card 4 times on accident (how does that happen?) but besides that it was a cool spot to check out if you’re in Dallas and looking for a spot away from Uptown to check out.
I went fiancé cakes and his friends, and we had a great time. :D