M B Lounge

This bar is full of old petty regulars. Empty that last three times I came. The bartenders aren’t even attractive.

Me and two friends came in for a couple of drinks around 1am on a Wednesday night. The place had probably 6 or 7 other people inside. We took a seat a the bar and waited for the bartender… and waited… and waited… and waited a little more. Finally the bartender comes over and takes our orders which only two of us were drinking. Maybe he had a long day or was just tired idk but he just wasn’t very welcoming or friendly at all. We had 1 drink and headed out.
Now I’m not a very impatient person, or at least I don’t think so. I know the bartenders are busy and can’t rush over just because we walk in the door. However, in this instance the bar was basically dead. All 6 people who were there when we walked in already had a drink and a few were getting ready to leave. The bartender was standing in front of the closest person to where we sat down at but just walked away as soon as we sat down. We started chatting figuring someone else had flagged him down just before we walked in or maybe just remembered he had to do something. However he just walked over and stood in front of the 2 or 3 people were a little further down the bar. He didn’t mix a drink, refill a mug, or anything just stood there and got into whatever conversation they were having. After about maybe 4 or 5 minutes he then came over to ask our drink orders. I just think it was completely unacceptable.
The drinks were not great but they weren’t terrible. I ordered the White Martinit, which I don’t think he knew out to make because he looked at some notebook after I asked him then went up to I assume the owner or at least another worker and he rattled off some ingredients that I’m pretty sure were for the drink. He may have been new, idk.
For my first time this was not at all a good experience but I’ll give this place another try on different night and see how it is. If its the same then I guess I’ll just have to stick with the straight bars seeing as though there are very few if any other options as far as gay bars at least.
Also, there is $ 15 minimum when using a card. I personally think that’s ridiculously high especially for this not being that big of a town or bar.

There aren’t any pics posted by anyone for this bar which supposedly has been there forever — for a reason. Mine is the 2^nd review for this bar, despite it’s existence forever — again, for a reason…
I am giving M B Lounge (wonder why they don’t call it Male Box — so much more fun!) a 1 star because I know I will be going back there again (my best friends moved into the area and I will be visiting them often). And hopefully the next time I do — I will have something positive to update and change the rating (it can either go up or stay the same from here on!). So here goes it — frame by frame — cut by cut!
Entrance: for a bar to have an entrance like this place does, it could be for one of the following reasons. It is trying to disguise itself from anyone knowing about it’s existence for some strange reason. Or for it to earn a reputation as possibly the cheapest bar in town — so cheap they cannot afford a name sign /​board that is noticeable from the side walk. Not sure what to make of it. But when we got off from our cab, I was like — you sure this is the bar?
Anyways. We went inside because my friends had raved about this place a lot and I was not yet ready to judge this book by its cover.
Inside: the bar gave a strange illusion about being a huge place simply because of the fact that it had 5 small square tables with 4 chairs each — spread across the entire space and it was pitch dark with green laser lights interspersed with lights reflecting off of a disco ball in the far end of the bar. That it was virtually empty at 9:30pm on a Saturday night just showed how small the place was. Not that I can imagine a crowd of 100 ever collecting here but if by any chance it did, there would be stampede and I would be the first one to escort myself and my peeps out of there. The bar — one long bar (and don’t fall prey to the word long — it had 6 bar stools!) squeezed to the left wall — again was put in there with the goal to make the place look big. The fact is — this is literally a hole in the wall kind of a place.
Music: one thing which I consider when I recommend a bar to a friend or a foe — it’s the music. I had no idea (nor my friends or the few people who were at the bar) about what kind of loud music was blaring from the bar as soon as we entered. After 15 mins of playing nice, I asked the bartender do you guys have a DJ or a juke box? «No juke box and I am the DJ». To which I asked can you play so and so song? «No. It’s my iPod and it’s a playlist from pandora I can’t change». I am Speechless!
Why the 1 star? Drinks are cheap. But again, I’m not in London or Sydney. The patio as it claims to call the back of the bar to be, stunk of fowl odor coming from the trash cans on the other side of the wall (possibly 10 of them — that’s how bad it was) every time the wind blew on the fab summer night. One of my friends already was witness to someone being thrown out of the bar for exposing himself after being totally trashed.
As I said — I am hopeful the next time I return, things might be different (fingers crossed) and I will have something great to update. Till then — I recoup despite no hangover (I had 2 drinks during the 3 plus hours at the bar. Something was just not right!).

Great place to go with friends or to strike up a friendly conversation with the «residents.» All of the bartenders are very friendly, fairly cheap beer, and there is a pool table.
The Friday night bartender also does a great job at video-​DJing. It seems that Friday nights always tend to busy or at least the few times I went.