Rarely do I give less than 4 stars to a business, but I got a really bad taste from this place. We were visiting Pittsburgh for the weekend and were looking forward to trying Mixtape after the great reviews. We came at 8:30pm on a Saturday and it seemed like they had a good concept going on... board games, funky cocktails, 90s music playing. It was pretty empty when we got there, but we got a round of drinks to pass the time. We decided to go to Nico's bar down the street to get some cheap drinks and pass the time with the plan of coming back to mixtape when it was more poppin.
We went back to mixtape around 10:30 and we were told by the bouncer that they were at maximum capacity. There were maybe 45 people in there and the place looked empty. Max capacity was 99. We saw multiple tables inside that were unoccupied. They refused a few other people while we were standing outside also.
I just can't even believe that they would turn away customers when their bar was not even close to full. It didn't look much more exciting than when we first went in, so maybe we were spared in the end.
If you're looking for a good, affordable time, save the hassle and go to Nico' s recovery room down the street instead of coming here.