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| - Short and sweet: This bar has great potential, but due to the arbitrarily enforced, male-only, cover charge and the rude response given when I refused to pay and walked away, I will never be returning and I would advise anyone to steer clear.
Long and sour: I'm in Vegas for Punk Rock Bowling, and I enjoyed my first visit (Thursday) so much that I returned the next two nights (Friday & Saturday), and tried to return a fourth time (Sunday). This time was different, despite being let in on Saturday with no ID check because the door guard recognized me, the same guard stops me to check my ID (I don't have a problem with that, I work security at a bar I know that sometimes you recognize people and sometimes you don't). He was about to let me in no problem, when he stopped to read my shirt (it was a shirt hating on white supremacists). We had a short conversation about it. Then he stops me from walking in, and proceeds to tell me that there's a $10 cover. I asked when the cover started, and he replied saying that "It should have started last night". I don't go to bars that charge a cover, but that's not the point. When I passed the two girls at the host stand down stairs, one mentioned that, "It's only for guys", and then very rudely, "You get a free drink so it's exactly the same!"
If they are just trying to make more money, why not charge a small fee for games? Free things are nice, but people are more than willing to pay to play, especially if it's cheap. The cover definitely seemed like it was getting put on because the door guard didn't like my shirt and didn't want me to come in. If there's a dress code, it would be nice to know that. My friends and I spent a lot of money there over the three days, and it's a shame we won't be coming back.
The owner Nicholas thinks that his bad reviews are mainly because of the "music choices" but even if you glance at the reviews, you know that's not true. I hope that they clean their act up and get rid of the bad seeds, because the bar has so much potential.
TLDR: Nerd Bar, stop enforcing arbitrary rules.
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