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Backstage Lounge
- Hours:
Mon-Sun 6 pm - 2 am
- Outdoor Seating:
- Yes
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Parking:
- Private Lot
- Good for Groups:
- Yes
- Price Range:
-
$$
- Music:
- Juke Box
- Best Nights:
- Fri, Wed, Sat
- Happy Hour:
- Yes
- Alcohol:
- Full Bar
- Smoking:
- Yes
- Coat Check:
- No
- Noise Level:
- Loud
- Good For Dancing:
- No
- Has TV:
- Yes
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- Yes
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15 reviews for Backstage Lounge
15 reviews in English
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Review from Fawn G.
4/5/2012 3 Check-ins Here
Backstage Lounge is included in the basic adventures of Friday nights in my world. This isn't a bad thing. Backstage is just a place that I happen to hit first on my evenings out from parenthood.
Generally if you arrive any time after 7:30 you will expect to wait on your drinks. The drink specials are great before 9 pm.
The crowds vary on what sort of events are happening around town. A lot of the "A Loft" tenants come here with their business groups. So you'll see a variety of people in the business class, the ghetto class and the international class.
While their bathrooms are nice and neat before the peak, they often get rowdy with the toilet paper floors (not the bars fault). The outside patio is a nice little touch when the chairs are out, otherwise you can expect to stand when the wooden benches are taken.
I like the sunken bar, which reminds me of the Southside. The TVs are perfectly placed as well. Now I'm thirsty! -
Review from Ingrid M.
8/23/2011 7 Check-ins Here
This is such a cool place to hang out with your friends. The bar is long which means more space to order your drinks. The bartenders are friendly and efficient. The music (jukebox) is current, funky, and adds to the laid back atmosphere. Backstage has some pretty cheap specials both during the week and weekends. They also offer a VIP area for $40. Make sure you get there a bit early because finding parking can get difficult very fast. I plan on making this place a usual stop after a long day at work.
Listed in: Drink and Recover
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Review from Marisa P.
7/4/2011
The drink prices are right: cheap beer and well specials. The actual bar area is pretty small and all of the seats were full on my visit. Our group decided to go outside where there was a nice sized patio with tables. The crowd seemed a bit on the hoochie side with a lot of girls in booty shorts and high heels. If you are a guy looking for some action I would say this is a great place to find that. If you just want to chill and have a beer head next door to Lion and Rose where there is plenty of seating and you don't have to listen to gangsta rap.
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Review from Adam G.
San Antonio, TX
2/7/2012
Not a bad place but you can NEVER get a drink. The bar is crowded and you have to push your way to the bar. And good luck getting a bartenders attention, since the bar is recessed.
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Review from Tony A.
San Antonio, TX
7/25/2011
I went here on a Friday, it's a reletively small bar but it has a mixed group of people and i had a lot of fun there. Definitely a relaxed type of bar with decent drink prices. Just make sure you bring cash for the Juke Box!
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Review from Joel H.
El Paso, CO
12/12/2010
The bartenders, and I know this is going to sound ridiculous but it's the truth, made every effort to serve us and make sure we always had what we wanted. And the specials were $2. I felt weird, as the price of drinks and quality of service are usually inversely proportional, but not here.
As far as the crowd goes, it was alright. Make sure to dress up and show up early if you want to sit down anywhere.
The location was horrible. It's in a strip mall and there's more vacant properties around the place than businesses. Most of the shops around are closed at night so don't expect to do a whole lot of barhopping, although there's a movie theater and a comedy club close by.
My recommendation: If you're with a bunch of friends and just want to go hang out at a poshy place, this is what you're looking for. But if you're looking for a funky, cool place to party, you can do better than here. -
Review from Me y.
San Antonio, TX
2/25/2011
I go often great place to have a good and not pricey drink but can get really busy. Would be nice if they had more room. Outside is always nice and quiet for talking with your friends. Bartenders are always nice and always busy so you may have to wait in line for a drink but you can always bet it will be great service when they do get to you.
the only bad thing to say is that something should be done about the door guy..he is such a jerk. He should get over it, sitting at the door shining a flash light in your eyes does not make you a cop.. -
Review from M G.
San Antonio, TX
11/10/2010
Sky Bar type - huge murals with music theme paintings with leather couches and small tables along one side of this bar and a full bar all along the other. The drink specials change every month but involve a beer and a liquor - this month its Crown, flavored vodka and the Budweiser family all for $2 until 8-9pm daily. Staff are hard working and have a lot of ground to cover when it gets busy - almost 3 deep on the weekends. Nice patio you share with Earl of Sandwhich next door. They give you dirty looks as your smoke drifts over to them. You can smoke inside too for now; loud jukebox and some times can be Rap, others, its country or Lady GaGa. 4 flatscreens for sports.
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Review from Justin S.
8/10/2010
Straight ballin happy hour specials and it's got a great vibe in the place!!! There is a nice mix of people ranging from young professionals to a slightly older crowd. I've been a handful of times not during happy hour and liked what I saw. Parking can be very difficult if it gets later in the night and it can get a little crowded... But overall I would recommend this place for some happy hour because the best hour is happy hour!!!
Listed in: Best Happy Hour
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Review from Juliana P.
San Antonio, TX
10/29/2010 3 Check-ins Here
$2 wells yea buddy- walked in and felt immediately comfortable. Lots of personalities blended well in this up-scale feeling yet pocketbook friendly lounge. Plenty of big screens for all your sports watching needs. Experienced bartenders easily whipped up every drink choice we threw at them.
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Review from Janeli C.
San Antonio, TX
9/5/2011
I liked it- chill good music, drinks were a good price. While sitting down drinking, My friend tells me the last time they were there, the bartenders lost their debit card. And were nervous about coming back, but figured it was an honest mistake, and they'd give the place another chance. All is well until we close the tab. Mine/my husbands tab looks fine. But our friends (the debit card couple) are overcharged-16 drinks in total. I was with my friends the whole night and know that between the 2 of them they had about 8 drinks plus 2 for another friend, the bday girl. The bartender and my friends argue and in stead of posing an argument, the bartender reads the receipt over and over again and keeps saying "you're drunk, I'm not" They may have a had a few, but with a 16 drink tab-they'd be fallling over. Finally my calm friend decides to pay for it after the yelling match. Then after he pays, the bartender tells my friends to never come back. OK,so the bartenders, 1. misplace their debit card then 2. overcharge their tab....something's not right there.which is a shame because otherwise its a cool bar.
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Review from D. M.
San Antonio, TX
5/24/2011
like it a lot.
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Review from Ronald W.
San Antonio, TX
5/8/2010
Great Spot. I think you will enjoy it, indoor (long bar), nice outdoor section--great place to chill....
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Review from Clark B.
San Antonio, TX
8/11/2010
I'm sitting in it right, 8-11-10, for the first time. Very weird bar area, low seats that are very uncomfortable and bartenders are down below so you can only see their heads. The bar is really long so they only come by every so often; only two of them. It's a Wednesday at 8 and it's a sausage fest, yes all guys. I'm just here for a beer or two but it's almost an "alternative" atmosphere. Other than that, it is very "ethnic", not a problem, just more so than any other bar on the area. As for prices, all beers with bud in name are 1.50 until 7:30. I don't drink bud but the ghetto crowd likes it. Miller Lites were 2.50 until 7:30 and then 3.00. So, prices compared to nearest bar, Lion and Rose, are much better. But, nothing on tap and no food (fine with me). Overall, would I come again just to drink and mess with phone apps while ignoring the crowd, yes. Would I bring a date, no way. Would I bring a wife, only if she's really into dive bars. Would I come if I felt weird being the only single or caucasion in the bar, not a chance!!! It's safe, I think, so give it a try and judge for yourself but don't count on more than I've said. For now it's very smoky, but SA is changing that very soon.
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Review from Fidel P.
4/10/2010
like this place not too smokey we were able to find a seat looooooong bar. drink specials are awsome will go back again. great place to check out.
