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Landsharks
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Category: Dance Clubs [Edit]
Neighborhood: Indy Metro810 Broad Ripple Ave
Indianapolis, IN 46220
(317) 254-8157
- Price Range:
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$$
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Good for Groups:
- No
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- Yes
- Outdoor Seating:
- No
- Best Nights:
- Thu, Fri, Sat
- Coat Check:
- No
8 reviews for Landsharks
First: I am too dang old to hang out in Broad Ripple
Second: I am too dang old to stand in lines
Third: I don't like Landsharks
Whew...now that I got that out of the way I will elaborate. Landsharks is one of those places that I would go to when I was in college. It has all of the elements:
cute boys
cheap drinks
good music
lots of drunk people
I ended up here with a friend that frequents the place. Against my better judgment I agreed to go after we left the nice Martini Bar. As previously mentioned I stood in line. I noticed that I was the only woman wearing my coat. I mean its 20 degrees outside and these girls were in tank tops!! I guess the fear of catching pneumonia is trumped by having to carry your coat in the "club" .
Well anyway the place is a dump! I am sure that they make tons of money on any given weekend but they don't put it back into the establishment. The floor was sticky there were empty bottles and broken glass all over the floor. I can't really speak on the staff because I really only saw tons of people. I know that this place is a money maker and it caters to a younger crowd. I know that I should NOT have had my butt in the place but whatever happened to taking pride in your establishment??
Well, I give it another star because my last trip here was free. But I don't think it's that much worse than any other of the like establishments around. They have music video screens at eye level at the bar, which entertained my boyfriend while I was entertaining my too-drunk friend during her birthday festivities last Wednesday.
Would I go here on the weekend of my own accord? Probably not.
Broad Ripple's favorite D-baggery....I mean...Bar. Or not. This place is pretty lame, and it has a major image problem. Some nights it's super ghetto and other nights just a total creepy-guy-o-rama. The music is tired and usually features hits from high school....no matter what year you graduated. The expansion was a good idea, but the new section which had a chance at class was immediately destroyed and sucked in with the rest of the pit.
The music is too loud, there is no place to sit, and really no place to stand, so if you aren't one of the five weird guys dancing alone on that sorry excuse for a dance floor, you will spend most, if not all of your experience here getting asked to move or just pushed out of they way. So if that is your scene, good for you, you're probably waiting in that entirely too long line to get awful service and bad drinks...maybe...if you can get to the bar, and if you get there, that doesn't mean you will get the attention of one of the 3 bartenders there to satisfy the 250 other bar-goers.
I can live without it, and so can you.
Nap-town, you won't know what you've got until it's gone! This place is great and if it's your birthday they give you a free bucket of Hurricane's. Yes a BUCKET of it, with a straw for each of your friends! I drank that on my birthday one day and was so tipsy I was dancing with guys and girls (Lol). Unlike Hollywood bars and social spots here in Atlanta, Nap-town knows how to have genuine fun, without all the BS! No guns, not too much fighting, security, and simply a good time with friends and alcohol. You come as yourself and no one judges you. I miss Indianapolis so much. Don't believe the hype about these cities with celebrity parties. They bring a lot of drama, longer lines, higher cover charges, and at the end of the night it wasn't even fun.
At Landsharks YOU can be the celebrity! There is a small stage to clown on, two full bars that provide great service, a mixture of good music, and even areas to sit and watch the shadow box dancers do their thing! Go with your friends and you will have the best time of your life. If you get bored, The Vogue is always right around the corner!
I'm giving this place 2 stars b/c I have some funny drunken memories here....but that's about it. Compared to other cities and Hollywood clubs, the D-baggery isn't TOO bad. What is bad IS the total randomness. I don't appreciate doormen letting fat unattractive hillybilly chicks get in ahead of me [typical racists Hoosiers] and I don't appreciate the attitude in a bar full of mediocrity. I don't appreciate attitude in general, but def. not here. Blah.
based on my first hand experience:
yuck. the floors are sticky, the clientle requirement is that you must be a douche bag, the music is no bueno and the drinks are expensive, small and nasty.
each time i've gone i've been pushed around, stepped on and waited twenty minutes just to get a drink. in the summer it's so hot you want to die and in the winter there is no where to put your coat. or your purse for that matter.
you gonna flag this one?
Yuck, awful, horrid. The most annoying losers in Indianapolis must congregate here. An ugly sore on Broad Ripple.
Landshark's has really tried to upgrade it's image since I first worked there several years ago as the front beer tub hottie. They have fallen short though. This place started off as a cheesy hole in the wall where you could get cheap drinks, even cheaper women/men and listen to all of your horrible but fun, when you are loaded, top 40 music. Why then did they ever think that expanding it and throwing up some curtains and wall sconces justifies them competing with more upscale venues? Who wants to pay more for drinks served in 2 cent plastic cups as they always have been served in and pay cover when it still has the same silly ass name, horrifyingly bad music, and after all these years remarkably, some of the same staff (let me be the first to say they have aged and not in a good way)? Not me. Yes, I know the owners Darren and Sky Block and Mark Casey and who knows who else is in on it with them now. They are nice and all but I don't agree with their idea of making a bar more appealing. Landshark's has been tired for years and is expired in my book. Thank goodness for the new crops of college kids/loyal patrons that don't know any better or Landshark's would have been euthanized years ago.
