This hard-rocking venue with a cave-dweller interior mixes great music with stellar drinks.

• “Lovely Ladies and Great Drinks”
• “Sweet sweet Lava Lounge”

Tips: With even a few dozen people packing into its smoky innards, this joint can look like it’s jumping. Get there early if you want a good seat.

Lava Lounge

Liberty Avenue holds the most popular gay dance club in Pittsburgh.

• “A sad day.”
• “a SINKING Ship”
• “allies”
• “Small gay scene?”
• “pegasus”

Tips: Occasional cover for shows, such as the $3 required every Tuesday, Thursday and Friday for people between 18 and 21 years old.

Pegasus Lounge

A family-owned business harkening back to the days of smooth, Rat Pack-style social clubs.

• “great late night spot”
• “BEST FROZEN HAMBURGER SINCE 1966. Still in the freezer. Still $75.00”
• “The most relaxing bar in Pittsburgh”
• “Kicked in the head.”

Le Mardi Gras

Station Square’s premiere dance destination gives you quadruple the nightclubs for the price of one.

• “There are better clubs out there”
• “Decent Place”
• “WORST CLUB IN PIITTSBURGH”
• “How to get kicked out of Matrix”
• “Terrible.”

Tips: The potent Tropical Tango-pineapple juice and vodka spiked with the French liqueur Chambord-is this nightclub’s limb-loosener of choice.

Matrix

Hook-ups and heavy drinking are encouraged at this rowdy dance club.

• “Its a good place to go”
• “Danny Tate was at Bash???”
• “the men at bash rocked my party socks loose….”
• “bash nightclub”
• “Win a Bash at Bash!”

Tips: Weekend nights, Smallman Street becomes a long stretch of pay lots, but spaces fill up fast. Arrive early to claim a spot, and then explore the boutiques and ethnic restaurants.

Bash Nightclub

Popular bar caters to 20- and 30-something crowd with happy hour specials, signature cocktails and nightly entertainment.

• “Best bar in South Side to really party!”

Rumshakers

Tarzan can meet his Jane at this jungle-themed Strip District nightclub.

• “Go somewhere else”
• “I was not Touched….what a waste of time”
• “Nightmare of a place!”

Tips: You can get mixed-drink specials on Wednesday nights from 10pm to midnight, and Friday and Saturday nights from 9pm to 10:30pm.

Touch

Full and half yards of ale, goldfish bowls and miniature toilets.

• “Never changes”
• “Great place great people”

Mario’s South Side Saloon

Crockett and Tubbs flash this kind of neon.

• “Jack’s is Jack’s”
• “Hit or Miss”
• ”’burgh Bar all the way.”
• “True Characters”
• “Wing night!”

Jack’s Bar

A hockey-themed bar on the South Side that still has the remnants of previous incarnations for its rocking undergrad crowd.

• “Great Specials, Great bartenders, GREAT Happy Hour”
• “The has NEVER been a cover charge at the MOOSE!”
• “Scenester Hell”

Tips: If there’s a band playing, expect to pay a cover charge.

The Smiling Moose

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