O BAR - Philippines — Restaurant in Pasig

I’ve had unpleasant experiences here and deeply dislike this bar for several reasons. First, the pricing of the entrance fee seems arbitrary; some nights they charge 800, 900, or 1,000, while on some nights it’s 1,400-1,500 when it’s Pride season, when it’s some drag queen’s birthday, or if you’re a walk-in customer (???). Sure, they reserve the right to charge however much they want on any given night, but I still think that sucks and a way to rip people off.

This bar also has some of the rudest staff; bartenders don’t tell you what a stub is for (ie, whether it’s a ‘consummable’ stub or it’s one that gets you 3 beers, etc.). Waiters violently shove you out of the way, which happens quite often because the bar is always packed. Good luck using your other stub because the path to the bar is long and paved with people who won’t budge and bar runners who despise you. The 3-beer stub makes little sense from a consumer standpoint.

Also, awful sound system; music sounds muffled and seems designed to destroy eardrums.

Its most egregious crime, however, is that it creates a system of social hierarchy among its patrons with how the tables and VIP areas are arranged, as if to separate the haves and the have-nots. If you pay for a table and buy a bottle of liquor, you get a decent space to sit or stand around in, and staff treats you humanely. This gay bar is so intent on creating a social strata among the patrons based on their ability to buy bottles of liquor and/or reserve a table. You can’t just go here to enjoy one or two cocktails, as you’ll find yourself constantly pushed and shoved. Most bars in many foreign countries don’t enforce this sort of caste system, and here it’s deeply entrenched. Perhaps to coerce you into paying for a table and/or to make you feel like an indio if you can’t.

Some of the drag queens are good, and are probably the only reason to go (if you must). But I wish they’d cut out some of the long cabaret-like performances that seem to...

Google maps does not reflect the new location. You have to go past Starbucks and turn left and go down a dimly lit alley to find it. I had never been before so I had some difficulty until I asked the guards at the entrance to the shopping complex. The cover is 500 PHP and this does get you 3 beers or one cocktail. I was a little disappointed. Ok - a lot. Most of the space on the floor is taken up by tables. These tables are 3000 PHP each and, since I was with one other person, we didn't want to pay that for a table that seats 4. So, we got bumped, jostled, and bumped some more. Bar runners were constantly going back and forth with drinks and trays of food for the tables. There is no room to dance on the floor, at least on the weekend. I was there on a Saturday and, although the official Facebook page stated that the club opened at 11:30, the bouncer at the door told me it opened at 12. We got in at 12 and the shows started at 1 am. The first show was 6 guys dancing - 4 on stage and 2 at the side. The music was deafening. I felt it in the pit of my stomach. Even my d*ck was vibrating, which was not a good thing since everyone, including straight women, were trying to squeeze past me. And the stage shows... For the first 30 minutes, there were six guys. These same six guys would be the only guys on stage the whole night (I left at 3:15 - my bf wanted to stay), save a couple of guys dancing with the drag queens. After a half-hour, they took off their shirts to screams - mostly from the women in the audience. For a minute, I thought I was at a Chippendale's show. Then there were some drag shows, which were entertaining. The guys came back onstage sometime after 2. They had finally stripped to their boxer briefs. After more drag the men and drag queens all came out and danced on stage. Then the queens left and the same guys danced onstage. By that time, the buzz from my 3 beers was over and I really didn't feel like squeezing my way to the bar...

Let me be clear. This is not a dance club. It’s really not even a bar in the sense that you can socialize and drink as a single tourist. The only dancers are the ones on stage. And “dancer” is used very loosely for a lot of them. The beefcake is ok to look at. But with all the muscles, it’s really awkward to just watch them move to the beat. It hurts to watch. And when they take off their shirts, all you hear are the screams of little girls in the audience like it’s a Chippendales club for straight women If you want to go for just a few drinks, don’t expect to be able to stand anywhere to watch the entertainment or cruise for your fling that night. The tables are reserved for bottle service, which you have to book in advance. There is a cover charge equivalent to US $20 - this includes 2 drinks. Ok great. But the question has always been, where do you stand if you’re just a visitor and you don’t know about the table reservations?? Any little bit of extra space they might have is dedicated to the myriad servers they employ. It’s not like you can stand casually at a bar the way you can at other bars/clubs So it’s really for cliques of friends to occupy the tables that surround the stage, and definitely not a place to go to meet anyone new. That is fine if that’s what you want Without a table reservation, you really feel like an outsider, and they say you can stand and drink your drink at a table, but you need to leave as soon as the people who reserved the table arrive

It’s basically dinner theater Don’t get me wrong - the drag queens are good. If they weren’t, they wouldn’t have a RuPaul‘s Drag Race Philippines franchise

Personally, I won’t go back This place doesn’t provide a good enough balance of worthwhile performances with talking to cute Filipino boys or travelers like us It’s just sad that it’s only one of maybe two gay establishments...