Renegades Country Bar & Grill — Restaurant in West Palm Beach

Came here in '19 with my girlfriend for a Halloween event with some of her friends. It was my first visit, and will certainly be my last.

As I initially approached the bar (there are 4, three inside and one outside), a small husky woman in her mid to late twenties dressed as one of the nightmare before Christmas characters served my drinks. I was the one purchasing drinks for both my girlfriend and myself, and I wasn't light on my pocket.

Immediately, I noticed the bartender's unwaivering attitude and disrespect towards her customers. She was clearly an unhappy human being, sadly enough. What was more unfortunate is how that reflected on her work, as well as the people at the bar (including me) buying drinks.

After about my 6th drink (3 drinks a piece between my girlfriend and I), I was getting thirsty, for you know, water. At this point I was outside enjoying the warm weather at the time, and asked the bartender there if I could have a water. He immediately responded, "$2". I was stunned. I said I only wanted tap, and he then told me, with an extremely defensive tone, "sorry man, sorry I can't do anything, that's what they tell me to do, you have to buy a bottled water I don't have a choice!". So, I said alright and walked back inside to the "friendly" lady dressed as Sally from the Nightmare before Christmas.

As my intuition told me, she was even worse. Not only did she become extremely defensive and angry, but she told me that the tap water would cost me $2. A friend on mine that was ordering a drink right next to me, who was a regular, kindly said to the lady, "don't worry, I'll get it for him.". The bartender harshly came back with a, "Stay out of it, this is none of your business", and I then tried to calm the situation, asking her the simple reason for a charge on tap water (which I could get free of charge in the restroom faucet).

Sally (let's call her that for now, I don't remember her name), told me those were the rules at their bar, and became even more defensive than the last bartender, stating, "it does not go against any Florida laws, and we aren't required to serve you water at any time.".

I was astounded. I couldn't believe what I was hearing. Clearly, tap water costs virtually nothing. I looked it up to be sure and verified this with the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) with a quick Google search, and it happens to cost $2 for every thousand gallons of tap water. That's right, one thousand gallons.

She finally ended up giving me the tap water fee of charge to me she said. She explained she would have to pay the $2 for the tap water, so it was coming out of her pocket. In other words, I better appreciate that tap water! She said she only gave it to me because I had already ordered several drinks.

I eventually went to a third bartender at the end of the night, who I discussed my previous debacle with. He was like, "dude, you can have as much tap water as you want, it's tap water. There's no way I'm charging you." And guess what? I bought one drink from the guy.

Long story short, clearly management at Renegades is a joke. This of course includes the short husky woman who was either daft or crazy enough to think tap water actually cost $2. Can you imagine if someone asks for a water to sober up, and they are denied it? There's a lawsuit just...

My family and I went here for the Wednesday night family night dancing. We're from out of town and the website said this: Ready to get on the dance floor? Join Instructor Kristi for the ultimate beginner’s night! We’ll teach you all the basics to the footwork between 7-9pm. No experience required!

The instructor would teach two songs quickly and then they would put on 4 or 5 random songs that apparently the whole bar knows because they danced along. But if you can't pick it up from their movements you have to get off the dance floor and watch them.

This was not beginner. And you do in fact need experience. As I said the whole bar floor would be packed and they must all be regulars as they would know every move there's NO free dancing unless you wanna be trampled. You HAVE to pre know the moves or learn them quickly to not be in the way and avoid being booted for "standing around"

Even with the songs the instructor taught the floor was so packed and they have no stage for her to stand on or screen so everyone can see her so it gets impossible to follow because you essentially play telephone with trying to follow the huge crowd in front of you for the dance moves.

The seating is HORRIBLE. You HAVE to have food to sit at the tables and the place is PACKED so we stood around fpr most of the night as we didn't know the moves. Half the time.

I recommend A. Swapping this night to beginner/intermediate to avoid real beginners coming here. B. Finding a way to get a screen in there so everyone can see the people teaching the dance. C. Finding a better seating arrangement or having the event be ticket only so it isn't packed to the point people are stepping on eachother and people can't see the instructor and can actually take a break and sit somewhere near the...

If it wasn't for Tasha (the server) and the Manager, I would give this place zero stars. My 26 year old daughter used to frequent renegades, she LOVED country music. Even though she wasn't the strongest dancer, she loved line dancing. Unfortunately, she ended her life before the Cowboy Carter album came out. I thought we would celebrate her first Heavenly birthday celebration at Renegade's. Before reserving the table or making plans we called to see if songs from the Cowboy Carter album could be played and were told yes. However, when we finally asked if something could be played, the DJ said that anything he played had to have a line dance. All line dances are made up, they aren't exactly released with songs. He said the earliest he could play anything might be midnight or later. It was 8:30pm, we had been there since 6pm.

The manager was nice enough to get him to play a song, but The DJ gave zero context and everyone left the floor begrudgingly and there were about 6 of us on the dancefloor. I was so disgusted and mortified that I just started crying. People think their being patriotic by not supporting Black Country Artists, but Black Country artists have been around for the entirety of music! People love hiding behind false niceties, while being the most hateful. After the DJ begrudgingly played Beyonce, he played several other none typical country songs without incident.

Despite the poor treatment from the DJ, I exceeded the minimum spend, cleaned up our decorations, and tipped Tasha generously. Please let this place enjoy it's lack of diversity and deny the rich contributions to music that non-white artists have laid the foundations...