Sound-Bar
Chicago, IL 60610
Phone: (312) 787-4480
- Cross Street:
- Wells Street
- Hours:
- Sun, Thu-Fri 9pm-4am, Sat 9pm-5am
Editorial Review for Sound-Bar – by Citysearch Editors
In Short
Nine bars, two lounges, three DJ booths and a 4,000-square-foot main dance floor illustrate the hugeness of this club; futuristic-minimalist furniture, stainless steel, smoked glass and color-themed rooms provide swanky visual stimulation. State-of-the-art sound and lighting systems create a heady experience: Motors, movable screens and floor-to-ceiling walls of frosted glass (as projection surfaces) makes images appear to float in the air above the crowds. Libations range from beer to champagne.
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Insider Tips
Know Before You GoCoat check is mandatory; if you're not in love with the practice, it's best to leave your coat home or in the car.
Save TimeThe entrance is actually in the alley, not on Ontario Street--just look for the sign and the line.
User Reviews for Sound-Bar
01/28/2008 Posted by vegitoboi
I just came here for my 26th birthday after a friend of mine (who is a promoter as well) helped set me up for free admission an whatnot (which saved me $20 admission). I don't think it's the club's fault that he didn't tell me the free champagne and table was only for parties over 20 people, but the company that he works for which I was skeptical of from the beginning. I'm not mad at him at all, but that's another story. Anyway, I was pretty much mislead to thinking this place would be big seeing that the logos on the windows can be seen from the brown line trains (like a 3 floor club). Boy was I wrong. The place has one main floor which has one small bar in one room with a DJ playing dance hits, a bar by the coat check, and a spacious main room both bars on either side and a elevated lounge area running the back wall with the DJ booth in center of the wall playing house music. The basement level is mostly lit in orange with ripped couches and the DJ playing hip hop. The free dirnk specials weren't too great: free bud or bud light or well drinks for the 1st hour. I'm still trying to decide whether if it was a good expereince or not. I like the fact that the floors are divided to your taste of music instead of 3 DJs playing whatever whenever. But I guess that's all I liked about the place. There are much better places to go if you only look away from the downtown scene.
Pros: 3 different rooms depending on your taste of music
Cons: overpriced, "specials" aren't too great, thought place would be bigger
01/08/2008 Posted by dd2008
This place is a waste of time!!! with horrible service and very rude bouncers!!! I paid $86 for their NYE 07 bash and the power went out. I understand that power outage can happen and what bad luck it was for me to have it happen on NYE of all nights. The worst part of the night was not the power outage but that the bouncers were so rude once the power went out. A group of my girl friends were sitting on a couch right by the door when a big and rude bouncer threatend to kick us out if we did not get up. We told him we were waiting for our coats (the coat line was like 100 people long and took an hour to get through the line) since one of our friends was in line picking up coats for us. He then told us to either stand at the back of the line to wait for our coats or step outside to wait for the coat. We were not in anyone's way at all. Who in their right minds would kick a group of girls (wearing dresses) outside in 20 DEGREE SNOWY weather without their coats? This place is horrible. They need to re-evaluate who they hire to represent the company.
Pros: None
Cons: RUDE Service with bouncers thinking they can push you around.
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