Pure Lounge

Been here a few times, and it's a decent bar. Don't go here alone and don't bring your car. Take an UBER or metro. Pre drink b4 coming here. Sometimes, they'll have specials with rails, though they try to water it down. However, the staff are nice.As far as the club, its ok. Depends on the venue. Music is always good , no complaints.

The bouncer outside of this place with long salt and pepper dreads was disrespectful, he said my ID picture wasn't me and that it had to have been a man's. When I said I didn't want to go in anymore, he yelled stop at me and wouldn't hand me my Id back unless I hugged him it was really weird.

Coming here brought back so many fun memories from years ago! It still has the same amount of space but it's decorated differently. We didn't make it upstairs but next time I will check it out! My friend and I arrived on the early side so we got to watch who came in. Drinks ranged from $14 for rail liquor ones to $18 for Jameson & ginger ale to higher for others (I think it's like most places where the cost of drinks has gone up after the COVID surge.)The bartender was helpful in explaining the pricing for drinks. The DJ was on point with the music; at one point he played Talib Kweli which is rare to hear these days! Patrons can get a framed photo of themselves and/or their crew for $20. The photos of my friend and I were nice, it just wasn't in my budget for the night's activities. Overall, it was fun and I'm looking forward to going back soon!

If you have a table reserved this place can be so much fun. I thought I reserved setting when I ordered my tickets on Eventbrite. When I got there, it was no one to greet you. No one to assist me in my reserved seating. The bartender (both) we're not friendly and acted as if they didn't like there job. Horrible customer service.I asked what food they have and they said they only have jerk chicken and rice ? And it's very small inside. Granted they have a upstairs,(it wasn't open when we got there . But as we left you can hear the music and it seems As if people was having a good time.The parking well you know it's on Ust so parking can be hard. We tried to make the best of this night. And my sister had fun the little bit of time we spent there. And the DJ was good. I will definitely give this place another try.

My sister invited my boyfriend and me to hit up this lounge on a Thursday night. Finding parking was not a hassle since we had to park across the street. The DJ, a maestro of musical mayhem, spun tracks that had us moving like never before. Also, the drinks were definitely on point for the vibe. Plus the hookah didn't disappoint either. Safe to say, we'll definitely be making a return trip to this spot in the future.

We sat, talked and had a good time. The vibe was good. The music was great and the volume was tolerable and we didn't have to tell at each other, which is most important to me. The drinks weren't expensive and the bartenders were very attentive even though we were sitting in the lounge. It does seem very hookah-ish but there wasn't a lot of smoking on this midweek day.It looked like it was closed when we attempted to go at 6 when it was supposed to be open according to online so we went somewhere else and had a few drinks and bar bites. I was glad we eventually came here bc although the other place was nice, this place was more comfortable and the music was at a level more comfortable to hold a conversation. I'll be back.

So I came here last night for an R&B happy hour in the downstairs area after not having come here in about 5 years. I see why I havent now. While the deals were pretty good - $4 top shelf shots, $15 hookah. The service was piss poor. There were two girls who looked like they walked off the street and wouldve rather been anywhere but Pure that night who were the only bartenders/servers. Once was a tall black girl, the other was a short asian girl with blond hair. When my party of 4 first arrived, we were the only ones in there, it still took the girl about 15 mins to literally pour 4 shots. She's clearly in the wrong profession. We finally get our shots and hookah and asked for coke and pineapple juice with our shots, they gave us shot sized portions of chaser in regular cups. What a joke. Each time we asked for shots they wasted more cups by bringing the smallest amount of chaser they could in full sized cups. It wouldve made more sense to have just pour each person a full cup of chaser so they could save cups. But these girls werent the brightest. We asked if they had a food menu or wings or anything, as pretty much all DC clubs/lounges do. They didnt. Asked if we could bring our own food in, they said no. 10 mins later I see the asian bartender sitting at the bar eating a whole chicken out of a togo box from a nearby restaurant. She couldve at least gone to the back seeing as though she just told us no. Lastly, we continued to enjoy ourselves until time for the bill. We split the $200 (sadly including the tip for these lazy girls) costs between 2 cards. She swipes, we get the receipt. She then comes over to us and says "oh the check didn't close out so I'll need to swipe again". Girl NO. We both checked out bank accounts and the money had definitely already come out. Scammer. We go back and forth about it and she tells us how she's going to void the transaction, and only then once we got void receipts did we allow her to reswipe. But if you have to void a transaction, then it definitely did go through the first time. She mustve thought we were dumb but clearly had the wrong ones. Her attitude became so nasty as if she wasn't the one who clearly doesn't know how to work the POS system. All in all, I wouldn't even be made if gentrification took this place and it became another hipster club. Cause with service like that, we can do without.

Went on Wednesday Night - R&B Night, DJ was Dope. Crowd was light and don't pick up by 11:30pm when I left. 90% Dudes and no females that weren't coupled up. Dope Vibe probably better on a different night. Bartenders were solid, definitely don't cheat you on the drinks, even if you ask for a chaser it's felt like straight liquor.

Myself and a group of ladies attempted to check this place out since we've never been here. We were first told free entry by one guard and then another security guard abruptly interrupted him to say that it's actually $10 for entry because of a bar crawl that we did not want to participate in. We only wanted to check out the bar and order a drink but being told different prices at the door put a bad taste in our mouth. So we declined and while walking away the second guard said (under his breathe) that we can go to Subway for free. Need better and honest security. Don't know what the inside look like.

This shit was fucking ass, they had a start time of 9:00pm and didn't start until 11:00 on a Tuesday night because they didn't have mics working. Never coming back