Do Not Waste Your Time or $!!!!
Sunday, March 18, 2007
My two girlfriends and I where in Chicago this past weekend and had a ball!!! Unfortunately we wasted a few hours of our time at The Reserve. We were on the guest list and that got us in the actual door but we did not realize that there is an upstairs that is guarded by a stern stocky boy with lots of gel in his hair. He told us that we had to wait until the upstairs was open as if they were cleaning it or something. We had no problem with that so we went to look for a seat. Low and behold we quickly realized that every table /booth in the spot costs $500-$1700 to sit at. Yeah. . .really!!! These are regular IKEA specials; nothing fancy. . .and it didn't even look like that cost included mixers!!! Any who, we kept noticing that the gel boy kept peeping around the corner at us and then sneaking peeps up the stairs. Retarded!!! Still we tried to make the most of it and enjoy the Top 40 tunes. This place was really lame!!! There was way more staff than people and the staff was quite rude. Finally around midnight we were allowed up the infamous stairs!!!! WOW!!! Lame as hell!!!! The ambiance is pretty nice but they have hand picked so many people that no one was having fun. The music was $hitty! They tried to be Hip Hop Night but it was more like the club scenes you see on the soaps. The speakers were horrible!!! They must not have remembered to include the cost in their business plan!!! Also, the bouncers stood around being very menacing and rude. One even took my friends brand new martini that she had sat on the ledge for maybe 30 seconds to find her smokes and he wouldn't give it back when she stopped him. We left after that and vowed to let the world know not to waste their fabulous Chicago experience on The Whack A$$ Reserve!!!!
Pros: Ambiance
Cons: Service, Staff, Wait Time