MaxBar

The bouncer decided to call girls «ungrateful bitches» so would highly advise to not go here unless you know someone. Absolutely bullshit charging $ 10/​person when the bouncer is letting in everyone for free.

My friends and I aren’t generally club people, but I have no complaints after going here one Friday night. A promoter had given us passes earlier in the evening, we’re always looking for new places, and the night was (fairly) young, so we stopped in. No complaints getting in, getting to the bar, or getting a drink. It was loud, but not too bad. Plus, we had already concluded our conversating for the night, we just wanted to soak in some music and alcohol.

I came here after Lion’s Head was closed. It’s smart of them to charge cover because honestly I wouldn’t spend my money here. The front bottle service area is tacky. The dance floor has a nice chandelier but it’s so dark and red.

my girl friend got taken advantaged of in the bathroom two nights ago. do not go here.

They had a big problem with my group some of us have visible tattoos ok that does not mean anything we just wanted to have a few beers after about 10 minutes of debating with the bouncers they let us in. I could understand no hats this is chicago there are gangs but tattoos I mean one guy is a hair stylist another is a delivery driver, an air force member and I’m an armed security officer talk about a stupid stereotype huh stop judging people based on tattoos not cool at all

About 10 friends and I ended up going here on New Years Eve. The ticket cost around $ 70 and said it includes 8 drinks and some food. The party was supposed to start around 8. Since we had a large group we took multiple trips. I and 3 other friends went on the last trip since I was the host and wanted to make sure everyone had a ride. My friends got in fine, but the problem started when me and my three other friends arrived. Apparently they didn’t purchase enough wristbands for the party that they sold people. So we were waiting outside and the bouncers didn’t know what to do. Because obviously having a plan of action in the event the wristbands run out is not important (/​sarcasm). So they get the manager who comes out yelling at us saying he has the right to not give us a refund and that we should have arrived exactly when the party started. I’m sorry, but not everyone arrives to a bar exactly on the dot. There was nothing on the flyer that said you have to arrive exactly on time so that the bar doesn’t have to buy enough wristbands for all the people they sold it to. Anyways, it’s not a big deal. I just wan’t to hang out with my friends and get into the place I spent almost $ 100 for. I don’t care if I don’t get the free drinks that I was promised.
As a manager, that isn’t how you treat your customers. You politely tell them that, there was a logistical mistake and that we don’t have enough wristbands, but please come in and enjoy yourselves anyway. This jerk treated us with the most disrespect I’ve ever experienced at a bar. He treated us like he was better than us because he was the guy in charge of this shitty bar.
So we finally get in, and the party was just lame. The music was meh, and the bar itself isn’t all that nice, at least not as nice as the pictures on their website lead you to believe.
My advice is next don’t say that a party is going to be from start to end if you only plan on giving the deal until the wristbands run out. Even looking past that, just treat your customers with respect. The management and the doorman should not be assholes to people spending hundreds of dollars at your establishment. Explain your situation and don’t make me feel like a bad person for coming to a bar a little later than when you said the party would start.
Also it was about $ 4 for a coat check and they forced you to check in your coat.
I don’t think I’ll be going back here.

so… this place is not fun at all.
i’ve been to this place a couple of times hoping that the last was just a bad day but NO!
the girl to guy ratio is at least 1 – 5. It is overcrowded and the drinks are way to expensive for amount of alcohol in them. If you’re a girl looking for a quick hook-​up then this is the place. lmao
creeps everywhere
and what kind of «bar: charges cover?
guys beware there are not many girls here. watch out with the two drags picking up sloppy drunk men!!! the dj in the front room is okay, not great. The dj in the backroom sucks. plays the same songs over and over, he cant mix nor entertain,

The bouncers never ask me to pay cover charge, but am I whoopy-​ing? No. Cheap drinks, am I whoopy-​ing now? No.
— Tons of rejects here.
— The music sucks. I’m serious. The DJ should leave the tracks alone; when he starts ‘mixing,’ you’re dancing and thinking like, ‘wtf?’
— People WILL push you to get a spot on the dance floor.
— I don’t get why it’s always packed in here, like a sardine can; like the Justice League headquarters for the unwanteds. I hate it when people invite me to ‘party’ here. I’m better off blasting music in my house and downloading a strobe-​light app on my phone.

Dear Maxbar, your DJ tonight doesn’t know how to use fade. Please fire him/​her and find someone who understands how to adjust the levels. Nearly every time the song would drop the DJ would mute the levels and ruin the vibe. So much potential, especially with the back room. F*c that DJ…

Biggest asshole of
A dorrsman I’ve bet met… ruined the entire vibe of the bar…
Edit.
Worst bar I’ve ever been to. With cliental and personnel… And I am 24 going to most bars in downtown Chicago. Very disappointing because it’s so close to where I live

I’m only writing a review to tell people to avoid this place. Terrible! I used to live a block away from Max Bar and I swear the only time I would come, is if a friend forced me inside. The people here are godawful. If you love partying with bros and girls that are practically falling over, this is your place. Needless to say, I don’t understand why anyone would willingly go here… Oh yeah, there’s a $ 20 cover to experience the madness.

$ 3 for a bottle of water. Water in a cup should always be free.

Drinks are overpriced and the attractive girl ratio is super low lol
Way better bars in the area with hotter girls, better customer service and drinks that are not a rip off !!!
Place sucks we left after 5 minutes and 2 of my friends got charged a cover its a bar there should be no cover.

I used to really dig this place about 3 years ago. But now the only thing to say is that it’s TERRIBLE. The drinks are too expensive, the usual female bartender is NOT hot (I thought that was rule #1 of the bar???) way too crowded at most times and there are WAY more dudes in this place than girls. What’s the point? This place has plummeted.

Came here on a Thursday night at 2am
There’s a $ 5 cover. You’re a bar «MaxBAR» so why bother with a cover charge?
The crowd: guy vs girl ratio is like 5:1
The girls are very catty and wanting to start fights probably because people flood in here after every other bar closes since they’re opened until 4−5am?
The music: electronic dance music. Some hip hop towards the end.
Will I come back? Maybe. Probably.

THEY ARE LIARS AND HAVE TERRIBLE CUSTOMER SERVICE. I WILL NEVER GO BACK NOR WILL I RECOMMEND THIS PLACE TO ANY OF MY FRIENDS.
LION HEAD AND THE APT were WAY MORE happening.
I went here for my Birthday on a Saturday night. I made reservations for bottle service for $ 100 a bottle which is BLATANTLY advertised all over the club and on their website, and was also confirmed by Cesar the guy I made reservations with. I got to the club around 12:30 it was so dead they hadn’t even opened the back section yet. We got the very front table and Tommy, MR. Too tan Jersey Shore wannabe insisted that bottles were $ 150 if you only got 1. After arguing with him for about 15 minutes that I made a reservation and no one said there was a 2 bottle minimum I was forced to either go somewhere else or get charged $ 150 for the bottle PLUS 20% gratuity which ended up being a grand total of $ 196!!! Because I had friends on their way I gave in. Tommy insisted that all the tables fill up and that’s why they have a 2 bottle minimum, THIS NEVER HAPPENED. Well at about 2AM a table next to us ended up getting a bottle and I snatched the receipt to see that they paid a total of $ 140, so MR. Steroids aka Tommy was a BOLD FACE liar. I went and confronted him and he made up some bullshi* about them having been there longer and blah blah blah. I went and asked the guys because they were hitting on me and my girl all night, and he was like no, we just got here.
Long story short, IF YOU WANT TO BE OVERCHARGED FOR BOTTLE SERVICE OVER LIES TOMMY CUPCAKES TELLS YOU MAXBAR IS THE PLACE TO BE.

I miss Blu, it was grungy in comparison but attracted far more kinds of people. Plus for late night it had it’s raunchy pluses.
You can get the same raunchiness here but only when people are too drunk to stand and your so eager for a piece your willing to dance with anyone. Take this statuesque, 6 foot tall blonde the other night. Hotty totty with a matching body walks in with a dude so tall he has to be a basketball player but instead is one of the bouncers. Extra eye candy on the dance floor means more guys are buying. Music here tends to be whatever is popular, hear some dance music, some popular songs remixed, popular hip hop, some dubstep, etc Later Hotty totty’s so drunk she can’t even stand on her platform heels and is leaning on her girlfriend who isn’t as intoxicated. Hotty totty is doing the worst a woman can do in platform heels, she’s standing on her ankles with her feet sideways. So, now she’s a bit closer to her normal height. This guy with no playbook and dressed to impress in the finest of «Bee Gees» t-​shirt with matching 80’s white washed jeans is scopin’. He’s adorned in his finest pair of Reeboks and steps to her. He’s had some liquid courage and one can tell he’s a seasoned sort. This dude is hardcore trying, statuesque hotty totty has beer goggles on so she’s totally down. Her friend was a riot, for those people watching I mean. She’s pulling her friend’s arm, grabbing her hair, pinching her butt trying to get her to come back to reality and realize the guy is not worth the time. But how do we know right. he might be a great guy, he just chooses to dress like an extra from a Porky’s movie. (tha’ts a 80’s reference kids, IMDB that shit)
Is it fair to down a place because of the people it attracts? Sometimes Max bar can be fun and sometimes it’s not. There are a lot of stuck up ass people in here. Each night is different, sometimes there is a bevvy of beauty coming through that entrance, those that hit the happy hour early and just can’t go home yet. Other times its teeny bopper hour. You’ve never seen so many fakes and youngin’s. Enough to make a thirty something feel fucking old. Love it or hate it, it’s a last stand for decent companionship when the late of the night is beckoning you back home.
(I wish I remembered the names of bartenders. There are a couple lovely ladies that tend both front and back bars. They are lovely because of their upbeat attitude, lively personalities and abilities to pour a decent pour. And well, they are attractive as well. For those reasons, you can be thankful. Most times there might be a cover of $ 5-​$ 10 dollars on the more popular nights. Drink prices can be reasonable if you choose wisely.

I visited Max Bar tonight for a friend’s birthday. Before coming in I looked this place up on Unilocal,and what can i say, the reviews were just… enthralling… -.-
I personally would not have picked to go here on my own, but i love my friend, and whatever, it’s not like i’d be chained to the wall for forty years. I prepared to go here like i was preparing to go get a root canal: accepting of the procedure but still generally queasy of what was to come.
My first impression of walking in was holy crap this place is tiny. It was like trying to have a dance bar in the closet. Instead of tripping over racks of clothes and shoes, you were tripping over ex frat dudes and super drunk people.
The music was «meh», mostly top radio pop/​rap songs from 2008. Reliving the glory days perhaps? It was also really loud, and i reiterate that the place was a bread crumb, so it just hurt your ears even more with every beat. The place was packed and some people attempted to dance. I mostly saw some serious head bobs because any sudden movements would have busted an eye or tooth, and the last thing this place needs is a fight.
I knew it was going to be a long night, so i was like what the hell. i’m just going to splurge and get an effen vodka mixed drink. It cost me $ 9 but that vodka is effen good (ba-​dum-​chhh) and i knew it would be pricey no matter where. The bartender that was responsible for the side of the bar i was waiting in was really slow. I did hear her mention it was her second day on the job, so i forgave her slowness, and did not use this to deduct points. We’ve all been there i’m sure.
The drink she made me though on the other hand was not good at all. I may as well have ordered a «sprite on the rocks» because the vodka was indistinguishable. One could argue that it *was* her first week on the job, but i can argue that it seems like this bar has a reputation of watered down tasteless drinks, so perhaps this is how the staff was trained to make these drinks? shitty?
Yeah i would not go here again. It was everything i thought it would be and less.

I am a neighbor of this bar, who has never been to this bar.
I just want to say at 4am on a Thursday night aka Friday morning, that the bigger white male bouncer is a BEYOOOOOTCH.
Why. as a person who has never been to the bar? I just watched him literally within three minutes from my bedroom window challenge/​harass not one but TWO separate patrons all the way from Max Bar, to past friggin Kelsey’s. Like in their face, pushing his sh! t up on them so they were walking backwards. This guy is mad about something, and wanted to fight people who could not possibly fight him back. As a bouncer at a bar, that is some unprofessional stuff right there. As a big ass dude challenging little lanky kids, that is straight up disgusting.
Talk about testosterone overload. Both these guys were probably like 120 lbs soaking wet. The second guy, who never swung or physically reacted? After not reacting, and getting physically pushed like 100’s of feet away… after not reacting, got PUNCHED multiple times in the head by sumo bouncer. This kid was like 90 lbs to the bouncers 250+lbs. And drunk, unable to walk straight even. I am so disgusted by what I just saw.
Fair fight, macho guy.
I called the cops. That sumo guy is a Grade A B1TCH in my book. By the way, I am the 90lb girl across the street, and I wish this guy would start some sh! t with me. What a pussy.

I hate the crowd here, the layout really sucks and just a lot of young drunks pushing against each other, dropping drinks, fights; really pointless to go here unless you’re meeting someone and taking them somewhere else.
They do have three bars: two on the bottom floor (the front bar is impossible to get a drink on their busy nights, since their stupid layout forces everyone to enter/​exit through that narrow walkway) and a bar on the upper floor that’s kinda cool to stand above the ‘dance floor’ which involves a diverse crowd with people sitting on the edges just chilling.
Their sofa booths for bottle service are patchy and broken (not always noticeable since it’s so dark in there). If you get the table by the DJ Booth, don’t expect much service from the bottle service girl. Management here is a joke too.