Blur

This place, amongst few, is a joke. They fake a line (no one is inside) until 10:50, because they can charge after 11:00. Shady the house?
Drinks prices are not preferred.
It’s all hype and no substance.
COME HERE IF: (You want to support a shitty business.)

Long fake line, comparatively high cover, and over priced drinks for sometimes off branded liquor. I mean really? … this is the only place I’ve ever seen serve Mohawk 151 I didn’t learn about it until I went to blur. They have a $ 10 cover for minors which is a good thing but once they leave they have to pay again. So more than likely they’re not going to leave and in the middle of the poppin Saturday night you got a bunch of high school brats that can’t drink with you. This is a great place to turn up and get ratchet, but do your drinking at pretty much any other bar in the area go get more for your money and if you really want to avoid the cover if you’re over 21 stand in line… that looooong faaaaake AF line leading to an empty club before 11 and get your wrist band then leave and go to JRS or Bayou or South Beach or meteor or mining company or rip cord (actually I have never been) or The Eagle and buy cheaper drinks.

I’ve had some great nights here. Mostly sentimental value. Either the crowd has changed or I got older lol. Either way it’s fun. Very dirty though. Floors are always sticky and restrooms get real messy after 1. Miss he old bartenders :(. Same Asian lady at the entrance hehe she always looks pissed. It’s a good place to bring your straight girlfriends and get trashed haha

Do you want to wait in line longer than seemingly possible? Do you want gross drinks? Do you want to hang out with underage kids sporting fake IDs? Do you want to get arrested on the statutory when you take one of them home? Do you want to see girls peeing in urinals because the girls’ toilets are too dirty for them to use? Do you want to vomit from the smell of sweat and shame? Do you want to get stabbed out front?
Then Blur is the perfect club for you! 5 stars, would go again! Always the hottest spot in the Montrose area! Blur, located at 1,2,3,4 Overdoses a Night Street!
No, really, this place is gross and everytime I meet someone who says they love it, I cut them out of my life forever.

I must say my opinion has changed. I love this club. The music and DJ’s they have you wont find at any other local gay club n the area. The staff has also changed. They are nice and can be stern or come off rude but it’s only for our safety and to ensure that all the guest have a good time.

One if my friends was escorted out in an extremely rude way. I have not being here in a while, but the personnel is extremely rude and disrespectful towards its guests.
They charge a high cover and drinks are not cheap.

I am from Houston and have been going to blur for a couple years. The last four or five times I have gone it has gotten worse and worse. Last night will be the last time I EVER go back. The staff is so fucking rude, bartenders and the door lady. The time before last night the bartender in the front right when you walk in took his sweet time getting our drinks and was taking shots with people while holding my credit card. That is beyond RIDICULOUS. We went upstairs to try that bartender and were ignored, we walked up and he was talking with a group of 3 – 4 guys, saw us, looked away and continued talking. There was nobody else at the bar but them when we walked up so to ignore us is rude. A few minutes later he decided to walk up to us so i decided to walk the hell away because Im not giving him my money. Last night we tried the new female bartender downstairs at entry bar and she did not smile or make eye contact once. RUDE ASS STAFF!!! And dont get me started on the door girl, rude every single time. Once we left we met some guys from Dallas and they proceeded to tell us it was their first time@ BLUR and that the staff was very rude to them as well. That was the final straw for me, I will not be going back to this bar for guaranteed RUDE customer service. If people from out of town are saying they had a bad first experience that should tell you something. I hope they tell everyone about their experience at blur so people will not waste their time, because thats what Im doing.
Please save yourself the aggravation and do not go to this place,

Zero stars if that was an option. I tried to go tonight with a friend who had been there before… The person issuing wristbands at front door denied him one because he said my friend was walking too fast inside and trying to avoid a wristband. Even though we had both been previously I. d’ed. My friend attempted to enter a second time and he said he managed the bar and refused entrance even to both of us who attempted to pay a cover. This place is trash. I asked for manager and he said he was the manager. Never coming again. Apparently they only want trash

Err… not my scene what so ever. If you’re into Hip-​Hop/​Rap this is the place to go.

It had been several years since I had been to Blur Bar, and it has changed.
Blur Bar used to be known for being the Hip-​Hop/​Rap bar the GLBT community would flock to. After visiting the place this past weekend, the clientele has definitely changed. It feels more of a Dance/​House club now. They remodeled the place and added additional stages where people can climb up and look trashy. It was nice!
The thing I absolutely hate about Blur though is the disgusting tiny restrooms they have. Always a huge line. And many times, people are just in there chatting or dealing drugs.

I was having the strange sense of déjà vu when we ended up here… until I realized this used to be Pacific Street.
Aside from thr shift to a slightly younger crowd, it’s mostly the same — standard Montrose fare. It’s dark, dirty, and loud. Mostly in good ways. It’s not really my scene (we were meeting someone) but I did like the music and energy … and dancers on the bar.
— parking is a nightmare, as usual in this area
— there might be a line
— the restrooms were surprisingly clean
— patio and balcony

I haven’t been here in a really long time and part of the reason I stopped going was b/​c of the line to get in. Typically, I like the music here b/​c it’s pop/R&B and caters to an urban crowd. As mentioned by previous Unilocalers, the crowd is a bit young but, I guess that’s just the club scene. There is a SUPER rude, chain-​smoking Door Nazi working the front door on SATs. She is a huge deterrent for me and she talks crazy to some clubgoers, knowing that she has the power to put people out if they cause a problem.
The club has your typical dark features, mainly to hide the lackluster décor. There are three bars: one near the front door, one awkwardly positioned near the dancefloor and one upstairs. The bathrooms are very small, cramped and are in definite need of an upgrade. For example, the bathroom upstairs is literally the size of a walk-​in closet. There are several outdoor patios with disappointing appointments, including a broken water feature.
Typically, the cover is free till like 1030 or 11 and I usually tried to get in line here so I could clubhop a bit. The «guardog» at the front door will typically go AS SLOW AS POSSIBLE to let as few people in for free. In approximately 30 minutes, there are about 5 groups of 5 let in. I mean, how hard is it to literally check an ID and put a bracelet on a person? The «VIPs» in line are motioned over and they are let in ahead of people have patiently waited in line, typically in high humidity/​heat or blustery temps. I think that management should stop being cheap and let people in and understand that they will make their money back in drinks.
Truth be told, there are no cover bars in every direction and there is nothing special about the crowd, décor, drinks, amenities, bathrooms, management or clientele that would make me want to pay for this place. For those out-​of-​towners reading this review, proceed with caution. If you are local, just try another bar.

So parking’s bad but I suppose it all is around this area. If you want to park in the lot it was somewhere between $ 5 – 15 (yeah a big difference, sorry I don’t remember!). My friend and I waited in line for quite some time. When we finally got in we got some beers, the bartender was nice. There wasn’t THAT many people here but it wasn’t empty either. They have a small little dance floor, an outside area downstairs and upstairs. Three bars (i think).
The music was alright, they played Single Ladies which I thought everyone was tired of? But the club went wild as boys stood up on tables to do the famous dance.
There was a hilarious fight on the dance floor which is why Im giving this place two stars instead of one. A fight at any location is automatically going to give any rating of mine an extra star because I love that sh*t. If fighting and *trashy* people aren’t your thing, skip this place!

Eh. I’ve been here a few times with friends. I was dreading going back the last couple of times.
Mostly annoying mainstream music… ever.
They need to consider investing in a better A/​C system. Hot as hell in there!
DISGUSTING, I repeat DISGUSTING, VILE women’s restroom. There were feces on the side of the toilet and urine across the seat and the floor. I am sure no one cleans this restroom throughout the night. Regardless though, evidently some ladies don’t know how to be clean and considerate for others.
…I felt like I was at Rich’s in Midtown for a second there, where the bathrooms are equally as gross.
The bartenders don’t know how to mix drinks correctly and to top it off — the prices of drinks changed from bar to bar to bar (2 downstairs, one upstairs — I recall)
However, drink prices are fair.
I’m just going to be honest — its always been a pretty raunchy crowd each time. Some shady looking people. I never feel totally comfortable here. Some people standing up against the wall look like they are up to NO good.
From what I am told by many, coming here after the Pride parade is not, I repeat NOT in your best interest. They tried to charge my friends $ 50. Come on. I can understand an upscale place, but Blur? Really?
Their upstairs patio was nice to escape to though.
Maybe I would have enjoyed myself more all of those times if Blur would have been… a blur.

This is the second best dance club on Montrose and that’s by defaut.
This crowd is too young for me.
The music is cool, but the building itself doesn’t do it for me.
They do that pretentious door checking crap like we’re in LA or Miami. Get off the gas with that nonsense.

A group of my friends and I came out for a bachelorette party here since it was recommended and I heard the music was good (i.e. hip hop and not electronic/​rave/​trance)
Pros:
–Parking actually wasnt bad for us, we circled around the streets nearby and across and got lucky with 2 spots
–Other clubs/​bars are pretty close to each other
–Music was good! There were some songs that were kind of lame but overall we had a good time dancing
–Upstairs bar and outside roof
Cons:
-$ 8 cover: P
–SOOOOO smokey inside! Its not cigarette smoke, but like haze. There was no use in taking pictures inside because it came out all smokey!
–Dance floor got extremely crowded after 12:30AM
–We expected male dancers, esp since this was a gay club! What a disappointment — they were girls and pretty raunchy!
–the bartender! UGH! So totally rude! We wanted to get some tap water and he made my friend purchase a drink because he felt getting 3 glasses of water was TOO MUCH WORK for him!
–Tad bit ghetto crowd!

After a fun dinner with my co-​worker, we decided to go have just one more drink. Since we were in town for business I had to rely on my limited knowledge of the area. I knew I could get us to a gay bar, but I wasn’t sure about the crowd.
When we pulled up there was a parking space in front that one of the attendants indicated we could use. As soon as we got out of the car another attendant told me to move. Little frustrating, especially since they charged us to park there.
Once inside it was like we walked into another world. Very dirty. It looked like an old barn that they hung a disco ball inside. Extra bright lights around the bar and extremely low lights everywhere else. I was a little scared to sit on the couches because I couldn’t see what might be on them.
Drinks were okay. The music was okay. The door people are gross and mean. We were able to stick to our «one drink» rule here… That went out the window when we walked down the street.
Extra star for the unique ambiance. :)

You kidding me?
You pay to get in and the inside is either hot, stinky, rundown, sticky, or all four (and it’s usually all four).
The signs were obvious when my glasses fogged up just by entering — and it was because of the blustering heat. At least they should have a coat check for folks bundled up for Houston’s wintery weather — and of course they don’t.
A ghetto club for the ghetto folks of Montrose. Go somewhere where they at least use some of your money to pay for the needed upkeep.

Remember «Sliders?» In 1995, Jerry O’connell starred in this TV series where he finds a gateway to another dimension (s), but forgets how to get back. The show basically revolved around each alternate reality as he tried to return to the «real» one. On Halloween 2009, I experienced this same phenomenon.
In my alternate universe, I waited in line and paid cover at Ei8ht lounge on Washington, but at Blur (on Montrose) was given the VIP treatment, skipped the mob line, and was waived the $ 20 cover. Jerry O’connell would’ve been jealous.
Blur was our final stop during Halloween ’09. Driving through the area, we could see that even at 1am, the SoBe/​Blur/​Montrose general vicinity was in full mayhem mode and we were ready to partake in the festivities!
After walking a short block or two, we came up to the supposed bldg. There was no signage at the door, and I had to ask one of the people in the very long line if this, indeed, was Blur (as two other bars peppered the street). Judging by the line, we immediately knew it would be good… we just didn’t know HOW good.
Shortly after arriving at the estimated 20-​deep line, a friend popped out of the front door with a man dressed as a Unicorn, and lo and behold, we were whisked from the back of the line and quickly into the doors. No fuss, no muss, and best of all, no cover!
Inside, I was surprised by the amount of (hot) bodies grinding on the dance floor. It was like witnessing a Kylie Minogue/​Madonna/​Britney concert, with characters/​fans dressed to the nines. It was packed wall-​to-​wall, with several dancers on top of the main floor bars. We originally parked our group at the side bar, with our own personal nook/​cranny, but halfway through the night, moved to the upstairs patio for some breathing room. One can only take so much body glitter, sweat, and alcohol before needing personal space, and the patio provided great respite.
Thank you, Unicorn, for a great Halloween! I will be back for more!

Sunday night dance party. Yes ladies night is Wednesday but it was Sunday and we needed to dance! Though they claimed no cover before 11 pm, the line was backed out the door and around the corner and did not move until 11. So $ 7 cover. I suspect foul play. Still, I was surprised to see so many people shaking it on a Sunday night, so no points taken.
Loved it. Some of the same crowd as South Beach, which is just across the street, but top 40 and latin hits instead of lame techno! This is a no-​holds-​barred smokey dance floor, and drunks can get a littly handsy (or spillsy), so no need to wear your YSL.