Vegas Lounge

It is a dive bar — but I liked it. They had karaōke after 9 pm and it was a good time. It is not a bar where you will have fancy drinks in crystal goblets, just a good neighborhood bar.
We will be back!

Firstly, I don’t sing well… BUT, I LOVE karaōke dives because many talented singers will go there for their practice and all of the sudden, some random singer belts it! This place has talented singers most of the time… not always but guaranteed to hear one amazing voice at least. The only thing I don’t particularly care for is the randomness of the rotation and there’s no rotation posted as in some places. Therefore, due to what seems lack of organized singing (probably due to a large amount of wanna be singer and talented singers in the que) and the fact they don’t take credit cards (ATM on site) and mediocre waiter service (typically 1 waitress), I’ve been to better karaōke places! It’s good to try it because they have karaōke every night though.

I went to Vegas Lounge at the request of a friend. She was leaving for an extended trip and wanted a karaōke night before she left.
The atmosphere is dingy and old… but I expected that since I grew up in the neighborhood and it has ALWAYS been there. It’s a cash only bar… and I expected that too, thanks to the heads up I got from Unilocal… but the drinks were weak and the karaōke list was long. There was a long wait in between my songs. The waitress was friendly in a snarky sort of way — but she was the only one in the place, so that would make me salty too.
I’d probably go back, and I might like it better next time since my expectations will be different.

When I walked in, I didn’t expect to like this place as much as I did. Our server was friendly, and when my friend’s burger didn’t come out as expected, she gave him a partial refund, which hardly ever happens! My Philly cheese steak and fries were to die for.
This place offers karaōke, but be warned — this is a cash only bar!

Never come here to sing karaōke. The KJ is unfair and skips you if you have a vagina. He is rude and makes this place look really bad. Been coming here for years. Never again.

To cheap to process credit cards. Need I say more?

Nice neighborhood place with cheap drinks and very entertaining untalented kareokee singer lol

I’ve been going here now for a few years. There is a reason this place is the best. The people who work here are the nicest people you will ever meet. The people who sing here are top notch. The frozen pizza is Heggies, almost as good as fresh pizza, and anyone who’s been in a bar before should know this. This is a place to have the most fun you’ll ever have. Get up and sing! If you’re that bad hopefully the dj will crank up the sound and drown you out! Or he will finish for you! Nurses, lawyers, doctors come here, incognito of course! You’ll hear the best Journey singer in the world here and maybe the best Rod Stewart (me).

The Vegas Lounge is a magical place. It is everything a great dive karaōke bar should be. I don’t care what night of the week it is, drag your friends here and sing your hearts out.
Cash only. Pool. Cheap strong drinks. A wide selection of songs ranging from Waylon Jennings to Fergie. Dozens of strangers who may become your fans. Terrible food… well the frozen pizza they serve isn’t bad… who actually eats at a karaōke dive bar!!! If you are going to the Vegas Lounge to intentionally eat you probably need to reevaluate a lot of your choices.
I recently moved away from the Twin Cities and the VL is a place I will always miss. Bottoms up & Viva Las Vegas.

This is great karaōke bar. I have loved it a lot in the past. Tonight my table and I who were buying lots of drinks and tipping well were asked to give up our table when it got busy. This pissed me off a lot. Thanks for nothing, Connie.

The ‘Vegas Lounge’? It’s anything but, thank God. But this is the Midwest and that’s a positive. Classic bar, the smell of fried foods hits you as you walk in the bar. And then you hear the singing. It’s a karaōke bar after all. Apparently 2 out of 5 people can sing on key in Minnesota. Adds to the charm, and like any karaōke, you take the good with the bad. I’d have joined in but the line was too long. Good drinks, and affordable. Comin’ back.

Met some friends after work — ICE cold beer and great service.
Food — rotten, I mean the meat in my burger was in the sun too long rotten. Waitress comped my meal and basically offered me anything for free, but the moment for me has passed. I was hoping for better.

Been to this place before. Last time there was a foot of snow outside. This time weather in the 50s. Nice.
If you want to sing, stand in line. Rotations are long. Grease the KJ and he’ll bump you. He sort of picks as he goes. If he likes the song you picked, he will push you forward. Too slow, too down or melancholy and forget it. He’s throwing a party and he wants upbeat music to keep the party going.
Got to go now, he’s calling my name! Wish me luck!

What a trashy, fun joint. Came here at about 10:30 on a Saturday night, put in for two songs, and by 12:30am, our songs hadn’t come up. I’m not going to wait all night to sing boozily in front of strangers to satisfy some sort of pent up Midwestern desire to be heard in the land of «don’t show off». Give me the claustrophobically intimate Korean karaōke places any day. That said, it’s a pretty good time. People have obvi been working on their acts, and their acts are pure mimicry. There is no room for inventive styles or quirk or flair. It’s all about how close you can cleave to the original. And boy are there a lot of white, Midwestern boys who want to rap. It just dawned on me that this is perhaps a place you might take an out-​of-​towner to say, «See, this is how we get crazy in Minnesnowta.»
The bartenders are somewhat diffident, the ladies are pretty cute here single fellas, and the Summit EPAs are delish. Get here early if you actually want to sing. And don’t come at all if you can’t stand amateurs, because it’s amateur night – for EVERYONE.

It’s a dive bar and a true one. With some wicked karaōke… lots of choices and $ 20 to the karaōke guy will get you in the front of the often-​very long line. This isn’t one of those dive-​ish hipster bars. It’s straight dive with the good and the bad that comes with it. So be ready… to have a blast if you let yourself and you love the karaōke culture.
Also an OK place if you want to watch overweight toothless 50-​somethings grope each other. Hey… it could be someone’s thing.

i can feel the changes coming on… oh what a difference a year makes… last year this time I gave this place five stars… but after last evenings experience I need to warn people that they need to wake up and take into account for what takes place inside this establishment. If things were just handled differently by the so-​called «owner» (i doubt it) I would still give it five stars. The lady bartender’s are outstanding and my pizza was cooked to perfection — it is fun and the prices are decent.
The hubby and I were in there with our 24 year old daughter and some of her friends. The are good looking girls. There was an older guy being obnoxious and inappropriate with some other young drunk girls and I already took notice of him preying upon a group that entered the bar shitfaced. He was dancing with them and touching them all over. I made sure to keep a close eye on our crowd as I was concerned about people putting shit in drinks and hustling them outside and taking advantage. As the evening progresses somebody dropped a full beer beside us and my husband had to get up so they could clean it up. We seriously did not care about that as what do you expect at a dive bar after midnight with a bunch of drunks. After it was cleaned up however he attempted to get back to his chair and this dude creepily comes over and is blocking him and just being weird and practically salivating on the young girl and was all up in our personal space. I heard my husband say look dude i’m trying to drink my beer and I don’t want you here you need to move. He just stood there practically arm and arm with him. He then got a little firmer and told him he needed to move or he would move him. He did move and then not five minutes later he is talking to somebody and pointing at my husband my husband told him to not point at him and then the other guy came over and tried to step to my man and said hey you can’t tell him to point at you. I guess there were a few choice words said and apparently this guy lays claim to being the owner of the bar. The security guys and all the workers seemed to support us paying customers that were not drunk and just trying to have fun but hey they work there and need a paycheck. We did not mind leaving but the way this was handled was absolute bull shit. We should have just called the police.
I will not go back here and would encourage people to go in a large group and if you are female be extra careful because obviously management has some perverted friends and don’t care if they are drunk and lewd and out of control of there old man hormones.

The continuing adventures of the elderly folks’ Sunday Funday!!!
I am in lust with the Vegas Lounge. Not in love mind you, but in lust.
Vegas Lounge is a dirty, dirty, girl. And man do I love a dirty, dirty girl.
Dive bar heaven; Cheap beer, cheap drinks, cheap women, and cheap décor. My idea of heaven!!!
Karaōke every night? Oh-​my-​lanta yes!!!
Go here, I don’t know why you’re still reading this. Go here.
4 stars for two reasons;
Not close enough to my house to be driving after imbibing here, and dirty tap lines ALWAYS. Bad headaches if you drink tap beer.
Don’t drink the tap beer here. Order a bottle and a Jameson and you’ll be good.
Bring your cash cause they don’ts take plastic.

The patio is a little smokey, but a great place to pass a summer night. I’m not a huge karaōke fan, but it’s good to see other people’s excitement about singing off-​tune in public.
I would stick with beer or non-​rail drinks only here. Granted, rail drinks will cost your wallet a cool $ 3 — cash only — but your body will hate you in the morning. I know mine did.
Vegas is a fun place in NE that you can’t miss out on.

Can’t even begin to tell you how fun this place is…
I have had the most fun at this place (on more than one occasion) than at any other! My top Dive Bar pick in the cities, perfectly disgusting and cheap in every way. Karaōke, cheap drinks, cheap snacks, video games, patio, pull tabs.
You can show up in a cocktail dress or dirty jeans and a t-​shirt and fit right in, no problem.
The only downfall of the Vegas is how crowded it gets on weekends, so go early if you want a table or spot at the bar. Otherwise, avoid Friday /​Saturday crowd and hit it up on Thirsty Thursday!

Vegas Lounge is why I like dive bars. The clientele changes as the night goes on, the drinks and food are stupid cheap, the specials are questionable but delicious (like halal cart food in New York), and the people working there are just a damn hoot. My first time there, I spent five hours on a Wednesday night, and had an absolute blast. There are a lot of activities to do in just that one night, which may be why it feels like a small-​town bar: when it’s the only place for social gathering in smallville USA, you best be keeping the locals entertained. And the visitors, too, as we were dubbed the «new people» after hootin’ and hollerin’ at every bingo round. Yes, they have 10 rounds of honest-​to-​goodness, balls-​in-​a-​cage-​rollin’, $ 24-​prize-​winning bingo on Wednesdays at $ 6. And I even won one round in 10 calls (cue collar pop).
Even if you’re not playing bingo, there’s Dawn to keep you entertained for pretty much the whole night. She is the coolest cat with the craziest cackle, and if you make her laugh, she will make you crack up, too. She was so efficient with our LARGE group, taking everyone’s food and drink orders, collecting cash like a pro, shooting the shit with the customers, and being gracious with an edge. BTW, get the tater tots; they are effing bomb.
After bingo, there’s a bit of a pause before they start Karaōke at 9 PM. It wasn’t that busy, and we were able to go up to the mic pretty easily. The songs are pretty new, and the crowd’s a boozy, friendly bunch. I mean, how could you not be happy/​loopy at this place? Especially after a taste of Geri’s Cherries?
I’m just gonna leave it there.