Bottoms Up / Vodka Soda

I like this place, have been a few times now, can get pretty crowded on the weekends, but it’s still in its infancy and a lot remains to be seen.
Drinks are nicely priced and nicely made, but a bit on the steep side as far as price.
Upstairs is fun, but a little more crowded since it’s a tighter space.
Other than that, it’s really no different than any other Hells Kitchen bar. That doesn’t mean I won’t be returning.

Okay I love it here. Cheap strong good drinks. Comfy couches. So much space. Nice bartenders. Everything is clean. Like I could not ask for more?! Other negative reviews are dramatic. This place is great and i’ll be back. The music videos are fun, too.

Pretty nice gay bar. Came here Friday night and the downstairs was fairly empty. The upstairs surprised us because that’s where all the people were. I don’t know why they need a guard at the bathroom though. It’s not a public bathroom and way too close to the seating area, so if someone takes a dump, you’re going to smell it!
I like the discoball though, and if you come early enough, they have a projector showing music videos.

Doubling down on the insecurity and pettiness of our first encounter with an acute bout of small-​time retribution, the gatekeepers of this establishment denied my friend entry to her friend’s birthday party due to my prior review here. To quote Churchill, «A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.»
Way to show the haters, boys.

Gay bar. What you expect. Not really too much room for dancing, but it’s pretty chill. the bare tenders are pretty fast and the crowd swings younger but overall a fun place. Definitely coming back.

This is a cute little spot. (We stayed on the bottom floor the entire time) We met all super friendly people who kindly informed us «it’s a bit gay in there» before entering, we said «perfect» and was welcomed with open arms.
Service was great and fast.
We had a really good time and made a bunch of new acquaintances.
The atmosphere was all party and so was the music playing. It was not a lot of dancing going on at the dance floor, but since I do not dance anyway that was not a deal breaker for me.

Cute little spot. My friend has his book release party here. They have a nice small semi-​private room in the room. I wonder if you could book it for something.
Bathrooms were clean. Bartender good looks, drinks were great. They even had a frozen Cosmo machine! I preferred it to he ice cream but that would be a little ridiculous I guess. Friendly atmosphere of course.
And OMG the music, they played tyre r&b of the 90s and 2000! Yaaaaaassss, I had a blast getting my sing on alone

Came here for a few drinks with some friends after hanging out at a bar around the block. I was only here for a little while, maybe only a half hour or so before I had to run to catch my train, but the music was great (they played Beyoncé, my queen!) and the drink selection was fine. I wasn’t here long enough to speak to anything else, but I’d probably come back.

they honestly need to get some sound padding in here. The bartender couldn’t hear me, I couldn’t hear my friend.
Its valada space, which is actually kinda cool now since the back of the bottom floor is all seating now, I think there should be a bar there, like a maybe a tiny stage. the front bar needs some curtains. haha. Just spruce it up little. ITs all brick and mirror, almost feel like I’m in Labyrinth with david bowie.
Bartender was funny upstages.

It’s a little on the tacky side with it’s blue and red lights. Generally, you enter on the bottom floors where there’s a bar area that opens up to a small dance area in the back. You can also go up the stairs to another bar area where people are mingling. You can exit from the top.
This place gets very crowded, especially on the weekends. The music is decent, but no one dances really. It’s more of a pre-​game area. Drinks are decent and standardly priced for New York. The crowd is 20s to 30s.

Nice try hells kitchen. I feel like a new gay bar opens here every week. Very big space but weirdly distributed. Seems a bit showroom to me. The lighting is a bit over the top and when a gay man says that it’s serious. Drinks are like every bar in hk. Bartenders are nice and all cute, bouncer is pleasant and helpful. Just won’t see myself coming back. Hope it does well.

OVER CROWDED BARS WITH EMPTY DANCE FLOORS. From the moment you walk in, your face is blasted with tacky DJ lighting, the kind you get for $ 99 at any Guitar Center, which feels inappropriate while shuffling through an overly crowded bar trying to get a drink. Walking back, the space opens up to two great lounge and dancefloor areas… that are empty, and filled with artificial smoke. Upstairs you’ll again find yourself wading through a completely stagnant crowd on what seems like a smoke filled laser-​fest dancefloor, but nobody is moving because the music is straight out of Duane Reade’s «Get your shoppin’ on» playlist of current predictable pop hits, and the sound sytem (if you can call it that) is horribly tinny and shrill. There’s absolutely NO BASS whatsoever. As one friend put it, «These songs would sound better on my iPad.» Working your way forward there’s another jam packed bar. Thankfully there’s an exit close by. We were out the door after one drink. Kudos to Bottom’s Up for drawing them in, but why so much empty space where people should be dancing? Don’t say, «Millennials don’t dance.» Get a subwoofer and find some DJs with soul.

DJ was good Saturday night but someone who claimed to be management was extremely rude. They were standing literally blocking the hallway and I told them to move and the guy became a complete ass.

This place is perhaps a little reminiscent of splash bar in Chelsea back in the days. I love the multi level concept and the different rooms, with the lower level lending itself more to dancing and the upper level having more of a cozy lounge ambiance (until they blasted the music to the max!!). They have a pretty decent happy hour and I will definitely come back with my friends for a drink or two or more!