Good stuff - my friends and I had a music review club a while ago, back when we used to take ourselves too seriously. We'd always do it on Tuesday nights with dollar PBRs in the backyard. Great fun. read more

oh lux how i love you....let me count the ways.. 1. the prices are right 2. the backyard/patio is the place to be in the warm months 3. service is good (it used to be WAY better, but I understand some key players have moved on and they had to be replaced. i keep hoping the new bartenders will bring the spirit back the way it used to be. 4. hip crowd. this is definitely the hipster bar in the city. 5. love the atmosphere, candles, dim lighting, loud music. PERFECT. I have to say my favorite bar in rochester hands down. the only reason they get 4 stars out of 5 is the recent influx of college kids that come out on weekend nights to try and be one with the hipsters. your so out of place, go back to o'cals please. read more

Hands down my favorite bar in Rochester. Filled with good friends, cheap drinks and the occasional spectacle. Word of advice: if you're wearing a polo shirt/white baseballcap don't bother. No one will be friendly to you, and it will take forever to get a drink. Otherwise, have fun! read more

This is my favorite bar on the face of the earth. Great people always. Awesome staff. I miss this place very much. They make it very easy to have a great time with lots of alcohol with 10 dollars. If i go to a bar and spend less than 20 dollars and don't remember the evening than I'm a very happy boy. read more

I'm not a fan of the artwork and decor (very dark with a twisted sense of humor) or the address (666) but every time that I have went it's always been a great crowd of people who are from all walks of life. There are several areas of the lounge with different things to do (pool table, board games, various tables for small and large groups) and a huge back yard which is pretty cool. I believe they have different themed nights throughout the week that makes it fun to visit on various nights. The bartenders are always pretty cool and I have no complaints about the drinks either! Some nights you can expect to leave the lounge and get food from a local food truck who stops there sometimes. Lux is definitely a cool place to check out, at least once.... or twice. read more

Lux, in my opinion, is the perfect Rochester bar. It's fun, cheap, and there's always a good crowd there. While the Bug Jar comes close, the presence of the 18-21 year old crowd on some nights can really kill it for me. Lux is great, and so are the different themed nights. I tell anyone going to Rochester to visit to check out Lux and ignore the other bars. read more

I like this bar. I like the atmosphere and decor. It's also nice to have a backyard space with a fire pit. Unfortunately, it can get really crowded and hard to find a good space to sit when with a larger group. The music is good most of the time, but can be so overbearing loud that you can't really have a conversation indoors. Bar is decently priced but the bartenders aren't the friendliest. It feels kinda cliquey. read more

Funky, alternative, groovy bar in Rochester. I like the backyard filled with picnic tables - perfect for summer. And during Winter, I can go chill near the fireplace outside to prevent frostbite. Drinks are cheap and STRONG. The one star loss stems from the lack of hot girls, IMO. read more

The drinks are well made when you can shove your way through the throngs of chattering hipsters to the bar itself. Usually too loud and crowded, I think when I graduated college I outgrew this bar. read more

Great environment... warm evening played games in the outdoor patio and hung out by the fire! Fun place!

funky and fun. I love that they have events every night. thursday's freeze dance is my favorite. i still need to go on sunday for bloody mary's! the bartenders are really friends and you can always make a friend here! the back yard is awesome for a chill night. love the ambiance here. lots of color. read more

Lux is...well, it's Lux. It's great. I'd rather be here than most bars in this city. No thrills, fancy dance floor or gimmicks. It's a comfortable neighborhood bar with patrons that belong there. Large chill outside with fire-pit and several tables. Very friendly people both work and frequent here. Music is always changing and is composed of things you will never hear on the radio, and I for one , like that. Yeah it's decorated sort of unusually with darker elements and an underlying goth/hipster/pagan thing but it works. If it isn't your thing, cool go to Monroe have and make space at the bar. read more

It's getting a little bit too crowded, but a nice place to soak in the alt.rochester crowd and perhaps play a board game over some brews.

I live in Rochester and travel all over the country for work and Im constantly comparing all other bars to Lux. There are a few bars in other cities that are as good as Lux but there is nowhere that is better. read more

Love this joint. Very trendy and hipster, yet very comfortable with a community based atmosphere. The service is great and the beers are tasty. read more

I love this bar. I grew up in Rochester and I go here every time I visit. It's inviting, cozy, and interesting. There's a great outdoor area that is so fun at night and during the day. People talk to each other and strangers while drinking perfectly/simply made drinks. Visit this bar if you're looking for something beyond the normal bar experience. read more

fun atmosphere, but terrible service. I had to ask four times to get water, but drinks were always delivered right away.

The quintessential hip artsy divey low key place, Lux is one of the very few things I truly miss about living in Rochester. From summer nights in the back yard to snowy winter nights making arts & crafts, it feels more like "home" than being at the bar. It's a "must stop" for many of us who've moved away when visiting. No matter what you're "scene" is, I can't imagine you'll be disappointed. read more

It's been a dozen years since I was a regular here. It still didn't disappoint. Although the patrons were mostly of college age, they were cool and nice while the DJ catered to decades of music love. I still love this place's decor and vibe. The bartenders were able to accommodate the massive increase in population. Still a good time to visit coming back from nyc. read more

When you love someone, you want to love all the things they love. My love is as different as you can possibly get from me. So, when he suggested we go to this bar he frequents, I figured "Sure, why not?" Well, I'll tell you why not. First off, I've been to this bar before. In other cities. I've lived in major cities, and I've grown accustomed to this type of place. They're everywhere. This iteration is especially magical, though. I'm not sure if it was the feeling that I was walking into someone's "tricked out" garage or the acrid smell of sour laundry + unwashed body, but I wasn't feeling it from the start. Yes, I am a snob. However, my favorite bar in Chicago was a beer barrel-shaped hole in the wall in East Lakeview two blocks from my apartment. (Friar Tuck, you will always hold a special place in my heart!) I also happened to go to a very big sports-oriented school, so I am not a body odor/sweaty, hormonal DRUNK teenager virgin. I rarely dress above a decent, full-coverage top and jeans when I hit up a bar. But, I swear to Christian Loubou. that I had walked into this bar completely naked based on the looks I got. Whatever. And how did I know that everyone would be in black and have lots of tatts and piercings? Again, whatever. (Aside: What strikes me as full-on hilarious is that these same alterna people think patrons at my kinds of places try too hard. We know we are. It's a game of one-upping each other. The alterna people haven't realized they're playing the same game, but with clothes from Hot Topic./rant) I ordered a beer of some sort. Probably a "bitch beer" as the poster Pyke calls it. Mmm-kay. I survived my first trip, but barely. And the loving was not so generous for my love for the next few hours. Fast forward two months to Halloween. I grudgingly affirmed I would go to Lux for their festivities. I dressed up in a perfectly appropriate Halloween costume that did not show my ass or other body parts. I had just done my hair for 45 minutes and I was feeling rocking. During the two block walk, it started to sink in that I was going to be the only person there in a costume that wasn't fake blood splattered, black, moody, or related (even tangentially) to death or morbidity. Boy, was I right. I've never seen so many death fairies, bandages with red food coloring, black t-shirts with angst-y quotes, or black eyeliner in my entire life (and that's saying a lot. I was in a sorority. I thought we had a lock on black eyeliner usage!). FUN. I waited about twenty five to thirty minutes to get a drink. TWO bartenders on duty on Halloween. Really?! TWO?! I ordered two double Ketel-One gimlets. Very simple drink. Vodka and Rose's lime. What I got was two shots of vodka in a highball with a dollop of Rose's lime. NOT THE SAME THING. After waiting another ten minutes trying to get the bartender (in a deep and moody devil costume, I might add) to fix my drink, he poured another half-ounce of Rose's in. Finally, I had had it. I had already given him my credit card to start a tab (I was going to need lots of drinks to get through this shit fest), so I was stuck. But, I was pissed. So, I mouthed off about how he should know how to make a simple, f*cking drink. He shot back that I should get my ass out of the bar, blah blah blah. Look, dude, don't take your bullshit out on me. You should know how to make a two part drink. If you can make a red-headed slut for the girl next to me, you can make a gimlet. Bartender FAIL. Hell, Chili's or Applebee's bartenders even know how to make a gimlet. I'm not paying $9 for a drink, and not getting what I want. I've gotten better service from 19 year-olds at douchey clubs in my college town. UGH. Needless to say, the night ended early. Also, dickhead bartender, don't call your patrons fat. Especially when they aren't, a vast majority of your other clientele is overweight, and your boss is large. Will I ever spend money in this place again? Lord no. I'd much rather get drunk at home, where I know a decent two part drink can be made. (Apologies to my love, who will have to go to this hovel on his own from now on. If I lived in Rochester to start with, we'd probably break up over his desire to spend time here and my strong opposition to joining him.) read more

Interesting place. Noticed a weird stench upon entering the door. I am still wondering what it was emanating from.

Worst bar in the neighborhood. They have a fetish for banning people for no reason then selectively enforcing the bans depending on their need to power trip that day. Nothing great drink wise, the pool table is cramped and right next to the patio door, and the bathrooms always have piss on the floor. Good place to end your night piss drunk if you can't find an alley to pass out in face down instead. read more

My friends and I went to this bar for Halloween. Immediately after I walked in, a guy grabbed my butt. My boyfriend and I were escorted out, and I told the bouncer what happened. He did not believe me and said that I brought this on to myself because of what I was wearing and that I should "stay classy." My friends confronted the person who grabbed me, and the bouncer picked up and dragged one of them out of the bar in to the back alley. She has a bruise that clearly resembles his thumb print on her arm. Instead of believing her and allowing her to explain what happened, he swore and yelled at her and told her "this is just what you girls do" and "now you'll pay for it" and he called the police on her. I only wish that I knew this bouncer's name so he could be fired. read more

Hands down this is my favorite bar, absolutely! Lux is so chill and low key. It's very dark and dim inside, but does get loud especially on the weekends when it is more busy. To me people may say it is a 'hipster bar but I have seen all different types of people there. I have gone here on both weeknights and on the weekend. I prefer weeknights as the weekends become a little too crowded at times and I start to feel like I am on East Ave. Not that I don't go to East Ave but sometimes I like going to a laid back bar where I can chill and catch up with friends not worry about my shoes getting stepped on or fights breaking out every two minutes. I like how there's so much to do instead of most bars where you are limited to sit, drink, stand, drink, get bumped into, look up at the TV on the wall, repeat. There's board games, an outside area with benches and tables which I like the lighting out there by the way, there's a pool table, a cigarette machine, an old school candy vending machine, a sofa/loveseat in the corner for maxin and relaxin and a bunch of really creepy but interesting art encasing the walls (if you have an open mind of course). Every night of the week there are different events like for instance I went once on a Wednesday and they had free movie night out back on a big screen. Movie was odd, about tight ropers tight roping on skyscrapers, but interesting to say the least. The bartenders and staff are always pretty friendly too. At Lux they play everything like alternative, Indie and I love when they play oldies and Motown. In the fall/winter, go to get their hot apple cider and whiskey (or you can mix it up with a liquor of your choice) but it is AMAZING. Oh, and did I mention no cover charge? Don't let the 666 address scare you. I think it is a part of the image. If you go directly to their website, it says they "don't care if you love Allah, Buddha,Jesus, or none of the above" and that is all that matters to me; to be in a place with the same beliefs as me. I don't care what you are as long as you are a good person. read more

I went here for a friend's birthday. I am not into trends and was immediately put off by the weirdos in this bar. Hipsters and Gothics unite! I thought I might have been asked to join a cult of magic playing sadists, or worse. I arrived fairly tipsy, at that point where almost anything is fun, and I hated Lux. Hated it. That really says something. Now I know those of you who are into that weirdo stuff will love this bar, but for those normal people out there, I have to a warn you, because none of the reviews really reflect the atmosphere. read more

Rochester doesn't give very many options when it comes to bars for 20 somethings looking to grab a drink at a chill establishment that doesn't involve having to put up with the douche bags and whores that rome East and Alexander streets. I don't make it into Rochester that often, but when I do I like to try and hit up Lux at least once. I prefer it more in the warmer months when I can sit in the backyard area with friends. The beers are cheap, the environment is great and the music isn't anywhere near the shit you hear pouring out if pearl. The bar can become really crowded and loud in the winter. Yea I've had long waits and poor service but I've seen that more so around the holidays. If you want to have a great experience at Lux go in the summer time on an off night and you'll find it to be a great place to drink cheap and relax with friends. And if you don't agree with me, let me know of a better bar and I'll be more than willing to check it out next time I'm in town read more

I love LUX. I went out for my 21st birthday there. I fell in love instantly. if you're the type to go to clubs and wanna dance all night and do that whole, weird glow-stick thing, this probably isn't the place for you. But if you like art, and good music and amazing themed nights then, this is it. I love this bar, and it's actually one of my favorite in Rochester. read more

A great neighborhood/hipster bar in the South Wedge. In the summertime, you'll want to spend your evenings at the picnic tables on the backyard patio. When it's cold, the red walls and devil-themed decor will keep you warm (along with the drink specials). The jukebox is stocked with a really great selection, but you have to wend your way past the people at the pool table to get to it. Too bad there's no food, but Beale Street's cajun BBQ is just up the street. read more

A pretentious hipster bar. Didn't mind the feel/look of the place (not usually my cup of tea, but it's something different). However, when ordering a drink the first 'bartender' or whatever he was said "I don't serve alcohol" yet he was standing there behind the bar doing nothing, while I was standing there for 5 minutes trying to get a drink. Second 'bartender' who I attempted to order from was a d*** so I left. Altogether spent 10 minutes there and have no plans on ever going back. read more

although the s now crowd is now changing,i love going on tuesdays for 1$ pbr's and trivia, also wednesdays for the movie nights.

This is my go to neighborhood bar...Outside seating is great when the weather is warm and like when you can grill hotdogs and hamburgers for a dollar. I tend to come during strange/off times since it can get way too crowded for my taste. read more

Lux definitely has its own unique characteristics. I don't think you can find any bar in Rochester close to Lux. I would say it's a dive/hippie bar. That's the reason I didn't give it a four-star, because it's not my style. But I do see why it's so popular and why people love to go there. I like the decoration there. Many spiders and skulls (I'm a skull fan lol). It seems that Halloween happens there every day. I did go there for the Halloween. It was a good choice. If you wonder which bar in Rochester is the best to go on Halloween, it's definitely Lux. They don't even need to put too much effort to have Halloween environment lol. The people going there are the most dedicated people to Halloween. Almost everyone there dressed up with cool costumes. Not like other bars, I would be surprised if I could find half of the customers dressed up. The drinks there are cheap. There is one thing I don't quite get is that on Halloween, I noticed that the TV there was showing violence and pornography. Can a bar legitimately show those in public? read more

A great bar for people who don't especially like bars. The atmosphere is low key and is a great place to sit down and just hang out with a group of people. read more

feels like new orleans evey time i visit lux well sometimes like austin its an oasis its a vacation without the hassle of travel well no cavity searches yet its especially fun when johnny cash comes on the juke box and the residents bursts out in song and some dance woooo hoooo!!!!!!! mmmm pb&j mmmmm luv u carrie read more

Pretty cool spot I just found. Not typically in to the hipster scene but this place was great. Had great music, a bit crowded but so is anywhere that is good! Enjoyed my night for sure and will return. read more

Great bar! People are wonderful, expect for this one bouncer. He is the African American guy, and he was SO rude to my friends and I on my friends 21st birthday. He kept coming up to us and saying rude, condescending things. He kept harassing us, and told us he "doesn't care that it is my friends birthday" when we were just exciting to for her to turn 21. Multiple people left their drink cups outside but he choose to come to me and my friends outside in the sitting bar and was rude to us about our cups being on the table and how we need to bring them inside but maybe people others who were older than us also had their drinks outside on the tables but choose to come and Harass us women who were newly 21. Very rude man, last time I was here he kept starring at me fiends and I, and giving us dirty looks mind you this is a full grown man! He would make kissing and condescending faces at us. Very weird guy. Probably needs help. Lux should do something about him, or we will file for Harassment. read more

Lux has it's fair share of douchebags so I try to avoid it when possible. The bartenders don't know how to make drinks. There was a blonde bartender that knew how to make martinis and various cocktails that consisted of more than vodka and soda but now she's gone. The other bartenders have a serious attitude and it takes forever to get a drink. The bartender with mousey brown hair is friendly but always seems like she's on another planet. Always gives me back the wrong change, but it's change back for more money than I originally gave her so I don't mind. It's like drinking for free! read more

It's a friendly, lively, hipster place. Large, very dog friendly back yard with picnic tables. Would be nice it doubled as a coffee bar for those of us who don't want to drink and drive or simply want to be out and about but don't feel like having a drink in our hands. I would go much more often. read more

If you're young and you live in Rochester, you've probably heard about this unconventional, dark, loud, ultra-hipster weird bar with tattooed up bar tenders and cheap drinks. But please, fear not! Lux is honestly one of the best places in our fair city to grab a drink, chill with old friends and maybe make some new ones. Don't be intimidated by its facade, as 666 South Ave is a very welcoming atmosphere and offers some really cool and different attractions. Affordable drinks, funny chairs, a great outdoor area with a bonfire, pool table and a funky playlist set the mood, but each night of the week has something new to offer that most bars simply do not. From arts & crafts night, the standard but strange trivia, to the B-movie night on Wednesday, Lux always keeps it creative and fun. If you're just trying to get drunk and dance to the rotation of today's top-40 hits, Lux probably isn't you're style, but if you're looking to have a great time without all that B.S., Lux will welcome you with open arms. read more

In the past, I would have said that Lux is a great low key bar to go with friends and to meet interesting people. Recently, I have decided otherwise. My friend and I went to Lux for a few drinks on Wednesday. We had one drink each when we ordered a second each and then tried to close out our tab at the time of the second order. When we received the bill, a third round of drinks had mysteriously been added. It would have seemed like an honest mistake if it had been easily cleared up, but we had two different bartenders serve the two drinks. The woman closing out our tab (long dark hair) essentially told me that the other bartender (Matt) would not have put down that we had four drinks, if we had not, and further that he was gone for the night so there was nothing she could do. Essentially, she was trying to force me to pay for drinks that we did not have and accusing me of lying about what we had ordered (or being too drunk to know better when in fact I was entirely sober). Fortunately I had the energy and clarity to ask to see a manager or owner. I had to firmly ask twice before the female bartender pretended to talk with Matt (who originally she said she could not contact). Eventually the offensive and rude bartender took the extra charges off of my card. It was quite shocking to be accused of trying to get out of paying for drinks and to be talked to in such a disrespectful manner! In conclusion, if you go to Lux, take cash and pay for your drinks as you go and make sure that they give you the correct change back. It seems that either some of the bartenders are completely incompetent or they are simply trying to take advantage of their patrons... read more