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    Shade Rooftop Patio

    3.5 (32 reviews)
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    Closed 5:00 pm - 2:00 am (Next day)
    Updated 3 months ago

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    SHADE ROOFTOP PATIO ATMOSPHERE

    What's the vibe?
    Casual
    Moderate noise
    Happy hour specials
    Good for groups

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    Ruben C.

    Shade Rooftop Bar. Only there's no shade. Nice. Not a bad place. Not too many college kids this Sunday night so it was a nice atmosphere. Has potential. Would be a better place if they had bar snacks. Yes, I understand the Tap Room is just below and they offer food but why make your patrons leave your place to grab a bite to eat when you could easily offer some pub grub/appetizers. Think: chips & queso, peanuts, something.

    Jenga!
    Estefany V.

    The location of the bar is great! Being on the second floor, they have a nice view during the day of the square in San Marcos. Great place to relax and play some jenga with friends! They have good happy hour drinks, some of the beers were $3.00 and my favorite which was the pickle shot vodka was also only $3.00. Great environment, with great genre of music, from regards to techno and with the hot weather they had water being sprayed from the top bar which was refreshing. The outside had several tables and jenga boxes. The bar tender was also great, very cool and fun! Advice is to go during the night, there is a much better view of the city rather than during the day. We went around 6 and the view was still nice but it was dead. Very fun environment, great place to relax, get a drink, have a nice view and have fun with friends.

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    Haley is the best! I love the service here and they have giant janga as well as giant connect4. I've never had a bad experience here. Would definitely recommend. 10/10

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    kick people out after being 21 and just ordering one drink there and not even being drunk

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    I had such a great time at the Black Rabbit! Kara greeted us, and directed us into a drink we would enjoy! Thank you so much!

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    Ashley takes care of everyone! She is fast and knows her alcohol! Always ask for her, she's the best bartender!

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    9 years ago

    Sweet spot in the sun. Good views and pretty good selection of craft beers. If you're looking for an awesome patio, you've found it.

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    Great atmosphere for a big group or going on a date. Fun games, smoker friendly, and the bartenders are super nice!

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    Review Highlights - Shade Rooftop Patio

    The bartender Ashley was very knowledgeable about the cocktails and she even made up a shot for us that was delicious (and I am not a shot-taker).

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    3.3(31 reviews)
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    This used to be a fun an unique spot in San Marcos to hang out and grab a drink. But it has issues…read more Let me first start out with the good. The staff is FANTASTIC and very friendly. The bartenders are lead by the awesome Rene(i hope i'm spelling that right) and Miguel. I haven't learned the names of the others yet but I have never had an issue with any of them and they are always so polite. You can drink at the bar and even order food from the Taproom. Now for the bad or what needs to improve. The Porch used to have a nice outside 'porch' area with nice chairs and even porch swings. That I always felt was the selling point of this place as when sitting outside i would constantly hear passers by comment on the swings and even come in to sit on them. These have been replaced by very cheap metal chairs most of which are broken now and for some reason an elevated table with barstools which isn't in the porch motif. The interior used to have nice comfortable couches and chairs but pool tables have replaced those. Its fine I mean business change with new owners but it lost a little of what it was. I would be fine with all of that, except the outdoor chairs, if it wasn't so hot inside. The AC barely works if at all and half of the fans do not work so there is no air circulation and in Texas during the summer you want a nice cool place to relax. They need to fix the fans, cool off the interior and put some fans on the exterior. In the spring time, fall and winter its a great place to hang out, but until they fix the summer issues, I can't say. It is better than when they tried to be a disco club during the pandemic lol.

    It was 100 degrees and needed a place to hangout and have a nice cold drink. This place is a bar…read moreand has that western appeal mixed with a sports pub. You can sit facing the street, inside with both a street view and TVs, or in the back where there are more TVs but a bit darker. The bar is smack in the middle with a cool circular projection screen above it. I ordered a Deep Eddy Grapefruit with Sprite and watched the FIFA World Cup. The bartender was cool. It is definitely a cool bar with great drinks.

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    3.1(29 reviews)
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    This place is lowkey a nightmare. It was a good time when we first got in, but as we got closer to…read more2 a.m. and it got tighter inside, it just became overcrowded and hellish. I will admit that my social battery corroded while here, so the last bit of time, I was just done. I know I am rapidly aging out of college bars and that atmosphere, but the most questionable people here were clearly older than me. There's a lot of space in Nephew's. The leftmost room seems pretty open, the middle is the dance floor where the DJs work out of, and the right room has all the photo op spaces. I spent most of my time in the middle. The DJs were great, playing all the club heaters everyone wants to hear. The variety from classic and new hip-hop to reggaeton was appreciated by all except this one white guy with a combover who lost all his sauce when it was a song with lyrics he couldn't understand. There was a guy with his partner who was trying to start dance circles. It was weird because his buddy in the Looney Tunes beanie reached over to grab my friend's drink twice. Like back up, buddy, no free handouts. The bottle service here seems a little out of control because the people ordering it were so unreasonably drunk that we got to watch two basically create a baby and another person shake their bones because they had nothing to really shake. I don't really believe in bottle service as a concept, especially at a college bar. Other fond memories were of me watching a three-person grind line. I wanted to join, but I was nervous to ask. As a whole, the place is just a mess of drunkenness. The floor is confusingly sticky and the people are confusingly sticky too. It made for great people watching. RIYL: Degeneracy

    Usually really fun, buts last night my friends and I were walking through and inch deep of mystery…read moreliquid. That's actually gross needs to be fixed

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    Freddy C's Lounge - 78666 in the house

    Freddy C's Lounge

    3.7(17 reviews)
    0.0 mi

    Met up with an old friend. Just happens San Marcos is our half way point to meet. Neither of us…read morehave been to Freddy C's. The bar is like split in two. Not sure if the other half is the same bar or a different bar. But I walked straight in and sat at the bar. While I was waiting for him I ordered a drink. I said anything sweet and vodka based. He said do you like strawberry, I said, I love strawberry. Then he said he would fix me something nice. And he was right. Strawberry lemonade. The drink has a mellow strawberry flavor, so it's actually not too sweet. Had like 4 drinks. The bar was pretty quiet for a Saturday night. It's in the heart of down town San Marcos I would imagine. Looked like the town hall was across the street. There was a group of people that came in, maybe a dad and his son, and son's friends. Maybe a birthday celebration. they actually were doing shots and they ordered one too many and offered it to me. Thank you kind Sir! Sweet of you. No idea what the shot was when I joined their toast. Down the shot went and I was like, no way did I just do that. Like is this really a thing? Pickle juice? Seriously? Haha. Well, just popped my cherry, pickle back shot. Had a great night catching up. Laughs, drinks, memories, and well, it was just nice to step away for a short time. Parking situation. It's all street parking. Didn't have a difficult time finding a spot. And pretty much everything is walkable.

    Left my purse at the bar, when I asked if I left it a lady told me she'd would go look and never…read morecame back to give me an update. I noticed all the bartenders were at the end of the bar laughing and joking so I left. As I'm walking out they walk out with my purse. Everything was there but my wallet with $100 cash, a vintage heart locket necklace, my debit and credit cards and my student ID was definitely stolen. When I tried to act upset about it they harassed me, laughed at me and shined a bright flashlight in my face. Not sure if it was the bartenders or another customer but they just handled the situation horribly, will not be coming back.

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