Rain

Another good bar, check out and see if Gabe is bartending, he has been making my drinks for years and it very good! The bar itself is trying to be a bit more upscale than Oilcan's and it is, but not by much, the dance floor is small, real small so if you want to dance, i'd head over to Oilcan's.. or if you are into country music, rainbow cattle company.

This place tries to look trendy, suave, and chic, but the only thing truly different in the air is that people there think they are given an environment in which to act snobby and pretentious, although they are the same people that frequest all the other nearby bars/clubs. Some bartenders there are cute and the older or more experienced ones are more reliable. Drinks overpriced. It has a nice patio area if you do not mind being choked with cigarette smoke. Dance floor highly inadequate for the space of club and number of patrons; might as well put a hot tub in place. HORRIBLE flow in the place. And waiting in the line -- PFFT WHATEVER!!! So not Studio 54

Rain has more "class" than most of the other gay bars in town. Young crowd, good bartenders most of the time, and a trendier venue. DJs are a cut above the Austin average, too.

I had a lousy experience with my last visit. It was a weekday 7/26/07 not a real big crowd by any standard. When it was time to close my bar tab I discovered the bartender gave my card to another patron who also opened a tab, but when this patron closed his bar tab he really was closing mine because the bartender mixed the tabs up and gave my credit card away. To make a long story short they lost my credit card. The patron they gave my card to went off to Oilcans and ran up $34.00 on my credit card.. I still do not know why the bartender got the tabs mixed up. I would recommend going to Oilcans as they swipe your card and give it back immediately with no possibility of a mix up. I am still fighting the credit card company about the fraudulent charge.