| Location |
291 Alexander Street, Rochester NY, 14607 ![[Directions]](/wiki/dd_start.png "Click for driving, walking, or bus directions from Google"){kind=small} |
| Hours (as of September 2007) |
| Wednesday & Thursday 9 PM - 2 AM |
| Friday & Saturday 8 PM - 2 AM |
| Phone |
| 585 325 7998 |
| Accessible |
| Yes |
| Website |
![[WWW]](http://rocwiki.org/wiki/eggheadbeta/img/sycamore-www.png){kind=small} http://www.goingoutrochester.com/rochester/vinyl/ |
| Reviews |
|
RochesterDrinks |
| Alcohol |
| Yes |
Located on Alexander Street at the edge of the Entertainment District, Vinyl is an upscale dance club features 80’s & 90’s party music, a lounge section to relax with friends and a large dance floor to boogie the night away. Downstairs you will find a casual bar with a pool table, dart boards and other fun games. You can enjoy the city’s mature professional crowd while sipping on a martini and reminiscing to the oldies.
Throughout the week Vinyl offers a variety of specials and giveaways including:
Wednesday Nights are "College Night." Half priced drinks: $1.50 domestic & Canadian beer/$2 wells & house wine/$2.50 calls, along with an ipod giveaway every Wednesday night.
Thursdays are "Ladies Night." $2 domestic & Canadian beers, as well as $2 well drinks and house wine (Chardonnay, White Zin, Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon), along with Victoria's Secret giveaways.
Fridays and Saturdays feature $3 cocktails before 9:30 PM. $3 domestic and Canadian Beers as well as $45 bottles of Moet White Star and Veuve Clicquot champagne. Bottle service is also always available.
There are no cover charges or coat check charges at Vinyl, but there is a dress code: "dress to impress."
This location was previously occupied by The Alexander Street Pub (A-Pub), which has now moved on Lawrence Street as A-Pub Live with Daisy Dukes and SoHo East
3/10/2008 NEWS: According to the Democrat & Chronicle Vinyl has been seized for non-payment of taxes
3/13/2008 NEWS: Local media reports Vinyl will be resuming it's normal business hours as the owners come to an agreement on their back taxes with the IRS.
2007-10-01 14:32:43 My friends and I decided to check this place out this past weekend as one of them had a 20$ gift card that had all the Ronnie Davis Group bars on it. After passing the friendly enough bouncer and entering a nearly empty club, we were told they would not honor the gift card that clearly had the bars name on it. Apparently they would rather have an empty bar then 8 patrons that would clearly spend more then 20 dollars. At this point we left and vowed not to return. There are much better bars that are well managed in this city. Spend your dollars elsewhere. —DarrenKemp
2007-10-17 17:10:10 Since Mr. "Ronnie" Sanchez opened the door... Here's my longwinded view of Vinyl.
We were charged a cover charge 2 months ago when we went here. There was not a band playing that night.
My buddy was real drunk and he's harmless but his actions can be misconstrued. The bouncer actually came up to me and told me that my buddy was 30 seconds away from getting kicked out so calm him down. In my experience, most bouncers jump at the chance of the "excitement" of getting to kick someone out. It was cool of him to do that...but he did kick him out 5 minutes later.
Reading the description above, my experience of the upstairs does not fit with what I would think of when I hear, "enjoy the city’s mature professional crowd while sipping on a martini" I am a mid 30s professional and feel old there. Most people are drinking beers, mixed drinks and doing shots. It says there is a lounge—I only saw half a dozen small couches right next to the dance floor. The outdoor deck is nice during the summer.
In my opinion, the downstairs is more like an "upscale" frat house basement-party room. The “other games” are a few arcade games and I have never seen anyone use the dart board. I like drinking down there but would not classify it as "casual bar" area. Again, you are in a basement and it feels like one.
One more thing—don't forget your credit card there on a Saturday night. They won't give it back until they re-open on Wednesday. (And if there are any workers there on Monday or Tuesday, don’t will tell you they don’t have access to the safe. No clue if that is true or not, I don't have any reason to believe it isn't.)
I don't mind going there but in my opinion, the above description is more of a marketing message than a non-biased description. The place is full of college aged and "just out of college" aged people with the occasional cougar. It's fun if that is what you are looking for but it isn't the mature, trendy place I see described above. Just my opinion.
