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    VERS

    4.6 (28 reviews)
    Closed 5:00 pm - 2:00 am (Next day)

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    VERS ATMOSPHERE

    What's the vibe?
    Casual
    DJ
    Live music
    Outdoor seating

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    Strawberry Negroni
    Daniel A.

    Fun cute and a lot of things to do. Drinks are drinks, pour is solid and if you go there to relax or to wonder - everyone can find anything they are looking for.

    Kanga Roo is the reason why I will keep coming back! Feature her way more often!

    Kanga Roo is the reason why I keep coming back to this place. Excellent service and great drinks and music

    Come here Friday nights just to see this girl RIGHT HERE. Kanga Roo knows how to entertain a crowd.

    Come here on Friday nights just to see this girl RIGHT HERE. Kanga Roo knows how to entertain a crowd and keep things interesting. 10/10 have to check her out. Food is amazing too.

    We love kangaroo. She's the absolute best drag queen ever! It's so chill. She loves to to play lady G and she looks so good

    Margarita
    France C.

    In a nutshell: It is great for pretentious cliques or groups of more, but not so much for solo patrons, the experience could be more consistent here, leaning lately more towards unlikable/underwhelming experiences. THE GOOD I always get a bartender, which is a plus because VERS is very busy and not everyone might get their attention immediately among many waiting. There's a Christmas event going on, and until the moment I left, very colorful and entertaining. There is a production value, as well as attention to the overall presentation of the space and the reserved session for VIPs I guess. THE BAD It is REASONABLE to expect a bit of space between your HEAVILY ICED margarita to the brim, NOT 3/4 of a drink serve like that and people be like COOL WHAT?!!! I didn't say a thing because I feel I lost the battle from the very beginning and I'm old enough to know when to take my loss and move on. THE WORST Not only I had to make last that fraction of a drink to soak with the tatter tots shown. They give you this nice larger order of tots with just two squirts of ketchup and a presumably non-vegan cream on the side and think to be enough?! I didn't bother to discuss it with the bartender because AFTER ASKING 4 TIMES FOR MORE KETCHUP. An hour later, the server with the long hair toss it on the bar like gosh, does he has to! The rest of the tots are more lukewarm at this point. I feel so upset this ruined another wise cool Monday night. The waiter's here rarely do anything other than a transaction for you, not that great bartenders' dynamic were to engage their clients and check on them. I got my water refilled AT THE END when it didn't matter but still I said thank you because I was taught manners. Even removing tonight's experience, overall VERS is not a friendly or warm gay venue, perhaps I'm not just their demographic and that is OK too.

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    Kanga is not only stunning she provided the best service I've have ever received 10s across the board !

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    I really enjoyed this place. Good ole hole in the wall. Great service! Happy hour was great, food was delish. I'll be back!

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    There's no nice way to say it - one of my dearest friends was full-out assaulted by the doorman…read morethis past Saturday night. I was with my friend and my boyfriend. They each had bags for inspection. I did not. I showed my ID to the man and was permitted inside. I stood watching through the door and wondered what was taking so long. Finally I saw my boyfriend calmly gesturing for me to come back out. The man had very gruffly told my boyfriend "no, you go over to the side" - whatever that means - re: his bag. Nasty. It's not against the law for people to have bags and backpacks. You'd think it was the inconvenience of a lifetime to inspect them. My boyfriend comes right from work. My friend had come in from Connecticut. They needed their bags. They didn't mind them being checked at all. They tolerated the large helping of attitude. When I walked back through the door, I saw my friend and the doorman pushing and shoving each other. It was a full-on assault. Other people were watching and horrified. Apparently, my friend had two water bottles in his bag and wasn't permitted to take them in. He simply asked if he could leave them at the front. The doorman said, "I'm not gonna babysit your water!" Wrong. The thing to say is, "You're free to leave them, but I can't be held responsible for them." The both of them had had enough of the attitude and decided we would all just go somewhere else, and said so and turned to leave. Right as my boyfriend gestured for me to come out, the doorman grabbed my friend with both hands and shoved him. My friend is a gentle person and battles a great deal of anxiety. He did not provoke this attack. My boyfriend saw the whole thing with his own eyes. It made absolutely no sense. My friend was completely rattled for hours. We spent the evening trying to help him come down from the adrenaline and shock to his system. Was this a homophobic attack? If so, Flex should be aware of who they have in their employ. Yet it really doesn't matter what the motivation was. It was brutal and it was wrong, plain and simple. My friend's water didn't disturb a single patron that night. The doorman's attack on him did. It was outrageous. What's more? My friend is the most generous tipper anyone could meet. He treats bartenders like they do God's work. Now none of us would ever go back. Why would we? We moved on to Flaming Saddles where the doorman and bartenders were lovely to us in spite of a swelling Saturday night crowd. They were sensitive to my friend and helped replace some of our night's ugliness with kindness. Beware of Flex. Go at your own risk.

    We visited on Halloween and loved the lively crowd. Despite being packed from wall to wall,…read morebartenders were still speedy and personable. Solid little LGBTQ+ dive.

    VERS - gaybars - Updated May 2026

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