Rain

2nd to Oilcan's

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.

so not all that; poser snobs

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

A Little Classier

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.

Bartenders do not remember you

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.

Whatever!!!

I travel to Austin frequently to visit friends and I've never been that impressed by any of the bars.You would assume in a city of some 700,000 people,and a metropolitan area of over 1.5 million there would be more bars with more variety.but there are only about 6 or 7 at any one time.Rain is newer and touts itself as an upscale place but like all the other bars it's not. It's an old warehouse with a cement floor and crummy bathrooms.while I'll admit that the bartenders in the front bar are cute and pleasant..the majority of the patron are pretentious and snobby.as with a lot of people in Austin.Personally I recommend About Time or Charlie's though the locals will decry these places as dives when in reality Rain and Oil can harry's are not much better they just get the crowds hence they are the places to go. Please get over yourself a bar is a bar in this town..And oh yeah Im not waiting in any line to get into this place...WTF they think it's F*#king studio 54...god help me....