Strictly giving ENCORE a five star because of the friendliness of the staff.
I don't know what it is with Seattle clubs, but I guess I'm used to being treated like BS when going to Seattle clubs, so going to ENCORE was definitely refreshing. The VIP manager, I believe it's Rick (?) got us a booth on my birthday the night of, which was pretty awesome. Even the bar service at our booth was super cute and super nice. I mean, complete 180 compared to what I'm used to.
Not only that, but it was refreshing not having to run into the same crowd and not having the bouncers make us wait for 15 minutes outside when the club is virtually empty. Instead, we got to the doors, Friday night around 11pm. No line, and the bouncers let us in super quick. We had full service going on at our booth and the place filled in around 11:30? It wasn't as busy on a Friday night, but I could really careless. The music was ok, the DJ seemed to spin a block of R&B and hip hop for a couple songs, then switched to a block of EDM, then back to R&B and hip hop and so on and so on.
The only downside to this place was the fact that they were being super slack on dresscode. They say it's an ultra lounge, but they'll probably let you in with a nice top and jeans. *shrugs* oh well. I'll go in looking good regardless. HAAAAY GUUURRRRRLL HAAAAAAY!!!!!