Oxygen Lounge & Restaurant

WHAT A BIZARRE off-centric half-assed unfair place this is, and yet, it can be kind of fun. I will describe the nice parts of this place, but first I need to rant.

(FYI -- This place is also a Hungarian restaurant. Yelp doesn't have that category . . . yet!)

Issue number one is that this place practices a form of age discrimination that I have yet to see duplicated at any other so-called restaurant/club! My under-age son and I came here on a Thursday night to support a friend's band, and we encountered an very odd, shady process at the door. The maitre'd let us walk into the patio where my friends were without a word, but it wasn't until after I had already strolled in that I was informed by my son that he had been checked for ID and then harassed about a $5.00 per person cover charge. I had been promised to get in free on the guest list, but being a weeknight, that was not a possibility. Fine, I was prepared for this eventuality and backhanded him a folded up Hamilton in as cool and nonchalant a way as I could.

Then after going back in a floating around a while, I started to wonder why my poor son was still hovering about outside with a worried look on his face. My son told me that the doorclown wouldn't let him until he paid yet another $4. What???

It turned out that this restaurant assumes that anyone 21 and older will assuredly drink alcohol. Thus, by some perverse inversion of logic, they believe that anyone under age will not buy any non-alcoholic beverages, eat food, or purchase oxygen or any other product or service. So, they wanted to force him to buy a $4 drink ticket, old-school Gazarri's-style. (Any old hair-metal clubsters remember that?) I was livid. What an absolute bunch of bullshit. Being that I owe my friends a few favors, I swallowed my pride and coughed up the dough.

OK, it's one thing to have a draconian cover charge policy, age-discriminatory to be sure (at least they HAVE all-ages shows . . .), but to not even have all the staff on board with it is another separate outrage. The next sections explains . . .

Unfortunately, true to their stereotype, the boy didn't order anything and I was rather curious about the so-called "oxygen bar." It costs $5 for about 10 minutes at this crazy contraption (see pictures). So, I took his drink ticket and an extra buck and slapped them down next to the machine. After some delay and dispute over the value of the ticket (How could they not know this??) , the bartendress finally gave me a plastic tube like the ones they use in the hospital and told me to stick the small tubes in my nose and wrap the rest around my ears and then connect it to the hose attached to the contraption.

You can sit and inhale oxygen in four flavors: eucalyptus, lemon-lime, vanilla, and lavender. There was also a peach flavor tube not connected. Anyway, I really don't think this machine was working right. I inhaled these lovely vapors and felt a little dizzy afterwards. I think any benefit you get from the oxygen is negated by the chemicals in these synthetic aromas.

I think despite the kitschy eighties decor and lameness of the so-called oxygen machine, this place could be fun and cool, but if you're gonna be jerk about your policies, at least do it up-front and consistently.

As in the other review, there was a mix up with the band's scheduling. They were supposed to play an hour later than when we got there (Good thing we got there when they did!), and at that, they made them play a short set. I don't quite understand that.

this club/bar holds small concerts for unsigned artists. I went to see eazymillion perform. the doors were suppose to open at 7 and the show to start at 8...say it took 3hrs just for them to let everyone in (including the singers who were performing) This was all due to some technical difficulties (sound system) which in the end were never resolved...Everyone's performance was ruined that night because their sound system kept skipping all the tracks keep in mind this place broadcasted the show  live online..The bartender was cool there should of been another one since the place was packed...also considering the fact that this is an oxygen lounge you would think they would of had their oxygen & hookah set up for people to use (of course they didnt)...in the end I wasted  $10 .........