PR's Saloon In the Stockyards

Tee...Rash...eeee. But in a good way. Heavy cop presence, a mix of dooshface country songs and booty hip hop line dances. X handed chix secretly slamming lemon drops in the corner then getting called out by the cops that are in the bar watching them. A steady Marlboro fog, Jell-O shot girls, and more smoke. A great place to feel creepy if you're over 30. Pawrty!!!

I have been to this place multiple times. It is a good time everytime, but the place is a little trashy. I like how they have a dancefloor and they have an even spread of country and top 40/rap music throughout the night. The drinks are average price. The bartenders are cute and friendly. It really picks up as far as the crowd and dancefloor goes around 11:30 or so. This is the place we go when we have under 21 friends that come along.
One night I was dancing on the dancefloor with a drink in my hand and a cop pulled me off the dancefloor and told me to go outside. I was pretty confused, but then realized my armband was under my sleeve. I showed him then he said "oh ok" and he let me go. They are pretty strict here as far as underage drinking goes, obviously.
On Friday's and Saturday's there is a $5/$15 cover charge. I would rather go to a nicer bar and not pay a cover.

PR's is pretty bad.  Dead until 10:30-11:00 or so when suddenly it just gets packed.  The sign out front claims "Voted Best Place to Meet Singles".  Everyone must have seen that sign.  

Early in the night, there's some couples on the dance floor. Some are very good.  Others aren't, but everyone's having a good time.  Then the singles crowd rolls in.  Almost every group through the door is only guys or only girls.  They huddle together and ogle one of the other groups and wait until they're drunk enough to work up the nerve.  Soon the country music stops, some heavy rap starts up, and the volume knob gets turned all the way up.  You know when they turn it up so loud that you can't even tell what song it is anymore?  It's that loud.

This is when the small, dance crowd leaves and all that's left is, for lack of a better word, "bros".  The country music eventually returns, but still at maximum volume.  The dancing turns from line dancing and two-stepping to grinding.

The bartenders are just awful.  There are three girls behind the bar and two people trying to order drinks.  Took several minutes to get one of them to acknowledge either one of us.  When my friend went back to the bar to get another drink, they couldn't find her tab or her credit card.  Keep in mind there's a crowd of maybe 15 people and they're already overwhelmed and losing credit cards.  The only way to fix it was to tell the current bartender our old bartender's name.  She never told us her name, so we had to wait for her to show up from wherever to get more drinks.  

I'm still confused as to how that even happened.  The tabs were wrong at the end of the night, but looked like they were probably close to what they should be.  Just thankful that the card wasn't lost.

Drinks range from decently priced to overpriced.    Some drinks are served in a stemmed mason jar with a flashing ice cube.  I can't decide if that's cool or terrible.  For as long as I can remember PR's has been notorious for rampant violence, but I haven't seen one there.  Granted, they're also "world famous" for a bikini contest, but I'd never heard of it until I saw a sign on the door.

It's basically a good place to go in the early evening when Billy Bob's has a high-price act coming in.  I guess.