Last year's Top 40, fake top-shelf booze, black mini dresses and abercrombie style 'faux-formal' bro shirts. Long Island meets awkward upstater. It's the end of the line (or the beginning of a long struggle with substance abuse) for Binghamton. If you're 21 you're too old for this crowd.
The management avoided a raid by screaming "Fire!" and almost causing a stampede up their non-code-compliant single stairwell. They now scan ids.
Avoid like the plague.
Glorified fraternity basement, awful DJ (at least the night I was there), watered down drinks (I don't drink but my friends told me they were severely watered down). The dance floor was really wet so you probably can't dance unless you want to break your neck.
I know lots of people enjoy it, but that's because they never go there sober.
Where to start with the Rat. Â The one additional star (instead of totally panning the place) is because it has a history in the area, and there is a certain "Hey I just got to college" feel about this place. Â The bottom line is that if you are hearing about the Rat here on Yelp, stay away! Â It is for the local college kids to go and get trashed and nothing more.
It's almost exclusively underage kids and the occasional grad students who are back in the area to relive their college years. Otherwise, the alcohol is weak, the drinks are lame, the beer is warm, and the food is awful. Â There is a pretty sweet dance vibe, but as another person pointed out, the place is a death trap.
All that said, it is a Binghamton right of passage.
Worth noting, The Rat lost its liquor license today, so don't go setting your GPS for Binghamton, NY just yet!
Came here on a Thursday night
Around 10:30 it was pretty dead so there was no line at the bar so me and friends swarmed it to get a taste of watered down liquor, yum.
Then before I knew it, the rat was packed, there was music, the dance floor was on and I was having a great time.
The drinks were cheap and after my frist they didn't taste watered down, i guess it depends on what you get
There was a very diverse crowd which I absolutely loved. Â Everyone was friendly
People were dancing a whole lot. Even though the DJ mostly played techno the crowd made it fun to stay on the dance floor
This is a good spot to chill get some drinks and maybe do some dancing before the main event.
That being said, don't make the rat the main event of the night.
Ah, The Rat. I think coming here is a right of passage for BU students. But if you do it more than a couple of times, especially after you're 21, well...
This is the easiest place to get into with a fake or chalked ID, which is probably the biggest reason for its popularity. The drinks are watered down, you are likely to get groped, I don't even want to *think* about what the bathrooms look like, and the crowd is basically underage Binghamton University students and the creepers looking to pick them up. But when there's no alternative, you end up here sometimes.
as a binghamton student, i suppose you should go here at least once to experience the lamest time you will ever have. it's a good place to start off since they're probably the easiest to get into of all the state st bars (well, since sportsbar went and closed....misss you back entrance!) anyway, if you're over 21 and you actually still choose to drink here, ... im 'sorry. Â but when was the stale smell of miller lite, INCREDIBLY WATERED DOWN drinks, and a hundred sweaty obnoxious kiddies stuck in a basement a good time? and seriously, that 7 dollar open bar thing on friday nights or whatever... someone tell me what is the point?! you're going to be waiting for that excuse of a drink longer than it will take you to drink it. and needless to say this is not the place to go hang with a friend, or grab a beer... if you want to have any semblance of a good night, you really need a fun group.
Review Source:I thought this place was pretty cool. It's underground, with two separate areas- including a small dance floor. I liked how one side had rock music and the other had techno playing. There are definitely "characters" who hang around. :)
The bartenders seemed a little rude, but maybe it's cause everyone was trying to get their attention at last call.
i graduated from bing about four years ago, but when i went there the rat was THE place to go on a weekend. Â sure, the line would be out the door and youd be in a tube top in the middle fo january, but once you got inside, aw shiiiizz did your night just get a whole lot better. Â
youre 19, you have a chalked/fake id, the bouncers basically dont care as long as you try to pass off something, you pay the three dollar coverage, get down into the "dirty basement" (as the rat is sometimes referred to) do a scorpion bowl, get a red bull and vodka, and youd be set. Â you go out onto the "dancefloor" with your girlfriends, get your bump and grind on, probably have some sort of pda moment, and all of a sudden its 3am and the lights are coming on and youre getting kicked out. Â
ahhhh memories...if you went to bing between '01 and '05, you know what im talking about.
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