Scandals Saloon

A big no. Sorry guys.

"Let's go to Ssssscandalsss!", said he, hissing his 'S's. My answer was a sing-songy "Yessssss!"

Scandals is always busy, but whenever I go there, I go for late night drinks and karaoke. There's not really that much to say, I guess. Drinks are cheap, but service is slow. However, when you're not in a hurry to get even more drunk than you already are, what the heck! They have a popcorn machine with free, get-it-yourself pop corn that tastes like gourmet snacks when you're drinking and therefore crazy-hungry. LOL!

Karaoke list on Sundays closes at midnight.

There are a few parking spots right in front, but if their lot is full, you are certain to find a spot at the huge lot across the street.

Scandals Saloon (it is Scandals Saloon, not Scandals Bar), which is gay bar located on NE 6th Avenue just as you turn off Oakland. It's located in the same location as was Elements. Yelp has a listing for "Scandals Bar" but that at is noted at 205 East Oakland Park Boulevard, which was their previous address.

Scandals is a big place. Inside bar, outside patio bar, pool room, and a large out back
fenced in patio. Plenty of room, lots of seating and they need it as the place tends to be
very popular on weekend nights and with group functions during the week like that of the Prime Timers who hold occasional "mixers" and various country western crowd followings. Indeed, Scandals is generally known as the gay country western bar of Fort Lauderdale, so you can expect to see some cowboy hats, cowboy boots, and blue jeans with a blue collar type of gay following. What you won't see are a lot of twinks or raver boys and chances are
you won't be listening to all that much disco or club rehash music. Most nights are
themed, such as Wednesday as "Southern Country" where you get to sort of click your
heels to some DJ tunes, pool table tournaments are generally on Wednesday, some more country DJ stuff on Friday and Saturdays with a beer bust and rather big happy hour on Sunday. Oh, and there is always free popcorn.

On of the nice features of Scandals is that it is located directly across from the giant parking lot of the failing K-Mart Store, so there never seems to be any problem parking. Basically, the drinks are good, very reasonably priced, a fun crowd and a popular place which makes me a fan, particularly with the free parking of which you will find little of along the gay Drive section of Wilton Manor.

As for food, the situation is at best iffy, real iffy, so iffy in fact that they don't even bother to mention it in any of their ads. As of this writing, however, they do have a limited starting around 5:30 pm, or thereafter, consisting of the usual bar food, but for the moment with a rather inventive cook, Jamie. If he happens to be there and making them, be sure to try one of his "berry rolls." I did, and found it to be superb. It was certainly an unexpected treat to find something of unique quality amongst the usual crappy food that the grungier or blue Lauderdale bar scene is so well known for.

So, for the ups, it's plenty of free parking, reasonably priced drinks and a fun crowd. As for the downs, food is good but getting it or them having anything is chancy, at best.