Sky Bar

Buffalo’s hottest roof top patio bar in the summer featuring national DJ acts on Friday evenings and the best local DJ’s on Saturday’s. Open air roof top bar bar looking over the sky line of Buffalo’s downtown. Huge bar and never a wait for drinks. Sexy VIP Cabana’s for hire for bottle service. Very cool glass elevator ride to the roof. Above the popular D’Arcy McGee’s and LiFT in the vibrant Franklin Street and Chippewa Street area. Get there early to avoid the lines of party goers in Buffalo’s busiest bar by far.

Skybar is fun, can’t lie. Unfortunately the drinks are expensive and taste watered down. Also this place makes me feel old even though im 24.

Do you like standing in line to pay $ 5 to stand in another line to get in an elevator to stand in another line to access the bar to pay $ 12 for a watered down vodka lemonade? Then this place is for you! Personally, if I am going to stand in lines all night I would rather it be at Disney World. The night my friends and I went we met some guy claiming to be the owner, Mark Karaōke (I swear that is what he said his name is). Talk about creepy. Some old fat white dude slobbering all over a bunch women. He was particularly obsessed with the youngest (22) member of our party and would say things to her like he will, «show her the world, take care of her, introduce her to important people, etc.» It was super gross. After the second round of free piss pour drinks, we left. Not without Tubby Karaōke trying with all his might to get us to stay, including stationing himself in front of the exit to block us from leaving. Pathetic. Do yourself a favor, buy a bottle of your favorite beverage, stay home and play Twister, by yourself if necessary, you’ll seriously have way more fun.

Super fun bar in the summer time! It is the rooftop bar above Darcy McGees. They have an elevator that takes you to the top, and an attendant, who accompanies you. They have cabanas available for the night, with a reasonable rate. Full bar with plastic cups, so you don’t break any glass on the roof. Sometimes, when you go in and pay the $ 10 cover, they’ll give you a free drink from the second floor bar, Lyft. Most nights they have no cover at Sky Bar by liking them on Facebook.

I’ll give it 3.5 stars.
Once in a while I do like to go out and dance so my friends came here one Friday night to check it out. Nothing special except I liked the music they were playing.
A good place to come dance, lively music and a view to go along with all that. Although it did make me feel old.

$ 5 cover. Made this 25 year young lad feel … OLD. Small drinks… Young kids can’t handle their booze apparently. There was a pile of puke on the deck by the bathroom… It was there all night and no one cleaned it up. It’s pretty cool up there and is a nice spot in the summer but idk about being crammed in an elevator with a bunch of drunk assholes. It’s the club scene I enjoyed a few years back. Not so much for me now.

Basically I agree with the other Unilocalers who have been to sky bar. Yes they renovated it, and the VIP cabanas look great, however the wait time for drinks is longggg! Also one bar is cash only which you have no idea unless you have been there prior and experienced this nonsense! So upon waiting 20 mins for a small tiny 4 dollar well drink you then learn, «oh my debt card is no good here.» (Yes debt card lol) «I must go where? over there… uh great…» «Oh and wait another 10 – 20 mins … Thanks I’ll stay sober and be awkward.»
Place is somehow always packed and if you don’t want to wait in line for the elevator go through d’arcy mcgees toward the bathrooms there is a back stair case you can go up. It’s 4 floors, burn some calories before you try to binge drink :) and take them on way down since your practically stone sober since you waited 3 hours standing in line. and don’t have to worry about falling down being that guy or that girl.
Music is pretty much a mix of everything and they keep the crowd dancing and have a good time. Have not been there during the edm Friday nights during the summer. I want to check it out I’ve just always had other obligations or I didn’t care for the Dj that night. But tickets are relatively cheap under 25 I believe. So if you wanna rave on a budget pop a Molly and get over there!
And just to humor the fellow Unilocalers I mentioned taking the stairs by the bathrooms. Here’s some advice use those bathrooms as well the upstairs bathrooms could scare you off the top if the building. and here is why …

The venue itself has a lot of potential. Unfortunately it wants for implementation. The bar staff is reasonably well mannered, the door-​staff however is not. The drinks are priced a bit higher than average for the area, and unfortunately poor quality. The atmosphere is admirable, however I would strongly recommend Soho, a few minutes’ walk from sky bar, also rooftop, and strong where sky bar lacks.

We had bottle service for a friend’s birthday last weekend. The door staff was terribly rude when asked about our reservation. The manager said we had no reservation, so my friend had to pull up her bank info to prove her card had already been charged a $ 100 holding fee. We still had to pay cover (!) then waited to be led to a tiny cabana with uncomfortable seats. Our bottle of vodka and champagne took a good ½ hr to get to us, which meant I ended up paying for a drink at the sticky, overcrowded bar. Not happy… I lived in Vegas for four years and this place does not provide VIP treatment. I will not be returning. PS. They also double charged the credit card.

What I enjoy about Sky Bar — it’s a rooftop bar downtown, great for enjoying summer nights with friends with the downtown skyline (even if it isn’t much compared to other cities, it’s still nice).
They have remodeled it before summer 2013, placing the DJ booth in an off-​focus, awkward place. I came here for many of their EDM summer events, which were awesome because I didn’t have to pay a fortune to see some of my favorite DJs! Sound system has improved from before, but can be overly loud at times. You may leave with ringing in your ears for days.
Drinks are okay priced. Maybe more expensive than other bars? I’m used to paying much more so I can’t compare. Service is decent, bartenders are pretty attentive!
Bathrooms can get disastrous (and I’m just talking about the girls’) If you can, urinate downstairs. Bathrooms tend to be cleaner there.
My big issue is how they charge cover for girls (during a regular night). Come on, really? Meh.

If you are over 25, skip it. There is a $ 5 cover for girls, and $ 10 for guys. Seriously, who charges girls a cover?
You have to wait in line to get in, so that you can wait in line for the elevator to go upstairs, so that you can wait in another line at the bar to pay twice as much for a drink as you would elsewhere.
We stayed for about 20 minutes then hit up another (better) bar. But not before waiting 5 minutes for an elevator down, only to have some girl start puking in the elevator on the way down. Yuck!
Her male counterpart tried to smooth it over by saying, «she is just Yolo-​ing.» So gross. Drake, I blame you.

The bar is decent, over priced drinks, decent rooftop views. Came here to see the nightlife and was told this was the best Buffalo had to offer. Very dissapointed.
Hopefully the summer EDM scene gets better or i’ll be driving back and forth to Toronto.
The dive bars a few blocks away are more entertaining.

Zero stars — they wouldn’t let me in, in camouflage shorts — they are anti-​American and have zero respect for those that died serving this country. There is no nice way of saying this, this dive must be a subsidiary of Al Qaeda.

Being 4 floors above the city is great but there are just so many negatives here.
Drinks are way to over priced for the watered down dixie cup sized drinks they serve. On any given night this place gets really busy, which is good if you like not even being able to dance, move or order a drink. Save yourself the cover charge and head somewhere else. Plenty of other bars have a nicer patio to hit up.

One of my favorite spots in the summer time!
Drinks are normal price (for Buffalo) and regular sized. They don’t try and G you of your money. Its got a huge bar, but sometimes you might have to wait a little since there are so many people. But overall not too bad of a wait.
It can get pretty packed during the weekend and overall the place is nothing special but the added summer air makes all the difference. Tons of people are out here and if you want to meet new people this is a great venue for it.
The music is great (top 40, hip hop… they might have possibly added house to the mix, *ugh) and everything feels nice with the clear summer air. No stuffy, stank ass dance floor over here!

At least during the non-​winter months, this place is a real chill place to kick back under the night sky. I’ve always been a fan of outdoor clubs b/​c it eliminates what I feel to be the biggest issue of indoor clubs and that’s air ventilation. This place just has a relaxed vibe and worth coming to with a large group of friends. There is a small $ 5 – 10 cover I think but I thought it was worth it.