Scene Ultra Lounge

So I’ve never been to this place in the «ultra» club sense but I heard it is amazing for a number of different reasons. I’m writing this review to highlight a night and time that might not get the props it deserves. Wednesday nights from 8-​midnight this place hosts «live» painting with works ranging from sport memorabilia to fine art portraits. The atmosphere is chill and social and there is always a live musician to complement the art vibe. All the painting are made on site in front of whoever is watching. I recommend coming down for gazing and talking or… as an artist! You have a venue to be creative around other creative types and can bring whoever you want with you because there is NO COVER! This place is dope and the artwork says it all. I plan to come every Wednesday night and I hope to see who ever is reading this!

Always have a great time here have yet to try the food but heard it’s awesome nice selection of craft beers and the bartenders are awesome even security which is rare for downtown bars most lack the personalities this place is packed with talent come out on Tuesdays Brandon is bartending and everything is half priced all night you can’t beat that !

I can live with shoulder-​to-​shoulder crowds, a bit of difficulty getting a drink… but for New Years Eve, I gotta say that the music was grossly unoriginal and cheap. If Scene didn’t have location going for them, no one in their right mind would flock to hear 20 different remixes of «All about that bass.» Double bogey for the course. Someone find me a DJ with some creativity please.

We go to scene once a week and Brandon is always behind the bar with a huge smile and the best attitude. He is definitely the reason we come every week and is a total asset to that bar. Thanks for being so awesome Brandon!

Definitely one of the more popular bars downtown. Good music if you like mainstream. small dance floor with a few vip tables. Usually pretty crowded.

I have a good time whenever I visit this place. In my experience, the best time to come is around happy hour or shortly after while it’s still early. Why only three stars? With only one bar, it gets crowded quickly and they run out of desired drinks. The bartenders can be impatient, so know what you want and order it quickly. Depending on what you like to drink it can get pricey but not too bad. The DJ this past Friday was awesome! I danced my little heart out.

Scene is such a great little lounge in downtown Cincinnati! It’s not too big and not too small. It’s just right! Scene is a great place to meet with friends after work for happy hour, which consists of ½ price appetizers, wine & cocktails. You can get a glass of house wine for just $ 3! You can also go on the weekends when the atmosphere is totally different. On weekends, Scene is more nightclub-​y, with a DJ, dim lights & loud music. Scene has a good mix of the lounge atmosphere as well as a nightclub feel.

Great staff, great beer and good food to munch on!

Wow, this place needs help from John Taffer of Bar Rescue. A friend and I stopped in for happy hour last Friday. The place was dead and the two female bartenders were too busy chatting to acknowledge our existence. Waited about five minutes for service, then headed next door to Righteous Room for a drink. It was lively, we were waited on quickly, and the drinks were yummy. Our reason for stopping at Scene was their windows that open to the street. It was a beautiful evening so that could have been pleasant. We had money to spend but they were not interested. Their loss!
I spoke to the concierge at our hotel about our experience and he noted the owner is a 25 year old man… the owner may want to do his homework on how to run a successful bar as this doesn’t seem to be working.
Good luck!

A friend and I were early for a show at the Aronoff so we decided to pop in for a pre-​show drink at Scene. It wasn’t that crowded and we sat at the bar. No one greeted us when we came in, gave us a menu or even made eye contact with us. I asked another patron to see their menu, literally WAVED down the bartender to ask her what the happy hour specials were (she said, everything is half off and walked away) and 10 minutes later had to flag her down again to get a drink. That being said, everything is half off, so that’s a reason to potentially be back to see if the service will improve.

It is very safe to assume that almost every trip I have to Cincinnati, I will visit scene at least once.
The people that work there are very nice and cordial. Drinks are moderately priced for being in downtown Cincinnati (definitely make use of half price whenever they do do that though).
Spent New Years Eve there and couldn’t have asked for a better time. They took care of our group well. Had clean glasses and mixers up when we asked for it (and sometimes before we even did).
Bottles are the way to go if you’re looking to spend a little bit more and don’t want to go through the hassle of going to the bar and ordering every 19 minutes or so.

It is a nice place with some fun artwork hanging that is available for purchase, but I didn’t think Scene was anything special. I didn’t see anything that set it apart from any other bar in town

Came here at the end of a 10 bar crawl. It wasn’t as bad as I was expecting, particularly for Cincinnati’s putrid club scene. I definitely preferred it to Play, fwiw.
The place is larger than it looks from the outside, although it does get crowded on Fridays and Saturdays as expected. Drink prices aren’t outrageous and we were served very quickly, so that’s a plus.

I’ll make this quick and painless.
Scene is great… If you’re into that kinda thing.
Admittedly, this place is really not for me. I’ve never been much for the club scene, but it serves a purpose at certain times.
We checked out Scene while in the midst of a bar crawl, and I will say it kind of energized us on the midway point.
If you’re looking for a packed, dance-​club atmosphere then this is the place to go.
For me, I think I was a little disappointed that there really wasn’t anything that made Scene «pop.» I felt like it was a generic club that could be anywhere.
So if you do decide to go, just stick to the well drinks or domestics before you head on to somewhere a little more interesting.

Okay– I know that everyone has their favorite types of places to go to– and I’ll admit that this one is not my type of place.
That being said, I’ve had a pretty blech experience the times that I have been there. The last time I was there, we were celebrating a friend’s belated birthday– as she had been studying for a major exam and didn’t get a chance to go out for her actual birthday.
We got up to the bar and asked the bartender for a Birthday Cake shot. (I’ve also heard it called Chocolate Cake, so this might have been the disconnect.) He said «What kind?» I said «Birthday Cake.» He said «Yeah, what kind?»
What? Okay, I’d had enough of the «Who’s on First?» routine, so I just dropped it and asked for something simple like a Kamikaze.
It was SO dark in there, I could hardly see what was going on at all. I basically had to shove my way through the crowd when I realized I’d left my phone next door. In the course of pushing my way through the crowd, someone didn’t like having to move out of my way– and got real snotty with me about it.
I was sober and not in the mood for it– so I just kept on walking, and luckily that person was in a different spot when I came back.
All-​in-​all, it was the kind of experience that made me feel like part of a herd of cattle. The coolest person I encountered (outside of my group) was outside on the street when I was waiting for my friends to come back outside so we could go elsewhere. Then he called me a hipster because I’d rather be at Neon’s and I have a Twitter account.
Can’t win them all, right?

I have been repeatedly deterred to enter this place because of its unfortunate name and the folks on the front patio that can from time-​to-​time be caught pandering for your entrance.
I’ve gone a couple times when the place has been empty. The décor is plain and the place is fairly generic all around. The layout is a bit strange as the entry area is much tighter packed than the back of the bar, this is a result of the bathrooms being right up front. This is not a very exciting place when it is dead.
However, last Friday night I stopped by on part of an extended pub crawl. The place was jam-​packed. There was nowhere to sit, stand, and I didn’t bother even trying to get a drink because the staff isn’t very good at it even when they aren’t busy. I basically stood in the only open area near the front helping nurse drunks back to their respective taxis.
Of note: coat check is available when busy and the bathrooms are pretty decent considering this is a bar.
All told, I couldn’t care less if I stop at this bar again and I pray to the god of bars that they change the name and refurbish as any contemporary bar should every three to five years.

This is the place to go for happy hour. They have a great selection of drinks (including Rogue Dead Guy) and, at half off, we drank for maybe four hours and spent about $ 35. And the bartender certainly wasn’t skimping on the alcohol in their mixed drinks… something I often get mad at Righteous Room for doing. It is also spacious enough so you don’t feel like you’re falling all over everyone else in the bar. This place may just turn into our new Friday spot.

I am not a girlie girl for the most part, so these upper class types of places just don’t work well for me. I’m happy to drink beer out of a can while wearin a pair of flip flops, so I tend to avoid these hoity toity «scenes».
When I heard the name, I almost didn’t come. The fact that Ultra Lounge was part of the name, made me cringe at the thought of swanky couches, and a bouncer standing outside giving me the evil eye because I’m not wearing a name brand that is visible to the naked eye. and truthfully I didn’t feel like spending $ 12 for a drink that wouldn’t even phase me.
Well despite my negative initial attitude, my mind was changed as soon as we arrived. My friend and I walked to the door, and the bouncer wasn’t all hater style on us… we were dressed up, but he didn’t stare at us to see if some secret name brand was hidden from view. Nope, he accepted us as we were and told us to have a great night. Nice. For those of you who follow my reviews, you know I’m all about some customer service, and this place rated high.
The atmosphere was mixed and very relaxed. The décor is not too «you can’t afford this, so don’t even try,» and we could actually sit on it, without being considered VIP and having to pay to put our butts on it. Drinks were reasonably priced, and the wait wasn’t horrendous even though it was pretty crowded. The bartenders actually acknowledged the fact that we were standing there with eye contact and a smile, letting us know that they’d seen us. Awesome!
We danced, and had a great time. The crowd was nice, not meat markety or pretentious like I’d presumed it would be. Also it was crowded, but not over crowded. we went on a Friday. I actually really enjoyed this place and look forward to returning.

This place has a great happy hour and is a perfect stop before any Red’s game. The bartenders are nice and while they might have to look up the ingredients and/​or make substitutions (ex: they were out of Peppermint Patty’s for one of the drinks b/​c the guys behind the bar ate all of them), the drinks I’ve had here have been really really good. Oh, and the bottled beer selection is decent, I had a Left Hand Brewery Milk Stout.
Half price specials should have filled the place up, but while I was there, only about half a dozen people sat about the bar. I wasn’t in the mood for a crowded bar, so this was nice. I do think that post Red’s games this place fills to the brim with people. I do appreciate the comfy couches placed throughout as well. The large booths and high walls in the back area are nice for groups and those wanting a modicum of privacy.
Their small outdoor patio is a nice place to sit and watch the random city folk walk by and occasionally comment. I could easily sit out here and enjoy half price apps and drinks.
Give this place a shot, and hope you have a good time.

I was very disappointed by Scene on my first visit but decided to give it a second chance, against my better judgement. It’s not a bad place to go, but I would never make a special trip to go there either. The crowd is young and seemingly single. They also must be desperate because I got hit on a lot while wearing Shrek ears (I had just seen the musical and was wearing them to embarrass my fiancé) or maybe I just look good as an ogre.
My biggest complaint about Scene is that they do not have any beers on tap, according to their bartenders. What kind of bar doesn’t have beers on tap!!! This was a huge negative to us. The atmosphere was loud but the dj was playing good music. The layout of Scene seems awkward though and nobody was really dancing. if you’re in the area, check it out. If you don’t like it, there are several other bars within walking distance.