Bourbon Street Pub

Has to be the funnest most liveliest place I’ve ever been to! They had a drag singer Jessica who was amazingly talented, and sang everything from Elton John to Little Big Town, what a great way to entertain a group of people who are there having a good time & drinking it up waiting for the live male stripers to come out at 10:00 & strut their stuff for you on top of the bar! It was crazy fun! A must do even if your not gay!
Ps. Tip the DJ good & request your favorite singer/​song so that you too can dance on the dance floor to your favorite singer like I did to MADONNA that night About 10min long of dance remix version of her songs and I was in heaven!!! What a blast!

Good place for a few drinks and a great place to watch half naked men dance. (Not my thing) but it was an experience. Stay out of the back bar. The guy tried shorting my partner $ 80 change. We stood there waiting… the guy looked up and knew immediately why we were waiting! SHADY AS HELL!
We went back a few days later… for NYE and it was mobbed. Still a great place!

I’ve been coming here for the past five years! I go to Key West at least once a year with my family and always time locked this bar in my schedule. It’s quite interesting, friendly and enjoyable. If you’re gay or LGBT friendly, this would be at the top of my to-​do list for Key West. I’m now twenty-​five and I love it even more every time! Also, the dancers are straight with hilarious personalities and stories!

Fun bar and $ 5 Long Islands. Drag Queen Jukebox, which is entertaining. BUT… really grossed out watching the bartender smoke behind the bar, not wash his hands and then make drinks & handle garnishes. I just switched to bottled beer. Also, just watched an entire trash can’s worth of bar napkins get thrown in the air for fun and then swept up & thrown away. They also use a TON of plastic cups. Where do the owners/​managers think all of this waste goes? You live on an island. It’s 2015– most people are very conscious of their wasteful habits and recycling. Apparently not here. Disappointed to see this. We will take our business elsewhere.

Came here on a random afternoon in November… it was not quite as busy as it might usually be, but the drinks were still BOGO and they were delicious! Best rum runners I had in Key West!

Bourbon Street Pub place is kind of a mess. But at the same time, it’s so Key West. I think in most cities, a gay bar with smoke lights and (mediocre-​at-​best) go-​go dancers would be kind of tucked away and a little secret — but never in Key West. This bar is smack dab in the middle of Duval Street and you can’t miss it. That’s probably how they attract guests and customers, since the windows and doors are wide-​open during all the gogo performances. They’re not hiding anything!
To me, the bar is rather seedy, but not in a negative, dangerous way, just in a way that the fits a smoke machine filled bar. There aren’t that many of those bars operating as normal sports pubs or whatever.
This place does turns more «club» at night, and you can hear it down the block. It’s the exact same scene is during the daylight, just even less lights. Take from that what you will.
Honestly, my biggest problem with this place was that it didn’t smell good. It’s smelled like a bathroom everywhere, so I can’t say I stayed very long at Bourbon Street Pub.

My friends and I loved it here! Clean, spacious, great air conditioning, cute boys dancing on the bar and really nice bartenders. They don’t go as naked as the Bourbon Street in NOLA but still worth it. ;)

Great drink specials, wonderfully friendly staff, and close proximity to all the Duval Street action? Consider me a fan!

Seedy-​looking bar featured a fun drag queen performing when we walked by on the first night of our vacation. Why the hell not? We stopped in & had a few drinks & watched the go-​go boys dance on the bar. The drinks were strong, the crowd was diverse, and the vibe was pretty laid-​back. A fun time was had by all.

This is the seedy gay strip club, with a great back patio with a pool and spa. Yes, it’s seedy, yes there are skanky strippers and some hot ones, yes it’s cruisy… That’s the point… It’s a vacation gay strip club. What I can say is that all the dancers as well as the other staff were really laid back and cool. If strippers aren’t your thing, come on live a little your on vacation, head to the back patio — bar, patio, dance area and pool. Many more locals hang out there mixed with the vacationers. Strike up a conversation with «The Balloon Man» he’s full of great conversation and can make anything you want out of balloons. We were there on a Monday night to watch Drag Race so he made me a crown. We stopped every night of our vacation if not for just a little while., lol…

Nice staff… drinks are reasonable… bartenders are flirty and funny but it was dirty and outdated… needs better upkeep… tile around the pool was missing, bathroom door was broken, barstools were broken… i didn’t expect this in key west…

Bourbon Street pub is a regular stopping off spot for us most days in Key West for a quick mid day drink or five halfway down Duval. There’s nothing fancy about it, but the staff is great and the drinks are strong.
They have several bars inside, but they’re really only busy in the evenings. Most people during the day prefer the garden bar out back.
Until 8 PM is considered Happy Hour and all drinks are 2-​for-​1. They hand out a chip with each drink entitling you to another of similar quality. We tend to collect the chips as we go and drink free for the last couple days we’re down there.
The garden bar has ample seating and usually a fun diverse crowd. They have a pool, hot tub, sun deck and lots of table seating. There is a small food shack that serves a limited, but solid menu.
On Saturdays, they have a big pool party with games, shots, contests and prizes. It’s always packed and a very good time.
In the evenings, the inside bar areas are busy as well with dancers and both bars open.

ROTFLMMFAO!
8 straight guys walk in to this place at 3 am. What could go wrong?!
I didn’t make it past the front part, but I saw some things through the fog that I probably shouldn’t have seen on the stage to the right… I also got slapped on my ass by, well, I’m actually not sure what it was. It was like a damn mule kick!
Anyway, the bar staff was friendly and there are free rubbers by the door.

Older male crowd with go go boys in the bar counters. $ 5 cover charge to get in (on a Sunday at least). Drinks are served in cheap plastic cups. Not sure what they think we shall do with glassware. There is an outside area. Advertises a Saturday Pool party 12−5pm with hot boys & prizes. There is a guest house adjacent too if you are so inclined.

As a child of the 80s, I love the music in the front bar. A couple of the dancers are a little long in the tooth so they must be children of the 80s too, but to each his own. Nice relaxed vibe and friendly bartenders.

Always a great place in the Keys to sit and people watch. Bartenders are friendly, and the entertainment as the night goes on can’t be beat!

Boys who dance on the bar? Yes please! It was dead all day, just some old queens having a drink, but come 10 PM, the place was rocking with such a diverse crowd.

It’s a gay bar, one with swim suit clad go go boys (mostly overly tattooed and more the cute but picked out the street gutter than professional dancer types) prancing around on top of the bar.
When Key West has event weeks or event weekends, it can really get hopping, attracts a good fun loving crowd, but on ordinary off season nights, sort of a divey bar with an overabundance of alcoholics and drunks.
It’s one of those places that sort of all depends upon the time in which you hit it, hence it can easily range from a One Star «No way, get me out of here» type of joint to a Four Star «Hey! I like it» place.
However, as this type of bar goes and though it may be one of the better of the very few remaining and very rapidly dwindling gay venues left in the now gentrified Key West, I’ve can only go Two Stars since I’ve certainly seen a lot better.

We came here a few times whilst in Key West. It was pretty quiet Thursday, Friday and Saturday night in early April although Saturday was definitely the busiest. The inside bar allows smoking (not being illegal here I suppose that’s to be expected but it is deeply unpleasant when most of Europe are now smoke free and unpleasant when it’s been years since you last had to put up with it).
The back garden has loads of space, not that there were loads of people there. It’s men only and we witnessed some rather atrocious behaviour by some of the customers when an older woman came out with her male friends. She was shouted at and escorted away by a customer, the staff didn’t do anything to save her embarrassment as she was booed and then cheered whilst being led back inside.
At this point we were in no mood to stay any longer. We left as the inside rooms were getting busier… it didn’t feel especially gay inside. Lots of tourists doing the ‘gay bar’ thing on Duval St gawping at the male dancers.
I suppose I’m used to a far better gay scene in London so am always a little disappointed visiting gay bars abroad. Having said that, one of the bar tenders was extremely friendly and drinks were cheap enough, especially during happy hour.

I have been told by good friend who on occasions attending Fantasy Fest, that if I am to vacation in Key West one day be sure to check out the spectacle that is Bourbon St Pub, which is, among other things, one of regular sponsors of the festivity.
I think I read it somewhere this place is less inviting, and I concur. I mean. I get it. I get this place. You called yourself Bourbon St Pub (even though my memories of Bourbon St. in NOLA is nowhere close to what I’ve experienced here.) Even without anyone telling me what this place is really about, I get it. It will be hard not to. They are not exactly subtle about it, and they will literally, and physically, dangling it in front of you.
It’s not like this place is unfriendly. Au contraire. The people who are officially associated with the bar have been top notch friendly. I’m just not too fond of the type of crowd this place tends to attract. Persistent, and way overboard friendly advances, even to someone like myself.
No, I’m not afraid of the advances, it’s actually quite interesting; but now I kind of know how pretty people feels like in the clubs that gets constantly hitting on by people you want nothing to do with.
Safe to say, I enjoyed the experience, but perhaps this maybe as they said «once in a lifetime,» because I don’t think I need another visit.
P. S. Oh yeah, if you enjoyed yourself past the front portion, you might as well go a little further and check out the Garden Bar. It’s very… revealing.