Pistons Bar

Had a great time place was packed I think there are new owners or a new MGR the place was clean and the staff was great Bartender JR is a hottie !

Normally don’t go out but took a chance and found this place. JR is a very good bartender, made some of the best drinks I’ve ever had. Plan to revisit in the near future!

This place has endured for decades. The oldest leather bar in Long Beach but it’s more than that.
The patio is big. Cruisy and a great place to have a cigar or a pipe. Or just watch the crowd.
Bartenders, JR, Chad and Andrew especially, are sexy and flirty plus they pour a good sized drink.
Good nights are
Wednesday for the movies they show. A small leathery crowd is often there.
Friday nights are a friendly crowd with a nice amount of guys in leather, jocks or rubber depending on the event.
Sunday beerbust is the best. Free burgers. But please tip the chef! A goofy crowd of sexy guys playing beer pong and having fun.
Easy street parking or take yer motorcycle and park in the alley outside the front door, like I do.
See you there. ;-)

Junior on Mondays and Thursday’s is the reason to be here. He is friendly and a great look. Makes a decent drink too.

Just left after a great evening (and afternoon) of drinks and watching eye candy. The patio is very cool and a great place to have a drink and enjoy the men. I’m a beer guy and it was cheap and cold. My friend likes mixed drinks and he said Junior, (who is definitely the hottest bartender I’ve seen in a VERY long time!) made some great drinks for him. I’ll definitely be coming back! Did I mention how hot Junior is?

Have been here many times. It is always a small disappointing turnout — often less than 8 people on weekend nights. I was told recently that they are making Friday nights into «ladies night» to attract more women to the bar — too bad it is going this direction, it was a fun bar 10 years ago — now it is the most boring bar in Long Beach. It’s also in a skeezy part of town, so lock your car and be careful walking back to it.

Had a great time at Trivia at Piston’s bar with our sexy bar tender Junior. Very sociable, funny, and did I say sexy! Drinks were awesome! Would totally recommend going for Trivia especially with Junior there, won’t regret it. WooF!!!

Started coming for Bartender Junior — he’s got a fun program Monday nights, and is pretty sexy with his wrestling singlet — he’s a great cocktailer, and the smoking patio isn’t to be missed. Overall, fun-​chill reasonable drinks & friendly service all around.

The worst bar ever been, service awful specialy on weekends bartender is not very nice!
Never again !!

Came here 3 times, First time had a blast, not a crowded place, lost a pool game to a regular, the deal was that loser walks around in undies. I lost, but first let me say I’m a crossdresser so I walked in in tight jeans, High heels, a blouse, make up and blond wig.
I was so scared to walk in, but so glad I did.
Ohh yeah so I lost and so I walked around in my hi heels and thong the rest of the night… so much fun.
2^nd time wasn’t as good I was the only one their for the most part, 3^rd met a regular had a few good lafs and drinks, haven’t been back in about 6 months.
Yup I walked around in my thong the their times as well, just because I could.

New bar tender… Shirtless… In a thong… On a Sunday…

This place was so far off the beaten track from the rest of Long Beach that I almost gave up trying to drive out to it. Then when I finally got there, it was this hole in the wall in the side of a concrete square building that looks like nothing. I actually drove past the bar because it was so nondescript and had no signage. Then I went in there on a Saturday night no less and there was literally only one customer getting his haircut in a chair. It was dingy, depressing, and there were seedy looking guys outside in the alley looking for tricks. I immediately got back in my car and drove down to the gay strip in downtown Long Beach on Broadway instead and had a much better time. Avoid this place like the plague!

Chill place, pool tables, movie night, happy hour menu, Etc. Make sure to check out the website first because each night is different. I go in and have a few drinks, talk to the staff, talk to others around the bar, and I enjoy my night. You can be on your own or enjoy the staff.

Cool bar. Me and the babe come around once in a while and it’s always a chill place for us to just drink really cheap but good beers/​drinks, play pinball and lol. Love the leather vibe even though I’ve only seen one guy there wearing leather. Patrons tend to be your dad’s age but I’m sure some of you are into that. Never packed for some reason but that’s why we like it. Really nice staff btw! Oh and the bathrooms are ALWAYS clean!

It’s been about a couple of months the last time I was there, it was a Wednesday night and it was movie night, although I didn’t care for the movie, Robert was a great guy. We talked the whole time I was there, of course he was also serving his other customers, he was very attentive and really nice! I know it took me awhile to write this post, but here it is and yes I would definitely go back again!

This place used to be fun, now, not at all. I was chillin’ checking out the crowd (when I say crowd, I mean 3 people, including myself and the bartender), and I noticed a camera while on the patio. I looked around more and counted over 14 cameras in the place total. Is this place Fort Knox? Is there gold somewhere I don’t know about. Why in the hell do you need that many cameras? I think someone may have a fetish about recording people, who knows what happens with that footage… I understand security, but this was overkill.
I wasn’t there long and then some old, dried up dude walks in and starts barking at the bartender, totally rude and unprofessional. I asked who he was and was told he was the owner of the bar. I would never work for anyone that disrespectful.
I came here to write my review and saw another one that told me everything I needed to know about this place. STAY AWAY! There are way more fun and chill bars in Long Beach. I went down to Broadway and am so glad I did. Many more people, and a cool vibe, not scary like Piston’s.

Solid 4 star bar. This is Long Beach’s gay leather/​levi bar, and a damn good one at that.
I’ve been a few times over the past few years and have enjoyed the experience each time. I have yet to go on a weekend night, which I hear is when you wanna go here. However, on the week nights that I’ve been to this bar I haven’t been disappointed.
I went this last Wednesday and they showed a movie on the flat screen TVs as well as on the big screen on the back porch (good for you smokers). The drink specials were $ 1.50 domestic bottles and $ 3.00 margaritas. They also had free popcorn and $ 1.00 hot dogs. Free pool, too.
Cool place with a hot bartender named Adam (who is a Tony Romo look-​a-​like). Very laid back and casual.
Oh, and there’s a urinal trough in the bathroom. What gay bar is complete without one!!!

I really do enjoy coming here!
I usually come here for their gear nights on Fridays, although in the past I haven’t really seen much of an attendance, which is disappointing. However the events like the more recent «Bondage County Fair» arranged by the Los Angeles Band of Brothers just this past weekend was a lot of fun!
They recently remodeled the back yard, and now have a more permanent roof over the back patio. They also recently changed owners and they’re very warm and kind gentlemen, as well as the bartenders. I also like the tongue-​in-​cheek road signs and such around the bar, very amusing stuff.
(I’m not much of a drinker so I wouldn’t qualify myself as a fair judge of booze just yet.)
Bathrooms are decent, but I would suggest a bigger/​taller door, I’m not much of a fan of pissing in a tub either, heh.
Nice place when something’s happening, but if it’s dead, it’s dead.

It’s not for me. I know a guy who goes there EVERY Saturday, and he lives near the border of Los Angeles and San Bernardino counties. I thought it was a good thing because it gets him out of the house. I was wrong.
It’s a leather-​bear bar. I was so disinterested in the guys there, I just drank and watched my friends back stab all of other people.
No cocktails, just beer. The «bartender» kept changing the price of beer, I pointed it out each time, and each time they returned to the price I was originally charged. I got so buzzed I was charged 2 bucks for my final beer instead of the usual 3 bucks and I got upset and pointed it out. I was charged 3 bucks. a few minute later I realized my mistake.
The people there are older and fat. I don’t see guys that I like. Most of my friends wanted to get out of there and go to a bar more suitable to our taste. Flux we went to…

First things first. If my now ex BF didn’t cheat on me and lie to me the entire past year we would be together and I wouldn’t have had the momentary lapse in judgement to sow my wild oats to get over him. Let me repeat MOMENTARY LAPSE IN JUDGEMENT!
Where do I start? The bar is supposedly a leather bar but no one at this bar wears leather all that much? What was I thinking wearing Prada and true religion in that hell hole! The average age of the patrons is 62, they are a few days away from getting their social security checks and they came there thinking they would get an AARP discount? I mean really if I get that old and trawl the bars in Levis and a Marshall’s discount T shirt with my grey hair and my gut that makes me look like I’m 6 months pregnant… all in the name of getting some action i.e. dick PLEASE TAKE ME OUT BACK AND SHOOT ME!!!
Now I know some of my fellow gay brethren have been here and like it, and there is a lid for every pot, or in this case a Viagra and miss Clairol #5 midnight black hair dye for the first 50 customers. If this is LB’s answer to a gay bar then I am going back to pussy! I mean I did it in college I can always hold my breath and dig for clams again!
Oh I didn’t tell you the best parts of this bar? When I went on a Saturday night, there is a group of misfits that hang out near the back of the bar and do drugs. They don’t hide the fact that they are all toking up or snorting up their paycheck they just cashed from a weeks work at Food for Less or the 7 Eleven next door.
Not to mention in the back of this «patio» which is a sorry ass excuse for a patio in reality it is an open concrete floor (a make shift parking lot with a large tarp as a roof– another class act mind you… they must have watch DYI but forget to take notes?) Men go back there after drinking and doing drugs to fuck and suck. I mean I thought that’s what gay bathhouse’s were for? It wasn’t bad enough to see all these old washed up queens wearing god awful clothes that don’t groom or brush their teeth or use cologne much less deodorant, but to see these guys having sex in the back openly while others watch and some jacked off… it was TOO MUCH!
And to top things off, there he was, you guessed it… my ex!!! I should have known, where else would he be but in the pits of hell sloping around with other losers? I know you may be thinking this is one bitter bitch !! True I am a scorned lover who was cheated on and lied to albeit from a 4 foot 9 inch El Salvadorian, but I should have pulled his green card and had his ass deported when I had the chance!
See there… I’m not bitter?