Where Else

While touring college campus's for my son, I decided to stop in for a quick drink later on at night. The place is decent on the inside with plenty space for dancing, however, nobody was here. It was a Friday night at 11:00pm and only me and one other fella were sitting at the bar top. Are people in West Lafayette allergic to going out on a Friday? Get this, when I asked the bartender if they had any Miller on tap, they replied, "I'm sorry, we only have beer in the can." This was ridiculous! What bar does not have beer on tap? I paid an extra $4 just for a beer! Such a lousy bar and town.

It was fun until the bathrooms were “closed.” There was a guy guarding the entrance and he was dancing with a girl. Unclear if he was an employee. My partner then tried to go to the bathroom and the guy picked him up and carried him away. In the process the girl he was dancing with punched my partner. I tried to get to my partner and was also carried out. My partner lost his glasses during the punch. The staff refused to give his glasses back and I said I would call 911 and they told me to. I called and magically the glasses were found. Wish I could give 0 stars.

I was just carried out of this bar. Yes, carried. I did not know the person by the bathroom was an employee, I tried to go under his arm and instead of saying “hey I’m with where else bathrooms are closed!” he literally grabbed me and the girl he was grinding on punched me in the face!!!!!!! Then I got carried out of the bar. I wish that I were joking, but this is truly the worst experience that I’ve ever had in a public establishment. Ever. Please do not visit this place. We all know it’s the “end of the night” place for a reason and it may be time for the end of Where Else.

Drinks are 90% Ice, and the bouncers have no idea how to check an ID. Only reason to go here is if Harry's line is too long, but you're better off staying home

Zero crowd control whatsoever. Showed up tonight for Micro Wrestling and the bar was pretty empty when we got there. Got nice standing spots close to the ring and as time went on more and more people were allowed into the area we were standing. Was packed in like sardines getting constantly elbowed and stepped on all because no one at the bar thought to say “enough people over here.” Left before the show even started since the frat bro party crowd bum rushed the front row of standing spots pushing everyone that had been there for over an hour back and blocking their view.

Trashy place with a trashy atmosphere. The drinks are super expensive, the prices at Brothers are way better and better quality. It’s also really stupid that all of a sudden they are requiring everyone to show Purdue ID to prove they are a student. If it was a place like Harry’s that would make sense, but this place does not. I would recommend going anywhere else besides Where Else!!

They play good music. Truly a dance bar. My only issue was that they did not cap the number of people whatsoever which meant it took 10 minutes to get from one side of the room to the other. Probably could use an occupancy limit. Overall a good experience and would go back.