Was going to go there to see Keegan Smith but for some reason they decided to have lame dj's at the last minute. A truly lame move.

Ok Im from LA, So i sugest to all yall that the only time you hit the Cudda up is on holidays( H2O, New Years, the 4th and what ever naughty school parties they have PSU has mad ho bangers) are when U of O wins a big game. This is the plan Yeah the bartenders are shady, they will try to give you the wrong changed are charge you higher for the same drink comapred to another barsation ! So bring your own cash and be aware. The security they ant tripin they just pimpin, how ever get there early to avoid the garbage line, but overall hit the club only on ocassuions.

Great music, probably the best I have heard in a club. Tons of people. Big bathroom with a lot of stalls. I went on Thursday 18+ and it was a blast. Loved the club. Threw crowd glow sticks, hula competition, Baby bash tickets sold. All around it was a great club and the bartender service was quick.

The good thing about this place is that its pretty big so you never feel too crowded. I went on a Friday night and it seemed pretty dead (I stayed up until closing too) but, maybe thats just because its a larger bar? Anyway, I got hit on like every 5 minutes by the aforementioned frat dudes and it was really annoying. The dj was pretty good. The drinks were fine. Nothing special though.

This place has cleaned up a bit since last I went. The staff picked up our empty drinks from the table and even asked us if they could get us another drink. The DJ played way better music then I could remember and didn't talk half has much as last time. This place is only good though if it's really packed. It's a big bar, so if theres not that many people there it can seem lame. And F.Y.I. for some reason the asian population seems to hit this place up a lot. It's not as bad as it used to be, they seem to just stay at the front of the bar now, which is kinda weird.

This place sounds like a piece of shit. Was thinking about meeting up with a co-worker at this place, but after reading 95% of the reviews, I'd rather sell these people out and do something else. By the way, I love seeing the rogue review from the bar manager posing as a the dissenting opinion with something like, "I don't know what such and such is smoking--this place is paradise and I always have the time of my life here." Guess what--I haven't even been to this dump and I can tell you its full of blow-hards and early-20's idiot poseurs. But nice try.

bluck. friends were fun. drinks were ok. only liked one song. hella lots of ugly guys and skanks. wasnt really into white chicks ass flash on the stage. it was spacious. and i did like the 5 sec chick fight. that was awesome. damn bouncers. VIP had 5 secs of entertainment. next time wait until they rip eachothers tops off before you pull them apart.

...and just drink at home. I have gone to Barracuda a few times with my friends and after trying to give the place a chance there are no signs of it looking up. The music sucks and the DJ talks too damn much. The staff is RUDE! The service is slow. They had one hot black chick working there and I just found out that she isn't there anymore. She probably got a fuckin clue and left that shit hole. If the music were better, the drinks were stronger, and the crowd were more attractive it would be a nice spot to go on the weekends. But since the place is obviously run by idiots, I don't see that being an option. I can't wait til the place shuts down.

Lets see. I went to the Barracuda a couple months ago. Very over rated and lame. Drinks are too much, all the gay guys that work there try and be straight when a hot girl comes up to the bar and my brother and I were laughing so hard. I heard some really old school songs in there. Not classic oldschool but gay oldschool. Even the village people blared. Props to D.J. Scraps. The most hardcore alive. The place was just very strange and I was waiting for all the doors to lock and all the Asians to turn into vampires. Oh I saw a short, buff white guy with tatts of dragons all over his neck. He was like the leader of all the asians and only god knows who the fuck he was and then he started giving me the evil eye so I looked back at him with hatred, he crepy up behind me and grabbed my ass. I had one two many drinks that night so I guess you can say I was gay for a night. We did it in the back of his 1977 chevy Nova, ate popcorn, drank wine as he sang "Babe I love you so.... and I want you to know.... that I gonna miss your love.... the minute you walk out that door... please don't go. We are getting married next month. No. The place is ok I guess. Its not a place to meet people or dance. Its jus there, its overrated and nothing to talk about, which is why I am going to a punk show right now. Peace. Chris Bann

Walking in this weekend was SO refreshing. For the first time going there, the bouncer was not an ass and respectful. I thought it may have been a fluke, but I continued to get amazing service. I was told that there were several changes with the new management and it REALLY showed. The jerks are FINALLY gone.

Aside from my very unpleasent experiences with the bouncers/security in the past, I have always liked going to Baracuda. The dance floor is large and even though there are a lot of people there, you still can have room if you like your "bubble." I have always had fast service at the bar and never been dissapointed with the music. The DJ on the weekends is the best around!

If you like paying a high cover charge for weak, over priced drinks while some prick slides date rape drugs into it, well then this is your place. The staff are total assholes and you should expect to wait at least a half hour for a drink while some frat dick tries to rub up on you and tell you that he drives a Lexus. As if this weren't enough the DJ will play all of the top 40 hits that you wish you'd never have to hear again. I wish that I spent my time pulling my brain out of my skull with a coat hanger instead.

They totally suck ass.

Apparantly their definition of "VIP" is to have the customer pay a nominal fee for a "private" area, not allow you access to that area till after 10pm (or whenever they actually get around to printing the VIP list, which is when ever the hell they feel like it), close the VIP entrance at 1am (but you can stand in line with everyone else cuz that's *exactly* why you paid for VIP!), & kick you out of the rented space at 2am.

Do they inform the customer of all these sh!tty rules beforehand? Of course not because then no one would pay for it. By the end of the night I felt like I should be given my money back & I fully intend to persue that matter. There is no good reason for things to have gone the way they did.

Save your money, you'll get the same level of service if you just stick to the main floor & spend that $250 on drinks, food & tips at another venue!

I went to the Barracuda for my girlfriend's birthday because her and her friends thought that it would be a cool place to dance (they were wrong). There were definitely a lot of "people" in there-- but it wasn't the type of crowd that knew how to dance. Not that you could really get your groove on anyway with the silly half pop half rap music they had playing in there. It took at least 20 minutes to get through the line outside, then 10 bucks each just to get in. The drinks were small and ineffective, and they cost too damn much. You had to fight your way up to the bar to get a drink, and like I said, the drinks sucked. The sound system seemed to suck also, but that may have been because I was unable to get as drunk as I normally do with all that commotion. What a waste on a Friday night!

Lets start this review by saying I had to take a leak so bad that I payed $5 to get into the bar next to barracuda and was shocked at how good that place was, I cant remember the name.

So good old barracuda, its been about 3 years and after looking at a line(I dont wait in lines), my buddy and I payed the some guy monitoring the line $10 total to cut in front of about 50 people in regular line and 10 in the VIP line to get in. God I love Portland.

So then I told the door guy checking our ids that I gave him 100 spot, they can fight about the percentage cut later, I dont care.

Getting plastered, watching a fight break out, and sharing women on the dance floor with 21 year old perv dudes that just come up all sweaty and drunk and get in the girl face that ur dancing with, THAT IS BARRACUDA.

I had fun, but this place is a meat market and you have to be blowing about a 2.0% blood alcohol level to have fun if ur a dude. If your a chick just shake that ass and you'll have 10 bfriends at the end of the nite.

I was just there this weekend and was treated very poorly, the bar tender cussed us out because we weren't fast enough to pay, and was just really rude for no reason!!

I was just there this past weekend and was treated very poorly but the front door people. I am ging to contact the owner of this place to tell them aboout their employees and I am going to take out an ad about how poorly I was treated. I can only imagine that many others are treated like this too!

Its too big for the shitty speakers they have. and they spray that mist trash sooo damn often that you get sick. The bathrooms are nothing but spilled drinks everywhere and throwing up girls . Managment needs to invest in a new DJ and a better sounding system. The greek cuisine (top floor only) has one of the best systems i have heard in portland.

The dj was an idiot, played music with the same traked over bass drum, and yes the stupid games. And all the drunk guys touching and trying to dance with women they did'nt know. I almost had to lay a guy out for putting his hands on my wife. One of the lamest crowds I have ever seen at a night club. If you want to see some real clubs go to Vancouver BC they got it down !!

I had a friend who had v.i.p. passes set up over the weekend but when he got their they wernt available.but he went in still and had a crazy night had a lot of good thingd to say about it. i want togo this weekend but was woundering i have a friend its her birthday do u all do anything for that? would i beable to get v.i.p. passes this weekend? how does gold card work?

what happened to $1.00 wells and no cover??

As I danced at Voodoo the night before, I thought to myself..."Where have all the white people gone?"....Here they are!!!! This a total white trash atmosphere with white trash music. They also stop the music periodically to make you watch lame games being played by strangers for stupid prizes (i.e. T-shirts). I didn't go there to watch games. If I wanted to watch games I would be watching the NHL game at the sports bar down the street. So if you are white trash...this is the place for you.

Okay. So, I just got here to Portland from Boston a couple of weeks back and one of my friends, if I may say so since I met him through my housemate, took me there. And, I'll be honest, I was looking for a strict nightclub that plays E.D.M. For those who don't know what that means, E.D.M. stands for Electronic Dance Music or as Americans like to call it, Techno. But, when I say that, I mean Tiesto, A.V.B., Van Dyk and not gay music like Eiffel 65 or some shit like that which is basically europop. Barracuda gets a nice looking crowd who are mostly in their 20's. But, I went on a Saturday looking to stay out until 6 or 7 in the morning and even though Barracuda is an after hours club, the place got empty by 1:30 am. Also, since, it's so big like a friggin' warehouse, you can tell that it's empty very easily. All night long, that dumbass behind the turntables who people usually call a DJ played crappy music which was basically hip-hop. And, 90% of the time he didn't even put on his headphones which showed me that he didn't give a shit about what he was playing. I've never heard such bad crossovers and remixing as I heard in Barracuda. My goddamn I-POD does a much better job. Besides, I ordered an A.M.F. and I swear I felt like I was having sprite mixed with Blue Curacao. Didn't even get a buzz. I've had better A.M.F.'s at Kells and local bars in Beaverton. So, if you like hip-hop and like big open places that are so bright that even a blind person can see, then, this is one of the best places for you. However, ravers like me who can't stand any music but E.D.M. because it's about the love for the music and the feel and wanna see their brethren with blow-whistles, glowsticks and noise makers, this is not the place for you. You're much better off going to the Viper Room than Barracuda.

I believe that a lot of these repsonses were posted before Barracuda underwent a makeover. They are now under new management and trying to change things around.

I used to hate going to Barracuda. Then one day my friend invited me to a party she was having there. I went reluctantly and I was glad that I did. Everything had stepped up. There was a different crowd, better music, better drinks...overall I definitally think the new GM (no more short bald guy) has really made some nice changes.

If you like trailer trash - if you like the Copper Penny and the Infectory, this bar is for you. This is the Copper Penny for yound 20-somethings in training. The security staff and bartenders are decent, but that is about as high a compliment as can be given.

We went to this place for NY eve. Paid $40 a piece for reserved "vip" booth upstairs, no waiting in line we were told. So, we get there early, waited outside in the cold for 20 min while some jokers in front of us were paying with 5 individual credit cards (the bouncers let them go through the "vip" line). We were then shown to our table which wasn't a booth and wasn't upstairs and completely away from the dance floor. After complaining, they moved us to a booth on the other side next to the dance floor, their excuse was 'we had someone reserve 3 booths in a row and thought you wouldn't mind getting moved'. That's what you get for thinking. Our waitresses were awesome (really the only good thing about the place), music was marginal. So many people were packed on the dance floor that you could barely move. At midnight they had a balloon drop supposedly with $, the floor was so packed we could hardly breath at this point, then they sprayed that CO2 for about 10 minutes straight and we couldn't see. Every time we would go back to our "reserved" table that was supposed to be watched by the bouncer standing close by, people were sitting there that we had to chase off. Someone was even nice enough to jack my camera that was hidden underneath a coat at our "reserved table". We gave up and left about 130am. When my friend tried several times to contact Barracuda to complain, they never got back to her. This place is trash.. Don't go there..

I have been to this place a few times and have had nothing but good experiences. Kind of pricy for the food, but besides that, everything else was fine. Takes a while for the drinks but what place isn't packed and has like 40 drink orders to fill? The service is great and friendly also.

Let me tell you all a story. I play in the NBA. Over the summer me and my friend went in on a Friday evening. It was dead(I should have took the hint) so we left and went to McFaddens where it was ok. Later that night we went back and decide we were going to come back the next night because they said it would be packed. So I paid $20 dollars for 14 of my friends to get in the next night. Saturday night rolls around and we get out the limo and they wont let us in. I was calm and talk to the bald headed GM pulls the dumb blonde girl to the side and talks to her. He asks me for a receit for paying the night before and I of course dont have one because they dont give out fucking receits. So I am pissed at this point so I just pulled out some cash and threw it in his face and said I will pay for everyone to get in. He tells me I cant come in because I have a attitude. No shit. They robbed me for $280. I tell all my friends not to fucking go there and they dont. So please dont support that shithole. Sorry had to vent. I really fucking hate the GM there(short white bald guy)

The place gets more ghetto everytime I go to Barracuda. There's always the same ghetto people that like to get into fights. The space is nice, but they need to play better music like in Seattle(Hint: real hip-hop/reggae). Also they need to be more upscale that will attract a diverse crowd.

I'll give it to you Brodie, you definitelly have an opinion. When it comes to literacy I think you wrote this when you were drunk. I have been to Barracuda many times with my friends and I get treated well and have a great time. The place is big with a lot of energy and many different kinds of people. If you were treated badly it is possible that the shitty narrow minded attitude you put forth on your post is reflected when you are out on the town and no wonder you did not have a good time. Elite cool people with bad attitudes like you should just hang out with the grumpy old timers in the neighborhood bar and bitch about how bad things are out there.

Barracuda is a great bar to go to with a group of friends. Unlike the others I have never had a problem with any of the drinks or bar tenders and if you're a girl you shouldn't be paying for drinks anyways, have same game chica's!!! The trick is to get there at 9:00 with friends to grab seating and miss the cover charge. Then the rest of the night will be a blast. Gotta love that dance floor too!

by: Melissa

Are you kiding that you like this shit hole got to be joking....If you like this place you have zero knowlege of a good place to drink or place to get your groove on because this is nothin but meth head's that think there sexy or some thin .....I give this place a 2 and that only because was they a chick got nake and we laffed at her

You can't be sure which the staff is regularly using, but oyu can be sure it is one or both. What a shithole!

Barracuda is a great bar to go to with a group of friends. Unlike the others I have never had a problem with any of the drinks or bar tenders and if you're a girl you shouldn't be paying for drinks anyways, have same game chica's!!! The trick is to get there at 9:00 with friends to grab seating and miss the cover charge. Then the rest of the night will be a blast. Gotta love that dance floor too!

Like most of you, I will never go back to this steaming pile of crap. Half of the wait staff look like poster children for a meth campaign. The bartender couldn't mix a drink to save his life.

Great place to get your groove on, but not a very good place to order drinks... It takes the Bartenders a long ass time to get to your order!!

i've been here 1 time and i will never go again. it was 5pm on a hot summer night, just tryin to beat the heat, i was. came across this bar and couldn't wait for cold beers, tequila and pool...the next thing i knew the place was goin off! mentally ill people were hitting on me (bless their hearts) I hated every moment. we started throwing ice down to the dance floor and watching people slip and fall. heehee.i love me. when i went to pay my tab the bartender (who was very nice) tried to rip me off and overcharge me by $30. Fucker.

this is a great place to get your groove on ,as they say . sometimes, i'll wait in line for an hour or two just for a chance to stand back to back with the rest of the meat-head ass clowns that troll that place for poon . i'd never go back if it weren't for the 20/2 guy to girl ratio . there is nothing i love more than a night of cockblocking and staring contests . CaCaCaCudda !!!