I’m leaving this review as a recent performer at Kips. I DJed a private event here and had a pretty bad experience. Upon arrival, there was nobody around to assist me with any kind of sound check. The one person who seemed to be in charge up and left when there were some difficulties saying “I don’t know” and storming away, leaving me to scramble through their audio equipment and cables (all of which was extremely dirty and sticky) to figure out how to make THEIR sound system work. It was very chaotic. The inside was hot, sweaty with 0 ventilation and 1 fan. The cherry on top was the staff member who came backstage to flirt with a couple of guests I brought with me, making sexual jokes, physical advances, and being completely inappropriate towards all of us. He made us very uncomfortable and we had to ask him multiple times to leave us alone. It shocks me that college aged students attend a place where staff behave like this, I can only pray this was a one time incident.
The same unhelpful staff from earlier proceeded to shut the event down early, harshly cutting all power and corrupting my USB drive by doing so. This was by far one of the worst experiences I’ve ever had as a DJ and I hope to never set foot in a place like this again.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 2
Service: 1
Chloe Goorman
This place is not for the girls. The men’s restroom is your run of the mill multi-stall, but the women’s restroom is just a single-use bathroom that feels like and after thought, was basically hidden, and had a significant queue (of the few women that were there). Why would you have a single-use restroom for women when our queues are already typically longer? Vibes = so off.
Atmosphere: 2
Mark Vasquez
Fun place good staff need more themed nights try to attract an older crowd.
Tru Nor
Regular since 2017. Terrible service by the server serving on the floor this weekend (5/16-17/2025). Train her better Kips!
Seemed like we were invisible to her. Even after 60+% in tips day 1 same attitude day 2, shocking!!!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 1
J.J. Perez
Kip’s has all the vibes and some cool light up ice cubes
Joya Stewart
I live in unit 3 and you guys are keeping the entire building up. It's almost 2 am. I live on the eighth floor and I can still hear every lyric on your awful soundtrack with my windows closed.
Min
It's just a typical bar for undergraduates. There's nothing particularly special about this place.
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 1
Service: 1
Marcus Fredrich
If this is the best place to dance at Berkeley, I’m sorry for the students who will never know a good place to dance. Someone please set up shop to end the lack of good places to club! Palo Alto has far better places.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
Liam Roche
Nice student-oriented bar with a dance floor and we'll priced alcohol
Atmosphere: 5
Service: 5
Rishab Malik
HEADS UP. The bouncers have constantly been allowing minors / underaged people inside. They DO NOT check ID’s at the door and they allow fake ID’s to go through. This place needs to be reported to law enforcement and ATF. I’ve legit seen high schoolers let inside on Friday and Saturday nights. DO NOT GO.
**WARNING** We think this bar has gang or criminal affiliations. Weird charges showed up on the card we used for our drinks. Super shady. Do not go.
Atmosphere: 1
Service: 1
Justin Woo
Awesome Bar/Club! The bartender was very nice and made an awesome Red Bull Watermelon Margarita ?
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Capi Pollo
Good place to have a drink or to eat burgers or tacos. On the drinks it is a little bit pricey for a beer but they have offers for palomas and the place is clean.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 3
Service: 4
Recommended dishes: Grilled Cheese w Fries
Meggie Cansler
Considering it’s closed until further notice we can’t review it.
Shaggy “Shaggy’s Reviews” Rivera ,
Bartenders are always amazing and very attentive they do get busy but if you give them a holler because the music is very loud they will turn around and spin around do a 360 and still give you a shot when they get chance lol ? been in here twice now both times played some pool had a few laughs and danced pretty good atmosphere if you're going for 1990s_ 2000s vibes for the ? night;)
Wheelchair accessibility: There is stairs and there's really no wheelchair accessibility at this place ? sadly.....
I’m leaving this review as a recent performer at Kips. I DJed a private event here and had a pretty bad experience. Upon arrival, there was nobody around to assist me with any kind of sound check. The one person who seemed to be in charge up and left when there were some difficulties saying “I don’t know” and storming away, leaving me to scramble through their audio equipment and cables (all of which was extremely dirty and sticky) to figure out how to make THEIR sound system work. It was very chaotic. The inside was hot, sweaty with 0 ventilation and 1 fan. The cherry on top was the staff member who came backstage to flirt with a couple of guests I brought with me, making sexual jokes, physical advances, and being completely inappropriate towards all of us. He made us very uncomfortable and we had to ask him multiple times to leave us alone. It shocks me that college aged students attend a place where staff behave like this, I can only pray this was a one time incident.
The same unhelpful staff from earlier proceeded to shut the event down early, harshly cutting all power and corrupting my USB drive by doing so. This was by far one of the worst experiences I’ve ever had as a DJ and I hope to never set foot in a place like this again.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 2
Service: 1
This place is not for the girls. The men’s restroom is your run of the mill multi-stall, but the women’s restroom is just a single-use bathroom that feels like and after thought, was basically hidden, and had a significant queue (of the few women that were there). Why would you have a single-use restroom for women when our queues are already typically longer? Vibes = so off.
Atmosphere: 2
Fun place good staff need more themed nights try to attract an older crowd.
Regular since 2017. Terrible service by the server serving on the floor this weekend (5/16-17/2025). Train her better Kips!
Seemed like we were invisible to her. Even after 60+% in tips day 1 same attitude day 2, shocking!!!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 1
Kip’s has all the vibes and some cool light up ice cubes
I live in unit 3 and you guys are keeping the entire building up. It's almost 2 am. I live on the eighth floor and I can still hear every lyric on your awful soundtrack with my windows closed.
It's just a typical bar for undergraduates. There's nothing particularly special about this place.
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 1
Service: 1
If this is the best place to dance at Berkeley, I’m sorry for the students who will never know a good place to dance. Someone please set up shop to end the lack of good places to club! Palo Alto has far better places.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
Nice student-oriented bar with a dance floor and we'll priced alcohol
Atmosphere: 5
Service: 5
HEADS UP. The bouncers have constantly been allowing minors / underaged people inside. They DO NOT check ID’s at the door and they allow fake ID’s to go through. This place needs to be reported to law enforcement and ATF. I’ve legit seen high schoolers let inside on Friday and Saturday nights. DO NOT GO.
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**WARNING** We think this bar has gang or criminal affiliations. Weird charges showed up on the card we used for our drinks. Super shady. Do not go.
Atmosphere: 1
Service: 1
Awesome Bar/Club! The bartender was very nice and made an awesome Red Bull Watermelon Margarita ?
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Good place to have a drink or to eat burgers or tacos. On the drinks it is a little bit pricey for a beer but they have offers for palomas and the place is clean.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 3
Service: 4
Recommended dishes: Grilled Cheese w Fries
Considering it’s closed until further notice we can’t review it.
Bartenders are always amazing and very attentive they do get busy but if you give them a holler because the music is very loud they will turn around and spin around do a 360 and still give you a shot when they get chance lol ? been in here twice now both times played some pool had a few laughs and danced pretty good atmosphere if you're going for 1990s_ 2000s vibes for the ? night;)
Wheelchair accessibility: There is stairs and there's really no wheelchair accessibility at this place ? sadly.....
Atmosphere: 3
Service: 5
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