by Cameron L. on First off, let me say that I'm not a Buckhead girl. A friend suggested we go here to go dancing, and, being bored with the same-old same-old, I said yes. Secondly, this place is reminiscent of a third-world country in a number of respects. First, the whole place is a "complex," once you're inside, you can't help but visualize armed guards around the perimeter keeping the starving riffraff out. The most tolerable area in the complex was the Disco for Old People, which my friend immediately described as "being like a discotheque in Dakar, Senegal." While I enjoyed dancing with the middle-aged folks for a while, the bar was a bit grating. Domestic beers are $4.00, imports $5.00. I ordered a Sweetwater 420 and was charged $5.00. When I argued that the beer was made *in this city*, the pricing was not adjusted. My friend and I wound up going to MJQ, where a much better time was to be had. Should you get a sufficient pre-game going on, this would be a great place for a Hunter S. Thompson-style pseudoanthropological experience. Also, you can park in the shopping center a couple of blocks down the street for free.
by Naoma Gallik on So, I've only bowled here once or twice and it's absolutely terrible. Way too many people helping you at the door and no one helping you anywhere else, including at the bar! But that's all right because I only come here for the arcade. My friends and I decided that, since we hate exercising, a more fun way to make sure we got a little exercise would be to start playing DDR every week. And they have a DDR Extreme here and, especially compared with Dave & Buster's, it's completely dead and empty here. Things that suck: It's mainly a bowling alley so a broken arcade game means your S-O-L for the night (but they will give you back your money). There are tons of crappy closed corporate events all week long so we have to call in advance to make sure we'll even be able to play here. There's a speaker right near the DDR machine and it's so loud it completely overpowers the music coming from the game. They're building some kind of weird, pointless car game run by a computer monitored by a person where everyone can see what you're doing. There's a grandstand to sit at. Seriously. Things that are good: It's, as already mentioned, pretty much dead here. No waiting our turn. Sometimes there are non-closed corporate events with free snacks for the stealing (when no one's looking). There's no DDR people there watching us be mediocre at playing DDR. It's a fairly short walk to tons of food to feed our hungry, empty bellies when we're done playing. The vending machines at the Piers take credit cards for when I'm dumb and forget to bring extra money.
by Meredith F. on I saw the other negative reviews of Strata, and I definitely would have agreed with some of them the last couple of times I went in '06 and '07. I went a couple of weekends ago on a FRIDAY (not sure about Saturdays), and it was GREAT. There was an actual dj spinning hip hop, r&b, and reggae, not just someone pressing "play" on iTunes like everywhere else these days. The crowd was good- looking, well-dressed, and mostly male, which the ladies would appreciate... (Sorry guys!) There was a $20 cover, but I also got there late (around 12:30), and I was with a guy. All of the ladies-only groups were getting pulled out of line and comped though. I am definitely going back!
