El Convento Rico

Eclectic crowd, very loud good music and an entertaining drag show at 12:30am on Saturday also had a good cosmo martini for $15 also paid $20 entrance

Terrible. Skip this spot and head to crews and tangos / church street if you’re looking for a drag show and fun night out. The queens were great but the establishment itself was the most poorly run club I have ever come across. I physically came to the location the night before to pick out my booth for an event the next day (group of 15). Which they were very accommodating and I was happy and content with everything discussed. But Upon arrival the next day there was a huge amount of confusion starting at the door. Our booth was given away without us being told to another group and we were moved. Everything that was promised was not set up. The most insane thing I’ve even had to deal with was when 2 people in my group were double charged for entry. I had prepaid for everyone to get in and 2 people were charged at the door. When they explained what happened to the door girl she refused to give them a refund BUT INSTEAD gave them 2 door tickets and told them to go OUTSIDE and SELL them to someone outside. Yes. You read that right. Most bizarre experience. I had to speak to management (who was also incompetent beyond words) TWICE to finally get their money back. Place is just a mess. Staff and management seemed to have a disconnect and no one knew what was going on. If we were just told right at entry what the changes were and where we were going many altercations could have been avoided. The one bartender Frank seemed to be the only one with more than one brain cell in that place and was sympathetic to our situation. So shout out to him but otherwise… as I said skip the head ache and head to church street.

The music is very loud and hearing the performers speaking was very difficult. We definitely strained our voices trying to talk to each other and order drinks. Aside from the volume, the venue seemed good and the performers were fun. Drink prices seemed good too.

This place is a lot of fun. Always starts off with a lot of women. The men usually show up later.... There is a fun drag show that happens on saturday nights. That's the highlight of the evening.And then the party starts rolling after that. This is a great place to end your night. Because this place doesn't get jumping until after 1130 pm. That being said, drinks are very cheap compared to other places in the city so if you want to start your evening here you'll be making your own party, but it will be affordable. There's mostly latin music played all night long.So if you're not into latin music, don't go here. I have attended this place for many years it hasn't changed.

I would say that my experience was a solid 4 stars. I booked a booth for around $550 which got me a premium bottle I chose patron and mixes as well as booth service. The booth service thought out the night was fine but when I got there it took them almost 45 mins to set my booth up which was awkward as my group was there waiting for drinks. The other frustrating thing was that I was trying to get in touch with management for an entire week before my reservation to confirm if I could bring balloons/cupcakes in as it was my birthday, I called 6 times, left 3 voice mails, and messaged the IG account and no one got back to me. For the amount of $$ paid that night this was disappointing. The music and drag show were great as always which is why I came back. Demographic of people here is totally weird, I would say 70% girls/gays then 30% men on the prowl. At the end of the night a HUGE fight broke out and one guy was literally dragged out of the bar and ambulances had to be called. Realistically this isn’t the establishments fault but reflective of the people you might run into here.