Reviews for Rick's American Cafe in East Lansing, MI
The place is too packed and always smells like puke. If you're not drunk enough to not be bothered by that, don't go. But if... you're ending the night and are already hammered, it's a nice place to take your last drinks. Read more
Service was pretty good but the place was a mess. The floor literally had an inch of some sort of liquid on it and it wasn't... raining that night. 80% of the bathroom stalls were full of puke and over flowing. Way too many people that had drank way toomuch. But the place has a lot of potential. Clean it and clean up the clientele. Read more
Cool little basement college bar. Rude young man collecting money. Tried to charge us twice, even though we had the little... mark on our hand. Wasn't until I mentioned an employee that he let us pass. The rest of our party was still inside. We had togo out to call an Uber due to no cell reception. Read more
Had a terrible experience Saturday night 10/27/18 Got into Ricks then I had to use the ATM to get money out for cover. Got the... $20 out paid for me and my boyfriend and got my drivers license back. The staff then told my boyfriend he couldn't get in. Whylet me pay if you weren't going to let him in? They wouldn't give me my money back and was extremely rude to us. We have alwaysenjoyed coming to Ricks, and never had any issues before tonight. We will never return due to the way we were treated lastnight. My dad works with local law enforcement and agreed that they shouldn't of kept my $20! Read more
Rick's is one of the very very few, if not ONLY places in all of lansing to go out for the night and dance. I don't typically go... out often but after waiting for over an hour and half to get in we got one drink that was the first drink that was toodisgusting to finish I've ever had. Im 23 years old. They're a club in a basement and yet their music played that Saturday nightincluded... JOURNEY and SWEET CAROLINE! both of which I love but if I wanted to sing amateur karaoke with everyone else in theroom I would have got to the dive bar down the street with the average age of 53. Extremely disappointed with the music choicefor a Saturday night and the one (half) drink I managed to stomach. I may try again. But I am genuinely not expecting much. Read more
Rick's is the quintessential college bar, sticky floors and all. They have live music and sometimes it's the best you'll hear... for miles around. They used to have a pay side with the band, and for those who don't want to pay cover and just drink, thenon-pay side. Read more
It's a dirty basement that happens to serve drinks and allow college kids to just have rough dry-humping sessions on each other.... Yet overall it is essential to the MSU experience and I've had many great times there. My only real complaint is that theirdrinks are the worst out of any of the EL bars. But nevertheless it gets the most packed. Read more
Underground grime-central but great at being exactly that. Lots of open space and a big dance floor. Fun to watch the college... kids struggle to dance to the DJ's completely undanceable radio tracks, but worth it just for that. Easy to get in and leave. Read more