Eclipse Bar Riverside - Jacksonville, Florida

Grace K.

The music sucks and the DJ did not listen to suggestions. I don't know if maybe tipping him would have made a difference. Otherwise a really great time! The staff is amazing! The vibe is amazing!

Frances P.

This night I went was Emo Night/ Karaoke. It's very chilled and friendly environment. I only had a drink from there which was great! I'd go back.

cg M.

Finally checked this place out last night with their no cover free entry night. You should change your Instagram to eclipse bar riverside. There's nothing club about this place. And there's nothing worth paying to
get into this place. I think club drives away your older crowd. And this bar is definitely a 40 and older vibes kinda place. Good bartender service. Also not a lot of parking so if you go and it's busy park in front of falafel x bar on herschel street. Great drink choices at eclipse and pretty good prices.

Bobcat

Great time at Eclipse! I played there on Monday night with my good friends, Lara Hope and the Ark-Tones, Mercy Mercy and Alyse Berlin. Easily one of the best nights of tour!

Jordan B.

One of the best places to hang out! Bar staff is amazing and security is on point. Will definitely go there again

Seyantra D.

Very weird crazy vibes me and my husband went there for my birthday. I’m new to Florida so I don’t know the places to go soon as I went in there. People were looking at us like we were crazy or something. I think they stereotyped us. The bartenders didn’t even ask us if we wanted a drink we did nothing but go to the bar. They rolled their eyes at us then the old white bartender look like she told the younger bartenders not to serve us for some reason I don’t know why we did nothing at all definitely not used to these types of vibes at all I would never go back there ever again “ replying to comment their was most definitely a older white female could have been a male because they have very short grey hair with glasses

Benny D.

I regularly attend the Pineapple Party with my wife, and it disappoints me every time.

For context, I’ve attended Pineapple parties all over Florida – Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Orlando, Tampa, Jacksonville, and even Atlanta - and Eclipse really offers the worst. In fact, it’s just a regular bar night advertised as Pineapple. Nothing new, nothing sensational, nothing that makes you wake on Saturday morning and think “today is the day I’m having the night of my life at Eclipse.”

Last Saturday, around 10 PM, I opened the door, paid our fees, and walked to the bar. Then I looked at their TVs - the first disappointment. The one close to the entry door was passing American football, on top of the bar, funny videos – I loved the one that showed a man petting a Grizzly bear - and next to the DJ station across the dance floor, a music playlist.

My experience tells me that screens are not decorative or entertaining devices. Not on that night. They are tools that amplifies the Pineapple atmosphere, by integrating people, by helping them to realize they are in the right place at the right time of their existences, by making them climb on the wheel of craziness. We don’t go to Eclipse on a Pineapple Party Night to watch sports, or see TikTok videos, or see what song comes after the next one. I don’t pay a fee at the door for such a banal experience. At this moment, management should know what we are looking for when we go to Eclipse at Pineapple Night. I’d love to say it here.

A good Pineapple Party is the one you go to fulfill your dreams, and the place makes them come true or at least try.
The Eclipse Pineapple Party works the opposite way. You go excited and it kills your desires.

Once you throw a Pineapple Party, you hold a responsibility in your hands. The responsibility of making your Pineapple people feel they arrived at a Pineapple heaven.

Second blow. A few moments after I arrived, a game that I presumed was bingo had finished, and they were announcing the winners. The cute girl next to us won. I saw her prize: a pair of socks and bottle of something to drink. She looked at it. Her group friends looked at it. Two seconds later they had forgotten about it.

That’s how a place misses the chance to create a memorable experience.

How easy would it have been to give her a toy or Pineapple souvenir? How much fun would she have had talking about it with her group? Even days after. Wasn’t she looking for that experience at Eclipse anyway?
A Pineapple atmosphere orients every single detail of the experience to let people express themselves as they are and how they want by putting more people with similar status of minds in the same room. Period. Any deviation from that is just a failure.

The biggest disappointment is the music.
Yesterday, I looked at the DJ station for a few minutes. The artist playing the music never looked at the dance floor. Never opened himself to receive feedback from the audience. He was too absorbed in enjoying the music he loved. He forgot he was working; he forgot that a DJ has an obligation with the audience. The obligation to make the damn place explode and make people euphoric. How? Good music at a club always combines: current music that makes you move – whether it is good or bad is irrelevant – and music that keeps the flow of the night, in this case, Pineapple flow. The combination of both looping constantly gives identity to the place and wings to people.

Music is not merely an air vibration. It’s a crime to mistreat it like that.
Music is the way people connect with each other. The way people come body to body, lips to lips, eyes to eyes. It's sacred.

If you want to take the Pineapple community seriously, let us know, if not, also let us know so we don’t waste our time, money, and faith in a night bleeding into oblivion.

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Antawn D.

Need more bar tenders. They were slammed. Did the best they Could keeping up with orders though