by Carla B. on ***AWESOME DÉCOR + HOT BURLESQUE GIRLS + KICKA$$ BANDS + FRIENDLY BARTENDERS WHO CAN MAKE A DRINK = 1 MORE FAN OF THIS PLACE*** Black chandeliers with red lights, walls painted red, a stage with red curtains, big Marie-Antoinette-ish mirrors, a separate little room with Victorian style sofas... It's very Moulin Rouge meets Dracula, with a twist of Rock. The crowd is definitely unusual, yet in a refreshing way, to be honest. Creative, yet non-pretentious. Bartenders Shawn and Sarah were awesome -- friendly, (they would actually smile, unlike so many other bartenders who can't make a drink and act like you're lucky to be there). They knew very well how to make a good martini with just the right amount of strong and not overly sweet. The Burlesque show alternates with several bands playing throughout the night. The bands played all original material and the musicians were amazing. The genre (at least this Saturday night I went) was predominantly Nu Metal, with a dash of Neo-Progressive. Some groups were more rap style, some more melodic with high vocal range (male) singers. Think Red Hot Chili Peppers, Korn, Rage Against The Machine, Limp Bizkit, Marylin Manson, Pink Floyd. My only complaint is you'd get 3 bands play quite a few songs each, and then a girl would come and dance 2 songs of Burlesque, and next, another band. I wish there would've been more Burlesque interventions, but it was great. I loved that many people were wearing masks -- not sure if it's a Halloween thing, or if it's the usual Saturday night. There were 2 people actually fully dressed in black and white kimonos with really weird Japanese/goth masks walking among the crowd -- AWESOME costumes, and they were big camera whores. Loved it! We actually met quite a few interesting cool characters. A martini will cost you about $12, and straight up whiskey on the rocks about $10, so you get an idea. You may find parking on the street, but the club has valet for $10. Also, keep in mind that although the bar takes credit cards, you need to pay your $12 cover charge CASH at the entrance.
by Ric T. on Came here around 2am last Saturday, Door guys here are complete tool bags. There a mixture of wannabe washed up model & the 5'4 bluetooth wearing D-Bag who is hideously ugly and only became a door guy because its his only shot at landing a girl who is remotely above a 6 out of 10..Somehow we managed to find our way in. Crowd was ok, personally the staff waitresses were all hotter than any chick hanging out in here. In fact at the supposed owners table in the back, the girls sitting here shouldnt have even been allowed in.. Little John was hanging next to the DJ booth, pretty cool to see him in person, he did look strikingly similiar to the guy who sells incense candles on the side of sixth Avenue and 18th street. The odd part was the music, here we have the king of crunk, but there playing pumping some Pink song over the sound system. Bathrooms are downstairs and off to the right in this place.. Very weird, looks like a bathroom on the Star Ship Enterprise, probably even cooler if your high. Speaking of which this place was full of geeked up people, most were barely even drinking, saw some girl get carried out of here, she looked like a beat up Michelle Pfeiffer wearing the Kanye West Space glasses. This place is A-Ok designed well, bartenders make strong drinks, fair amount of talent and likely to be in the future due to tourists & B/T crowd who think this three year old club is still the hottest around.
by Elma Mulvehill on Meh. I ONLY went here because I was at the Climate Theater last night, and this place was downstairs. My friends and I stopped in for a drink. $5.50 for a Beam and coke! Oh hell's nah. However, they did give us something to much on while we were there (bruschetta). All in all, I'd only go back if I was super desperate/ the liquor store across from Climate was closed.
