Defend the indefensible: Bottle Service

$20 per person = $160 bucks ... how about that?
except most places its more like $300 for a bottle of ketel one. plus $60 tip for the cocktail waitress who drops off the bottle at your table.

if there's a line to get into the club/lounge, you can bypass it by telling the doorman you want a table, and there's sometimes a minimum, like you must get one bottle for every 5 people or something like that.

but these are usually at superclubs or corny buddha-bar type of lounges.

http://www.mercola.com/images/newsletter/2005/04/27/baby_bottle.jpg

TS: BYOB vs Bottle Service?

Same ol' DJs, same ol' massive cover charge (which they get away with only on MisShapes coattails in this spot). DJs: Tim Sweeney (DFA, beatsinspace.net), Dave P (Making Time, Fixed), and Justine D, with live performance at midnight by L-D Section-II (Lansing -Dreiden, aka totally pretenious art rock). $10 cover.

wtf. that is wrong on so many levels.

just looking at myopenbar now makes me realize how little I go out these days, and how out of touch I am. Or how out of touch everyone else is.

To bad they didn't mention that one of the reasons Nite Time charges that much money is because they usually spend lots of money on good djs, sometimes even flying them over.

I didn't really get the Lansing Dreiden record I heard, though.

*= whether this gets anybody laid is entirely a matter of myth and conjecture

hey Phil - did you see this in Melbourne?
hm, i don't remember seeing any bottle service, but i was there in 2002. i went to gin palace once, but i don't really remember it that well since i was incredibly drunk. is this the place with a sort of fake-outside ceiling atrium thing and ivy around or am i making this up. there were some nice looking lounges though, but i dont think they had bottle service. one was a place in some alley by federation square that looked like a high school science lab on the first floor, and upstairs they had a mockup of an american high school gymnasium. and another vaguely russian bar a little northeast of the cbd?

before i could finish my groan she let me know me she only had to chip in $20 and got three cran + vodkas out of it.. so i guess in a big group you don't get hit too hard.

is this trend still going strong?

a most regrettable casualty of our current economic doldrums ...

I keep hearing rumors to that effect but I can think of more bottle service places now than at at this time last year.

we live in DC

could the new tallboy law fuck this up, though?

tons of my friends were going to the beach on nye and all the clubs are like $200 for a table + x amount of bottles. dunno why ppl put up w/ this

we live in DC

― TOMBOT, Saturday, January 17, 2009 12:35 AM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark

yes and it's true here, but it's also true nationally.

now yer talkin

pay YOURSELF two hundred bucks for some candy-ass rum

(xxpost) If the ashtrays are full, complain to yourself! Juggle bottles for five minutes and still mix the drink wrong yourself! You know what the stain on the seat is because you put it there! Do body shots off yourself! If you happen to be the douche, kick yourself out and beat yourself up!

So gonna happen bros

Defend the Indefensible: Going to super-toney bars where they price the liquor ridiculously high to keep out the riff-raff.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Sunday, 23 April 2006 04:59 (2 years ago) Permalink
eh, the riff-raff can get the same liquor anywhere else. it's not that great a tragedy.

― even cathy berberian's nose (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 23 April 2006 05:01 (2 years ago)

Actually, I'm quite glad that these bars exist to keep the people that I don't want to hang out with away from the bars I go to, not to mention that their overspending feeds and clothes people people, some of whom are my friends.

it'd have to be some pretty impressive waterfall with hologram mermaids, tons of hot chicks and only the best in cosmic disco for that money.

LOL let's open that club dude. sounds tight

srsly though the only time I end up at places like this is to see some music I can't see elsewhere, it's unfortunate 90% of electronic music venues in nyc are all wrapped up in this b.s. went to Cielo once and my experience was pretty identical to phil's way up above.

santas party house kind of a step in the right direction though, it has its annoying factors (they seem to looove having a huge-ass line to get in) but it's more of a mix of fancy club + dive

so are we basically in agreement that a huge portion of the service/booze sector of the economy is supported by people who are more interested in getting laid than they are in service or booze

― TOMBOT, Saturday, January 17, 2009 12:23 AM (13 hours ago) Bookmark

DUH

LLBS

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/12/fashion/12club.html?ref=style

can i just

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The turn of the millennium saw the rise of bottle service and the $18 cocktail at glittery spots like Marquee, Tenjune and Bungalow 8, which attracted celebrities and models, and then charged regular folks a fortune to rub elbows, and sometimes knees, with them.

Er, "normal folks" couldn't get into Bungalow 8 at all. Maybe I was sub-normal back then though.

Not sure what the knees comment means, either.

Superdive has replaced club-style bottle service with keg service at tables

Models & Bottles --> Kegels and Bagels?

Keg service would be kind of awesome, actually, if you get plastic cups and can just pass out beer to random people at the bar like it's a block party.

who the fuck wants a prosciutto-wrapped Hot Pocket

At a table, a group of men in their 20s and 30s shared a 5-liter keg of EKU Pils beer to celebrate what they call “Manday,” a semiregular male-bonding night out.

David Sitt, 32, a Manday regular and psychology professor at Baruch College.

who the fuck wants a prosciutto-wrapped Hot Pocket

Literally or metaphorically?

The two bits Omar just highlighted are urgent and key.

oh metaphorically I'd be all over that shit

Mostly, though, the 675 Bar is defined by what it is not.

“No hip-hop, no house music, no bottle service, no door policy,” said Adam Cooper, the general manager.

No hip-hop, no house music, no reason to go there.

.J. booth. Outside, the actor Lukas Haas smoked a cigarette amid a bevy of models.

“I go where my friends go,” he said.

“It’s nice to have a place that will be lower profile,” said Amanda Smith, an aspiring actress in a black cocktail dress. She sat next to her boyfriend, James Brettell, 23, who said he is a film producer and director.

http://www.massify.com/profiles/jamesbrettell

Back at Superdive, no one was dancing. But in a rear corner a large bearded man was hammering out “The Weight” on a beaten-up piano while singing: “Take a load off Fannie. Take a load for free.”

Above him was an illuminated applause sign.

The sign did not flicker. It is permanently illuminated. Anyone can play.

fin

jesus christ only in new york could the idea of a regular bar be a "trend piece"....

i could take the author down to the Cedar Inn a block from my house and we could eat buffalo wings and drink tap budweiser for $3.50 a pitcher and connect with real people.

BBBOOOOORING

there's a place right around the corner from me in l.a. that opened up called "stinker's", which is a "dive bar" with a trucking theme. it's atrocious, moreso considering the best actual dive bar in town just got destroyed by new management.

dive bars that try to be dive bars tend to suck

I love that it's not actually about being more frugal out of need, just about being less ostentatious out of zeitgeist or something.

what dive bar got destroyed by new mngmt in la, omar?

little joy

oh, haven't been there in a while

that superdive place sounds ok. leave it to the nyt to turn the concept of a regular bar into a trendpiece.

sorry to hear abt little joy! i grabbed a corona there when i was visiting friends last year. what did they do to it?

the new paint job on little joy is some ed hardy eye hurty shit. dragons and masks and cue balls, ugh.

lol @ ed hardy eye hurty

haha i'm not sure little joy was the best anything but it was good for lol @ hipsters moments

i used to work there once or twice per month and went in one night and the place was shut down. it re-opened a week later with this new paintjob and the former cleaning lady was made manager. she cut loose all the DJs and kinda told the bartenders to not socialize with the clientele and brought in shitty new DJs.

what the hell kind of bar wants cold, impersonal bartenders?

http://www.eurobookings.com/files/images/ice-hotel-6.jpg

hahahah

i'd totally go to a bar (bottle-service or not) with Mr. Freeze as the bartender.

I'm sure that feature will be included at a special Dave & Buster's adults-zone bar at a Six Flags near you.

Meanwhile Melbourne runs articles saying "recession? What recession?" about bars that have just opened such as this amazing monstrosity:

http://images.theage.com.au/ftage/ffximage/2009/06/23/belle_wideweb__470x307,0.jpg

http://www.melbournepubs.com/images/venue/3072-2.jpg

I imagine that top room has all the bottle service you can want; you'd expect it at 2000k plus for an evening.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Emj_F2Q3N8

Within minutes of the broadcast, Puffy had barged into the offices of Nas' manager Steve Stoute with several bodyguards, and struck Stoute over the head with a champagne bottle.

^true meaning of bottle service imo

me and my friend have a fictional hip hop group called VIP & Bottle Service. Our imaginary first album is gonna be called "Dress Code Enforced"

A local bar is offering their normal $295 bottle service (Grey Goose) for $1 with the only requirement that you have 10 people. I guess they figure you'll eat or drink enough more to make it up. I wanna see ten people do it with complicated water/ice orders then get up and leave when the bottle's gone.