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-The FOOD is the highlight. This is the only SCRATCH KITCHEN in the area, kitchen's open til midnight, and the burgers, fries, shepherd's pie, are all BOMB. If a strip club isn't really your thing, just come for the FOOD. You'll be pleasantly surprised. It isn't just good food for being a strip club, or even good for bar food, its plain old good.
-Bottle service here is cheap, and so are craft beers. $15 dances are the cheapest in CT, but you get what you pay for, and the girls don't bother telling you about them because they're not great for the customer OR the dancer. Might as well spend the $150 for 15 minutes of private dances instead and actually get your moneys worth.
-This place is REALLY friendly to couples and woman, offering them lots of discounts. However, if you're a group of girls who tries to dance on the floor or stage when it's not an amateur night, you will get the stink eye from girls who are actually there dancing to make a living.
-It's not raging 100% of the time. The party gets going when the crowd does, usually after 11pm on a Friday. But this can also be a place where you come in for a chill drink and have a good conversation with a bartender, the chef, or even a manager. Lots of staff hangs around on the floor, and they're friendly to patrons and dancers. There are a lot of laid-back regulars and you get the feeling that everyone there is already friends.
-Don't expect there to be girls dancing on stage if you're there before 9pm, they go up by customer request only, so you have to find a dancer and tip her to go up. That being said, you can really get a good show if you tip. Some of these girls go hard! When it gets busy, the girls all do double shows and are happy to play with each other for you. Again, the girls get going when the tips do. You can sit at the bar for an hour if you come in at 2pm on a Wednesday, and barely see any girls there, because when customers aren't spending, they take breaks. My advice if you're worried about a lack of girls? Ask a bartender to go get a girl from downstairs, and tip the bartender when you do. They are THERE, they're just not wasting energy on people who won't tip.
-The bathroom is kinda nasty, there is a stale cigarette smell everywhere, the parking lot is a little janky. There goes a star. Not sure what else I expected though.
My advice? Be kind, DEFINITELY get a meal, tip the dancers and the bartenders well (even if you're not getting a lot of drinks or dances, everyone here works for tips, so without tips, you won't get anything, period). Follow that, and you'll be at your new favorite bar in CT. And anyone who says this was "the worst" probably didn't tip, or hasn't been back in 2018.