stay tf away if you're not hispanic.. i enjoyed myself with my friends, but only because i know how to salvage a wreck.
i came on a wednesday night and at about 10:45pm it gets pretty lit for a weeknight in terms of crowd. they have some decent looking girls working the floor. the place has the feel of a gentleman club, which our male audience would certainly appreciate (...)
great idea on staffing a veritable flotilla of scantily clad females to float around, but my biggest criticism would be how they put these completely untrained dresses and heels behind the bar.. these girls obviously had no idea what they were doing when we asked them to make the cocktail shots off the menu that are pushed on the bar. $6 for each shot and they're 95% sprite no matter what u order. no sense of proportion, technique, no shame. they might as well be working at mcdonalds for how little they cared for or understood their product.. i have never seen this level of unprofessionalism in my life. if i was forced back here one day, the only thing i'd ever have again here is a bottled beer, which i'd prefer to open myself.
so why do ppl come here then? i want to lay down some napalm vitriolic sarcasm.. i actually wrote some and i was like dam i need to dial this back a little. so to be real, back nine seems to be a sort of neighborhood haunt for the clientele. a basic watering hole with a little dazzle for the completely uncultured.
dancefloor has about 15% crowd participation. the only ppl who dance here are ppl who are pretty good. the rest just dumbly watch. it was interesting trying to step with hispanic dance style.. but it was a lot of slow music for what was billed as a trap/reggaeton night. mostly everyone just sits and talks. in my case, ppl just stared and laughed at me lol. ostensibly because i didnt dance their style. their levity through ignorance matched by my levity thru pity...
el paso is just a terrible city for diversity overall. i'm not trying to blame race. i used to be a total uneducated rube comfy only in the sphere of my own culture too once way back when.. its decidedly about class, and i dont blame the lack of mobility therewithin either.. a sad 1/5 stars for the ignoble savage.. read more