Easily the worst strip club experience I've ever had. This place is the ESSENCE of fraudulent exploitation and I guarantee you they will use fear and intimidation to con you out of your money.
Below is a detailed description of my experience at Silk.
My friends and I arrived around 10:30PM on a Saturday. The night started off okay. The cover was only $10 but we also had to pay $10 dollars just to sit at a table. The facility itself is above average judging by the few strip clubs I've seen, but the environment is somewhat diminished by the unnecessary overcrowding of suited bouncers. The quality of the girls is average or below. Many of them have severely troubling teeth among many other undesirable features.
All that is to be expected though. Here is where the night to a turn for the worse. Â A friend of mine bought me a lap dance, which I reluctantly accepted. After my dance, which was great, the girl said to me "Would you like me to keep going?" I asked "What is it going to cost me?", she replied "Don't worry about it, it's on me". I took that to believe that this was not going to cost me anything extra. Â She gets exponentially more handsy over the next 20-25 minutes. Â I won't go into the details on this site but she did stuff that she definitely wasn't allowed to do and stuff that is illegal to pay for.
I'm not going to complain about that.  The problem was when a bouncer came back and told me "If I see you touching the dancer again, I'm going to f*ckin destroy you". I told him she put my hands on her body and to relax. He told me to get out and pay for the 13 songs worth  of dances I just received.  At $20 a pop that means this guy is telling me I owe $260 dollars for what I was told would be free. Obviously I'm a little more than upset.  I try to remain calm with the bouncers for a while and tell them that it isn't right to ask me to pay for something that I was told would be free. I ask to speak to the owner or manager, and big surprise...he's not available. I left my friends inside and went outdoors to call the cops.  As I'm waiting for the squad car I call my friends and tell them to meet me outside. The bouncers threaten my friends and tell them they aren't going anywhere unless they pay. I will repeat, they threatened to "DESTROY US" if we made any more trouble. When the Milwaukee Police arrived they refused to talk to me and only communicated with the owner who appeared out of nowhere once the cops showed up. The cops handled the situation incredibly poorly.  They threatened to arrest me for theft and my friends with accessory to theft, EVEN THOUGH my friend was forced to pay my debt and we never left the property.
Here's how the night ended. Â We were told that we would be allowed a full refund, but that I would go to jail for theft. They offered us money back and admitted what happened was wrong, but that I would be arrested and be charged. On top of that they would cite me $400 + the $260 for the dance. Or I could drop it and go home. People I couldn't make this stuff up. Â I know when I'm fighting a losing battle. I left and will be seeking retribution through the courts.
Long story short, this place is about as crooked as you could possibly imagine. Â They will offer you dances and drinks for free, and afterwards charge you outrageous rates and threaten you if you argue. Â I strongly recommend NEVER going to this club. There are many better options all over the Milwaukee area. These people are glorified con artists and worse, there's nothing you can do to prove your innocence, the law is on their side.
NEVER GO HERE. And to anybody reading this from Silk. Hope you enjoyed the review. I'll be happy to accept an apology whenever.