This was part three of my friend's bachelor party. I guess you can't  have a bachelor party without some sort of strippers? I don't know what the hetero playbook says on that- but what I've seen in movies, I knew what I was in for. I hadn't stepped into one of these establishments since my 18th birthday (which was a long time ago). I'm not against them, but they just don't do anything for me.
I've seen this club over the past couple of years through my travels on the 91 freeway. Doesn't look like much during the day, but at night, it's a glow of multicolored lights and looks high class. If I ever had to go to a strip club again, I wanted to come to this one. Luckily, that's where his best man had us booked.
Parking is a cinch and there is a lot of it. We came on a Saturday night and we found a spot no problem. It is a little hard to find as there is a driveway you have to hit off of State College in order to enter. Some of my friends had been here before, so they navigated us to our destination. If I was on my own, probably would have been making circles. Then again, I probably wouldn't come here on my own.
It's well kept from the outside and you enter through a main entrance where a bouncer checks your ID and a cashier takes your money. You're told multiple times that there is no photography of any kind allowed inside. I'm guessing to protect the identity of the girls, something I totally understand.
Inside it's dimly lit. A large stage with two poles graces the center of the room. There are chairs lined up in two rows along the stage and a VIP room for your private dances. We tucked away into a small corner and some of the peeps went all out and ordered some bottles. I didn't drink since I was the DD, but their small bottles went a long way. No too long, because they ended up ordering a second one. Our server (which her name escapes me) was super friendly and helpful. She kept coming over to check on us to make sure we were okay. She wasn't too pushy and actually sat and chatted. She wasn't a stripper.
While we were sitting there, we were approached by a ton of different girls. The flirtatiousness didn't work on me. Once they found out that I played for the other team, the attention was immediately focused on the other guys. Because it was a strip club, I thought there would be more stripping. This wasn't the case. There was some toplessness, but I definitely thought there would be more of it. Then again, I don't have anything to really compare it to, but my friends confirmed my suspicions.
Out of all the dancers, only about two actually did cool stuff on the pole. They climbed it and slid up and down doing cool things in the air. Some of the others were just like dead fish and barely even moved around stage. The one that impressed me the most was a girl named Madeline. She did some crazy yoga/pilates stuff with one arm and then one leg. I definitely tipped her. She deserved it.
Because it was a celebration, they brought the bachelor on stage with four girls. They spanked him, rode the back of his head and gave him some public lap dances. This was the first time I threw a wad of dollars on to the stage. I'm not positive, but I think I might have made it rain? The DJ was giving some funny banter and the groom-to-be had fun. Mission accomplished. I believe that little feature costs about $40 + tips. Not sure if that's standard, cheap or expensive. I thought we got our money's worth.
All and all it was a good night. The guest of honor was severely hammered and everyone was sad when the lights went on signaling the end of the night. Would I come back? Probably not. But if I had to suggest a strip club to someone, I just might recommend that they come here.
We didn't eat here, but according to OC Weekly, they have amazing sushi? I'll let you be the judge of that.
We got a VSOP and Table for $250 plus admission for three which is not bad at all. It was kind of empty when you enter and the girls were nice. They weren't as fun and "exotic" as other places I guess you could say. My friend got a birthday dance from a few of the girls and it wasn't THAT exciting. Also, the manager got mad when one of my girlfriends sat on my lap because seats were limited at our table. Furthermore, he was upset when my friend, who is a girl, first asked the stripper if she could slap her butt and the stripper was perfectly fine with it but my friend got yelled at by the manager when she did it. Isn't that supposed to be a bonus? I feel like that should be exciting for peers and those at this venue. People love that stuff! Overall, it was an average night out for my friend's birthday.
Review Source:Non-sleazy, clean place that upscale men and intelligent women will not be turned off by. The club is trying to appeal to folks that would not normally visit a "strip club". Â They're almost there. Lots of the men in the audience had dates with them, and including the dancers there were more women than men in the club. I liked it.
I'm not a sushi connoisseur. I like strippers so I'll stick to reviewing them. But I'm told that the sushi is destination-quality dining.
The manager happened to be at the door and waved our cover, either because there were only 2 dancers for the first hour (Sun early evening), or because my date was so hot.
The dancers were attractive and most were genuinely friendly or at least faked it well. Been there twice and not a single skank. Most were excellent, professional dancers who clearly view their performance as an art form, and they do it with the same introspection and dedication as any other artist. No mistake though, it's an erotic art form and the eight dancers that we saw definitely got the blood flowing.
One dancer in particular gave a spectacular performance, climbing to the top of the 20 ft high pole, and spending the next two minutes slowly sliding back down, while inverting and contorting her body in ways that showed great imagination and incredible strength. As much talent and ability as any Circ de Soliel performer, with an erotic theme taken to the legal limits. So hot!
DISLIKES: These 3 things took away from the dancers' performances, and if I were a dancer who is depending on the club to provide an atmosphere that maximizes the audience's experience - which is what produces TIPS - I would ask management to improve these three things.
1. A junky, amateur JBL sound system that is EQ'd towards the irritating higher frequencies, playing what sounded like low-byte ripped MP3's on the edge of distortion. No warmth or low end at all. It sounded awful. They could turn it down a little bit while making the sound much bigger and fuller by using proper EQ settings, but what they really need is better speakers, like Meyer or E/V. Yes, it matters. It's one of the reasons we left
2. Lots of cheap LED lighting which is great for wash lighting, but many of the lights are flashing color strobes pointed right at the audience's eyes. It was like watching the girls dance next to a police car. EXTREMELY distracting to the dancer's performance. They need to point the cheap flashing lights toward the walls (same effect without blinding the audience), invest in a couple of 400 watt theatre-grade black lights, and get some real incandescent stage lights. Yes, it matters. The lights in the eyes was another reason we left.
3. Turn off the big screen TV's while the dancers are performing, or at least have something besides Law & Order reruns playing. Again, very distracting, and very disrespectful to the dancers. It won't cost management a dime to turn them off.
BOTTOM LINE - It's a clean place with attractive pro dancers, but if they really want their club to break the mold and rise above generic "strip club" status, then the ambiance needs some major fine tuning.
What is the appropriate amount of time to wave one's empty glass at a bartender before walking out of a place?
Call drinks are expensive and expect to drop even more for a shot-sized drink for a dancer.
We showed up at 4:30 so we'd be in place for Sushi Dave at 5:00. At 5:20 we left with just 1 drink and no sushi.
Visit 2 was the opposite of visit 1. Should I go back for a tie-breaker?
Went to The Venetian last night, beautiful club, but dead. Hardly any girls or customers. For such a beautiful club, whats up with the Disgusting Mexican security staff. If this place wants to take advantage of its great interior, find some staff that have some level of professionalism and class. Will never go here again. Take your money to Imperial or Fritz.
Review Source:We came here with a mix of men and women on a Saturday night. Â There is a $10 entry fee but I made reservations at the sushi restaurant upstairs and Sushi Dave sent us some free passes (some really great sushi btw...I also have a review for Sushi at the Venetian Gentleman's Club) which was great for a party of 12. Â It's very clean and not seedy at all. Mixed drinks were about $7; not sure about the beers. Â 20 ft poles! Most of the women here are beautiful and incredibly talented on the pole. The females in our party are into pole fitness so it was awesome to see the athleticism from the majority of these girls. Â They were also really nice (hopefully it wasn't because we were spending quite a bit of money) and none of them were pushy at all about lap dances. Â We did get some lap dances from the ones we thought were great on the pole and I didn't hear anyone complain. There was a good mix of men and women in the club aside from our group as well. Â Charisma, Joey, Scarlett and there were two other girls(I'm so sorry I'm terrible with names) that we absolutely loved on the pole. Â One of was very fit and she made sure she paid attention to our whole group (we all sat by the stage) and another girl was doing some really amazing tricks on the pole: Â inside to outside leg hook, one handed invert, inverted V, caterpillar climb, back hand grab, splay, and some other amazing stuff I don't know names of...ahhhhhh! Â We definitely plan to come back again! Thank you ladies for an amazing night!
Review Source:At the door we were told they had 30 girls on a Saturday night. Â We asked the door man if we could take a look inside, he said no. Â We paid $10 per person and took our chances because it looked so nice on the outside.
The inside was beautiful as well - but there was 2 girls working and maybe 5 people at the bar. Â Definitely not 30 girls! Â We walked right back out and asked for our $$ back. Â After debating with the doorman and manager for 30 minutes - we received HALF of our $ back and 2 passes! PSH!!!
When a business rely's on customer service, you give people their $ back! Â We would have totally came back on a busier night if they did! Â Instead - we went to Fritz and spent a fortune!!
Will never go back  there.
Since I'm spending a week on "vacation". I figure I would let my good friend and amazing director, screenwriter and narrator of documentaries Werner Herzog <a href="/redir?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Dn0bCcijSqbA%26feature%3Drelated&s=0df62c230bbf28b63da993f8f6c73ac4f30593d081629369324e3dee15dc5196" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/w…</a> write this review for me. This is what he sent;
You come across this strip club and you know, this is big. You can't even explain vhy it is so big. vhat is intriguing is the utter senselessness of the look of the place. Then you get inside and vitness something vay beyond bayvatch, Dancers doing mating rituals for currency flinging around the elevated stage vith a pole in the middle.
By the vay, the breast.. unbelievable.
Every single dancer I saw for vne single performance, or even less than vne performance. vne brief moment shared -- an exchange of a moment vhen my tventy flew to da stage. Vne moment and you never see them again.
At most strip clubs you aren't allowed to bring much in your pocket. No cell phones. Even a ballpoint pin can become a veapon. It's confiscated. one person sitting vith another stranger vatching primitive dancing rituals. As a dancer, you have 10 minutes and you better perform and deliver. Ve are vatching.
You must not avert your eyes. Those are vhat is coming at us. I mean. The most vulgar blonde vith insulations of breast as far reaching out as this (makes hand gesture of really far extending arm reach)
Vne must vonder, do these vomen exemplify a new image? A new prototype of "so called" beauty? A comic strip beauty of utter vulgarity.
Ve have seen ideals of beauty in Greek antiquities ve have seen images of beauty in, let's say early renaissance time. vhich is very strange and different than modern time. vhich creates bodies that are mutated. deformed and gross. But all of the sudden the deformity becomes the chosen ideal. Â
So please, do not avert your eyes from it. I am no prude here. I do live in Los Angeles and I know that 60, 70, or 80% of the vomen here are human mask.
Surgically redesigned. I mean they are frozen mask in a frozen vessel. It's completely strange. And for me, bazaar. But you must not avert your eyes... or stop from making it rain.
Now I must turn to the horrors of nature. I am afraid this is inevitable. Nature is not something to be coddled and accepted and held to your bosom like a vounded snake. Tell me, did I come during amateur night? Specifically you, Madison.
(Editors note: He started rambling on about one particular dancer for a while..)
Madison. Voman...
You vere as raw as the sushi I consumed on the second floor and yet you revile me with your singular lack of dancing vision. Be aware. there is an essential truth and beauty in all things. From the death throes of a speared gazelle to the damaged smile of a freeway homeless.
But that does not mean that the invisibility of something implies its lack of being. Though simpleton babies foolishly believe the person before them vanishes when they cover their eyes during a hateful game of peek-a-boo, this is a fallacy. And so it is that the unseen breast you choose to keep covered during most of your performance still exist...
This is unacceptable.
I will tell you this Madison, not as a taunt or a threat, but as an evocation of joy. The joy of nothingness, the joy of the real. I want you to be real in everything you do... even if your bosom can not be.
If you can not be real, then a semblance of reality must be maintained. A real semblance of the fake real, or "real". I have conquered volcanoes and visited the bitter depths of the earth's oceans. Nothing I have witnessed, from lava to crustacean, assailed me like your poorly executed pole climbing maneuver.
Nausea is not a sufficient word. In this regard, you are like your breast and not being real.
Then ve come to your music selection. I have never heard of this leppard who suffers deafness, but the pouring of some sugar on one should not be sung about so easily like the calls of a Ugandan tribal chant
It appalled me to the point of paralysis. Every quaver was like a brickbat against my soul. Music is futile and malicious. So please, if you require motivation to "shake dat ass", refrain from that noise. May I recommend the recitation of some sharp verse. Perhaps by Goethe. Or Schiller. Or Shel Silverstein at a push.
Your money is on the stage near the pole. I apologize for the lack of distance, but my arms are not what they used to be. I also apologize for the bills being smudged. I have been veeping.
Herzog.
This was my first topless strip club. Although some of the dancers were amazing (Bunny, etc) with their pole tricks the majority of the girls smelled of alcohol (because they are all drinking), and the bouncers were as drunk as the girls! Its a strict "air-dance" policy and very steep in price. It got 1 star for having an awesome atmosphere that they blew with everything else about it.
Review Source:Place is classy, good music, beautiful and talented girls. Â I've never seen pole dancing like that. Â Some of the girls have actually been in those contests. Â They have two 20 foot tall strip poles, and last night I saw a girl get to the top, no prob. Â The best part about this place, besides beautiful women, is the Sushi bar. Â Sushi Dave is the best sushi chef in orange county (voted in a magazine 2nd best CHEF PERIOD in all of OC), and his concoctions and stuff on and off the menu is the best sushi in orange county, and it's in a gentlemen's club. Â Love it.
Review Source:It's really classy in here. Most of the girls were really pretty and the majority of them did some pretty fancy shit on that pole.
The clientele wasn't creepy. The drinks taste good, but I knocked off a star for the price. Also, the bouncers weren't necessarily rude, but they weren't very friendly either.
After some friends went to this place last week and raved about it, we planned this as part of a party bus crawl on Friday night. I had such high hopes.
First, I was not that impressed with the girls here. I wasn't expecting Vegas, but I thought the talent here was average at best. Our cocktail waitress was really friendly, and so +1 star for her.
What really got us was that we had all chipped in for VIP treatment here. Â We spent several hundred dollars to get a private group room and were expecting that some of the girls (one of whom was paid a large sum already) would be sent up and add to the entertainment. Instead, some bored-looking stripper came up and asked us in turn rather impatiently, "Hey do you wanna dance? Do you wanna dance? You? They told me to come up here and see if anyone wanted a dance. You wanna dance?" She acted like this was the last place on earth that she wanted to be, and it was a complete turn-off.
I gather that this may be one of the more decent places in Orange County, but don't come here expecting more bang for your buck if you're prepared to spend a lot of money.
this place is class class class! it's humungous (2 stories) with an elevator. bottom floor has topless stage dancing from a variety of beautiful women, a full bar, VIP room for $20 private dances and even food service. top floor has elite VIP rooms and bottle service. you can rent a girl out in the top floor half hour for $180 and an hour for $300. If you get bottle service here and you don't finish your bottle, they will tag it and store it for you to have next time you come in! that's better than vegas! girls are friendly and not overly pushy. all day wednesdays they have an incredible steak special: $4 for ny steak, salad and fries. believe me i was reluctant to try but it was really good! in fact, all the food i've tried is awesome, reasonably priced and almost everyday there's some kind of special they have out for food and or drinks. sunday- thursday they typically throw out 2 for 1 private dance specials as well. as someone who has a lot of guy friends, i like gentle mens clubs and this one is by far my favorite in orange county.
Review Source:I have been a few times to strip clubs with girlfriends but NEVER with a boyfriend.. OMG I had such a great time! Venitian gentlemans club is definitely a nice club and the girls are beautiful and super sweet! I talked with quite a few and even got a lap dance! whoot whoot! Â Dalila is beautiful and Angelica is my gurl! she was so sweet and outgoing! all I gotta say is 'LADIES" if u take ur man to a strip club "don't trip"! and get all crazy with the girls working there!! after all ur in their house! and if ur gona get pist off y even go with ur man in the first place! Â I took my man we had a good time and just watched these beautiful girls, we talked with them and had some drinks...And Nooooo we didn't take one home, we just went there for a good time and different type of fun.. We will def do it again soon! Â "if u can't take the heat STAY OUTA THEIR HOUSE!!!
Review Source:staff is great from the front desk, security, to the bartenders.
mixed drinks were reasonably priced and well made.
dj does a good job with the music. Â place is clean and very classy.
the only complaint from everyone in the group is that the five or six dancers we saw that night weren't that great. Â otherwise i would rate the place higher.
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