the bottle service bust?
January 2, 2007 by Cash
I find myself on the fence about bottle service. It’s horribly overpriced, obtaining it on busy night (don’t even get me started about our 2006 NYE’s debacle) can be nearly impossible, and guarding the bottle from thirsty strangers can be a pain as well.
Still, there is nothing quite as faux-pimp as watching people try to find a place to sit, or even stand for a moment, from the comfy confines of a private bottle service booth.
In NYC, the tide seems to be turning against this trend altogether. A nightlife boom has started featuring smaller, less drama oriented venues, many without a bottle service booth in sight.
“this mini-surge of fresh venues is built on music and art, not the bling of bottle service, signaling the beginning of a hopeful new era in New York nightlife, one where the artists, musicians, and DJs—tired of the bottle service boom bullying clubs into a world of materialism and monotony—take back the night.”
I for one would embrace a return to the innocence of a pre-bottle service world, where getting to a club early could grant you the ‘luxury’ of sitting down, rather than having to pay $400 a round for the honor of doing so.
Read the torrid tale at the Village Voice
I know someone with a Kitchen Aide Mixer… It’s real nice.
No doubt. I sure do like sitting down in clubs from time to time.