Showgirl, aka The Gentlemen’s Club, is a bar with dancing girls, only smaller. Square footage (meter) wise, it is probably the tiniest bar with a stage in town. Not that it makes any difference if there are no customers. I was the only one during my Thursday evening visit, although granted, it was shortly after the bar opened at 6:00 p.m.
Notice anything about the girls on stage? It’s hard to miss–they are all fat, amongst the fattest I’ve seen in any dancing bar. Not that I’ve got any room to talk, but then, I’m not getting paid to entertain customers. Let me be diplomatic and say if you like big bellies on a girl, this is the bar for you!
Beers are 90 pesos, and I believe the single lady drink is 170. I sat at the bar because I’ve got the hots for the bartender. The only other girl I saw that met my standards of attractiveness was the bartender’s twenty-year-old daughter. Your mileage may vary.
Again, the dancing girl bar scene is not my thing, so take my review with a grain of salt. Still, the girls just didn’t seem friendly or welcoming. Since the bartender doesn’t like me back, I see no point in a return visit anytime soon. Good luck to them, though.
The rankings as of now:
- It Doesn’t Matter
- Hideaway
- Snackbar
- The Green Room
- Wet Spot
- Cheap Charlies
- John’s Sushi and Steak
- Mango’s Beach Bar
- Hops and Brews
- Bar Barretto
- Whiskey Girl
- Sloppy Joe’s
- Alley Cats
- Lux
- Dynamite Dick’s
- Mugshots
- Alaska Club
- Hot Zone
- Queen Victoria
- Blue Butterfly
- BarCelona
- Adam’s
- Thumbstar
- Voodoo
- Rock Lobster
- Outback
- Rosie’s
- Annex
- Bottoms Up
- Palm Tree
- MacArthur’s
- Redz Pub
- Showgirl
- Chill
Those chicks are indeed pretty chunky. And at least one is kind of knock-kneed.
I’m not sure that a small, cozy bar should even have a stage. The ambiance would be all wrong.
Yeah, and if you are going to have a small stage, put some small girls on it. Seriously a couple of hotties would be better than a slew of beached whales.
Then again, I notice that another very small bar, Chill, doesn’t have a stage and it is at the bottom of my rankings. I need to revisit there soon and assess whether my initial judgment was too harsh.
Playing into the small-and-cozy ambiance, I think booth-style seating might lend a feeling of close-in, snug privacy. Take out that stage, and you’d have room for several booths.
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