Barrette is CLOSING?!?!

I applaud the owner(s) of Barrette for your change in venue. Cabaret is and was great wherever but misunderstood .Thanx for the good work. Blogeez are only trying to help when they type what fun they had not knowing that the moral police are reading their every peck at the keyboard. Your decision to change formats is a good idea in my view given the spectrum of opinion of what cabaret consists of, people who drink understand.Cabaret builds community with smiles.laughs and watered down adult fun. People with a stroller and a crackberry would have killed your biz sooner or later if they thought there was a chance their kid would be forced to do a body shot off a bikini clad hottie against their will. I know it far fetched but read some of the posts out there.I am unsure what time your new kitchen will close but I hope you will take full advantage of what was a great bar and allow those of us who drink more than Patron or beer to come in and enjoy vodka or bourbon alone or with a meal. Another suggestion as if I had not gave too many, tell people why you changed and don't let them write here or anywhere else that your biz was a failure.Good luck

bkhoosierfan wrote: i wish there was a place one could complain about too many churches.
get a clue

That's like complaining about too many trees. They were here first, you just have to deal with them. You think its bad now, you should have been around in the seventies when summer brought the traveling tent revivals that went on ALL NIGHT LONG for weeks. A few loud hours a couple of times a week is nothing to complain about...

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Clearly you never went to Barrette because that's exactly what they did. Many of the same burlesque dancers who perform at the venues you mentioned also performed at Barrette. It just happened to be Barrette's main gimmick. The dancers only performed between 11p-2a give or take, and most of the time they were just go-go dancers, with almost no stripping involved and wearing as much or more than some girls at your average dance club.

Sadly, I didn't make it to the last night because I had a little too much fun the night before. So I have no idea why they closed. I'm hoping someone went and will post on here. Otherwise I'll just have to ask around. For those who went there it will be missed, for the rest of you fear not, rumor has it there's another burlesque stage opening in the neighborhood. Not sure if they're connected. Hopefully they'll know enough to stay away from whatever uptight ignorant people chased them away.

Dear X, if the spot only seats 35 or 40 you can't run a Village Voice ad because you will have bad math. 40 people happy and 300 pissed off because there is no room. The bars you wrote about will bars will put a small bump in there schedule to make sure that vice doesn't show up and take everybody away to jail if a nipple falls out on accident If you over promote it causes a different problem. Barrette just brought in a few fun people and too much word of mouth(blog) was it's undoing. Fun is coming back people are just going to be more careful who they give it to and how much. Party on. I never thought I would say this about buri girls but moderation.

So, I spoke to some people "in the know" who said that Barrette was drawing a bad crowd. There were MANY noise complaints (so many that the city put a sign up in the window giving residents a direct phone number to call in further complaints). It wasn't what the owners wanted to put up with (drug dealers), so they decided to just change their image.

I think I was the last person to buy a drink before they stopped serving.

also the crowd was always a great mix of people. Which made it fun.