NEWS
Hot scene: cabaret dining
If you’re not the sort to let a little in EC4 hosts the decadent Afternoon
nudity put you off your Moules Tease on selected Saturdays –1950s
Mariniere, then London’s unstoppable waitresses serve up fancy cakes and
cabaret supperclub craze promises a fi zz while beautiful burlesque artistes
lavish dose of Parisian naughtiness provide naughty eye candy. No tour of
and tongue-in-cheek retro fun. Vince the cabaret scene would be complete
Power has imported Irish burlesque without a nod to Bistroteque in Bethnal
specialists The Tassel Club to spice up Green. Founded by former fashion
Friday nights at his Picadilly venue, the designers Pablo Flack and David
Pigalle Club. Billed as ‘a return to 1940s Waddington, it’s often credited
style fi lm noir and cabaret’, the night with kickstarting the
offers a changing schedule of burlesque cabaret revival. Now in
from the likes of London’s fi nest, Miss its fi fth year, the club
Immodesty Blaize and hot newbie is still as hip as ever,
Esme Bianco (pictured) as well as live attracting stars such
swing, plus a dash of circus and magic. as Rupert Everett
The night already boasts an army of and Agyness Deyn
celebrity fans including Colin Farrell, with its inspiring
Christian Slater and Dita Von Teese. (See open mic nights
page 37 for an exclusive ticket offer.) and legendary
On Saturdays, The Tassel Club swings lip synching
by Proud Cabaret in EC3 (pictured). The drag queens.
latest venture from gallery impresario
Alex Proud, it’s a plush, speakeasy
supperclub with dim lighting, hot
burlesque, a modern British menu
and vaudeville performances. Volupté
“Waiter, there’s a boob in my soup”:
Burlesque dining is all the rage in London
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