Issue #28/83, February 10 - 17, 2000

Will you "do it tonight"?	Will you walk out alive?	Will cheap-O eXile readers afford the beer?	Will you show up to an empty, haunted mausoleum?
= no you won't = you might, maybe = you WILL indeed	= probably = just don't bump into anyone = run like hell	= $2-3 per beer = $4-$5 per beer = $6-$60,000	This isn't a rating factor, folks. Every club, bar, politican, and yes, newspaper, is on the verge of collapse. When you see this by a bar, it means, "financial crisis victim." Vsyo.

Club Lux

Cheers:For the serious, discreet gambler. No hookers, no unshaven mafiosi, no seedy chelnoki; this place is actually respectable, the clientele consisting mostly of biznesmeni.
Jeers: Don't come here looking for sex; security dressed like Giulianni cops means you have to check in your fun-and your gun-at the door.
Cover:Free
M:Yugo-Zapadnaya
Phone:430-4393
Address:Michurinsky Prospekt 4/1
Hours:daily 13.00-8.00

Golden Palace

Cheers:Split floors, running stream with fish (no golden fish) swimming past the card tables, awesome New Russian interior. Got rid of the Vietnamese restaurant, so it's shed a bit of the Deer Hunter feel. Also, great selection of $500 a pop whores (though they can be talked down).
Jeers:Nervous Russian security with their shotguns pointing at your face. Have to pay the barman for the whores. Scary Vietnamese clients haven't abandoned the casino, in spite of the closing of the restaurant.
Cover:8.00 - 20.00: 60.000 rubles, 20.00 - 08.00: 250.000. Free for ladies.
M:Belorusskaya
Phone:212-3909/-41
Address:3rd Yamskogo Polya, 15
Hours:24 hours

Metelitsa Racing

Cheers:Excellent air-conditioned bar to hang out in and gamble, eat top-notch greasy Brit bar food, pound inexpensive beer, and gamble away your devalued salary. One large-screen TV and eleven smaller ones; gamble on everything from sports events to horse and dog racing, cricket, soccer, toilet polo, and more. Try the burgers and chicken sandwich--they rule. Sit at the window and watch dyevs saunter by. Afterwards, head up to the Cherry Casino and score one of Moscow's top babes.
Jeers:Brits everywhere. Small, so it can be hard to get seating. Can be depressing looking at some of these gambling addicts.
Cover:Free
M:Arbatskaya
Address:Novy Arbat 21

Royale

Cheers:Michael Bass gave this a "double thumbs up" last year. Blow your money in style.
Jeers:Michael Bass gave it a "double thumbs up." Lame disco downstairs.
Cover:Extremely complicated: either $15 for men, $10 for women; free on weekdays, or see below for concerts
Concerts:$20-$30
M:Begovaya
Phone:945-1963
Address:Begovaya Ul. 22
Hours:Daily from 22.00 to 5:00

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