London’s Café de Paris in Coventry Street is wowing its guests as ever!
If you want to book a night out to remember try The Café de Paris in London’s West End. Currently wowing the crowds is a burlesque cabaret focussed loosely around the famous Seven Deadly sins. This building itself which is listed is a gem in the heartbeat of great places to spend a few hours and be treated to some of the most eye popping, mouth watering, brain stunning acts you are likely to see for a long while – that is unless you go back and see them again! Café de Paris is in Coventry Street just off London’s Leicester Square. So easy to find!
Reuben Kay – who is an Australian by birth, is the compere who opens the show on a neat little stage which is surrounded by diners – though the tables are removed later in the evening to make room for dancing and drinking with a wonderfully well organised sound system playing songs that will make you want to dance ’til the early hours of the day. Above the diners, in a horseshoe-shaped space are drinking only guests who can look down into the fun whilst being served by attentive waiting staff who will fulfill your every need. The seats are cosy and comfortable and there are low tables to accommodate your beverages. Myself and friend shared two bottles of the house red – more than very drinkable at a cost of £22 per bottle plus service charges. Our waitress from Lithuania had a law degree and yet has chosen to serve so far, eight years at the magnetic venue rather than work as a solicitor – such is the mesmerism of the place.
If you are expecting the compere to mince his words, or come across as a soft- soaping, diligent, respectable individual think again! Reuben Kay primes his audience up to laugh, gasp, wink, recoil at the same time as being highly dazzling and Reuben is camp with a capital C. He has echoes in his theatrical ways of the legend David Bowie! It’s all part of the fun. Following on from his visually dazzling outfit and stunningly made up face come a troupe of artists who have honed their art to perfection – sword swallowing, fire eating and antics juggling a hoop with four flames on it by a burlesque lady are included in the show, not to mention tricky hoop antics and high falluting mini-moves with footwork. I believe that if you go in to Café de Paris dressed up to impress all the other guests, or even dressed- down if you’ve had a busy day, sit down and relax, you will find an evening stretching into the morning which will be crystallised in your memory for ever as an experience of the intimacy of the performances by these wonderful energetic artists who whisk their audiences up into a frenzy of exotic, erotic and exciting times that will be etched on your memory forever. Don’t just take my words for it – go there are enjoy! And take your friends too!
Penny Nair Price