Club Eden is no longer. In...

Club Eden is no longer. In September 2014, the club was reopened as Cabaret NOLA, supposedly under new management. I stopped by about a week after the grand opening on a Friday evening. The club is located on a side street off of Veterans Memorial Boulevard. Parking is very limited in front of the club. You may have to park in the nearby parking lot for Dollar General and Big Lots and walk. The cover charge is $10 at the door. Walking in, there is a bar to your right and the stage is to your left. The VIP rooms are located in the far back corner on the left side of the room. Since the club is in Jefferson Parish, dancers must wear pasties over their tits. They take off their tops on the one-pole, oval stage, but cannot have contact with tippers at the stage. The most contact I got was being able to stick dollars in a dancer’s g-string. The music played by the DJ here was surprisingly eclectic and interesting. I was already drunk so I just had a Red Bull. The Red Bull was only $2, a good deal for a strip club. I think this was because there is a Happy Hour from 7pm until 9pm every night, where drinks are only $2.

Dancers were in the 5-8 range and either Caucasian, black, or mixed. The eight dancers on duty on an early Friday evening were very low hustle, which was kind of nice. Most of them were tatted and smokers, but in their mid twenties. Lap dances were $30 per song. I went back with a dancer who was a 7 in looks to one of the ten VIP booths. She touched me mostly; I only touched her hips and sides. It was a decent grind, but $20 would have been a better value for what you get. This is a clean club, meaning extras do not occur here. There is a big difference between Jefferson Parish clubs and Orleans Parish clubs.

I got into a conversation with one dancer about if the club gets busy or not, since there were only three customers on a Friday at 7pm. She said that Cabaret NOLA is the closest strip club to the airport, so most of their patrons are guys staying at hotels near the airport or oil and gas industry workers that fly in and out of the airport. I guess I can see why people would settle for a tamer, laid-back experience in Metairie in lieu of: driving to the French Quarter, trying to find and pay for parking, and then paying outrageous drink prices. I’d probably come back to Cabaret NOLA if I was staying or living in Metairie, but do not think I’d make the journey from downtown just to hit this club. Cabaret NOLA is the last remaining strip club in Metairie, and it is one of only two strip clubs remaining in Jefferson Parish; the other is Scores West in Harvey.