and the winner is

For me, it's now official -- the Red Room is the best "block" bar on the block (Hustler continues to be very different -- also, not very good in terms of fun, but that's a different review).

Why? One thing -- the quality of the dancers.

Again, this is graded against scale -- we're not talking about comparison with, say, the typical Friday night in Fell's Point . But for the block, it's something. Every other club, you're lucky to get one girl who you'd be interested in being with if everything from drinks on were free; if you find, two, go out and buy some lottery tickets. But RR almost always has at least 2, and sometimes more.