NOT BAD, BUT NOT GREAT

First time in Pittsburgh; Blush was right around the corner from my hotel, so I went about 10:00 on a Monday night. $10 cover, and bottled water was $4.25 at the bar. (Pretty sure they serve all manner of alcohol, but I did not partake.)

It's a pretty upscale club – and pretty vertically oriented, with a relatively small main room with bar and stage on the first floor, a balcony on the second floor, a sports bar on the third floor, and "champagne rooms" on the fourth floor – all in a fairly small footprint in this downtown location. I only experienced the first floor in the short time I was there. Perhaps by local ordinance, I saw no one smoking and there were no ashtrays on the tables.

There were about 20 girls working, mostly white, one AA and one Asian that I saw. All were very pretty – and all dressed in gowns when not on stage. There was only one stage, which had two girls dancing at a time. After each song in their three-song set, they traded sides, and were nude by the last song. There were probably 20 customers while I was there, so the small-ish room seemed pretty full. I saw an AA couple sitting at the tip rail. He had a couple of stacks of a hundred $1 bills, and he threw a fistful onto the stage every now and then at seeming random intervals. She looked bored. There were actually a *couple* of make-it-rain guys, who did it without even bothering to make eye contact with the girls. (I guess I will never understand the whole M-I-R mentality.) Others tipped girls more, uh, judiciously (as did I) and the place seemed pretty lively, so everything was cool. I sat at the bar for a while and was approached by several of the girls, who were all very friendly and appropriately chatty.