First visit: Allens Avenue is NOT Ocean Drive

After visiting Silhouettes last week for the first time, and perhaps amplified by watching National Geographic specials on the Serengeti plain in Tanzania while under lockdown for a year, I have become quite nostalgic about the Wild Zebra.

The short answer (no worries that this is a club ad) is that this place seems to represent a rather peculiar amalgamation of business decisions that appear to suggest that the NY-based ownership mistakes Allens Avenue in Providence in freezing temperatures, to the all-night-long (COVID-defying, lockdown-inducing) block party that is Ocean Drive in sunny and warm Miami, with palm trees, beaches and Lamborghinis parked up and down the street. Instead of that, Silhouettes is situated next to a chemical plant, across the street from an enormous depot of road salt for winter roads, and down the street from a large power plant. My experience was mesmerizing, and well worth the trip for me to just see the spectacle, but extremely unlikely to appeal to the majority of readership here. I expect neither to return in the near future, nor for their current business model to survive.

Now, on to specifics.