Expensive Diamonds

I strolled into Diamonds on a recent Thursday at around 10. I had just came from Spyce, super dead at Spyce, 3 customers including me. I stayed at Spyce for maybe 2 minutes. After Spyce, I was considering going to Rouge, but I decided to stop at Diamonds first, and if Diamonds was bad I would go to Rouge. I ended up staying at Diamonds for the remainder of my night.

Diamonds is across the street from Club Rouge. Diamonds is literally the next building down from Golden Dragon. Golden Dragon is a juice bar strip club, because they don’t serve alcohol they can stay open later than the normal 2:30 am closing time for Portland strip clubs/bars. Golden Dragon is open till 6 am on the weekends. Anyways my point was quite a few girls at Diamonds will work at Diamonds till it’s 2:30 am closing time, then they’ll go over to work at Golden Dragon till 6 am.

Diamonds is in downtown Portland, so there’s no club parking lot. You will need to find street parking. They give you a pat down and it’s a 10 buck cover. The high cover is right in line with the other popular Portland downtown strip clubs (Rouge, Spyce, Golden Dragon). You walk into Diamonds, the DJ booth is on the right, and the seats are to the left. There aren’t a lot of seats, so if it gets busy you will probably be standing up. There are 2 stages, the stages are pretty high up. On this night they just had 1 stage going, but on weekends they’ll have 2 stages going. Music seemed to be mainly hip hop and R&B. The bar is straight ahead when you enter Diamonds. The drinks are more expensive than I would like. I think it was like 8 bucks for a Corona, at Rouge you can get a Corona for 6 bucks. Customer wise it was a mix of younger and older customers.