If You Pay You Play

The Venue: Bare Elegance stands out with its clean, well-designed layout, featuring a long bar, multiple stages, and both upstairs and downstairs private rooms. It never feels like a “dirty” strip club. The music is at a comfortable level, making it easy to chat with dancers. Notably, the food is excellent, with one of the best burgers in LA. While it’s a no-alcohol club, ordering “star water” discreetly gets you vodka in a water bottle.

The Dancers: There’s a diverse mix of dancers—Asian, white, and Black—all attractive, approachable, and friendly. Around 25 dancers are present during peak times weekdays with many more on the weekend. Most are great conversationalists, though a few can be overly sales-focused, which might not suit everyone’s preferences.

The Pricing: Prices are steep. Door cover is $20, ATM fees are $24, and dances range from $200 for 15 minutes upstairs to $400 for a more flexible 30-minute session downstairs. Some dancers are open to negotiating extras if you communicate clearly upfront, but the overall value feels slightly lacking in hindsight. I negotiated a FS extra for $800 via Venmo. Not my finest moment. Point being, it's doable.