Cricket Lounge is a sort-of weird...

Cricket Lounge is a sort-of weird experience. It has the feel of an off-the path trashy nudie bar, but with college-aged girls. It is located randomly in the middle of an otherwise growing upscale residential/commercial area. There is no designated parking, though there is usually space available on the street. $5 cover gets you in. I've been there on random weeknights, and there will usually be 3-4 patrons at the bar, talking to the waitress or dancers, or watching a Pirates/Penguins game on the TV. There is a single stage with a few poles. The nights I have been there, there were a few patrons up front, and a few at tables nearby. The overall lounge is dark, and has the feel of a dive bar with a random strip club stage attached. Lap dances are done up a flight stairs. Single dances are in curtained off-booths; multiple dances go to a private room, which I haven't been inside. Lap dances here are the same $25 as the rest of the city.

The dancers themselves are hit or miss. Usually, out of 5-6 rotating girls, there are usually 2 genuinely attractive ones; the rest vary from cute to boring to occasionally ugly. The nice thing about the dancers is that they are all pretty young [would guess 19-25], and in pretty good shape. They are mainly white, occasionally have seen a black dancer. This might all be unappealing if one of the attractive dancers wasn't Bentley. She is probably 20 years old, with a ridiculous face and body; she generally works all 6 nights the club is open. Her stage dances are good, but a little unenthusiastic; that being said, she is pretty good about sensing what the person in front of her wants to see. One-on-one, she is sweet and a good conversationalist. Her lap dances are still a little detached, but she makes up for the boredom she puts forward on stage.

Also, I know the Cricket has just hired a bunch of new dances, though I haven't been back since they started dancing. I would go back to check them out, or just to see Bentley again; otherwise there are probably places with a better selection of dancers in Pittsburgh.