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Life & Arts

Crome one of city's elite night clubs

Bottom's Up

Sarah Tressler

So your best friend is getting married, and you promised you would show him a diabolically good time before the big day. Or your birthday's coming up and you want to go to a kick-ass club to drink your birthday shots with your best buds. Or you just figured out long division and you need to celebrate. Whatever justification you might have come up with to drink and party with your friends, Crome Lounge should be the preferred destination. In the fashionable world of nightclubs, Crome is the equivalent of haute couture.

Crome is a lavishly decorated, impossibly popular new addition to the South Shepherd Drive corridor. The owners have managed to blend a biker bar with a luxury lounge, and the result is a major hit among the club-going crowd. A mix of plush fixtures and furniture with cold, industrial touches creates a cutting-edge atmosphere that might just leave you gaping ? especially when you spot the shiny, massive, custom-made motorcycle hovering over the VIP area. The club rotates the impressive machines featured on a stage above the crowd; several show-quality bikes are kept on hand for display.

The crowd is typically clad in button-downs, expensive jeans, designer shoes and tiny, curve-hugging camis. Be warned: this club is partially filled with silicone-bearing beauties most of the time. Do not be intimidated ? patrons are friendly, even if they're a little freaky on the dance floor. Hang out inside long enough, and you will likely see at least one girl start dancing on the bar.

Crome is a non-smoking club, which is a blessing for non-smokers who are so over the smell of cigarettes on their clothes at the end of the night. To accommodate the ever-present pal that is still friends with the Marlboro Man, Crome has two patios: a narrow one on Shepherd Drive and a wide, lofty one with a full bar, patio heaters and chic-white sofas by the main entrance. When it gets packed to the gills inside, people spill out to the larger of the two patios for drinks, cigarettes and conversations that don't require yelling.

So when you've finally mastered the principles of economics, or you just broke up with your last boyfriend (you can do so much better than him), or you have to get out of Moody Towers before you start plotting ways to booby trap your roommate's bunk, grab your friends and get to Crome. You totally deserve a night out.

Crome Lounge

2815 S. Shepherd Drive
http://cromelounge.com

Verdict: After a couple of drinks, this captivating new club will have you asking your buddies, "Wouldn't I look hot on a custom-made chopper?"

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