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| - I've been to Everleigh a few times before this past Saturday. I've been to this venue in its Century Room days as well. I don't usually write reviews but I signed up to be able to write this one! VERY unprofessional employees, and possibly racist attitude has me fuming. I will not be returning here ever again, and neither will a lot of my friends. I doubt that our boycott will harm any financial revenue, but this is more about the attitude we encountered and running-at the end of the day-a BUSINESS in an ethical manner.
Prior to this night, I've had some very enjoyable nights there. Bartenders usually have some attitude here but honestly, I'm not there to talk to them, so as long as I can get my drink and get back to the dance floor, I am happy. The music is amazing on Saturday nights-good mix of hip hop, top 40, and some good old school jams. The place is normally packed, crowd itself is great, washrooms not so impressive, but you can make do. The space itself is open, so not much bumping into one another. The decor is nice-graffiti inspired too.
I've never, ever had an issue getting into any place in my 10+ years clubbing including places all over the world when I've travelled (or Everleigh for all the other times I've been here), but on this night we encountered the most inconsistent, unprofessional employee at the door.
I was DD that night so I was well aware of what was happening. We reached the club at around 1am. This is normal for me and my girlfriends and this is the time at which I've come here before-no problem then. I went up to short stack, Mr. Roly-Poly in the front with a combover, and a beard and politely asked if he knew how long the line would take. He said 30-40 mins. I said thank you and got in line. Mind you - this line is for people WITHOUT a guest list and ever since Century Room days, it has been this way, the same line, on the left of the doors.
As I'm standing there with my girlfriend and others trying to get in same as us, he decides to walk up to my part of the line and suddenly asks if people are on guest list and announces this is now an A-list line (does anyone know what that is? This is Toronto buddy, not L.A. LOL) - everyone in this line was looking at each other slightly confused because the Guest list line is on the other side and no one knew what an A-list line was. He didn't wait for any answers and opened the rope right in front of me and asked me to step out. I didn't know why he was doing this so I stepped out for a moment. He closed the rope behind me and just left. I got back in line. For the rest of the time we were in line, he kept coming to my section and asking the same question-I would just look at him-and he once said "There's no point in hiding" because I was standing behind a VERY tall gentleman. I stepped back a bit and said "Yes, I'm right here, not hiding"...at this point he clearly didn't tell me to step back out because there was nothing I'd really done. As we get to the front, the group ahead of us is asked by him if they are on Guest list. They said no-they got in(?) SO at this time me and my two girl friends and I get to the front. He is there and informs us that we are not getting in but then walks away. We ourselves look Indian/Persian and now we have a group of about 5 African-Canadian persons get in line behind us. They are all buff - great looking bunch, modelesque even. Suddenly Mr. Roly-Poly loses himself and now announces that no one is getting in and that we should all find another venue. HMMMM, now there were too many coloured people in line to even handle on his own and he just really wanted us all to leave. He opened the rope in front of us then and said we are not getting in.
There were NO altercations upto this point, we stood in line patiently, and politely. This Mr. Roly-Poly had it in for us from the start. Making up stories about G-list and A-list etc., and confusing people. And the minute there were too many coloured people in line - he just had to somehow find a way to get us all out of there. We were very offended because we could see what had transpired in the 30 mins we were in line. So as I left I asked him if he felt like a bada** doing his $10 hour job on the weekend and told him letting people into the club doesn't require as many brain cells as he thought...his "authority" meant nothing. One of the other bouncers just asked what happened-he could see what had happened but didn't have much say. But at this point we mouthed off and left because the discrimination was obvious.
My birthday happens to be NEXT saturday and I was actually considering getting at least two booths and ton of extra bottles for approx.. 35-40 people. I was deciding between Muzik and here. Muzik will get my business. We went to Thompson afterwards - not a problem. Disgusted with Everleigh. Will never come back here again. It's not a 5-star club and they should remember that. Apologies for a lengthy review but this was unacceptable.
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