Having lived downtown Toronto for many years (most of my 20's) I can admit that I know this city and it's bars well. This past weekend, my girlfriends and I were celebrating a friend getting married and decided to take our party to Maison. Seeing as how I know the city well, I knew which promoter to call and get on the guestlist in advance.. and made sure we were all at the club before 11. (It was the last night of tiff)
What I didn't know was that Maison exclusively hires douchebags on power trips as bouncers.
Not only did they make us wait in line at 1030.. but then didn't honour the fact that we were on a guestlist! 6 of us arrived first, told them which list we were on and all was ok.
Then the rest arrived and somehow 15 girls in line who knew each other was unacceptable. Not that it should matter, but I'm talking about a group of beautiful, spectacularly dressed women.
I overheard the head douche tell the assistant douche to make an excuse and not let us in. For what reason I'm not sure. Perhaps because I didn't slip him some bills.. or my number when he gave me 'the look'??
Whatever reason, I'm thankful the night turned out the way it did. Being connected girls from this city, we were easily able to move our party elsewhere and had a fabulous night.
I am ashamed to have a club like this in my city. Never in my life have I been treated like this anywhere! Maison is a disgrace to Toronto.
*Just for the record, the only reason we chose Maison is because of the cheese factor*
**also note we were not a 'Bachelorette party' with veils etc**