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List of supper clubs

This is a list of supper clubs. A supper club is a traditional dining establishment that also functions as a social club. The term may describe different establishments depending on the region, but in general, supper clubs tend to present themselves as having a high-class image, even if the price is affordable to all. A newer usage of the term supper club has emerged, referring to underground restaurants.

Supper clubs are more formal than casual restaurants and bars.

Supper clubs

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A postcard of the bar at Babette's
  • Babette's – also known as Babette's Supper Club, it was a supper club and bar at 2211 Pacific Avenue on the Boardwalk of Atlantic City, New Jersey. It operated from the early 1920s onwards and was sold in 1950. The bar was designed like a ship's hull. In the backroom was a gambling den, which was investigated by the federal authorities and raided in 1943.
  • Bagdad Supper Club – a theater and entertainment venue located on north side of what then was U.S. Route 80, but now is U.S. Route 180, east of Grand Prairie, Texas, at the corner of Bagdad Road and Main Street, it opened Thanksgiving Day 1928 and was an opulent palatial facility that offered dining, dancing, and music.
  • Catalina Bar & Grill – also called Catalina Jazz Club, it is a prominent jazz club and restaurant on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California
  • Chez Ami Supper Club – also called The Chez Ami, it was a former supper club located at 311 Delaware Avenue in Buffalo, New York that opened 1934. The interior of Chez Ami was designed by C. Theodore Macheras who used art-deco elements of mirrors, neon, indirect lighting and plush carpeting to achieve a modern entertainment experience. The centerpiece of Chez Ami was a revolving bar, purported to be the first of its kind in America, and- took 7 ½ minutes to make a complete cycle.[7]
  • Club Saint-Germain – a former jazz club located at 13 rue Saint-Benoît in the 6e arrondissement de Paris, it was opened in 1947 by Boris Vian and staged central figures in the French jazz scene such as Barney Wilen, René Urtreger, Django Reinhardt, and Pierre Michelot throughout the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. The building of the defunct Club Saint-Germain is now home to the supper club Bilboquet.
  • Evans Music-and-Supper Rooms – a former entertainment venue for music and singing in early nineteenth century that was located at 43 King Street, Covent Garden, London, England.
  • The Fainting Club – a members-only supper club for women founded in 2014 by artist Zoe Crosher, it started in Los Angeles[8] and now has chapters worldwide including in New York, Mexico City, London, Berlin, Paris and Hong Kong.[9]
 
The building of the former The Gobbler supper club
  • The Gobbler – a former motel, supper club, and roadside attraction in Johnson Creek, Wisconsin, United States. It was designed in the late 1960s by Fort Atkinson architect Helmut Ajango for local poultry processor Clarence Hartwig and opened in 1967. It included a rotating circular bar that completed one revolution every 80 minutes. The Gobbler was reopened in December 2015 as the Gobbler Theater.
  • Gus Stevens Seafood Restaurant & Buccaneer Lounge – a former restaurant and supper club in Biloxi, Mississippi, its restaurant building was constructed with a Moroccan architecture style turret. It was famous in the 1950s and 1960s and hosted many famous entertainers, including Andy Griffith,[10] Mel Torme, Rudy Vallee, and Jerry Lee Lewis.[10] It is also well known as the last place where Jayne Mansfield performed; she died early the next morning in a car crash while being driven from the club.[11] • The Holiday House. Winding up as a 900 seat showroom in Monroeville,Pa, 15 mi. east of downtown Pittsburgh, the facility housed a hotel, several eateries in addition to the showroom, several themed bars, a comedy club, disco, and several small businesses including a Hong Kong Tailor. The showroom was usually open with a headline act for two shows Tuesday thru Saturday, featuring top tier talent. The room closed in 1981 and the property was developed as a shopping center.
  • Metropolitan Opera Club – a private social club within the Metropolitan Opera House in New York that was founded in 1893 and incorporated in 1899. The Club maintains its own dining room that was designed by Angelo Donghia and later renovated by Peter Pennoyer. The Club was founded in 1893 when a collection of New York Society gentlemen created a private supper club in a lobby of the old Metropolitan Opera House on West 39th Street while the back of the house was under renovation after a fire.[12][13] Known as the "Vaudeville Club", members and their guests dined and watched performances from a miniature stage designed by Stanford White, a founding member.[14][13]
  • Pigalle Club – a former supper club and live music venue in Piccadilly, London, owned by John Vincent Power.[15][16] It closed in 2012.[17]
  • Pith – a former supper club in New York City that was open from September 2015 until May 31, 2016.[18]
 
Patrons at the Shore Club having a lobster supper
  • Shore Club – located in Hubbards, Nova Scotia and was opened in 1946, it purveys the "Original Nova Scotian Lobster Supper"
  • Smoke Jazz & Supper-Club Lounge – an influential jazz club based on the Upper West Side of New York City, it was founded on April 9, 1999
  • Song and supper room – a former dining club in Victorian England in which entertainment and good food were provided. They provided an alternative to formal theatre and music hall with a good convivial atmosphere in which the customers were encouraged to perform themselves.[19]
  • Time Supper Club – the first supper club in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, it gradually turned into a night club
  • Triad Theatre – formerly known as Palsson's Supper Club, Steve McGraw's, and Stage 72[20][21][22][23][24] it is a performing arts venue located on West 72nd Street on New York's Upper West Side
  • Volxkuche, VoKu, peoples kitchen, free supper club and kitchen for all are names used by the alternative scene (left) for a weekly or regularly occurring group cooking event, at which the meal is served free of charge or at cost. The name derives from the German expression "people's kitchen" (soup kitchen), as a secular counterpart of the Christian soup kitchen.

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Van Meter, J. (2004). The Last Good Time: Skinny D'Amato, the Notorious 500 Club, and the Rise and Fall of Atlantic City. Crown Publishing Group. p. 242. ISBN 978-1-4000-5297-4.
  2. ^ Van Meter, Jonathan (2004). The Last Good Time: Skinny D'Amato, the Notorious 500 Club, and the Rise and Fall of Atlantic City. Crown Publishing Group. ISBN 978-1-4000-5297-4.
  3. ^ "Atlantic City Offers Stars". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. 4 May 1955. p. 13.
  4. ^ "Watch, Or No, Prices Are Up". Billboard: 60. 18 July 1953.
  5. ^ "Music: As Written". Billboard: 36. 3 July 1948.
  6. ^ McShane, Larry (7 November 1989). "Mr. TV at 80 no longer wears a dress". The Daytona Beach News-Journal. p. 9A.
  7. ^ "Chez Ami, Buffalos Theater Restaurant, 311 Delaware Avenue". forgottenbuffalo.com. Retrieved 2015-08-28.
  8. ^ "#ChicEats: Exclusive Supper Clubs to Try". 21 September 2015.
  9. ^ "8 Fabulous "Secret" Supper Clubs in NYC - March 26, 2015 - NewYork.com". 26 March 2015.
  10. ^ a b [CLOTHIER WANTS OLD CLUB DEVELOPER NEEDS CITY TO GRANT A VARIANCE] Sun Herald - December 3, 1999 - A1 LOCAL-FRONT "IN THE 50s and 60s, stars gravitated to Gus Stevens' nightclub in Biloxi. Today, the wrecking ball is closing in on a piece of history."
  11. ^ Mansfield Memories Many Know the Legend, but Until Now, Few Knew the Truth Behind that Fatal Night. Kat Bergeron / The Sun Herald (Biloxi, MS) Section: LOCAL-FRONT, Page: A1 2000
  12. ^ Bonner, Eugene (1949). The Club in the Opera House: The Story of the Metropolitan Opera Club. New York: The Metropolitan Opera Club.Pages 16-17
  13. ^ a b "Opera Club". The New Yorker: 11. 22 February 1936.
  14. ^ Bonner 1949, p. 16.
  15. ^ "Mr John Vincent Power". duedil.com.
  16. ^ Time Out, The Pigalle Club.
  17. ^ "The former Pigalle club reopens in Piccadilly under new name of Werewolf". Evening Standard. 23 April 2014. Archived from the original on 18 December 2014. Retrieved 18 December 2014.
  18. ^ Vilensky, Mike (5 May 2016). "Columbia Student Restaurateur 86ed From University Housing". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 10 September 2016.
  19. ^ Ronald Pearsall (1973), "The Song and Supper Rooms", Victorian popular music, ISBN 9780715356890
  20. ^ Reviews/Theater; 'Showing Off,' an Incisive Look at Manhattan Life 28 May 1989
  21. ^ NEIGHBORHOOD REPORT: UPPER WEST SIDE; Curtain to Fall on Old-Time Cabaret 26 June 1994
  22. ^ Today in Theatre History: May 20
  23. ^ Triad Theater Rebrands Itself as Stage 72; Venue to Re-Launch in November Archived 2014-07-14 at the Wayback Machine
  24. ^ The Triad - Time Out New York
  25. ^ Coldwell, Will (2016-02-20). "5 of the best sharing economy apps and sites for travellers". the Guardian. Retrieved 2016-05-17.
  26. ^ "Bröder öppnar dörren till det franska köket med AirDine". www.ehandel.se. Retrieved 2016-05-17.
  27. ^ "Bröder startar krog på 24 kvadratmeter". Skånska Dagbladet. 2016-02-22. Retrieved 2016-05-17.
  28. ^ "Lyckad premiär för lägenhetskrog". Skånska Dagbladet. 2016-02-26. Retrieved 2016-05-17.
  29. ^ "Appen som ska slå upp dörrarna till svenskens kök". Veckans affärer. Retrieved 2016-05-17.
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