Club41

Tijuana's new dance bar Club41 has it's grand opening today.
Doors open at 6:00 p.m.
Located downtown on Avenida Revolución between 1st & 2nd.
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Day after report (Thursday, August 27, 2009):

BMG arrived for the grand opening at about 9:00 p.m. and the doors weren't open to the public yet due to some technical delay. All of the waiters were standing outside on the sidewalk. Manager and co-owner Jesús "El Puré" Rodriguez, who used to own and manage the former Terrazas 9 lgbt dance bar on 6th was out directing everything amongst the waiters, photographer, and search lights.

About a half hour later the ribbon-cutting ceremony to the stairway that leads up to the second story establishment got under way. By then the place had about 200 patrons, and about another 100 trickled in within the next hour. Except for a 5-minute power outage during the first hour, everything seemed to go smooth the rest of the evening.

The majority of patrons consisted of middle and upper-class twinkadonnas. The rest were mostly middle-age men.

On the corner of 2nd & Revolucion is the gay dance bar Colibri, also know as Camaleon. The owner opened up another gay dance bar right next to it called Freedom, which later closed down. Club41 now occupies that space. It is nicely decorated and upscale. It has a somewhat small stage that also serves as a dance floor when the three hot male strippers that were entertaining from it last night are not using it.

The live dj-choreographed dance music and videos on big flat screen TVs that go along with it consists of mostly techno/house mixes--instrumentals, and English and Spanish vocals.

The club has a full bar. A cubeta (bucket) of 30 bottles of beer costs $180 pesos ($14 dollars U.S.). Those of us who had a grand opening VIP pass got our first beer free.

Like Colibri, the place is probably going to be more of a gathering place for friends and couples rather than a cruise bar.