Clermont Lounge
Address:789 Ponce De Leon Ave. NE, Atlanta, GA 30306
Date of Visit: Friday, 3/20/09, ~11pm-2am
Price: $4 or so for canned beer, around $6 for mixed drinks, the dancers charged $20 for a lap dance but if $13 and change is all you have then that’s okay too
Parking: Free lot on site plus lots of street parking
Cover: $3 on Friday nights, not sure about others
Age Restriction: 21+, carded at door and hand stamp
Atmosphere: This place is unlike any other strip club you’ll visit in the area- in fact, this is not a ‘club’ at all. The only difference between being at the Clermont and your dark, smokey neighborhood bar is that there is a naked women double your age on the bar at all times. Dancers are nice, homely, and willing to do lap dances at bargain prices, and patrons are eager to mingle.
Entertainment: The dancers are on this small round stage in the middle of the round bar that you sit at, and they dodge the bartenders to get your cash. Strippers make eye contact a lot of times and also make sure to thank you personally after their performance. They pick their own music on a jukebox before performing. Saturday nights is supposed to be more of a club setting, and Tuesdays are karaoke.
Bathrooms: Did not actually visit the bathrooms ourselves, but a chick in our party said they were horrible and everything including the floor was wet and slick…
Food: None, grab a rotisserie chicken and old, glazed donuts from Kroger (a few blocks away from Clermont on North Avenue).
Drink Selection: Full bar, nothing on tap and only standard canned beer selection
Demographics: Mix of college kids, tourists, and the regulars. The strippers are older than most of the customers.
Tips: Obvious tips: Don’t bring douche bag boys who for some reason are ‘above’ Clermont stripper lap dances for $13.64; drunk tourists here for Thrashers games will buy you drinks; the bouncer has never been gang raped inside the Clermont parking lot; if you are uncomfortable with older, larger naked women, then get drunk before you come.
Strengths: dancers with talents (crushing beer cans with boobs for $10.00-Goldie, and lighting nipples on fire- Jessica), entertaining especially after a few drinks, parking lot
Weakness: Bathrooms (not even first hand)
Overall Rating: 
Check out www.clermontlounge.net.
