Go here if you want to get super fucked up and dance the night away to mostly top 40 pop remixes/sometimes EDM/pop depending on the night/day/holy shit I'm over-using slashes. Crowd is mainly 21~35, but there are certainly older, and - in my opinion - there is no age stigma. It depends what you're into, but here goes nothing:īlakes on the Park: Dance bar. Hopefully it can be realized some day."Good" is very subjective. So of course he has to pay the bills and now caters to a primarily African-American clientele.Ĭastleberry Hill has tons of potential though. Well once he bought the club he had the same night at Vice.needless to say It died off very quickly as I guess once the party ventured a little too close to I-20 and south of downtown that most whites/asians dont want to even both to attend anymore. On a side note my friend owns a club next to Castleberry Hill on Trinity called Vice (Used to be the Royal) which is in between two other clubs/restaurants (Icon & Chocolate Bar) he used to promote alot of parties in Midtown and one promoted with a particular event group which attracted alot of whites and asians. It's also part of the reason I travel so much back to Los Angeles and New York and other countries where people don't have as many hang-ups when it comes to partying and living in the same neighborhood.
I feel the same way BizChick.shame that Atlanta can't get it's act together because of the fears and stereotypes.This is one of the factors that might cause me to leave this city once and for all.
I'm disappointed in CH because it has potential, but like so many other social offerings in Atlanta it gets stifled due to fears. Most of these things sound like excuses honestly. Step into a trendy area of Miami, NYC, or LA and see if people don't scope you out. In fact, I've stepped in the CH bars as an African-American female and people look at me up and down, just as practically any place where it's a scene. You will not find a single bar heavy district like GV anywhere in the country without its share of noise.Īnd maybe if the residents got out more, they won't seem so foreign to the restaurant-goers. With standards that are balanced and don't place a chokehold on business, it can actually grow. If you want it to become a Greenwich Village (which is completely backwards, since that's even worse than Buckhead when it comes to noise and mess), it becomes so by residents and entrepreneurs being accepting of progress, welcoming bars and restaurants, and working to establish them. It has neither the vibrancy of Greenwich Village nor the Upper West Side, and as someone who lived in New York, the noise in GV and UWS (umm the annual, notoriously raucous and messy Halloween parade in Greenwich Village anyone?) has far surpassed anything Castleberry Hill could expect to see EVER.
At one point, Buckhead had the largest concentration of bars/restaurants in the country outside of New Orleans. During the day, it's utterly dead, and at night you've got a little foot/car traffic and whatever else it may entail (of course a bit of noise) from the FIVE bars/restaurants in the central area. The fact that it's even being compared to Buckhead is ludicrous. People are making it out to sound like Buckhead, when at most there have been THREE dedicated "bars" (5 if you count the pizza joint Slice and the tapas spot Pearl) in Castleberry Hill at any time. There are bars but not a single one is a club. But Castleberry Hill is not at all a heavy duty club district and it never was.