Can Can   

Preview My group of sixteen made reservations at the Can Can for New Years over a month in advance of their New Years Eve Masquerade event after reading several positive performance reviews in The Stranger and Seattle Weekly. We had heard the food left much to be desired, so we didn’t make dinner plans there. Instead, we made sure to ask if there was room for a group our size (which we later found there wasn’t), and were assured everything would be fine for drinks and performance. We were first told that we could pay the cover individually and keep separate drink tabs upon making the reservation. Then they changed their tune, and the cover price, a week or two before the event. They raised the cover by $10 and told us we had to keep it to one credit card, prepaid. By the time they made the change it was too late to make a new reservation. To top it off they called us two days before the event to change our reservation time from 9PM to 9:30PM because they were afraid our table wouldn’t be ready… The Event …And our table wasn’t ready. In fact, despite our early reservation, early $400 payment, and timely arrival at 9:30 – as asked – the table wasn’t ready until 11PM! Sixteen people waited around in the "foyer" of their tiny, basement-level, dungeon for nearly two hours for our table on New Years Eve. When we asked what the story was the manager replied that the table ahead of us was "refusing to leave." To which my boyfriend replied, "And you didn’t tell them ahead of time that there were other reservations tonight?" Then, when the "VIP" section seating that we thought we had reserved finally became available, we could hardly see the stage. First drinks served? 11:30 PM. The Best Part The show was awful. AWFUL. From my standing place in the corner of the bar – where our "VIP" table was – I could clearly make the assessment that a better burlesque performance would be had at the Lusty Lady.

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