Pacha New York is Number One
Author: Jonty Skrufff
Friday, December 15, 2006
Erick Morillo branded Pacha the best club in New York this week, as the Manhattan superclub prepared to celebrate its first birthday with Erick spinning all night long (December 16).
“I thought it would take over a year for Pacha to establish itself as the number one club in New York, but in just ten months I believe that Pacha now dominates the New York club scene,” the Subliminal Records chief suggested.
“Pacha is a brand that has distinguished itself from other nightlife venues and has limitless possibilities. They effortlessly put VIPs and celebrities in the same room as clubbers, which we have also achieved in New York,” he added.
The Chelsea club’s efforts failed to impress key downtown tastemaker Trish Romano from the Village Voice, who failed to mention the club at all in her new annual Fly Life Awards. She did, however, launch a cutting attack on the Manhattan VIP staple known as ‘bottle service’, where wealthy clubbers pay hundreds of dollars for their own bottle of champagne or vodka, and a bar table.
“The only solace we can take is that bottle service keeps all the morons sequestered as far away from the rest of us as humanly possible,” Romano quipped in her category ‘Nightlife Trend That Should Die a Slow, Excruciating, Torturous Death’.
“Can we look into opening one more bottle-service spot on the moon- Please-” (Village Voice)
Her tirade against VIP clubbing came some two months after Orlando nightspot Destiny raised the bar even higher, with state of the art facilities that delighted Orlando Sentinel reporter Kelly Fitzpatrick.
“The VIP areas, however, are some of the nicest I've seen,” she wrote in her review of the club’s opening night gig by Paul Oakenfold.
“Three ‘skybox’-type rooms overlook the downstairs dancing and range up to $2,000 a night. The popular ‘bedroom’ concept is used in another upstairs area, with white linens and pillows waiting for you to spill your red wine on them,” she added.
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