If you can't stomach Rasputin for its outrageous decadence and the centrally located Little Red Riding Hood (Krasnaya Shapochka) offers stipteases of the wrong gender, the newly opened Rhino Spearmint Gentlemen's Club may offer just the thing for you.
Spearmint Rhino is an American chain and the new venue on Novy Arbat ?€” which celebrated its grand opening last weekend ?€” is its first club to open in Moscow.
The club offers grand-scale shows featuring 50 dancers, who management said were selected from among the city's best erotic dancers. And American dancers ?€” imported from Rhino Spearmint clubs in the United States ?€” are among the stars of the show.
Among the club's other attractions is the fact that Rhino Spearmint is surprisingly quiet and laid-back for a Moscow strip club ?€” and that it appears to be (at least for the moment) absent the flathead factor.
For now, the majority of the club's clientele are Western businessmen and harmless, if serious-looking, Russians, all of whom spend their time sipping beer and chatting with the dancers, who roam the club totally naked ?€” like so many modern-day Lady Godivas.
Located behind the Novy Arbat shopping mall, Spearmint Rhino isn't easy to spot, a fact that may end up working in the club's favor. After all, if the Metelitsa-going public ?€” with its fantasies of naked pop star Irina Saltykova dancing in its collective head ?€” fails to notice Spearmint Rhino, the club will be the better for it.
Cover: $20. 19/2 Novy Arbat (in the courtyard, through the arch). Metro Arbatskaya. Tel. 203-4614/9245/9607. 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. Credit cards: all.
Spearmint Rhino is an American chain and the new venue on Novy Arbat ?€” which celebrated its grand opening last weekend ?€” is its first club to open in Moscow.
The club offers grand-scale shows featuring 50 dancers, who management said were selected from among the city's best erotic dancers. And American dancers ?€” imported from Rhino Spearmint clubs in the United States ?€” are among the stars of the show.
Among the club's other attractions is the fact that Rhino Spearmint is surprisingly quiet and laid-back for a Moscow strip club ?€” and that it appears to be (at least for the moment) absent the flathead factor.
For now, the majority of the club's clientele are Western businessmen and harmless, if serious-looking, Russians, all of whom spend their time sipping beer and chatting with the dancers, who roam the club totally naked ?€” like so many modern-day Lady Godivas.
Located behind the Novy Arbat shopping mall, Spearmint Rhino isn't easy to spot, a fact that may end up working in the club's favor. After all, if the Metelitsa-going public ?€” with its fantasies of naked pop star Irina Saltykova dancing in its collective head ?€” fails to notice Spearmint Rhino, the club will be the better for it.
Cover: $20. 19/2 Novy Arbat (in the courtyard, through the arch). Metro Arbatskaya. Tel. 203-4614/9245/9607. 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. Credit cards: all.