This review should be long overdue, but it seems when everyone crashes to their beds after a long hard night partying, one forgets the good and bad details of that night. Embassy touts itself as the classiest, snottiest dance club in the whole country where everyone begs to be in their permanent guestlist. Composed of the VIP room (plays hiphop & R&B), Main Room (House &Trance), Cuisine (Chillout & Lounge) and the Cafeteria (nothing here but food). With the current crop of clubs and party places in the metro, there are no other place that can equal Embassy's insouciance. Why, they even have the resident Queen Bitch to flush out unruly clubbers (and thats excluding the usual coterie of bouncers). Embassy, like Nuvo, M Cafe and Citrus, is a place to be seen. Forget the expensive cocktails and the irritatingly loud music on the Main Room (if you wont get hammered by your drink, chances are you'll get your eardrums busted by the super loud music). Embassy is prettier during events. I have been to several ones and I loved the rainbow laser lights that hit the disco balls, the smoke effects, but what annoyed me was the confetti rain. I was wearing white shirts that time and since I got all sweaty from you know what, I left the club with my shirt in soaked in different colors. The VIP room was so packed the last time I was there (last Saturday), and so sod it, I just left when I found myself wading through so many people just to get thru the bar.Hiphop and RnB is not my thing so getting myself in the VIP doesnt matter. I used to go to Embassy almost every weekend a few months ago, unfortunately, I figured out that the same music gets played everytime I go there. There was one time that we would time the song Fly Away by Jean Claude Ades, we noticed that it gets played around 1 AM. Always! Cuisine's chillout is the best place to go people watching. Friday and Saturday is the best time to go there, have some few heady cosmopolitans before heading to the Main Room. My friend Edge and the Soundsgood Crew; and Calypso Events' Soulshine spin some soulful and classy grooves. I just wished they put on some more lighting effects. The food in the Cafeteria is Okay, probably one of the more expensive tapsilog in town. My basic complaint with Embassy is the annoyingly loud music at the Main Room and the music is so unfresh.The music at the VIP Room leaves much to be desired. And yeah, maybe they should invest in better special lighting effects, because after the second set, everything becomes boring.
LOL. Well written review though!
ReplyDeleteThanks!.. Really and she can kick and scream if she needs be! We just try to avoid her way...I think she needs a few drinks to loosen up. :P
ReplyDeletei get bored in embassy :) lol.
ReplyDeleteActually we avoided Embassy for about 3 months!
ReplyDeletehaha last time i went there was hmmm.... forgot :)
ReplyDeletehmm.. me now off to my situps then shower then head to 2 parties for the night..
ReplyDeleteI remember when I was still working in MTV Philippines, damn we were all excited because Embassy was just right next to our office. Imagine this: one side of our pantry is the same wall of Embassy... and almost everyone in MTV marketing and account management groups were the Club's VIPs. Anyways, we were excited. But my excitement faded away - just like what you said - after the second set. One thing I do not like so much about Embassy is its flooring. It feels and looks a lot like a ballroom party with the kind of flooring they have in Embassy. I also expected more from the VIP lounge... I wish they made it more comfortable and shiny (with shiny I mean more glamorous) than the usual oh-we-separated-an-area-let's-name-it-VIP-lounge space they have. Also what I do not like about Embassy at least until when I left for Saigon is the obvious - its crowd quality has deteriorated over time.
ReplyDeleteThey renovated recently but still you can only do so much diba? They raised the Entrance Fees to 600PhP, a bit stiff for the same old deejays that plays the same music. It comes with 2 drinks but hey, I get my ears busted for free anyway so what the heck? I look forward to Zouk Manila. hehehehe... ;) Yep true, glamour has to take on new meaning - entrance should be judged by appearance (come on, this is a perfect excuse to be shallow) not by the bank accounts. ;)
ReplyDeleteWell they renovated recently, but like you can only do so much right? 600PhP entrance is a stiff price for the same old deejays playing the same old music- I have better songs on my MP3 player! Besides, I get my eardrums busted for free. Cant wait for Zouk! Hopefully Zouk's presence could up the ante in Manila's party scene.Manila crowd is hard to please you know. ;) Maybe Embassy could be more selective of the people they let in- this is a chance to be shallow!!! Come on appearance and coolness factor first before the bank accounts!
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