A stitch in time

Last night was a mates birthday and we all went out, she paid £500 for a table in The Café De Paris, in London's Piccadilly. The club itself is stunning as you can see from the photos (click images to enlarge), it's been open for some 90 years according to their website.

Unfortunately last night wasn't as good a birthday party as it should've been. We arrived at 10pm all of us were on a guest list and as I said my friend had paid £500 for the table. At this point one guy was turned away for wearing trainers, fair enough, then a second was turned away for wearing Timberland boots with a 'no hoodies comment' thrown in, now his jacket had a hood but he was smartly dressed and most certainly no hoodie. The third was turned away for a pair of black boots and the fourth was turned away for arguing with the doormen.

Due to £500 already being spent we carried on with the party whilst the guys who were turned away went on somewhere else, we weren't all that happy. As the night went on a few more managed to get in and then another four were refused. None of them were dressed against the strict dress code policy, all were smart casual with shoes, only all four were black.

It was at this point I went in collected my coat and left, going to the other club with the guys. Out of nine people on guest lists where a table had been paid for seven of them were black and were not dressed in any way that contravened the dress code on The Café De Paris own website for Saturday night.