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Century Ballroom: Night of Dinner, Cabaret and Salsa Dancing

What a fun night out on Saturday! The idea of starting a dinner club came up last summer and nothing really came out of it. So I am hoping our night out last weekend will be of many more fun gatherings to come.

The evening started of fairly quitely at Havanna, a club/bar on E. Pike. Naomi suggested it, so we met her and Mark there around 4:30 for drinks. We turned out to be the only people there that early, but the place became packed later in the evening (we walked by it again on our way to the car). We were a bit disappointed by the fact that there was no food, but they do have a fairly extensive cocktail list.

Our dinner was supposed to start at 6pm and when I bought the tickets, the instructions emailed to be was that we had to be there at least 30 minutes prior to 6pm to pick up tickets. So we made it over to Century Ballroom around 5:30, just to find the door locked. Some lady there knew the back way and let us in eventually. But when we tried to talk to the people who work there, we were rudely turned away and were told that we were not allowed in until 6pm. That pissed me off, but there was not much we could have done, so we waited.

Once we were in, it got better. We had a 'complimentary' glass of champaign and the food was decent. The show was quite fun: it seemed a bit low-budget and raw, but I am pretty sure that was how the original cabarets were like. The dancers were mostly very good and it was quite enjoyable. After the show, there was the group salsa class for about 30 minutes. And most of us stayed to dance until midnight.

After we left the ballroom, Mae, Demetrios, Dan and I decided to find somewhere for a midnight snack. It was Dan and my first time hanging out at Capitol Hill area and we were quite impressed. We went to a coffee shop on Boradway called Delittante and had some really yummy cakes there. It really reminded us of True Confections in Vancouver.... in fact, the stretch of Broadway we were on was very much like part of Broadway at home!

The funny thing was that when went to look at the cakes on display, I recognize some of them as the cakes Amanda brought to work a couple of days before: her roommate is a baker and she brought home leftovers from the shop. Since I have already tried Mocha Passion (I think that was the name...), I went for the Black Forest Cherry Cake and had an almond steamed milk with it. That was a great combination and we were very proud of ourselves for being out so late!!

I definitely want to go back to the Ballroom for more dancing in the future, but I think we will have dinner elsewhere in the future first. Perhaps we will form a dinner and dance club, just not at the same venue for both!

posted by Anne-Gigi @ 10:59 AM