Venom - (206) 701-9574

• Dance Floor Lounge
• VIP Booths
• Great for Parties

Where to begin? Venom is complete garbage. Whenever I go out with my buddies and one of them mentions stopping by Venom, I just want to pull out my .45 and shoot him in the foot. The security guards treat everybody like dirt and think they are GOD. Nothing like a little 1v1 fight will settle the score. The go-go dancers freak out if you accidentally bump into them. They are not even that gorgeous. Just a bunch of college girls who are still in shape and have large breasts. I still prefer Ibiza's over Venom. I have been kicked out of Venom for bumping into a security guard unintentionally. May I remind everybody that there's 100 people crammed in a prison cell. Cover charge is too expensive. Who hell pays $15 just to get in a trashy environment? Even with the VIP pass, I pay $5...that's still too much. The day I hear that Venom gets successfully shut down is the day that I will know that there is hope in humanity. That place just attracts low class people who enjoy picking fights with random people for the most retarded reasons. DO NOT GO TO VENOM.

I arrived with a group of over 30 year old women and it was immediately obvious that our demographic was not the desired group. We were told we could sit at a booth--it was only 10:30. Then a different security guy told us we could not sit there and directed us to another. Then he came to the second booth and said that since I was "rude to him" we needed to "get out of his booth and sit in the back of the club with the non paying customers or he'd make us leave altogether, physically if he needed to." He stated he did not care about us being told it was alright to sit there. Ridiculous. When we asked several security members for the manager and the bartender for the manager or his name, no one seemed to know who it was or his phone number. One of my friend went outside to ask the security man there for the manager, and he physically shoved her back and told her she wasn't allowed back into the club. Customer service doesn't seem to exist here, and the security members know they are treating people wrong or would not refuse to contact the manager when requested. My friends and I are professional and intelligent and now offended, and will find every blog possible to inform the public of the rude treatment at this establishment.

Saturday night for gentleman was a bust. Cost me 15 for cover, the bouncer almost wouldn't let me in after waiting in line for an hour, because he didn't believe my ID was real. But was nice and finally let me in after 5 minutes of thinking about it. Drinks are roughly 10 for mixed and 4 for bottled beer, talk about ripping a person off, however my bartender was polite and fast also knew quite a few shines (or tricks with glasses while making drinks. The girls on stage were OK I guess, not ugly but I was expecting a little more, great outfits though. The guy to girl ratio was really bad, about 3 guys to each girl. And on top of that there about 60% Asian, 15% African American, 15% Hispanic, and 10% caucasian. I think I counted 5 caucasian girls. The place was packed. There is lounge seating but the music is so loud that you can't hear anybody anyways so forget about talking. And yes if you step outside for a cell phone or smoke, you get the priviledge of waiting in line once again. Bottom line find somewhere else to go.

Purveyors of quality clubbing beware: this might not be the best place to spend your Friday or Saturday night. Having international djing experience I have come across many different levels of quality of service in night clubs, and I'm afraid I have to rank Venom Seattle as one of the worst. In specific: DOOR: no dress code; on a Saturday, girls would pay 10 dollars cover, while guys 15; amazingly, the VIP lineup was LONGER than the regular lineup. MUSIC: totally uninspiring mix of last year hits and R&B "crowd-pleasers", by a dj with an impressive lack of mixing skills. BAR: the (female) bartenders were slow, unattentive and obnoxious. CROWD: most people would go to this place to get drunk and get a quick hook-up; if you're looking for hip, cool, attractive people, try something else

Venom is one of the best clubs in seattle...hands down. Great music, good men to women ratio, and DAMN GOOD DRINKS! Yes they're a little spendy, but welcome to seattle people! If you're looking for cheap drinks drag your piggy bank to a hole in the wall bar. As for security being a--holes...they're doing their job. Anything I've even seen from them has been with just cause...so don't be a d!ck or a b!tch, and you wont be treated like one =) Oh yeah and as for smoking...um, if you choose to have a cancer stick..you're chosing to leave, therefore WAIT IN LINE! Think of it as them helping your health! If you're planning a big celebration venom is the place to go...you'll get vip treatment that you can't get anywhere in Seattle!