Cain
544 27th Street
New York NY 10001

Cain New York opens its super-exclusive doors for a New Year’s Eve experience like no other! Start 2010 in VIP fashion at New York City’s ultra-chic wild, sexy safari themed lounge. The atmosphere is intoxicating from the moment you step into a sumptuous room designed after a South African game lodge. Bid farewell to 2009 in the hottest lounge where only the most beautiful people play. The sunken dance floor, signature cocktails and an ambiance all to it’s own, Cain brings you to an exotic New Years night. Experience a night like no other the ultra-VIP treatment only celebutantes, socialites and models receive and reserve a VIP table with its oversized banquettes strewn with pillows and your friends will experience a night like no other.

The "luxe" version of the club's predecessor, Cain, still channels elements of South Africa, evident in the giant elephant tusks surrounding the pillars and the zebra print wrapping the DJ booth. You can also still count on a line out front, and a crowd composed of table service-type guys and girls ready to drop dollars to party in style. But a lot has changed in the transformative process, too. The placement of the DJ booth, for example, in the back of the club as opposed to in front is part of the lounge's revamped acoustic system. Also new is the scantily-clad dance troupe on staff, set to perform nightly.

Cain Luxe - Cain always had one of the city's top décors, what it lacked these last few years however is the A-list crowd that the nightclub had come to be associated with when it first opened. Unfortunately despite a revamp, which transformed the previously African-themed joint into a Afro-Parisian one (think brass meets mohair) now called "Cain Luxe," the re-model not only failed to update the décor for the better, it seemingly failed to attract the crowd the revamp seemed aimed at. On the upside the bridge-and-tunnel crowd dancing and drinking the night away around faux elephant tusk columns isn't unbearably skin-to-skin like it ones was – though when it comes to skin, there's no lack of it showing in the skimpily dressed crowd (ie short dresses for the ladies, chest-hair for the men). There's also a new state-of-the-art sound system and the sexed-up, provocative dance troupe, Raising Cain, (kind of The Box meets an over-the-top Sweet 16 performance), is a nightly staple. Champagne lovers opting for bottle service will not be disappointed as there's a focus on the pricey French bubbly. All that said, Cain Luxe seems far from pioneering a 27th street's club row revival.