{"id":28746,"date":"2024-07-13T12:20:21","date_gmt":"2024-07-13T16:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.orlandoentertainmentnews.com\/?p=28746"},"modified":"2024-07-13T12:27:54","modified_gmt":"2024-07-13T16:27:54","slug":"club-reports-debonair-the-robinson-monkey-bar-grumpys-underground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orlandoentertainmentnews.com\/?p=28746","title":{"rendered":"Club Reports: Debonair, The Robinson, Monkey Bar, Grumpys Underground"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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We began our Friday night in downtown Orlando with a stop at new club Debonair<\/em>. It was our first time back here since we visited in January.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Still in the perch, DJ AT (USA).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The music, a light Hip Hop mix.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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There are two main rooms at Debonair<\/em>. This large room is mainly for dining.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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While the other room houses the bar along with VIP seating.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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At this very early hour there wasn’t anyone dancing but we’re told it gets packed later at night.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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When we stepped outside to leave, this Mariachi band was playing Ranchera in the CitiPlaza <\/em>courtyard.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Next stop, The Robinson Cocktail Room<\/em>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Located up on the second floor of this building, the entry line to get in can get lengthy.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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In the Disco Room<\/em> at The Robinson<\/em>, Friday night resident DJ Chino (USA).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Having just ended a House set, Chino moved over into a Latin House, Reggaeton and Hip Hop set.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The bar is located in the main room.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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It was absolutely jammed!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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They open the separate “Disco Room” around 11PM.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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When the music is good, it doesn’t take long for that room to get populated.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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You know the place is legit when you see all these shiny disco balls over the dance floor and above the DJ booth.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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They added this LED wall to the DJ booth since our last visit. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Absolutely jammed!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Next stop, The Monkey Bar<\/em>. In the vast sea of Top 40 that is Wall Street Plaza<\/em>, Monkey Bar<\/em> is an island oasis of House music. Located upstairs above Waitiki<\/em>, Monkey Bar<\/em> can be difficult to locate.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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In the booth, DJ Meghan Lee (USA). <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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House music all night long.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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She had a crowd on the dance floor.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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There was a crowd too at the inside bar.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The outside balcony bar was busy too.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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DJ Madimoneymil (USA) up next.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Just when you think you’ve met every DJ in Orlando, you meet some more. First time seeing her play.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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And then at midnight, there she was!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The headliner, DJ Arina Krondeva (RUS\/USA).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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More House and even some Breakbeats in there.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Arina had the club bouncing. Monkey Bar<\/em> is Orlando’s above-ground underground club.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Speaking of underground, time for one more stop…..Grumpys Underground<\/em>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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DJ Solstice (USA) was in the booth when we arrived a little after midnight.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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At Grumpys<\/em>, Breaks are nearly always on the menu.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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DJ J-ROK (USA) had played earlier.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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We ran into so many peeps we know from the scene!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Closer to 1AM, we spotted DJ Amber Jane (USA) with DJ Meags (USA). Together, they are DJ duo Snack Pack (USA).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Meags would take over next.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Going “old skool” on us with songs such as “Fine Day”.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Meags had the dance floor bouncing.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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She was quite animated all-set long!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Everywhere we went last night, a good time was had by all.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28793,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1899],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-club-reports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.orlandoentertainmentnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/DSCN4831-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1920&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7OlZE-7tE","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orlandoentertainmentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orlandoentertainmentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orlandoentertainmentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orlandoentertainmentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orlandoentertainmentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28746"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.orlandoentertainmentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28798,"href":"https:\/\/www.orlandoentertainmentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28746\/revisions\/28798"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orlandoentertainmentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orlandoentertainmentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orlandoentertainmentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orlandoentertainmentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}