The North Pole, Greenwich

I haven�t felt compelled to write a review like this before but I really would like to warn people about this place. We got there at about midnight and paid �5 each to get in. The ground floor bar seemed to be ok except for the fact that men out numbered women by about 10 to 1. The trouble started when we went downstairs to the basement club �the south pole�, it is seedy and again filled almost exclusively with groups of men but I was kind of expecting that from what it was like upsatirs. I was with 2 girlfriends and we walked in an started dancing after about five minutes a guy that was standing at the side came over to tell us to dance somewhere else. We took this as a joke at first and ignored it but when we didn�t move away he returned with another guy and shouted at us to move away now or he and his friend would �smash our faces in� he was in our faces at this point and a bouncer came over and told us to move away a bit but stay there so that he could see what they would do!!! I was shocked, the bouncer had seen and heard what had happened and wanted to use us as bait to see what they did! We moved to the other side of the room and continued dancing only to have the guys surrounding us start to touch us, they started my repeatedly stroking our hair and trying to grind up against us and then moved on to what can only be described as groping! We tried to fend them off and I also went to another bouncer to ask for help but he said he could do nothing and maybe we should just go upstairs and dance. We left after this, in all were there for about 45mins, as we waited for a cab upstairs we were asked by the owner how our night was, I tried to explain to him how I felt being downstairs and he laughed it off and said that as long as he doesn�t see anything he will do nothing and that the men downstairs come for a good night out too! I wasn�t drunk and I go out to clubs often, I have never experienced anything like this place before, I genuinely felt unsafe. I have been to the restaurant before and I can honestly say it was nice but I would warn any girl never to go there for a drink or to dance!

26 Oct 2010 13:10