The other day somebody suggested we have lunch at one of the strip clubs here in town to see if they were worth going to.  Strip clubs are always at least an interesting experience, so I decided to take the challenge on.  I asked around to see which gentleman’s club would be best for lunch, I got mixed response to this question(”Dios mio, you’re not going to eat there are you?”) but eventually somebody suggested we try Malibu for their lunch special.

Myself and two friends decided to go on a Wednesday afternoon at about 2pm.  We arrived and were greeted by a shifty looking bouncer that told us to find a seat and as we walked in the door we were swarmed by waiters showing us to our table.  The place was pretty busy with local businessmen and seemed to have an abundance of waitstaff around, most of which spoke some english.
I asked for a lunch menu, but was told that is not how things work, they bring you what they have for lunch and you eat it.  Sounds good, takes a lot of pressure off of the selecting quality food in the strip joint.  We ordered drinks and waited while the food arrived.

Our table quickly filled up with plates of different things, some looking better than others.  I got the waiter to explain what they were and I translated for the non-spanish speaking guests.  We had an assortment of fried chicken, fried pork, french fries, coleslaw, chips and guacamole, tuna salad, pork in red salsa, beef a la mexicana, squid ceviche, pigs feet, and chile relleno.  A feast!

I was skeptical about how the food was going to be, I was happily suprised.  The ceviche was very good, though I am a fan of the local calimar.   The chile relleno was good as well, we fought over the last bits of this.  I liked the tuna salad, though it wasn’t exactly low fat.  Guacamole and chips are almost always good.  The fried goods really made everything worth it, good fried chicken is hard to find here and this was pretty good.  Somebody had to try the pigs feet, since I was writing the review I was elected: I’m not such a fan.

The serving method of all the food was interesting, there were no seperate plates passed out, so we all had forks and sort of attacked the various piles of food like animals.  My mother would have been appalled.  I kind of liked it the system, I thought it very appropiate for a place like this.

Ahh, am I missing something?  We arrived too early for dancers, we were told that the show began at 2:30.   Punctuality not being valued here like it is in other parts of the globe, not a soul showed up to take their clothes off until at least 3:15.  I am always amused by strip-clubs, they are entertaining, but in the case of Malibu there was nothing provacative about the show.  I guess this is one of those cultural type experiences, it was more fun to watch the reactions of the other people in the place than actually watch the majority of the dancers.

We stayed for three dancers and then paid the bill and left.  We only paid for the refrescos, $40 pesos each, we each had 2, so we got out of there for less than $100 pesos per person.  Not bad for an afternoon’s entertainment.  I found it interesting that we were given a receipt upon payment of the bill and then the bouncer required us to produce the receipt as we exited, maybe there is a two drink minimum or something.

Malibu is on the Federal Highway between Constituyentes and Juarez on the Ejido side.  Any taxi driver will know how to get there.  If you are not looking for food try someplace else, like Marlin Safari or Chilli Willy’s, because the show here wasn’t all that appetizing.