Late Nights with Louie's Gal

It’s kitschy, it’s chill, it’s where you’ll come to live it up a little more. Lulu’s is quite a character. We meet the couple behind it this late-night lounge

- Grace Tay

Where do nice girls go to let their hair down? Probably not Lulu’s Lounge, which promises to keep some very bad company. This kitschy live lounge at Pan Pacific Hotel is modelled on the outlandish fancies of its fictional owner Lulu, a hard-drinking good-time girl born and raised in the Bronx. Dreamed up by nightlife veterans Joshua and Sarissa Schwartz, who also co-founded Bang Bang, the nightclub next door, Lulu’s is “frivolous, sexy and quirky” – a dive bar meets jazz lounge and burlesque club hybrid that a mobster might have built for his moll. From what they describe of her, we’re already thinking Love Majewski from early seasons of Mob Wives – but we’ll let the couple tell you more below.

Doors open at 9pm and guests can stay till dawn. Live music, bottle service, bar bites, dancing, and a different line-up every night of the week. “We’ll keep bringing in live acts that will strike a nerve of nostalgia,” Sarissa says. “Think 1990s to 2000s, in line with being true to what our clientele grew up with or have memories of.”

How did you dream up this character, Lulu?