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Bongani Ndlovu Showbiz Correspondent
CLUB Eden situated at Ascot Race Course in Bulawayo has been on everyone’s lips for the past year as all roads lead to the spot every Friday and Saturday night.
This place is where people go to spend the last hours of their night out; in other words this is the place where revellers stop over before going home.

Last week Friday, Saturday Leisure visited the night spot which has had DJs Vet Kook and Mahoota who last year were headliners at a show that was packed to the rafters. The visit was to find out what the hype was all about, why everyone at any nightspot would say let’s meet at Eden afterwards and why the club closes in the wee hours of Saturday or Sunday morning.

On the entrance, revellers were received by heavily built bouncers manning the door, whose job is to maintain order.
The Saturday Leisure news crew entered at 10PM and there was not much activity at the door as few people were trickling in. We paid the mandatory $5 to a light skinned lady at the door and got stamped by a bouncer at the door and entered the venue.

When the news crew entered, DJ Kananjo, the resident DJ at the joint, was on the decks as there was this thumping sound of loud music.
The first sight were people who had converged at the bar, the nerve centre of the whole joint and patrons were at the bar buying their drinks.

We quickly noticed that people were buying alcohol and putting their choice of beverage in ice buckets. The news crew went to the bar to buy drinks and found out that one could buy whiskey by the bottle for the price of between $20 and $30.

Club Eden has come up with an ingenious plan to keep revellers coming to the joint week in and week out.
Emmanuel Mahaso manager of the joint attributed the success of the joint to the fact that they always set the pace in terms of the entertainment in the city.

“We set the pace and they follow. All the concepts we think about we do them to stay ahead of the pack. That is why Club Eden is popular among the people of Bulawayo,” he said.

Mahaso said they offer competitive beer prices and second-to-none entertainment and hospitality at the club.
“We realised that our patrons should not wait for long in order to get their beverages when they are at the counter. So when they come to buy their drinks they do not take time at the bar, they are given and served,” he said.

And true to that attribute, when colleagues wanted to buy drinks they were back in a flash to fill up the bucket that was in front of us.
It seemed economical for people to buy whisky worth $20 or $30 than to buy beers. Other imbibers however were loyal to their favourite beers.

As the clock ticked away hour after hour, the club got filled up with patrons. It was as if someone had told people to leave their homes all at once and converge at Club Eden.

Women in heels, boots, dressed in jeans, leather pants and miniskirts made their way into the club. Men are in the club to outwit each other on who can buy the most drinks for beautifully dressed women. Some men come to the night spot with their better halves but others have other intentions.

All in all the night went on smoothly despite a small scuffle that was quelled fast by the bouncers who on occasion make a patrol around the club. Their patrol will be to seek those who would have had one too many and slept on the chairs or floor or some revellers who want to be a nuisance in the club.