Dive Bars · Nightlife
Clermont Lounge
About
Operating in the basement of the historic Clermont Motor Hotel on Ponce de Leon Avenue, Clermont Lounge is billed as Atlanta’s oldest strip club — the space opened as an upscale supper club in 1955 before being reimagined into its current dive-bar-meets-burlesque form in 1965. It has been featured on Travel Channel’s “The Layover,” Real Housewives of Atlanta, and Comedy Central, and has drawn celebrity visitors including Bill Murray and Robert De Niro over the decades.
Why go
Clermont Lounge has been open since 1965, making it Atlanta’s first and longest continually operating strip club, and it’s been female-owned from the start. The building itself was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2021. It’s a genuine Atlanta institution, not a polished night out.
Good to know
- Shares its building with Hotel Clermont upstairs, but it’s a separate business with its own entrance near the valet.
- On Ponce de Leon Avenue in Poncey-Highland, cash tips expected.
Nearby
- Hotel Clermont, sharing the same building.
- Variety Playhouse in Little Five Points.
- Star Community Bar for another dive-bar night.