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Lips
Lips, the Ultimate Drag Dining!
Lips, the immensely popular drag eatery, relocated from Hillcrest to its current home at 3036 El Cajon Boulevard in 2004. With a new location comes new décor! The theme here is Paris meets drag, fabulous jewel tones mixed with pop colors, black and white stripes, gigantic martini glasses, two-twos and a lot of talking smack. In fact, Tootie, the general manager, named the bathroom color pink stiletto. Lips is like a Barbie playhouse, a place where you loose track of yourself, of time and where your reality is transformed by beautiful drag queens who know how to bring out the playful laughter in everyone. These "girls" are professionals and they've been doing it for nine years, in heels.
In 1996, just when a new craze was building around famous drag queen legends like Ru Paul, the first Lips opened in New York City. Dining and drag have been around for decades, but this novelty of hiring performers to also wait tables in a restaurant decked out like a diva fantasy land is how the founder Yvonne Lame set Lips apart. Her goal was to bring drag-queen fun to the masses.
The secret to their success has always been a quality product at a good price. Hot "ladies", lip syncing perfection, inappropriate humor and stiff cocktails; a movie just doesn't compare to the special perks that come from an evening at Lips. The "ladies" at Lips certainly know how to push the envelope by doing what they can to "shock their audience into laughter and applause!"
Tootie,
aka Cher, is one of the hottest divas in the house. She embraces the freedom
of developing new performances and bringing them to life. A great performer
tends to have a great audience, so when the audience is crazy and fun, you'll
see the girls put in that much more. An evening at Lips is certainly a transforming
process for many. People leave here with a different, more accepting outlook
on drag queens, realizing that they are wonderful people, just more fun
and more shiny.
