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<\/a>Sacha’s Supper Club is a monthly dining, dancing, social and musical experience that takes place the second Thursday of each month. It revisits the elegance of a bygone era in an intimate historical setting; those who\u2019ve attended agree it\u2019s an evening away and a step back in time, to a sensual place where mystery and romance linger long after the music ends.<\/p>\n
Its creator, Sacha Boutros, said her love affair with jazz began as a child, when her grandmother gave her a record player.<\/p>\n
\u201cI started collecting old records from thrift stores,\u201d Boutros said. \u201cI was introduced to all the jazz greats and when I was a bit older I wound up hearing someone sing at this little jazz club \u2014 she sounded just like Billie Holiday and I thought to myself, \u2018Hey, I sing that in the shower. I can do that!\u2019 I became a singer overnight. I wanted to the female Frank Sinatra.\u201d<\/p>\n Boutros has since gone from gigging at local clubs and U.S. festivals to touring the world and back; she\u2019s also received Grammy nods for best jazz and Latin jazz album in 2008 and 2013. Yet despite her global success, she\u2019s always dreamed of having her own club.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019d proposed the idea of doing a supper club to the Grand Del Mar but they turned the idea down, saying that no one on the West Coast listens to jazz. They didn\u2019t think anyone would come,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n \u201cA few months later I was sitting at the Lafayette with a friend who told me that I needed to do this soon and how he felt that hotel would be the perfect place. He pointed out we were sitting in the middle of San Diego history. I decided to set up a meeting with the people from the Lafayette and boom, that\u2019s how it happened.\u201d<\/p>\n The historic hotel has been around since 1946, Boutros pointed out, noting that people like Tommy Dorsey and Frank Sinatra had been through its doors. Movie stars Lana Turner and Ava Gardner had parties there, she said.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was a destination spot, and I felt it was a great place to not only start a supper club, but to promote the hotel\u2019s history and to bring back old San Diego,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n Each Sacha\u2019s Supper Club event has its staples; attendees can expect to see the room decorated with palm trees and guests are seated at small tables, which help facilitate conversation and allow people the chance to meet one another while they dine and socialize. Servers are dressed in bow ties and suspenders; a cigarette girl can be seen making her rounds throughout the night.<\/p>\n Another favorite staple is the dance show that\u2019s performed by award-winning dancer and dance instructor Joel Plys, Boutros said. Plys performs with the Hang 10 Hoppers, a locally-based touring group that specializes in dances from the 1920s to 1950s.<\/p>\n \u201cThe group does a specially choreographed show every time we have a supper club,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n Attendees agree that Sacha\u2019s Supper Club is a step back in time. North County resident George Riebau, who went to events at the Lafayette Hotel with his sister back in the late 1940s, said the supper club reminds him of days long passed.<\/p>\n \u201cI used to go there after I married my wife. She was a woman who loved to dance,\u201d Riebau said. \u201cI enjoy the supper club and I\u2019ve taken both of my daughters, my son and daughter-in-law there.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/a><\/a><\/a>