With its intense, dance-heavy sound system, an industrial-chic ambience and big crowds, Crobar dominates the club scene. It looks like a club, but behaves like a theater--colorful characters and performers are always ready for their close-ups. Celebrity spottings are common, especially in the tony VIP area of the main floor. The DJ booth is home to some of the best spinning in town, with locals and guest DJs facing off many nights!

Crobar is the South Beach outpost of eight-year-old Crobar Chicago, a shrine for serious dance-music fans and top DJ's. Although Crobar South Beach is a bit more driven by the see-and-be-seen crowd of beautiful people, music is still vitally important to its extraordinary success. Top international DJ's such as John Digweed, Danny Tenaglia, Little Louie Vega and Ministry of Sound pass through Crobar regularly, and the club also showcases the most popular and acclaimed local DJ's, such as Eddie X.

The 16,000-square-foot Crobar, housed in the historic Art Deco movie theater The Cameo, is divided into a 10,000-square-foot main room downstairs and a 6,000-square-foot, glass-enclosed VIP room upstairs that features its own sound system and DJ. A catwalk around the perimeter of the second level offers bottle service at curtained banquettes and excellent views of the action below. A giant DJ booth looms down in front of a vast plexi-glass wall illuminated by silhouettes of whirling industrial fans.

For serious dancers or those who enjoy being among the throbbing masses as they celebrated the most progressive music in a visually stunning environment, the downstairs main room is the ticket. For those who prefer to party among the beautiful people the upstairs VIP room is an excursion into another world. Either way, Crobar is a stylish sanctuary for high-octane partying