More from Avenue, where scores of commenters are reporting that one customer racked up a $160,000 bar bill last Wednesday night, rivaling Mike Ashley's run at Pink Elephant last year or Jay Z's July 4th night in Vegas. But as is their habit, no one from the venue is speaking, giving the crazy mofo who dropped this much cash on booze a brief moment of anonymity.

UPDATE: The bottle buyer struck again last night, with a LB telling us "That same guy from avenue last week dropped another big one last night. Id say around the same, if not more... He was buying Patron Silver and Cristal.. i couldn't even count how many. But i was there for the 178,000 dollar night and it was definitely more bottles overall." Call us crazy, but this LB sounds more like the GM.

A few Little Birdy's were at Avenue last night and dropped the following, juicy gossip.

• i went last night, I saw all promoters, 0 bottles sold, and the bar was empty. not a good look for a new place. the question asked should be: what places are good now?
• saw Matt Levine with Jeremy Piven at Avenue late night with a bunch of girls, no Eldridge?

Neither of them are that interesting, but we love that Mr. Mercury was hanging out with Mr. Lower East Side in the MePa, while another LB reported that the place was empty. Our heads are spinning.

Without further ado, our comment of the week. . .

Sometimes a punk needs to be bitch slapped...

Steve Lewis

Some things need no explanation.

We all know by now about Wass Steven's unfortunate incident with a rejected customer outside of Avenue on Tueday night, leading to Wass spending a night in the pokey. We all have our off nights now and again. But we love Uncle Stevie's reaction to the whole thing, saying "is there any doubt the guy deserved it? Is there any doubt that a line was crossed that a respectable man could not ignore? Shoot, I want to smack the dude myself because I know for a pro like my boy to cross that line, it was a matter of honor or a reaction to a threat or indeed self-defense." Lewis then proclaims "I won’t defend my man" before defending him, followed by "I don’t need to praise him", before praising him for his honesty, good looks, and suave wardrobe", and "talent. He lights up a screen." The only thing he didn't mention was his French Toast recipe, which is out of this world. Maybe he is saving that for Friday. We aren't going to pretend we were there or know what happened, but we never condone violence, in any situation. That's just us, though.

Quick tip from a Little Birdy, who tells us that the Noah and Jason's next project in the former Earth space will be called Avenue, and is an homage to the famed L'Avenue in Paris. Oooh la la.

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