Glamour queens: Anniversaries can be such a drag—and at Kit Kat Lounge, that’s n

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Glamour queens
Anniversaries can be such a drag—and at Kit Kat Lounge, that's not a bad thing.

By Rachel Devitt

DIAMONDS NIGHTS The ladies from Kit Kat Lounge sparkle.

Forget ogling strippers or getting sweaty with hot strangers at a dance club. The new bachelorette party activity of choice is hanging out at a transsexual female–celebrity-impersonator supper club. At least that's what Kit Kat Lounge's Madame X (pictured, second from right) believes, considering such parties make up about  70 percent of her business. Founded in 2000 by business and life partners Ramesh Ariyanayakam and Edward Gisiger, the sleek Boystown lounge serves gourmet martinis (try the Sake-it-to-me), kicky menu items like "Just for the Halibut," and drag from artists like Madame X, Delores Van Cartier and Sandy Solis, who perform in the aisles between tables every 20 minutes or so while pop music by Madonna, Tina Turner and Shakira plays through the swank space.