content: Tao is pretty cheese.   If there's anything to admire about it, that would be its tasteless and unapologetic exploitation of women and Buddhism.  No points for originality there, but well done exploitation, we'll give it that.  Models in quasi-meditative poses adorn various wall niches and hallways, and they rotate out frequently, giving the place a surreal endless-museum quality because they've changed by the time you come back that way.   Rose petal bath, always a favorite, although any religious reference is lost on me.   I think they should let drunk clubers sign up to use the bath; that would be even better.  \n\nAs a bar or dance club it pretty much sucks.  Music was loud and fast although I did not observe any space large enough for normal people to dance.   Drink service was hostile and expensive but that seems typical for the see and be seen category.   That's all Tao is, apparently; a place for spenders and celebrities to be admired in the dark while drinking the same spendy champagne and talking to the same people they talk to everywhere else.  \n\nNot even close to worth the long line.  When I visited, the line was hours long, close to filling the lobby.   Fortunately (and uncharacteristically) I was connected that day, and was able to skip that line, check it out, and make room for some sad sightsuckers who had to wait and pay.