It's Mardi Gras madness at Sugar Daddy's on a Tuesday night. A few scantily clad women throw strands of beads from the roof to throngs of patrons hanging out below. Men hoot and holler while women jump up and down trying to score a necklace of coveted beads — a must-have accessory at the bar.

Unlike the real Mardi Gras in New Orleans, however, the women at the laid-back south Scottsdale club aren't flashing anyone to receive their accessories.

“This is a pretty harmless night,’’ says Rory Mulligan, 25, of Scottsdale.
“I've been to Mardi Gras a few times in New Orleans and they've really seemed to capture the spirit of it here with the exception of the X-rated scene you'll find in New Orleans.’’

There's no doubt the weekly Fat Tuesday promotion at Sugar Daddy's is a success. The bar's large patio is packed with people and inside it's just as crazy. On the patio, a man who looks more like a pimp than a magician in his pin-striped zoot suit and large matching hat, walks around the bar doing magic tricks for the crowd.

Bartenders are dressed in glowstick- green shirts that say “Show me your tips” and large multi-colored hats. A DJ mixes old-school and top 40 music on the patio where a few small groups of women are busting a move to the likes of Usher, Beyoncé and Jay-Z. A cocktail waitress is walking around with $2 shots of Watermelon Pucker as a couple of Amstel Light promo girls snap photos of patrons and pass out flashing red Amstel pins.

Although there are a lot of interesting sights at the bar, perhaps the most interesting is its clientele. People in their 30s to 50s mingle throughout Sugar Daddy's, dressed in everything from sundresses to wife-beater tank tops to torn jeans. A slew of guys who look like they've just stepped out of an episode of HBO's “The Sopranos” chat at a table next to a couple of buxom blondes. They drink everything from beer to shots to well drinks.

Gabe Mendoza says it's the people that keep him returning to Fat Tuesday.

“It's always crowded,’’ says Mendoza, 30, of Scottsdale. “Bars aren't usually crowded on a Tuesday night, but this one consistently is. It's a good place to relax and have a good time ... I collect the beads and at the end of the night, I spread the love and pass them out to the ladies. It's a good way to talk to women and it works. I love Tuesdays!’’

Fat Tuesdays
Where: Sugar Daddy's, 3102 N. Scottsdale Road, Scottsdale
Cover: $2
Info: and www.sugardaddysaz.com