once inside , the clientele , drawn from amongst the new nomenklatura : young party members , apparatchiks to a man and to a man fond of a burlesque show to the accompaniment of drinks served at exorbitant prices by hostesses modelled on the bunny girls at the playboy club on hyde park corner which choco had frequented when favoured by a windfall payment through the protection racket he ran from his flat at no.41 , sinclair road .