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Author Topic: The Bob Marr Special.... New York hotel offers $10,000 martini Thomas Procyk Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1842 From: Royal Palm Beach, FL, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 12-06-2004 11:17 AM                     Just goes to show you, it's easy to mess with the rich! All you have to do is open a restaurant in a posh yuppie part of town and have a single, outrageously priced menu item. The ones who can afford it will buy it just to say they can. My idea: A pizza sprinkled with 24k gold. $10,000. Any takers? =TMP=  |  IP: Logged John Pytlak Film God Posts: 9987 From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922 Registered: Jan 2000 posted 12-06-2004 12:28 PM                        quote: Thomas Procyk A pizza sprinkled with 24k gold. $10,000. Any takers? Or Goldschlager: http://www.beerliquors.com/buy/liqueurs/goldschlager.htm quote: Goldschlager is a Schnapps Liqueur that can be enjoyed either by the shot or sipped from a rocks glass. The texture of Goldschlager is thick, viscous, and syrupy, and you cannot feel the trademark gold flakes at all. Goldschlager Clear with gold leaf flakes. Spicy, cinnamon aromas with alcohol vapors. The palate has a sweet, syrupy quality with very marked hot spicy flavors that linger. Has a hot bite to the finish. http://www.cockeyed.com/inside/goldschlager/goldschlager.html  |  IP: Logged Paul Mayer Oh get out of it Melvin, before it pulls you under! Posts: 3836 From: Albuquerque, NM Registered: Feb 2000 posted 12-06-2004 01:28 PM                        I'll take sushi or sashimi wrapped in edible gold foil, so popular back in the heady days of Japan's bubble economy. There is the Kyo-ya restaurant in Honolulu that serves elaborate kaiseki dinners which include sashimi flecked with gold flakes.  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 12-08-2004 09:29 AM                        ......and so it came to pass on the evening of December 7th. http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/260010p-222664c.html She loves him like a (13G) rock BY JOSE MARTINEZ DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER Joe Imperato orders his martini - and promptly proposes to Melissa Beck. Rescued, ring from glass goes on her finger. This martini had more than just an olive in it. A Westchester County man last night plunked down $13,000 for a marriage martini with a diamond ring at the bottom - and got the right answer from the love of his life. "Oh, my God!" gasped Melissa Beck, as Joe Imperato took a knee and asked her to marry him. "Yes! Omigod!" The after-work crowd at the Algonquin Hotel's Blue Bar burst into applause as the couple hugged, kissed and took celebratory sips of the stiff drink with a stiffer price. "She always said she wanted it to be a big event," Imperato said. "She didn't want it to be the two of us at dinner." Imperato, 28, opted for the high-priced proposal after reading about the Algonquin's new "Martini on the Rock" last week in the Daily News. "I love martinis," he said. "It just felt like a good idea." The super-expensive drink comes with a single piece of ice, a diamond from the in-house jeweler. The only catch is that the order needs to be lined up three days in advance with Bader & Garrin, the hotel's jeweler. Imperato picked out a 1.85-carat square diamond there, then told his girlfriend of nine months they had tickets to a Broadway show for last night. But first, he said, they absolutely had to stop off for a pre-theater drink after driving in from Larchmont. With the couple's song - Stevie Nicks' "Leather and Lace" - playing in the background, Imperato was shaking while waiting for the martini and a glass of red wine to arrive. "I said to him, 'Do you hear our song?'" Beck said. "And he just said, 'What song?'" As the drinks arrived, Beck, 28, still had no clue what was coming - even as television and camera crews slowly moved in to capture the magic moment. "I didn't think anything of it," Beck said. Then, using the sword carrying the drink's trademark olives, Imperato fished out the platinum ring as tears of joy welled up in Beck's eyes. "I told her I loved her," said Imperato, who met his future wife at a White Plains bar. Beck, who ordered a glass of red wine, said she is not particularly big on martinis - but she was more than willing to savor the drink's flavor last night. "This one," she said, "is going to taste great."  |  IP: Logged

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