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Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 12-02-2004, 08:00 AM:

Just like it says........

http://www.cnn.com/2004/TRAVEL/12/01/expensive.martini.reut/index.html

New York hotel offers $10,000 martini
Wednesday, December 1, 2004 Posted: 6:18 PM EST (2318 GMT)

NEW YORK (Reuters) -- Drinkers might want to keep a clear head when ordering a martini at New York's historic Algonquin Hotel or they might pay $10,000 for that cold sip.

The landmark hotel, where famed wit Dorothy Parker and fellow literary lights at the Round Table imbibed, offers a $10,000 martini, complete with a loose diamond at the bottom.

No one has ordered one yet, in the martini's first week on the menu, but the hotel hopes some romantic soul will buy one any day now.

"We haven't had any buyers yet, but a lot of people are talking about it," said Anthony Melchiorri, the hotel's general manager, on Wednesday.

The drink is designed to fit with tradition at the Algonquin, where Round Table members including Parker, writer Robert Benchley, playwright George S. Kaufman and "The New Yorker" magazine founder Harold Ross gathered regularly.

Today, Parker's ode to the martini adorns hotel napkins: "I love a martini -- but two at the most. Three I'm under the table; Four, I'm under the host."

Parker's response to the $10,000 martini might be mixed, the manager conceded.

"I think she would like the idea so long as she'd get to drink it," he said. "I don't think she'd care about the diamond, but she'd care about the martini."

Fear not, the manager added, no one can really order the martini by mistake.

The tipple requires 72 hours' notice, and buyers meet with a jeweler to select a gem and with hotel staff to ensure the cocktail is delivered to the right table.

[ 12-02-2004, 11:38 PM: Message edited by: Joe Redifer ]

Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 12-02-2004, 10:42 AM:

Make mine a double. [beer]

Posted by Dan Lyons (Member # 1454) on 12-02-2004, 11:42 AM:

Just sick. [puke]

No wonder people call us wastefull and try to constantly blow us up... [uhoh]

Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 12-02-2004, 11:58 AM:

Mark, can you guess what's wrong with this thread?

Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 12-02-2004, 12:24 PM:

I know Mark spelled my name wrong. I forgive him.

I have had many "martini's" at the Algonquin Hotel, and was once a favorite haunt while I was courting my wife back in the 20th Century.

I still prefer onions in my Beefeater Gin, diamonds can break your teeth. [Wink]

Posted by Tim Reed (Member # 137) on 12-02-2004, 06:03 PM:

Bob, you knows WAY too much about likker!
[Wink]

Posted by Steve Scott (Member # 630) on 12-02-2004, 06:28 PM:

Just another marshmallow imposter [Smile]

Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 12-02-2004, 06:40 PM:

Hey Bob, as you know, I'm A diamond... Ummmm, in the "rough".

Posted by Jon Miller (Member # 163) on 12-02-2004, 07:48 PM:

Hey, if my mind was still spinning over a ten-grand maartini, on the rocks in more ways than one, I'd probably inadvertently write a teaser title with a misspelled name too! [Smile]

Posted by Bill Gabel (Member # 1105) on 12-02-2004, 08:15 PM:

Bob after your finish with your ten-grand Maartini. Go over to Serendipity and have one of their thousand dollar ice cream sundaes too finish the night. [beer]

Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 12-02-2004, 11:38 PM:

Well I guess I have to fix it since Mark is incapable.

Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 12-03-2004, 08:40 AM:

Bill, don'tcha just love New York. [Smile]

Now with Serendipity on East 60th Street and the Algonquin Hotel on West 44th Street, I would recommend that we meet someplace in Tin Pan Alley and drink a toast to every film-tech member.

As they say in Da Bronx, Whadayatink... [Smile]

Posted by Bill Gabel (Member # 1105) on 12-03-2004, 09:19 AM:

Bob, That sound like a deal. [beer]

Posted by John T. Hendrickson, Jr (Member # 849) on 12-04-2004, 08:12 AM:

They did a piece on this on the local TV news. No takers so far. What a surprise!

But I should take that back. After all, it is New York. [Smile]

Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 12-04-2004, 01:20 PM:

quote: Joe Redifer
Mark, can you guess what's wrong with this thread?

No Joe, its just that you were here and I wasn't......
You're right a teaser title and Bob Mars name....

Mark

Posted by Thomas Procyk (Member # 1170) on 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. [Big Grin]

My idea: A pizza sprinkled with 24k gold. $10,000. Any takers?

=TMP=

Posted by John Pytlak (Member # 331) on 12-06-2004, 12:28 PM:

quote: Thomas Procyk
A pizza sprinkled with 24k gold. $10,000. Any takers?

Or Goldschlager: [beer]

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 [Big Grin]

Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 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. [thumbsup]

Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 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."