The $10,000 Martini...

[Zim Hosein]

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.

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The $10,000 Martini... :Q

 

[kermalou]

you gotta order three days in advance and get to pick out the gem at the bottom of the martini.....wonder what happens when you swallow the thing

 

[Zim Hosein]

Originally posted by: kermalou
you gotta order three days in advance and get to pick out the gem at the bottom of the martini.....wonder what happens when you swallow the thing

Ex-lax! :Q

 

[naruto1988]

the things people do when they have too much money

 

[Brutuskend]

Along that note.

"I love a martini --
But two at the most.
Three I'm under the table;
Four, I'm under the host."

~ Dorothy Parker

Edit: OOps, I see that was quoted in your post.

N/M

 

[Rudee]

Why not throw a set of keys to a new Ferrari in the Martini and call it a "$180,000 Martini"? That's how stupid this whole idea is.

 

[JulesMaximus]

Originally posted by: kermalou
you gotta order three days in advance and get to pick out the gem at the bottom of the martini.....wonder what happens when you swallow the thing

You wait three more days and pick it out of her...:shocked:

 

[moshquerade]

i'll take one please

 

[Bootprint]

It's a sour toe cocktail for the rich.

SOUR TOE COCKTAIL

Stroll into Dawson?s Downtown Hotel, belly up to the bar in the Sourdough Saloon and order the infamous Sour Toe Cocktail. It?s the only place in the world you can. The Sour Toe is the drink of your choice garnished with a genuine, alcohol-preserved, human toe. The original toe supposedly came from the frost-bitten foot of a stampeder who traversed the Chilkoot Trail, but that toe is long gone. Every few seasons another accidental ?toe swallower? seems to come along, and luckless Downtown Dick has to find himself another digit. Partakers of the Sour Toe Cocktail receive a certificate for their achievement (swallowers are severely chastised).

 

[thegimp03]

lolz

 

[tweakmm]

Originally posted by: Zim Hosein

Originally posted by: kermalou
you gotta order three days in advance and get to pick out the gem at the bottom of the martini.....wonder what happens when you swallow the thing

Ex-lax! :Q

Ha!
If I had enough money to throw away on a $10,000 martini I would swallow the diamond just for the hell of it.