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Author Topic: The Bob Marr Special.... New York hotel offers $10,000 martini Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 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 ]  |  IP: Logged Paul Mayer Oh get out of it Melvin, before it pulls you under! Posts: 3836 From: Albuquerque, NM Registered: Feb 2000 posted 12-02-2004 10:42 AM                        Make mine a double.  |  IP: Logged Dan Lyons Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 698 From: Seal Beach, CA Registered: Sep 2002 posted 12-02-2004 11:42 AM                     Just sick. No wonder people call us wastefull and try to constantly blow us up...  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 12-02-2004 11:58 AM                        Mark, can you guess what's wrong with this thread?  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 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.  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 12-02-2004 06:03 PM                       Bob, you knows WAY too much about likker!  |  IP: Logged Steve Scott Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1300 From: Minneapolis, MN Registered: Sep 2000 posted 12-02-2004 06:28 PM                     Just another marshmallow imposter  |  IP: Logged Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 12-02-2004 06:40 PM                  Hey Bob, as you know, I'm A diamond... Ummmm, in the "rough".  |  IP: Logged Jon Miller Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 973 From: San Diego, CA, USA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 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!  |  IP: Logged Bill Gabel Film God Posts: 3873 From: Technicolor / Postworks NY, USA Registered: Jan 2002 posted 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.  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 12-02-2004 11:38 PM                        Well I guess I have to fix it since Mark is incapable.  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 12-03-2004 08:40 AM                        Bill, don'tcha just love New York. 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...  |  IP: Logged Bill Gabel Film God Posts: 3873 From: Technicolor / Postworks NY, USA Registered: Jan 2002 posted 12-03-2004 09:19 AM                     Bob, That sound like a deal.  |  IP: Logged John T. Hendrickson, Jr Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 889 From: Freehold, NJ, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 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.  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 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  |  IP: Logged

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