Anyone want a martini?

[SunDancer]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6637642/?GT1=5855

NEW YORK - 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.

[JeeberD]

I prefer my martinis to be diamond-free...

[SunDancer]

I wonder what the drink actually is though.

[JeeberD]

vodka or gin and vermouth

[korme]

There's poison in the drinking glass
Don't stop just sip it down
And in a swirling masquerade of sound
My body hits the ground
I'm beautiful when I'm asleep
Martini kisses land
On my blistered bloody scarlet lips
The bottles in my hand

Burn out, not fade away

I'll speak in riddles so you can understand
I'll draw in pencil so you can trace with pen
So in love with me like sand to wet feet
I'll write both our names into the wet concrete

We're glistening like silver spoons
Beneath the summer night
Oh can you smell the suttle hint of frost
As the flowers start to cry
The autumn winds are bringing graves
To all the emerald trees
They're so beautiful in their dismay
The colors slowly bleed

[SunDancer]

Here ya go, alittle more info:

The Algonquin once drew literary notables such as Dorothy Parker, whose witticisms included: "I love a martini — but two at the most. Three, I'm under the table; four, I'm under the host."

The only catch for big spenders is that the drink order — and diamond purchase — must be lined up at least three days in advance with Bader & Garrin, the hotel's jeweler.

The martini's actual price depends on the size and cut of the rock, but its liquid ingredients — a mix of Belvedere vodka and Martini & Rossi vermouth — remain as classic as ever.

[KWhit]

Originally Posted by SunDancer

The martini's actual price depends on the size and cut of the rock, but its liquid ingredients — a mix of Belvedere vodka and Martini & Rossi vermouth — remain as classic as ever.

That's the exact way I get my Martinis.

Wow, I have better taste than I thought.

[vex]

Someone will drink the diamond eventually.

[SunDancer]

Originally Posted by vexroid

Someone will drink the diamond eventually.

I would say Trump, but I don't think he drinks (due to his brother dying from alcoholism).