Bar Sells $135 Cocktail

[matcom]

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The loveliest street in Paris is also one of the most expensive cocktails in Chicago.

It will cost you $135 to drink a Champs-Elysees at Le Passage, a Rush Street lounge.

Made with Remy Martin Louis XIII cognac, Grand Marnier, orange juice and sour mix, it's served in a crystal cognac glass rimmed with powdered sugar.

And you get to keep the glass.

The bar may sell only one Champs-Elysees a month, says spokeswoman Jen Hansen.

"People are spending $575 on a bottle of Champagne here, so it's not out of character for someone to spend this much ," Hansen said.

In this ever-growing uber-cocktail culture, the humble shot has given way to flights of super-premium vodkas and tequilas, bartenders are now called "mixologists" and pricey drinks with exotic additions like lychee and pomegranate juice are making Cosmopolitans seem dowdy.

http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-cocktails03.html

[LynneSin]

1. I'm not spending $135 for a drink I'll only piss out 3 hours later

:grr:

[Deja Q]

11. You could recycle; drink it again. The party never stops!

:woohoo: :crazy: :puke:

[LynneSin]

12. or I could just kick your ass and the problem is solved!

[Rabrrrrrr]

26. I vote for the ass kicking! KICK HIS ASS!!

We haven't had a good ass kicking here in a long time.

Where the hell is Skittles anyway? Haven't seen her in ages.

[WeRQ4U]

2. I could put spit, cat urine and beet juice in a cup....

Line the rim of it with elmer's glue and shredded wheat, give it a hip hop name and sell it to these rich goons. I'd call it "2nd Avenue Shitstorm."

It's like they LOOK for things to waste money on.

[MindPilot]

4. Wasn't there a Family Guy/Simpsons/South Park episode

about that subject? Different ingredients, but the same concept.

[WeRQ4U]

You might be referring to the "Flaming Moe/Homer" episode of SImpsons

They put cough syrup in the drink and all the uppities dig it.

[tridim]

8. But Moe only charged $4.75 for it

[WeRQ4U]

17. Very true.

[MindPilot]

3. I won a $100 bottle of wine yesterday

It was a raffle prize at a B2B "customer appreciation" event.

What am I gonna do with a $100 bottle of wine? I usually drink Coors Light. Now I have to get a rack to keep it in.

[WeRQ4U]

5. Poor it out to your dead homies.

Seriously, just make a good meal and drink the damn thing. Enjoy it, don't put it somewhere for people to look at. It probably tastes good.

[matcom]

7. i agree

i'd make a nice filet and pop that suckah open!

[Rabrrrrrr]

25. No way! I'd pour it into a pot and boil some kielbasa in it!

Preferably Sentry brand "Kielbasa product".

[MindPilot]

19. I was joking at the meeting yesterday

that I was going to have to find a curb in the *nice* part of town to drink it. Does this bottle need some kind of special tool to open it? I can't get it unscrewed. :silly:

[MadHound]

6. Damn, sounds like they're ruining some great cognac

Remy Martin is some wonderfully great, though expensive stuff. But here they go having to ruin it with sour mix and what not. Sorry, not for me.

[yewberry]

9. We used to sell Remy XIII for $125 a drink

at a restaurant where I worked.

And we kept the glass.

[HEyHEY]

10. Sour Mix?

If I spend 135 I want it made properly... fuckers

[Kellanved]

15. got to be an error.

I mean sour mix? What self respecting high-priced bar would use that?

Although €100 doesn't sound that expensive. I'm pretty sure that I have seen more expensive drinks - don't ask me who buys them.

[Susang]

22. I could tell you

I've served quite a few of them in my day. Scotch and cognac mostly. $135 is on actually the lower end of the scale.

[bicentennial_baby]

13. I'm in Paris, I believe it, oh yeah

It's weird, some things here are cheaper than at home, and others are crazy expensive...and people will pay whatever for something they want, it seems.

signed,

poor ass student in Paris :P

[miss_kitty]

14. let them spend money on shit like that now

it'll give them something to look back on in bankruptcy court.

I'd rather have the money.

[Rabrrrrrr]

16. Del Frisco's (my haunt in NYC) has $950 glasses of cognac

and some scotches that are close to that.

:shrug:

[Initech]

18. Remy Martin goes for $1200 a bottle at Costco

Who the fuck would spend $1200 on a bottle of booze at Costco?

[KamaAina]

20. Bah! Chump change. You might as well be swilling Old Milwaukee.

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.

You do get to keep the diamond, though...

[sir_captain]

21. There's a $1000 cocktail

at the World Bar in NYC. Also uses Remy Louis XIII, along with Dom Perignon and, believe it or not, liquid gold.

[WCGreen]

23. It's just a way to put a proper face on getting trashed....

Are buzz is so much more proper than yours....

Fuck, it's just alcohol anyway you shake it......

And meanwhile people are struggling to get by...

Can anyone say the roaring twenties....

[pitohui]

24. that's too bad

why put a nasty sour mix in the cognac

[mtnester]

27. Dude, there better be some fine

uh...HERBS (yeah that's the ticket) in that drink for that price.