Drink of the Week: Gold Martinis at Buddha Bar

Posh New York City haunt Buddha Bar is truly Zen about the crisis in the financial markets. Yes, the commoners may be going bankrupt, but they wouldn’t make it past the velvet ropes anyway. The upscale lounge figures there are still plenty of people to invest in their new commodity: a martini dusted with actual gold.

Market watchers have made their way into the club to monitor the health of New York’s finances. Word has it that there was a slight up-tick in the number of gold martinis ordered toward the end of this week. This is good news for the market - if Lehman Brothers was going under, their despondent brokers would surely be investing in cocaine at Rudy’s.

Could this $50 cocktail be part of a drinks-inflation bubble? Barfly asked some of the staff after a recent closing.

“I don’t understand these people,” one bus-boy explained, “They are drinking gold? Back home, we don’t even have clean water.”

When we asked him what was stuffed in his cheeks – he said “uhhh . .not gold. . .it’s chestnuts. I carry chestnuts in my cheeks.” Barfly does not know the current market value of said chestnuts.

P.R. executives contracted by the club deny the existence of a bubble: “Don’t be ridiculous. Bubbles are made of soap. Not gold. It’s too expensive.”

In any case – to fuel the boom into the next few days (the crash can’t be worse than our precious-metals headache the next morning), we’ve decided to name The Gold Digger our Drink of the Week.

Drink of the Week: The Gold Digger - $50

2 oz Zuidam Gin

½ oz. Dry Vermouth

Gold dusted Olives and Golden Spear. Served in a martini glass.

If ordering the Gold Digger, Buddha Bar advises that you designate someone as your security guard. It can be very difficult to beat the baby-mommas away once they see you sipping liquid gold. In no instance should you give these ferocious money-grubbers a sip - otherwise you’ll wake up the next day with a wicked hangover and a new set of twins.

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