Remember during the height of the recession, when it was considered gauche to drop a few thousand a night on three bottles of vodka and a carafe of cranberry juice? Harrowing times those were but today brings some heartening news. Despite the fact that a whole bunch of New York-based financial services hacks are about to get laid off, it’s once again considered socially acceptable to buy bottles marked up 100% so ladies will be open to talking to you/using your table to sit down. At the MeatPacking district’s Gunbar (named and designed as “an homage to rock clubs past” and also because while there you’ll probably wish you had a gun), $300 bottles of vodka “unapologetically sit atop almost every table” and people “party like it’s 2007,” or “like peacocks” rather than the “pigeons” of 2008-2009, a patron claimed recently.
According to nightlife operator Jamie Mulholland, whose livelihood is based on this statement being a fact and not bull shit, “When the economy crashed, everyone stopped doing it…But now, there’s definitely a resurgence.” Investment banker Chris Silverman agrees, to a point.
At his 6-month-old Park Avenue South nightclub Riff Raff’s, Michael Stillman says big spenders no longer fear being tarred and feathered for their extravagance, though some may feel more comfortable drinking pricey fruity cocktails with giant plastic flamingos than magnums of Cristal. “People may come out and spend, but they want to do it in a fun way more than a showy way,” says Stillman, who offers “Tiki Service” priced from $200 to $2,000.
Chris Silverman, an investment banker who frequents Riff Raff’s, hedged his bets last weekend with a $425 bottle of vodka and a $250 vat of “Flock of Flamingos” rum punch. Silverman agrees with Stillman that Riff Raff’s, like his other hangouts, Kenmare and Le Bain, isn’t about trophy bottles. “New York nightlife used to be more show-off,” he says, as statuesque beauties dance on banquettes and wave sparklers. “No one here is trying to show off.”
Fun vs. showy– do you see the distinction? Let’s hope so, otherwise you might embarrass yourselves out there.
Too easy…too easy.
Maybe, yes, yes, yes
What about the other 2?
left two much cuter than right.
“and also because while there you’ll probably wish you had a gun”
I love you Bess Levin
Why doesn’t the guy that paid for the Absolut and the champagne get to be in that picture too???
Go figure… had #3 pegged as going commando. Not 2007, just yet.
Being promoted to dime-a-dozen Meatpacking gold diggers from Hoboken whores is the new killing it (abv. NKI)
Remind me what the purple bracelets get you again?
-top life insurance saleman AIG
I am still about the “mini bottles”
Agreed
Where is the customer’s vat of Flaming Flamingos?
Sluts!
There is no such dude “Chris Silverman, an investment banker”. Never existed, never will. The whole story is bullshit.
Due diligence dude who knows his shit.
Don’t you mean bottles that are marked up 1000%?
Sh*t never went out of style with me.
It’s all about models and bottles baby.
-AJ
“‘[...] party like it’s 2007,’ or ‘like peacocks’ rather than the ‘pigeons’ of 2008-2009, a patron claimed recently.”
No offense Bess, but are you seriously personifying tequila? Furthermore, to stay consistent with the story, shouldn’t you have used a brand of vodka? Maybe “a stoli?” Not trying to be a dick.
-LEH Quant
I’ll tell you what it gets you
-Top salesman at Munich RE
I know something better you can do for $675: rent the world’s most expensive gun and shoot yourself with it.
please kill yourself
I think I agree but hard to tell from the small pic. When will Explorer or Chrome come up with more sophisticated image viewing equipment? We need the “zoom and enhance” function from Enemy of the State.
And also,
“Rotate us 75 degrees around the vertical, please.”
maybe inflation is so bad that bottles really are $300-$400. Clearly the most eroding effect of QE2
Are you still renting Boxsters?
No, Yes, No, For Sure
Yes, but it gets cramped when I hang out with Richie “Bottles” from our trading desk
Yes, yes, yes, yes
- Guy who uses a binary scale
Hey.
Luv u too, Bess.
–Plaxico B.
ESL Quant
Chris Silverman is not on Bloomberg. Yes, I have checked!
what is the most interesting man in the world doing?
Tiki Service priced from $200 to $2,000, depending on how much more comfortable you appear to be drinking pricey fruity cocktails with giant plastic flamingos than champagne.
8,9.3,8.7,9 Nash Equilibium implies highest probablility of success is the 8.7
-John Nash
Beth Levin, your inbox is a god damn national treasure.
NO, NO, NO, NO
-Chris Silverman, Who Bought a ‘Flock of Flamingos’
Seems like a unary scale
The worst part is none of them came home with me
- Guy who bought the Absolut and the champagne
You can’t rent bullets, smart guy.
That’s why I moved to Detroit. All those chicks need is a Bud Light and a pack of Kools and I’m in business. Total cost: $10.75
Too bad, brah. If they had seen that sick smash pad of yours, #3′s panties surely would have been off in a heartbeat.
Yes, yes, yes, yes, and even the bottle opening is looking tempting as well.
I hear UBS Detroit is considering moving its facility to Minneapolis to “attract talent.”
dead
Heavy weighted toward 1 vs. 0
my
name is also AJ and i’m offended by your asterisk use as well as the cliche you used
to sign your (our) name. how dare you
Examine your motives
ER nurses must love your visits.
May you work at UBS.
- Guest who is trying to replace the obsolete “UBS Sucks” with something more relevant
Psst: UBS Detroit = U of Mich case study lab
Most investment bankers (and not saying he really is one) don’t have their own Bloomberg.
I am rsvp’n 4 “YES’s” and the 2 bottles are also a confirmed “YES”! Thankfully, I brought my attorney with me and had all 4 chickies sign an affidavit that they are in fact over 21 and willing accomplise’s and TADA bottle service for everyone!
Sincerely,
The Guy That Never Leaves A Bar Alone
P.S. This is the new killing it.
enhance…enhance…enhance
Thought the talent was all in Windsor, ON.
No they came home with me
- Guy who kills it scooping girls from investment wankers tables
Girl to guy ratio is 4-1 in this place!
- Guy who went to college with those guys and wished he could find that video somewhere for a good laugh.
Girl to guy ratio is 4-1 in this place!
- Guy who went to college with those guys and wished he could find that video somewhere for a good laugh.
Cheaters? Downhill fast since the plants closed.
Taco Bell > Absolut and champagne
-Guy who maxed out his Chase card at Vineyard Vines
A guy who apparently has his ‘finger’ on the bottle market and can claim knowledge of a resurgence most certainly would have his own BB terminal. Guys a fake. A sham.
Women pose for pictures really differently from guys. It’s always subliminal faux lesbianism.
Here you go: http://lxtv.com/lxoriginals/video/8959
Bess, you dating Richie “Bottles”? My link to that classic vid keeps getting removed…
It’s hard to come up with $1800/mo worth of “value” in editing powerpoints.
- guy that’s is on bloomberg
White bracelet + pack of highlighters = NKI
Is Chris Silverman a CFA or MBA?
vodka and cranberry juice….. Yuck ..either it is shit vodka or you got shit taste…. good vodka is put in a freezer and then as the ice slowly melts, you pour it in a shot glass and down it… try it and you wont drink it any other way ..
What ice slowly melts? Vodka in a freezer doesn’t form a solid. If its frozen your kids are probably drinking it and refilling it with water.
-Guy with more vodka in his freezer than food.
People forgotten bankers getting bailout-out bonuses. Geez, that was quick.
is your vodka 100% proof .. are you drinking medical alcohol or what? of course vodka has water in it and everything freezed .. at the right temperature.. i dont have patience to give you a chemistry lesson.
Ok Cool.. So you spend your time freezing vodka with industri freezers that go down to -175 degrees!?
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