Someone has clearly taken a page from the Official Mutineer Guide to Partying with their over-the-top party on May 5th at the Tryst Nightclub at the Wynn Hotel in Las Vegas. I think the picture is worth a thousand words… but wow, $100,000 for four bottles of 15-liter non-vintage Veuve Clicquot Champagne? However, I think my biggest question is that there are 25 bottles of Dom Pérignon floating around for this group (for a grand total of $46,200), one of which is a 1995 6-liter bottle, and one (or two) people decide that they should order a Bud Light?

After that, my favorite part would be the $30,000 tip. Geeze, is that all?

On March 8, 1981, Andy Warhol journaled about a group he had discovered called the “2000 Club.” It was described as a company of men who had collected 2000 bottles of Dom Perignon, and were keeping them locked in a vault until New Year’s Eve of the new millennium. The alleged plan was that the corks would be popped when the clock struck midnight. If all hell didn’t break loose, than at least they’d have themselves some damn good bubbly. Continue Reading »

When I moved from Seattle to Los Angeles, I was prepared for much higher real estate costs, though I did not consider the higher price of cocktails. Twenty dollars is not an uncommon price for a cocktail in a club, with bottle service starting at around $300 and going up to $40,000 for a 3 Liter bottle limited edition of 1998 Dom Perignon at the swank new Kress nightclub in West Hollywood. Bottle service isn’t the only way to spend enough in a club to buy a Vespa scooter, check out these cocktails for the affluent: Continue Reading »