Yahoo Finance The Cocktails at the Trump Hotel Are (Predictably) Absurd
So Olivia Nuzzi of The Daily Beast stopped by the Soon-to-Be-Bankrupt Arms in Washington D.C. to check out the Happy Hour snacks. I am sorry, Donald, but I ain't drinkin' with no damn oysters.
The bar at the new Trump International Hotel in Washington, Benjamin's Bar and Lounge, is a sprawling space with high ceilings, few customers, and too-sweet cocktails that go for $20 to $100, the most expensive being the bar's namesake, a concoction of rye, potato, and winter-wheat vodka, shaken and served with raw oysters and caviar.
Remember when the whole point of vodka was that it had no smell and no taste and you didn't really know what was in it? This sounds like something you'd get in a skid-row organic juice-bar. I'm still not over the notion that beer drinkers have begun to sound like wine snobs. I'm really not ready for someone to tell me that the problem with my Bloody Mary is that there isn't enough winter-wheat in the Yeltsin Juice. But it is of a piece with the candidate himself, who has the over-aesthetic taste of a Bonobo in a $1,000 tux.
To clear your palate of this nonsense, here's a great old Nichols and May commercial for Narragansett Lager Beer. Hi, neighbor! Have a 'Gansett!
Oysters optional at extra cost.
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