Top Shelf

[Lady Day]

If you had $1000 to splurge on one ingestible (smoke, eat, drink) item, you would buy? Think it would live up to the hype?

Me, being the coffee gal I am, yes, I would get a pound ($160) of the Kopi Luwak (http://www.forbes.com/2006/07/19/cx_hl_0720featslide.html?thisSpeed=35000) coffee :rolleyes: Then Id try the others on the list....

So what is your top shelf?

LD

[Emmababy]

Gin. OR Pizza. $1000 dollar pizza.

[SamMarlowPI]

oooohhhh a $1000 dollar pizza sounds gooooood. lets see...how about...aw hell i dont know. for $1000 i'd probably buy a jacket or something. i cant think of any ingestible item...maybe the most expensive cigar i can find. i dont know.

[Quigley Brown]

Does it have to be a 'legal' smoke??? ;)

[SamMarlowPI]

Does it have to be a 'legal' smoke??? ;)

thats what i was thinking but i figured we could just go the Vix Eatery in the Hotel Victor in South Beach, Miami and buy the La Corona from 1937 for $1000 and they throw in a bottle of Prohibition era whiskey...sounds like a deal to me...read on, monsier

http://www.smartmoney.com/cigaraficionado/index.cfm?story=20060421miami

[Fletch]

Whole spit-roasted steer. Everyone welcome. BYOB and appetite.

[Mustang]

Whole spit-roasted steer. Everyone welcome. BYOB and appetite.

In that case, I'll get $1000 worth of Woodchuck Amber Draft Cider and bring it to the steer roast. ;)

[dnjan]

Vintage Port. Probably from 1977. $1,000 would just about get a case, so I would have some to share.

[luvthatlulu]

Three boxes of Montecristo No. 2s from www.cubanlous.com and as much Havana Club 7 year old and 3 year old rum that the remainder would buy. After dinner cigar, anyone?

[Josephine]

Cheese? Different types. There is a cave aged Gruyere that Hubby and I love, along with a cheddar from Dorset that is aged forever and is sooooooooooooo good....

[luvthatlulu]

This has all the makings of the party-to-end-all-parties!!! :essen:

[Josephine]

This has all the makings of the party-to-end-all-parties!!! :essen:

Yep, I think we should all get together and share our bounty. :)

[Mr. Lucky]

Well, I'd love to bring for the gang some Black Diamond Extra Sharp Aged Canadian Cheddar. Oh, and some fresh press cider, a bit of Hudson Valley Fois gras, some Czech sausage and a few loaves of Italian bread from Ballisteri's Bakery in Buffalo.

As for myself, a few years ago, up in San Francisco with the wife , we had dinner at Aliotos on Fishermen's Wharf. On the menu was a sixty-five dollar lobster tail that was, quite frankly, the most exquisite meal I ever had. So, If I had a Grand, I'd take TWO!

[JEEP]

Hmmm, it would probably be a bottle or two of vintage ruby portwine for me - once you taste portwine that fine you are marked for life.

/Jakob

[luvthatlulu]

This may be :offtopic: but, in addition to the item(s) we'd buy or bring to our "Fantasy Party", let's suggest where we'll meet to share it!

:beer: :essen:

[Cherry_Bombb]

I'd go on a pattern and fabric shopping spree. I'd want to find some vintage Alencon lace to make my wedding gown with.

[Lady Day]

We're talking food, CB, but thats a good idea ;) Hmm, lace stew....?

LD

[Mike in Seattle]

I'd go on a pattern and fabric shopping spree. I'd want to find some vintage Alencon lace to make my wedding gown with.

So you eat fabric and patterns? ;)

[luvthatlulu]

I'd go on a pattern and fabric shopping spree. I'd want to find some vintage Alencon lace to make my wedding gown with.

To each her own...but have a drink, meal and smoke (if you choose) with us first! ;)

[Mr. Lucky]

This may be :offtopic: but, in addition to the item(s) we'd buy or bring to our "Fantasy Party", let's suggest where we'll meet to share it!

:beer: :essen:
Musso & Frank? White Horse Tavern? Big Texan Steak House and Motor Lodge?

[luvthatlulu]

Musso & Frank? White Horse Tavern? Big Texan Steak House and Motor Lodge?

Sounds great. Or how about we rent a huge party barge in St. Louis and party on the Mississippi? We could call our little soiree the "Hazard to River Navigation". :p

(We live in Tennessee, but St. Louis is close to Lulu's dad's home in southern Illinois...so we would definitely attend!)

[Smithy]

I'd blow the whole lot on dinner and wine at The Savoy Grill.

[saturnoir]

I'd go to Morton's Steakhouse, and after they finish the visual presentation of the menu, I'd order "all of that, please. Yes."

That should be about a grand.

[Mr. Lucky]

Sounds great. Or how about we rent a huge party barge in St. Louis and party on the Mississippi? We could call our little soiree the "Hazard to River Navigation". :p

(We live in Tennessee, but St. Louis is close to Lulu's dad's home in southern Illinois...so we would definitely attend!)
I'm all for it! St. Louis = BBQ!

[mineral]

I want this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matsusaka_beef

Judging from the picture, $1000 USD would only buy about 4.5 lbs of this meat ....

[Cherry_Bombb]

So you eat fabric and patterns? ;)

For breakfast lunch and dinner!

[oddlots]

Hmm, I'd definitely be tempted to splurge on a first growth Bordeaux or maybe a few boxes of Montecristo #2's...possibly a few pre-Castro vintage Cubans.

Being a vegetarian, there are few meals I could enjoy for 1K...not to say I wouldn't try.

[Diamondback]

A kilobuck's worth of MREs and long-shelf-life packaged food.

Laugh now, but we know who you'll all be running to when the Mutant Zombie Mall-Ninjas show up...:p lol

[rumblefish]

A bottle of Chateau d'Yquem, Sauternes. Whatever vintage I could get at $1000.

[dnjan]

A bottle of Chateau d'Yquem, Sauternes. Whatever vintage I could get at $1000.
That is on my list of wines I would love to taste, if only I knew somebody with a bottle and a willingness to share ...

[rumblefish]

That is on my list of wines I would love to taste, if only I knew somebody with a bottle and a willingness to share ......and a few plates of foi gras.