Come to Mommy
There have been innumerable gimmicks to be unleased on the citizens of New York City. Ninja. LEED nightclubs. Make Your Own Wine. You get the point. But La Cave des Fondus, which is poised to open tomorrow in Nolita has trumped them all. The restaurant, an homage to Montmartre restaurant Le Refuge des Fondu, will be offering its wine and beer to customers in baby bottles. We will say it again. Baby bottles. Owner Jacques Ouari tells the Times:
“I wanted to set up my place exactly like the one in Paris. It’s such a fun place. Everybody loves drinking beer and wine from baby bottles - even my father thought it was fun - and I think New Yorkers will like it too. I checked with the health department and as long as we put the bottles in the dishwasher they have no problem with it.”
This is what you could look like. Is that what you want for yourself? Sadly, we predict that the scenetards will get a big, idiot kick out of this. But don't be fooled. You are adults. You drink out of glasses, bottles or sometimes right out of the mofo box. But not baby bottles. We repeat, not baby bottles. [Diner's Journal]
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Reader Comments (4)
ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to Nolita, none other than....Murray Hill!
FAIL
Horrible idea, wine needs to breathe and needs to be consumed with glasses that have stems. I get the gimmick but come on now....
can i get a nipple to suck on too??
whoops guess the diners club author hasn't spent much time in paris sucking liquor out of a nipple.
on some levels this concept works but not so much with wine, unless you are using the baby bottle to skirt a tax law on wine service.
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