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Ladies, if your husband is taking you to the Four Seasons on February 14th, you might want to consider staking out the restaurant on the 13th. Co-owner Julian Niccolini tells Gourmet that night is always just as busy as V-Day, because that's when high rollers bring in the other women for an adulterous dinner. The article is full of other V-Day dos and don'ts, such as please don't make your marriage proposal in a restaurant! At Gramercy Tavern, a woman once asked a man to marry her, and when he said no, she stood up, started cursing, and began throwing plates. A waiter tells Gourmet, "Clearly, he made the right choice." And if you must propose while dining, don't hide the ring in the food! An engagement ring embedded in a woman's crème brûlée was swallowed before her boyfriend could pop the question. "Our first hug was the Heimlich maneuver," he recalls.
February 14 is Valentine's Day, February 13 is Mistress Day
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How about rings in the champagne flute? I've read about that!
"An engagement ring embedded in a woman's crème brûlée was swallowed before her boyfriend could pop the question."
Sure. I believe that really happened. I mean look, over on Yahoo Answers it happened twice to the same 14-year old kid:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080229160726AAYgAuv
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080229162931AA5ISTi
I call BS on the Heimlich story. More likely they spent the next day or two picking though her poo.
Classy graphic, gothamist. Keep it real.
the week after V-day is the largest concentration of break ups.. no?
Proposing on V Day is very lame, it means your finace doen't care enough to remember a separate date and too cheap to get you a separate gift.
i'm pretty sure the heimlich would be useless on a heavy piece of metal with a big hole in it.
you could hide the ring in the battery compartment of a flashlight & ask her to get it when you try to change the tire on the car.
EricRoberts, especially if you swallowed said heavy piece of metal. Last I heard the heimlich was mostly meant to dislodge that which is stuck in your windpipe.
I'll give the guy credit, though, for telling his BS story in the first person. I would have expected it to be in the "this one time a customer was here..." vein.
Still it would have made a better if he had said that the girlfriend was a banker, and now she has lost her job, so he has formed a support group for guys dating bankers. If he had thought to add that part his story could be in the Times instead of just Gourmet.
How stupid (or hungry) do you have to be to eat/swallow a diamond ring in a creme brulee? Creme brulee is soft and custardy, diamond ring is hard and spiky. Total BS.
Yeah at least the 14-year old was smart enough to say it was in a burrito and a shepherd's pie. That'd be more believable... you know, except for being 14 and doing it twice.
I got love for the ladies any day of the week.
:D
I'm rather surprised Niccolini would risk the ire of repeat customers by telling that story...
Present her with a silver tray upon which is a sizeable mound of cocaine. When she gets through having a nice toot, tell her she just snorted her ring.