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Three-martini lunch. Three martinis with olives as a garnish. A martini: gin, vermouth, olive. In the United States, the three-martini lunch or noontime three-martini is a leisurely, indulgent lunch enjoyed by businesspeople or lawyers. [1]
Oct 24, 2013 · Living as we do in the era of lunch at your desk, the three-martini lunch might well conjure up appealing images of editors and advertising executives on expense accounts, clinking glasses over a leisurely repast at New York’s “21″ Club as they sign up famous authors or land new clients.
Sep 10, 2015 · A Three-martini lunch refers to a business lunch where martinis or other alcoholic cocktails are ordered. Since the lunch is business-related, it is used as a tax write-off, even though the martinis are a frivolous, expensive, and unnecessary addition to a lunch and are solely there to soften up the parties involved.
Nov 25, 2013 · And perhaps the good, spirited, adventurous and candid conversations that take place over a Pernod on the Carlton Terrace, a Carlsberg at the Martinez or Guinness at the Gutter Bar, are the new...
Jan 21, 2021 · Joseph J. Thorndike discusses the history of the three-martini lunch and the broader debate over tax deductions for business meals.
- Joseph Thorndike
Sep 8, 2020 · The Palace offers four different martinis on their lunch menu: the gin (or vodka) and vermouth-based classic; the cranberry-colored Cosmo; their signature, blue-hued Commander’s Palace martini and the Ray’s Melon martini, named for a beloved employee, Ray Brinkman.
Aug 5, 2021 · The restaurant offers four different martinis on their lunch menu: the gin (or vodka) and vermouth-based classic; the cranberry-colored Cosmo; their signature, blue-hued Commander’s Palace martini and the Ray’s Melon martini, named for a beloved employee, Ray Brinkman.
