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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.
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
A “three martini lunch” is a long, leisurely lunch, usually associated with either business or backroom political dealings. The three martini lunch had its heyday in the middle of the 20th century, when attitudes about alcohol were more relaxed. It conveyed a sense of ease and a clubbish, exclusive world.
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.
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.
