Special guest post - from our lovely friend Alison Hay! Cheers luv!
What better than to combine two of a glam girl’s favorite treats – martinis and chocolate! I’m going to let you in on the Top Five Chocolate Martini’s in Los Angeles, a formerly VERY closely guarded secret!
5. Lola’s on Fairfax. Just because they invented the Apple Martini doesn’t mean they can’t refine a Chocolatini – theirs comes creamy with the taste of Godiva.
4. The Millennium Biltmore Hotel, Downtown LA. The Grandest Setting Ever! The famous 1920’s bar is staffed with the most knowledgeable, old style barmen who know all the tricks. This Chocolatini packs a punch. After two of them, I fell off the side of the plush hall carpet runner on the way out.
3. The Chateau Marmont. Not the fanciest, but clear, with good flavours. But it’s hard to beat sipping one surrounded by the A List in the magical garden restaurant!
2. The Bel Air Hotel. Definitely the most expensive, it comes in a large traditional glass and is a lush, deep, clear chocolate brown. The finishing touch, the one that will have your knees go weak, it comes provided with its own CHOCOLATE STRAW. You have been Heaven Blessed.
1. The Ultimate. The bad news is you can only order it in a restaurant that is private. The good news? It’s the worlds best. Hidden away along a side street of New Orleans Square in Disneyland is a small, unassuming door marked simply by the number of 33. Behind and above it is the former apartment of Walt himself, complete with the original buzzard chandelier he designed and bugged to listen in on what his employees said about him when he left the room. While it no longer records lunch conversations, it is the best feature in the smaller dining room, one of two that overlooks the park. Club 33 is by invite from a Disney executive and is a proper 5 star venue, where the alcohol flows. Order a chocolate martini and out comes a chilled, traditional shaped glass that has a thick coating of dark chocolate frozen around the rim. Oh dear God. But it is white chocolate that makes the nectar liquid, like sweet, alcoholic milk. Dessert in a glass, you can’t help downing them like candy, one after another.
Now, as a former lingerie expert, with six years of dressing such nakedness as Christina, Gwen, J.Lo, Carmen, Jessica, Paris, Britney and Dita, I have another cocktail of an entirely different kind to share with you, one that was dreamed up and put into deadly practice by me and the femme fatales who worked the pink uniform on Melrose Avenue at Agent Provocateur. Not the one that was created for us at The Hungry Cat, called the Provocatini, which was pink and fatal, like us, but a Bra-tini.
For this recipe you need two very fancy and complementary bras. Perhaps a red one combined with a black bra that has red and black lacy straps. Or a black and pink with extravagant trimming underneath something pink and black. The outer one should be slightly smaller in cup (or even a quarter cup or balconette) and the bra under it should showcase fabulous detail. Try it for a truly bordello look. It double boosts the cleavage! Want to know how to triple boost your assets? Make a bra-tini of your own choosing. Then put on a corset…here’s the secret that is the wow factor: IF you position the corset half way up the bra-tini, you not only get an amazing new look but when the corset is tightened, your very own home-made boob job.
Oh, you’ll thank me.
