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London Bartender Makes the 'World's Most Expensive Cocktail'
The $8,830 tipple is apparently the world's oldest cocktail, too.
If you want to taste the "world's most expensive cocktail," might as well order four: You're not going to want to remember what you paid for it the next day.
Supreme booze-wizard Salvatore Calabrese whisked the tongue-stroking, wallet-killing concoction together last week using ingredients totaling around $8,830. Anything less would've been like drinking cat pee, I guess, for the "world’s leading cocktail expert," the honorific chosen for Salvatore by his employer, London's exclusive Playboy Club. The mixmaster used a modified recipe after a slight booboo nixed one of his chosen liquors – a customer allegedly dropped $77,480 bottle of cognac, whose 234-year-old glass did not survive the fall.