Only in NY

Hooray for guest stars.

Keeping with the theme of the absurd, I present to you a news story about the thousand dollar omelet being sold at Manhattan’s Le Parker Meridien hotel.

My Way news article

Here is an excerpt:

“I couldn’t believe it was the price when I first saw ’1,000′ on the menu. I thought it was the calorie count,” Virginia Marnell, a customer at Norma’s restaurant in Le Parker Meridien hotel on West 57th Street, told the Daily News for Monday editions.

The omelet, which debuted May 5 and is billed as the “Zillion Dollar Frittata,” has six eggs, a lobster and – here’s the kicker – 10 ounces of sevruga caviar. The restaurant pays $65 an ounce for the caviar, according to Norma’s general manager, Steven Pipes.

It is never a good thing when a restaurant has to offer a ‘budget’ version of a dish.

As Cindy Adams would say,

“Only in New York, kids, only in New York.”