Apparently a New York Democrat tried to get reimbursed for a $177 Bagel. I found this story in the New York Times, that sometimes has a story actually about New York... kind of like a Bagel page that isn't always about Bagels.The most expensive bagel at Norma’s, the restaurant at Le Parker Meridien Hotel on West 56th Street, has three layers, five ounces of smoked salmon and three kinds of caviar, for $23. Norma’s also is the home of the $1,000 lobster-and-caviar frittata, an Italian omelet (“Norma dares you to expense this,” the menu reads), so it seemed reasonable to ask Steven Pipes, the hotel’s managing director, what their $177 bagel sandwich might look like.
Mr. Pipes proposed a menu addition called the Larry B. Bagel Special: an H & H bagel with cream cheese and scrambled eggs, served open-faced with a third of an ounce of white Alba truffles, which cost $6,000 to $10,000 per pound. At $177, would anyone really order it? “Absolutely,” Mr. Pipes said. “Especially if it’s a politician.”
