NewYorkFirst.com: Original Blue Bar Martini Glass

True Blue Martini.

Herewith a true New York landmark. The Algonquin continues a tradition of elegance that made the hotel the toast of New York's most quotable wits of the 1920s, including Robert Benchley who posed the famous question: "Why don't you slip out of those wet clothes and into a dry martini?"

And then, of course, there was Dorothy Parker who wrote:

Such luminaries as Benchley, Parker, George S. Kaufman, Ring Lardner, Alexander Woollcott, and Heywood Broun were frequent visitors to the Algonquin's Round Table for lunch, where they would exchange ideas and gossip over martinis, adroitly mixed in the Blue Bar and served in glamorous 6-oz cobalt-blue glasses.

Today, the hotel lobby maintains a decor ingrained with history, ranging from its well-preserved wooden walls and pillars to its grandfather clock and comfy, oversized chairs. Just tap on the bell to ring for a waiter....

FREE! The Martini Wits.
Included with each set of Blue Bar Martini Glasses is a crackling collection of bon mots, wisecracks, epigrams and gags from the quotable notables of the Algonquin. Also included is the recipe for "Matilda," a current special Blue Bar martini (named after the hotel cat by the same name).