Le Cirque restaurant in New York is often described as a French fine dining haven. It's even described as the "symbol of New York gastronomy". It's in Midtown east Manhattan, between Lexington and Third Avenues. A four-course meal would cost you US$ 120. Quite prohibitive for my taste, if you say, but, you know French. They know how to treat their guests in the most lavish manner.
One such guest, as what I wrote here previously, is Madame Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. Yes, madame made headline splash in the New York Times last August 6 for spending US$20,000 at Le Cirque. Quite a feat, if you say, for a woman who like telling people that her father and their entire family came from the pauvre classe.
Yet, the daughter of the "poor boy" from Lubao wanted people to know she has good taste. After hailing Carlo J. Caparas, our comics king as National Artist, Gloria wants people to know that her taste in the visual arts is clearly not as misereux as her taste in fine food. She might not have the palette of a Cory, yet, she has fine palate.
And yes, Mrs. Gloria Arroyo is clearly a wine connoisseur. When all we can afford here is a jigger of fine lambanog, Gloria drank the oldest and the most expensive wines in Le Cirque's 950 wine collection. The restaurant has a wine tower with vintage wines from major regions of France, Italy, Spain, the United States and Australia, as well as Chile, Argentina, New Zealand and South Africa and even Mexico. Of course, Gloria the globe trotter likes to taste the fine wines of these countries, which she all but visited quite a number of times before. Probably, during those state visits, her hosts did not serve her the best produce from their countries. Understandable, you see, because some think she's really an illegitimate bitch (pardon my French).
Gloria and her entourage drank some of those wines in the Opus One, all 6-liter bottles by Mondavi and Rothchild. Touche. And she even sipped a glass from the 1900 Chateau d'Yquem which cost US$12,000 a bottle. Her guests also enjoyed Champagne with the Le Cirque logo on the label, courtesy of de St-Gall. What a saintly feast!
While we all mourn the passing of Cory Aquino, here is Gloria Arroyo feasting and pigging out thousands of miles away, the French way.
And I'm sure Presidential mouthpiece Cerge Remonde would say "inggit lang kayo!" to all those who are criticizing Madame Gloria for spending close to a million pesos while everybody settles for sardines and noodles for dinner.
Of course not, Mr. Remonde, we're not inggit. In fact, we're too glad that we're not with her nor with you at Le Cirque.
In October 16, 1793, the French made history when they beheaded their king, Louie XVI and his extravagant wife, Marie Antoinette. French revolutionaries stormed the Bastille and arrested them. And you know what happened after they were beheaded? Madame Antoinette's coiffed hair got ruined.
And Gloria loves everything French right?
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