French Restaurant Found a Tax Loophole by Serving Alcohol in Baby Bottles

By Alex in Food & Drink on Mar 12, 2008 at 12:52 am

That’s not grape juice … that’s wine served in baby bottles in a restaurant called Le Refuge des Fondues in Paris, France.

Ashley Thompson of Intelligent Travel blog tells us why:

Disgruntled servers and fondue restaurants are all over Paris, we know, but this is the only place that offers up some of the lowest-end table wine served in baby bottles. It seems that Le Refuge des Fondues found a clever little shortcut to getting around the mandated tax Parisian restaurants face when serving wine out of the slightly more traditional stemmed glass.

There’s an added benefit:

You know how drinking any sort of alcoholic beverage from a straw sometimes seems to hit you much harder? That same logic applies to drinking wine from a nipple.

Link (Photo: Jay McMillan) – Thanks Marilyn!


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  1. MoonCake
    Mar 12th, 2008 at 7:04 am

    too bad it doesn’t come out of human nipples.

    -and-

    let’s just hope momma remembers which bottle is hers…

  2. medussa
    Mar 12th, 2008 at 11:34 am

    I like that first thought, MoonCake. It was the first thing that came to my mind as well…

  3. Dave
    Mar 12th, 2008 at 11:48 am

    That made me think of the recent trend in Minnesota bars to get around the statewide smoking ban; they hold Theater Nights, where the whole bar is the stage and the patrons are the actors. State law allows actors to smoke if their part calls for it, so that makes it ok, right?

    http://www.startribune.com/local/15859722.html

  4. emptyminded
    Mar 12th, 2008 at 6:45 pm

    This is how I used to take Jack Daniels into a theater. No one ever questions a baby bottle. Forget about the fact that I didn’t have a baby. I remember taking whiskey to see Predator 2. Believe me, it made the experience totally more enjoyable.

  5. Marilyn Terrell
    Mar 13th, 2008 at 2:35 pm

    @Dave: yes, it does remind me of the Theater Nights loophole in Minnesota, and Intelligent Travel covered that story too:
    http://intelligenttravel.typepad.com/it/2008/02/twin-cities-bar.html

    More creative ways around unpopular laws.

  6. purduephotog
    Mar 15th, 2008 at 5:32 pm

    I’ve eaten there. You can write on the walls- patrons are encouraged to do so- and each bottle contains about 500ml of wine. It’s cheap, it’s good food, and it’s a blast.

    Did I mention you have to climb over the table to get a seat?

    (Photo taken in 2000- they’ve been doing this for a long while)


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