Post #308106 by cheekytiki on Tue, May 22, 2007 4:26 AM

Well, I rang Trader Vics and the lovely people said that they would do their best to make up a table for 13. They are SO nice.

Oh, wait... A table for (un)lucky 13, at Trader Vics, in London ... with someone called midnite_tiki...
Phew, that's OK the full moon is on 1 June! Aaooowww!

Make mine a Silver Bullet, just in case...

They can always do what they do at the Savoy - True Story

Kaspar is a longtime resident of the Savoy Hotel on the Strand. Kaspar also hails from the 1920s, when he was carved by designer Basil Ionides. Sleek, black and 3 feet tall, the wooden cat sits inside a display case opposite the gift shop.

His job: to serve as the 14th guest when hosts find their private dinner parties attended by an unlucky number of guests. On request, Kaspar is seated in a chair, draped with a dinner napkin and served each course as though he were one of the diners.

The story goes that in 1898, hotel guest Woolf Joel hosted a dinner party for 13. He laughed off the superstition that held the first to rise from the table would be the first to die. Joel rose first and was shortly thereafter murdered in his native South Africa. From then on, the Savoy decided to even up all dinner parties of 13. Enter Kaspar. Visitors may see Kaspar in his showcase (and buy related souvenirs in the gift shop opposite), but he'll join your table only if you bring along 12 friends.

[ Edited by: cheekytiki 2007-05-22 04:26 ]