“All you really need to know about the Paris Ritz is this: by the middle of 1937, Coco Chanel was living in a handsome suite on the third floor, and the bartender – an intuitive mixologist named Frank Meier – had invented the Bloody Mary sixteen summers earlier to cure a Hemingway hangover.”

“All you really need to know about the Paris Ritz is this: by the middle of 1937, Coco Chanel was living in a handsome suite on the third floor, and the bartender – an intuitive mixologist named Frank Meier – had invented the Bloody Mary sixteen summers earlier to cure a Hemingway hangover.”

— Beatriz Williams