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Caviar Girl Dinner Menu

Aperitif: Champagne 

Canapé: 
Caviar board with homemade blinis, ruffled sea salt potato chips, crème fraiche, chopped red onion and dill 

Appetiser:
Devilled eggs with caviar (made with just a whisper of Dijon mustard)

Main course:
Crispy smashed baby potatoes with unsalted butter, sour cream, chives and caviar 

Served with a side salad of ribboned cucumber with whipped ricotta, dill, mint, toasted pistachios, avocado and salmon roe with olive oil  

Desert 
Crème fraiche ice cream, plain crepe, olive oil and caviar

Should I add caviar atop grilled (mild soft cheese) sandwich bites too or is that overkill? Or perhaps caviar over a small plated mound of buttery mild soft cheesy pasta?

Caviar Girl Dinner Menu

Aperitif: Champagne 

Canapé: 
Caviar board with homemade blinis, ruffled sea salt potato chips, crème fraiche, chopped red onion and dill 

Appetiser:
Devilled eggs with caviar (made with just a whisper of Dijon mustard)

Main course:
Crispy smashed baby potatoes with unsalted butter, sour cream, chives and caviar 

Served with a side salad of ribboned cucumber with whipped ricotta, dill, mint, toasted pistachios, avocado and salmon roe with olive oil  

Desert 
Crème fraiche ice cream, plain crepe, olive oil and caviar

Should I add caviar atop grilled (mild soft cheese) sandwich bites too or is that overkill? Or perhaps caviar over a small plated mound of buttery mild soft cheesy pasta?

My father struggles to walk more than 5-10 minutes at a stretch. And he has real trouble with inclines. His knee issues are frustrating him as he loves to be out in nature, so I’d love to take him on a slow, tranquil, nature filled holiday where we stay put in one place for 7-10 days.

Looking for accessible luxury resorts in beautiful nature settings (private white sandy beach, forests, lakes, or surrounded by hills) in the following countries. Ideally they have excellent spas too!

These are the countries we are interested in:

- Australia
- Turkey
- Thailand
- Vietnam
- Indonesia
- South Africa
- Mauritius
- Sri Lanka
- UAE
- Oman

Thanks to Instagram’s old money obsession spilling over into Indian social media there seems to be this idea that an old money businessman is the ultimate catch for a Bollywood actress or influenza.

As someone who straddles both worlds (cinema and industry) I have seen that most A or B grade actresses and influenzas today make more than their generationally wealthy businessmen arm candy.

I’m not talking about outliers like a one-film old Gayatri from Swades who married a billionaire Oberoi. I am talking about the typical, well established ‘old family business’ BF/ husband that many actresses and influenzas tend to go for.

The public assume such women are marrying or dating for money. Yet in most such pairings I witness, the actress or influenza has far more liquid wealth and a much more lavish lifestyle.

Let’s break down the maths:

A well established Indian family biz typically has an annual revenue in the ₹500-2500 crore range. Despite what it may seem like, billion dollar businesses (in annual revenue) are still few and far in between in India. No actresses that I know of, barring Sharmeen and Gayatri, are married to bonafide billionaires. You can check lists like Fortune Next 500 India to verify that the actual revenue of many well known business houses or brands in this range.

While this revenue may still seem rather enormous, this how the money actually splits up:

₹50-200 crores annual profit (the average range for a profitable private Indian family biz of this size, excluding a few superstar businesses in industries like Pharma or well run NBFCs, brand name auto companies). LOTS of companies are in losses as well!

Of this, at least 50-75% is used to repay debts, or reinvested into the business to modernise equipment, expand, setup new outlets and factories, acquire smaller competitors, invest in R&D and so on

₹12.5-100 crores left

Typically a family will have at least one set of parents and 2 siblings in the business. It could be more like 2-3 sets of parents and 4-6 siblings as well. Often the business has 25-50% external shareholders: foreign tech transfer JVs, public shareholding and so on. More rarely, the family may have Private Equity shareholders if it fell on difficult times and needed to secure funds urgently at any point.

So this leaves each scion with only ₹2-20 crores annual income typically

Compare this to even B grade actresses and leading influenzas who will easily make more money in a year between films, item songs, endorsements, wedding performances, social media posts and so on.

And yes, these biz scions can put fairly large expenses on their companies including travel and a retinue of staff. But it is nothing compared to the lavish sponsored trips, flights, perks and access an A or B grade actress gets in this era of social media.

Private Jets are something many B list celebs I know are lent by enamoured politicians or for international brand trips, for example. Yet most business families don’t fly private until their business is doing far higher annual revenue than 500-2000C.

Of course, the real money for old family businesses lies in other areas:

The net worth/ market cap of the company: this can genuinely be in thousands of crores but most old families are obsessed with legacy and control. They don’t want to sell a big chunk of their shares in most cases. A few old families with unlisted businesses will IPO, but this is very rare, and even here the majority of money is reinvested in the business.

Real estate and financial investments: again, these can be in thousands of crores for old families. But the parents typically want to control their children and not spoil them with limitless luxury. Part of the old money values are that they want to ensure their scions work in the business, live close to home and continue the family legacy.

So while they may give them a beautiful house in a prestigious neighbourhood to live in, the house is still in the parents name. And they don’t often give their scions access to their investment portfolio until much later in life. They are too afraid their kids will stray from the path they want, choosing not to work, or to pursue a passion instead of run the business, or to move abroad and live a life of vegetative luxury in Mayfair/ Dubai Hills.

Please note: I am talking here strictly of the respectable, generationally wealthy families running genuine businesses i.e. the Insta-coveted, classy ‘old money’ types.

NOT the political black money brigade, who function in a completely different manner and are flush with funds that they tend to throw around.

But unless the old money is of the Birlas, Godrejs, Poonawallas class, (none of whom have married actresses AFAIK) the scions from the next tier of old money families often have a humbler lifestyle than their actress GFs or Influenza wives.

When buying an exotic from Mark or Ben, what’s the usual payment protocol? Is it a full payment, 10% down payment, 25-50% down payment before you see the leathers and the pfp? Reached out and I am confused; thank you!

Looking for true luxury cruise with a mix of great service, itineraries, excursions and some liveliness on board in terms of entertainment and activities