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From Punch: Luxury Martini, and a question (punchdrink.com)

submitted 9 months ago by RBWells to c/cocktails

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This article got me thinking - I don't go out for great drinks, I make great drinks and go out to go out. I wouldn't buy a $45 cocktail, I'd buy the two expensive bottles and recreate it if I wanted it! I like a good drink but beyond good I don't value a better one more somehow.

But at a restaurant I generally expect great food; I don't go out to eat just to go out, I value the great food and will pay more for better.

What do you expect at a cocktail bar, and would you pay $45 for something that was 'worth' $45 in some way?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I paid probably $45 for a specialty cocktail in Disney World in the Star Wars bar, but it came with a souvenir glass. $25 is probably my limit for just a drink, but even that has to be an "experience" like the above bar.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I wouldn't pay $40+ for a drink. Especially a martini, there's not a perceptible increase in quality of ingredients to justify that price. I go to a cocktail bar for drinks that suck to make at home, tiki drinks, obscure liquors, house made syrups, blended drinks.