Cocktails are so overpriced .....

[ratliiie]

Went out tonight for the first time in forever and had 3 cocktails
1st place £10.50 for a cocktail
2nd place £13.50
3rd place £11.00
£35 for 3 drinks!

Is it just me that thinks this is so expensive
I haven't been out for a while and this shocked me

Depends city's tend to charge more.

Yanbu but seems to be the way now

Don't get me started on charging £9 for a g&t!!!

That’s about average for city prices on my experience. I suppose you’re paying for two or more shots of alcohol and that they take a bit longer to make at the bar with shakers etc. But yes it’s not normally something you can drink all night!

Had you thought about not ordering a cocktail?

What were the prices for other drinks?

Yes, went for cocktails with friends recently. Completely ludicrous, esp with cost of taxi on top. Life is expensive nowadays :(

In 2005 I was in a NYC cocktail bar and it was £15 a cocktail - so vodka and coke/G&T. So that was about £15 then.

That is the price of a cocktail.

I went to London with friends recently and was agog at the cocktails on offer. The woman in front of me ordered something ridiculously named and it was an entire show watching the bar staff putting it together. It had herbs in it, celery, a steak probably, an umbrella, alcohol, fruit. There was shaking and mixing and an honest to God pirouette from a bar man. It just went on and on. Seventeen English pounds! Cost more than my dinner and was more of a faff.

I asked for an orange and cranberry juice. The bar staff looked at me like I'd vomited on their shoes. Shoved it in a crappy little glass, no pizzazz. I asked the price and she shrugged and asked me "I don't know, a quid?" I offered £2 if she'd let me have an umbrella. She chucked one next to the glass and told me to keep my money. She clearly wanted me to get out of her sight.

Were you in decent bars? If so, that seems about right.

It’s the shots of alcohol in the drink. It takes longer to prepare and more washing up with different receptacles. Cherry, umbrella, lemon, straw, mint, fruit etc…

This is why I refuse to buy cocktails when I'm out, unless it's a BOGOF SITUATION (classy chick over here). They're flippin' expensive and slurped down in a flash.

I find cocktails have gone up less than beer and wine, they've been around a tenner for as long as I've been allowed to drink.

The alchemist /the botanist and just a random bar
I do love a cocktail but they go down like pop.

Cocktails have always been unreasonably expensive for what they are. Which is why I have no truck with them!

Depends if it's a badly made generic cocktail, or something unusual where work has gone into creating unusual flavours and inventing something which makes for an enjoyable drinking experience.

A well made cocktail is worth paying for. A bit of gin and orange juice laced with too much sugar syrup is not!

@ratliiie

The alchemist /the botanist and just a random bar I do love a cocktail but they go down like pop.

So not decent bars then. Crap churn-em-out chains that are all flash and no substance.

The last bar was colonel porters on Newcastle quayside
Not sure if anyone knows it
That was probably the best out of them all

I only ever drink cocktails if they’re on some sort of two for £9 offer.

I paid £44 quid for one drink once. It took up about 20 minutes of the bartenders time, involved a cloche and smoke being piped into said cloche cinnamon all over the shop and herbs and rare whiskey and all sorts. It was a brilliant show and a brilliant cocktail and I don't begrudge it. But generally, yup they're stupidly overpriced.

@CrazylazyJane

This is why I refuse to buy cocktails when I'm out, unless it's a BOGOF SITUATION (classy chick over here). They're flippin' expensive and slurped down in a flash.

Wanna be my BOGOF buddy?

OP YANBU. I just don't have cocktails because they're such a rip off and I don't think they have that much booze in it to be honest, on the rare occasion I've had one, I can barely taste it.

I generally stick to draft lager when out because everything else is just stupidly expensive.

There’s a bar in London called nightjar where the cocktails are about £10-15 each but it’s good fun as it’s all a bit of a performance. They have really elaborate presentation with ridiculous ingredients like candy floss and accessories and all sorts. Went there with a friend for a few and one of ours had a creme egg stuck in the bottom of the glass. Frivolous and not cheap but good fun to do once in a while.

@ShowOfHands

I went to London with friends recently and was agog at the cocktails on offer. The woman in front of me ordered something ridiculously named and it was an entire show watching the bar staff putting it together. It had herbs in it, celery, a steak probably, an umbrella, alcohol, fruit. There was shaking and mixing and an honest to God pirouette from a bar man. It just went on and on. Seventeen English pounds! Cost more than my dinner and was more of a faff.

I asked for an orange and cranberry juice. The bar staff looked at me like I'd vomited on their shoes. Shoved it in a crappy little glass, no pizzazz. I asked the price and she shrugged and asked me "I don't know, a quid?" I offered £2 if she'd let me have an umbrella. She chucked one next to the glass and told me to keep my money. She clearly wanted me to get out of her sight.

Nonsense did they shrug at the price of a soft drink if it was a decent bar charging £17 a cocktail

They tend to charge a bloody fortune even for just a soft drink, if you’re going to make up a story at least make it vaguely believable

We used to get one of those giant fishbowl things at the local chain place for a tenner Woo Woos!

We had a cocktail each in a famous hotel in Nice a few years ago. €30 each. We didn't look at the menu, i just wanted one cocktail in the famous Negresco.

I agree and half the time the glass is half full of ice cubes anyway!!!