Kinsey Donner thinks $ 18 is a “reasonable” price for a drink in the city, but honestly, it will really pay nothing.
“I’ve just admitted that drinks in New York are expensive,” the 28-year-old Virginia transplant post. She said she has become her “new normal” after living in Manhattan for two and a half years.
Things in New York and just living is more worth it because they are likely to be high, Donner said, “because expectations in New York are much higher than anywhere else.”
Employees only – where cocktails range from about $ 20 to $ 23 – has become one of its favorite drinking points in the city, but it is sprinkled in a $ 30 martyr in Bemelman’s grass and does not regret it.
“I wanted to try the bar. They have a living jazz” and is a well -known institution that has been forever, “Kips Bay’s resident justified.
New Yorkers can complain about high prices, but they are still submitting the money at the end of the day.
As the post reported in 2004, New Yorkers complained about paying $ 14 for a margarites at the time – now they would be more than happy to see a cocktail below $ 15.
In 2010, the average price of a drink in the city was $ 10.78, according to Zagat. The post reported at the time that prices were really some higher dollars, but even so, they have never been more expensive than they are now.
At the Baccarat Hotel, old fashion Baccarat and Baccarat Rouge, both over $ 50, are the best sellers, employees for The Post said. And people constantly order Polo Bar Lounge $ 60 Martini, which is served in a silver plate with a sea and caviar in the exclusive room.
Fifty -year -old Marcelo Gigliani praises a good cocktail with good company, so he will sprinkle when he feels right.
“There are moments when it should be really cheap, and then there are moments when I’m willing to pay $ 20 or $ 30 for a cocktail in the right situation with the right people in the right environment,” Gigliani, 50, for posting.
“A cocktail serves for different purposes. It depends on what you are behind, so it’s hard to set a price.”
Josã © MARãa Dondã ©, beverage manager and headmistologists on Bedford Stone Street, noted some of the nuances of price determination in New York City.
“Most bars aim to keep the beverages costs about 20 to 25% of the price. So if a cocktail costs $ 3 to do, it is usually priced at $ 12 to $ 15. This keeps the lights and strips working,” Dondã © explained for the post.
The cocktails in the new place in the financial circle range from $ 17 to $ 20.
“When you buy a cocktail, you will not only pay what is in the glass, you will pay for all the experience that comes with it,” Dondã © said.
Some people are willing to pour some money for a inventive drink, in a place with â € œClout, â € especially if it is something they cannot do at home.
“If I pay a premium, I will pay a premium, I will pay a premium,” Shannon Tweed, 30, for posting.
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But other customers are not so ready to spray a drink – no matter the circumstances.
â € œ once in soho, I saw an Espresso Martini for about $ 30 to $ 50, and I immediately left the bar. We sat down, I looked at the menu and I immediately said hell no, “Ashley Stewart told the post.
Nick Smith, 30, agreed that â € œ if a cocktail [price] It starts with one three, it is very expensive. “He and his girlfriend, Caroline Lea, 25, prefer to drink on the bottom of their birth, where they think the beverages are a little more reasonable – they paid $ 14 and $ 15 for their cocktails in Canal Little.
In general, most people in Manhattan are willing to pay about $ 15 to $ 20 for a cocktail in the city.
“A normal standard cocktail has to cost $ 15,” Chris Morales said in the post. He scored $ 21 for his drink after working on Grill Bryant Park this spring and thought the price was “a little high”.
He confessed that he had once paid $ 50 for an old fashion made by Bullei or Baker’s brand, but said it was a “dumb action”.
“I shouldn’t have done it,” Morales said, shaking his head.
Some who are older and wiser have learned their teaching.
Former Restaurator Darrell Maupin says he was priced outside the city. “I don’t want to have a subhumane life,” he told the post.
“I rarely go out to restaurants because I can’t allow them. I better buy a bottle for $ 30 than spending $ 30 on a drink.”
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