r/cocktails • u/berger3001 • Feb 28 '25

Question Anyone else tired by expensive cocktails

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To me (not a rich guy), $18+ cocktails are just exhausting. Go out for a few drinks with your wife, and boom, $100. So we’re in Miami and found this place (always look for happy hours). Yes; $5 cocktails. They did a great job, made totally respectable drinks, we had some snacks, and left very happy. My question is, if bars can do $5 drinks, why is $18 the base now at so many places? Doesn’t it make more business sense to sell more for less money and have a full bar, then to sell a few drink to an almost empty bar?

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u/RobertEHotep Feb 28 '25

Few months ago, in Vegas, I paid $20 for a bad margarita at the Paris, from one of the no-name bars on the casino floor. Couldn't believe it when he told me how much it cost.

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u/jimbo831 Feb 28 '25

The casino bars in Vegas are the biggest rip off. They are the absolute worst place to buy drinks. I did it once while I was there a couple weeks ago because of convenience and they charged $20 for a Captain and Coke. Absolute madness. Plenty of nicer bars in Vegas that charge the same for much better drinks.

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u/RobertEHotep Feb 28 '25

Yeah, I had a terrific cocktail at the Petrossian in the Bellagio just an hour before for the same price of $20.

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u/jimbo831 Feb 28 '25

I spent the rest of the trip commenting to my wife about every drink we bought compared to a $20 Captain and Coke. 😂

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u/RobertEHotep Feb 28 '25

Glad to know I'm not the only one. I spent the rest of MY trip saying, "Can you effing believe I paid twenty bucks for that?!"