I Just Spent $30 on Two Cosmos At Dive Bar "The Fourth Wall" in Boston

Was Greg there?

I am outraged on your behalf!

For NYC that’s dirt cheap.

That's not a real dive bar OP, it's a faux dive bar with fancy gastropub food and faux grunge. Like something Disney would dream up. So yes, quite normal pricing.

I paid $15 for a Manhattan at a theatre lobby bar on Saturday. (Major US city.) I thought that was way too much.

It’s The Common, not The Commons.

It's a common mistake, I guess.

Cosmo's are a girly drink and far too sugary. I drink wine and pay around 15 to $20 per glass at a bar or restaurant.

Rapacious landlords probably keep upping their rent. You would be shocked at how much some of these retail establishments have to pay.

Robbery.

I paid about $18 for a Lemon Drop at a DC "nice" chain restaurant/grill (similar maybe to the Chophouse chain.) And this was at a location in suburban Northern VA. Ridiculous and never again.

Former bar / restaurant worker here.

You guys need to stop ordering cosmos and lemon drops.

Order a double vodka on the rocks and call it a day. It will be cheaper.

Alcohol is where restaurants make their money. For $30, you can buy a liter of vodka.

R11 - thanks for chiming in Captain Obvious. But even a double vodka may set you back $12. We all know restaurants make their money in alcohol - but these are outrageous prices for barely mid-level establishments.

That sounds standard for a dive bar (which would also serve a cosmos) in a major American city OP. You don't get out much do you? Also standard to CHEAP for a middle class restaurant.

Such cocktails at a stupid hip/dive bar in Geneva Switzerland are 20 USD equivalent. I noticed touring USA this summer that America has caught up to Europe in pricing. I was kind of shocked.

Pay minimum 17 in NyC for a proper cocktail. Up to 23 at some joints. Or more for fancy, smoke, special ingredients

It’s BS but you get used to it.

Throw in a $25 pack of smokes….

I'm to cheap to get used to a $23 cocktail.

The only time I paid for something like that and didn't mind was when I was at a resort with a friend I hadn't seen in a very long time. We had those drinks that come in coconut shells. I forgot how much the drinks were, but I was OK with paying for it.

Any cock pics OP?

OP It's PRICE. Price. Don't say "price point".

I have paid as much as 24 dollars and more fancy places in LA. Gone are the days when you could get a cocktail in a gay bar for 5 bucks. Once the breeders invaded them and found out how cheap it was to drink in gay bars the owners wised up and started charging just as much as the straight clubs on Sunset. They tripled overnight to 15, now they are up to about 20 -25.

Cosmos use almost, likely more if this bar pours like most, two shots of liquor, require more than effort than a simple highball, and a special glass. $15 frankly seems somewhat cheap.

Just order a soft drink then go home and get your booze on. It’s crazy to pay that much for one drink.

I miss the old, seedy bars in Boston. I’m dating myself, but remember places I haunted like Haymarket, Sporter’s, Napoleon’s, Bobby’s, 1270, the Eagle, Mario’s Luxor. Then there were rural places like Fran’s, Fantasies, and Randolph Country Club, where you could pop out of city for.

Boston was absolutely TEEMING with cheap gay bars back then that celebrated cheap alcohol!

I bought a Shirley Temple and a Martini at the resort bar in Whistler last summer during my cousin's wedding. $22. IMO that's highway robbery.

R23 you are bringing back some misty watercolor memories from when I was a newly hatched gayling in 1990! Also Paradise in Cambridge, down Albany St where MIT meets warehouses. Drinks in that place were cheap and strong.

I can still recall the carpeting on that trippy staircase leading up to Napoleon’s. And watching older queens belt out Hello Dolly and Don’t Rain On My Parade, and realizing at 21 that I don’t know anything about this culture but hey, at least they all think I’m cute.

It's..."The Common" or Boston Common.

NOT "Commons"

I bought TWO BEERS at Madison Square Garden this week. Including tax and tip it was $47. I was aghast.

You could walk a couple of blocks to Chinatown and do a lot better.

When I was a kid and JFK was President we used to go to South America for my Dad’s work. Usually we’d fly one way and take a ship home. I was too young to drink but my parents thought 50 cents for a drink, granted one made with top shelf (and duty-free) booze on the ship was great when the same drink at home was a dollar or even a buck and a quarter. The Grace Line wasn’t trying to pay for the [italic] Santa Paula[/italic] with the money they made in the bar onboard.

We were on the Queen Mary this summer. Well drinks for $15 and I didn’t think it was a ripoff. That’s what they cost now.

OP: you should have gone two doors down to the Tam. A bit cheaper and a lot skeevier. The Tam’s a dive bar. They used to open at 7 am so you could top up after you got off the train but before you got to the office. They may still: I don’t work downtown anymore.

[quote]We were on the Queen Mary this summer.

Are you sure it wasn't the Titanic given your age R29?

R25, there were sone swarthy hustlers upstairs at Napoleon’s trolling the old men upstairs!

I took a beautiful Puerto Rican hone once as a young gayling but ghosted him because he was way too big, and I didn’t want a blown out hole at 20.

Did you go home and cry while re-watching your scratched up DVD's of SATC, OP?

R19, I love you. "Price point" needs to go in the Phrases You Hate thread. Headed over there right now.

The real shame here is a grown ass man drinking Cosmos. You're not Carrie Bradshaw.