Spirit drinkers getting fleeced in bars
- Steve Zodiac
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I recall Brasserie du Port having Maker's Mark on the menu @ $7 a shot - I think a litre was $22 at the time from Lucky Drink Shop.orde wrote: ↑Tue Dec 15, 2020 1:02 pmI had a Jameson as Botanico. Fucking Botanico that isn't even in a building, you have to just sit outside with flies buzzing around your face (on a stool made from bits of rebar FFS). $4 per measure
A litre of Jameson is $15 at SuperDuper which would be $0.45 per shot. Bars must pay wholesale prices so let's call it $0.40 at the outside. That's a 900% markup.
A shot of Ouzo at Steve's Steakhouse and 'Greek' Restaurant was $4.50 - the same brand was $4.20 for a bottle at Mean Sok Heng.
The off-sales prices of spirits have gone up a bit over the last few years, but beer is still less than 50c a can. Where is the justification for prices like $2 or $3 ? The way bar owners see it is that they 'have' to charge more to cover the exhorbitant rents they are paying, which is like a hooker wanting $100 because her pimp gets 90%. Cui bono ?
I was always a beer drinker before, now I drink mainly wine or neat spirits (for health reasons).
Is it not better to buy a "bottle", rather than buying it by the shot?
Is it not better to buy a "bottle", rather than buying it by the shot?
- khmerhit
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You are also paying for the surroundings. It's cheaper if you want to drink at home alone, natch. Four dolla for a glass of watered-down spirits sounds ok to me, since you also get a view of the Mekong or the Tonle Sap. Hers in Canada the view comes with winter ice.
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Loco's bar offers excellent spirits and won't scam you.
Numbnuts all grown up
What is the name and address of this lovely place?
I was lucky enough to know Quentin Crisp. In a former life I wrote an article about him and he wrote to me about it at the magazine at which I worked: we kept up a long correspondence during the 90s as a result and I met him once or twice when he was in England in 1999, shortly before his death. He was a fascinating character.
He didn’t drink.
In Naked Civil Servant he wrote:
“For about twenty years I lived in a state of intoxication with my own existence and, perhaps for that very reason, excess of alcohol was one of the extremes to which I felt no urge to fly.”
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- Steve Zodiac
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Well, with respect to their 'speakeasy' theme I won't be too specific, but here's a big clueSlow Delivery wrote: ↑Thu Jan 21, 2021 5:18 pmWhat is the name and address of this lovely place?
Here is my choices:
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One of them must be the right one.
cheers
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One of them must be the right one.
cheers
I forgot to mention that the liquor store of the picture is no longer in business, the sign still hanging above the doorway.
I will put a name against my pics as soon as MaxB confirm that one of them is the correct Speakeasy Lounge mentioned in his post.
Cheers
Cheers
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