{"id":811,"date":"2012-07-09T23:32:03","date_gmt":"2012-07-09T23:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pubcrawlnyc.com\/blog\/?p=811"},"modified":"2012-08-20T15:27:03","modified_gmt":"2012-08-20T15:27:03","slug":"pub-crawl-nycs-brief-thoughts-on-mixed-drink-prices-in-midtown-manhattan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pubcrawlnyc.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/09\/pub-crawl-nycs-brief-thoughts-on-mixed-drink-prices-in-midtown-manhattan\/","title":{"rendered":"Pub Crawl NYC&#8217;s brief thoughts on mixed drink prices in Midtown Manhattan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pub Crawl NYC realizes it&#8217;s not news that mixed drinks at upscale Manhattan spots can now cost well over $10.\u00a0 Still though, on a recent night out at Rooftop Lounge at Renaissance Hotel in Midtown, Pub Crawl NYC learned that a Grey Goose vodka and soda drink cost $14 (see picture of bill below).\u00a0 Grey Goose is not a high end vodka, probably middle range.\u00a0 Considering how much ice was in the glass (see second photo below, which was taken <em>after<\/em> the drink was finished), Pub Crawl NYC thinks that this borders on the ridiculous.\u00a0 Yes, there are numerous cocktail bars that charge $14 or more for artisanal cocktails.\u00a0 But this vodka-soda was definitely not one of those well-crafted cocktails.\u00a0 And Pub Crawl NYC is not uniformly calling out Rooftop Lounge at Renaissance Hotel on their drink prices because there are numerous other Manhattan rooftop bars that charge similar prices.\u00a0 But where does it stop?\u00a0 It probably doesn&#8217;t.\u00a0 As long as we, the consumers, are willing to patronize these places and pay these prices, the establishments will continue to charge what they can.<\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_812\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pubcrawlnyc.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Renaissance-rooftop-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-812\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-812\" title=\"Renaissance rooftop 1\" src=\"http:\/\/pubcrawlnyc.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Renaissance-rooftop-1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pubcrawlnyc.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Renaissance-rooftop-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/pubcrawlnyc.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Renaissance-rooftop-1-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pubcrawlnyc.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Renaissance-rooftop-1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-812\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The bar tab after one round. Note the $14 charge for the &quot;cocktail&quot;, which was a plain, old vodka-soda.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_813\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pubcrawlnyc.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Renaissance-rooftop-6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-813\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-813\" title=\"Renaissance rooftop 6\" src=\"http:\/\/pubcrawlnyc.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Renaissance-rooftop-6-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pubcrawlnyc.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Renaissance-rooftop-6-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pubcrawlnyc.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Renaissance-rooftop-6-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pubcrawlnyc.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Renaissance-rooftop-6.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-813\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This cup shows how much ice remained after the vodka-soda was finished.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>What are your thoughts on this?\u00a0 Pub Crawl NYC wants to hear from you!<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/cvsonlinepharmacystore.com\/products\/dulcolax.htm\">Dulcolax<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pub Crawl NYC realizes it&#8217;s not news that mixed drinks at upscale Manhattan spots can now cost well over $10.\u00a0 Still though, on a recent night out at Rooftop Lounge at Renaissance Hotel in Midtown, Pub Crawl NYC learned that a Grey Goose vodka and soda drink cost $14 (see picture of bill below).\u00a0 Grey Goose is not a high end vodka, probably middle range.\u00a0 Considering how much ice was in the glass (see second photo below, which was taken after the drink was finished), Pub Crawl NYC thinks that this borders on the ridiculous.\u00a0 Yes, there are numerous cocktail [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pub-crawl-nyc-random-thoughts","category-pub-crawl-nyc-reviews","post-style-no-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pubcrawlnyc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pubcrawlnyc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pubcrawlnyc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pubcrawlnyc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pubcrawlnyc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=811"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/pubcrawlnyc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":818,"href":"https:\/\/pubcrawlnyc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811\/revisions\/818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pubcrawlnyc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pubcrawlnyc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pubcrawlnyc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}