Expensive clubs
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Kameron
Kamoceratops
I used to go to the odd bar that had that sort of price list my favourites being the Long Bar near the Middlesex, No 5 on Cavendish Square, Zander near St James is famous for it unusual range of drinks and the personalised cocktail if you are ever rich enough to get to know the barmen and Salvatore at Fifty actually on St James is the bollocks of the cocktail bar world but you need a member to take you there and a mortgage to buy a round.LD Rudeboy said:
Frankly anywhere where pints cost eight quid you are drinking to wrong drink. The reason drinks are eight quid is because you have a barman behind the bar who is the fucking hot shit of being a barman so let him do is job, have a fucking cocktail.
HeroineSheep
Where was I again?
LD Rudeboy said:
I went to lunch there. Took one look at the prices and was very happy it wasn't me paying. Food was fucking top though.
LDR
kiwitanga
I'm not a fan of cocktails at all.Kameron said:
The beer I was drinking was very nice. The name escapes me, but it was described as a dark liquorice beer with a hint of brown sugar. It wasn't as sweet as it sounds, it was lush.
When I go there next, all the alcohol is brought and paid for anyway so it's not going to cost me anything.
Cloo
Banana for scale
I'll tell you who goes to these places... certain types of North London Jewish kids. The type who go somewhere 'cos a z-list celeb has been there and so they can be seen to spend a lot of money. 
One reason I avoided mainstream Jewish socialising... 
Mind you, there's kids like that among all groups of people.
£20 in, £8 a drink, cheesy music, VIP area so if anyone well known is there you won't see them anyway, and I hear if they do let plebs pay to be in the VIP area, it'll probably turn out that there's an 'extra VIP area' within that, so you still won't see any celebs, if that's your idea of fun.
Well, good luck to 'em.
One reason I avoided mainstream Jewish socialising... Mind you, there's kids like that among all groups of people.
£20 in, £8 a drink, cheesy music, VIP area so if anyone well known is there you won't see them anyway, and I hear if they do let plebs pay to be in the VIP area, it'll probably turn out that there's an 'extra VIP area' within that, so you still won't see any celebs, if that's your idea of fun.
Well, good luck to 'em.
I went to school with loads of really rich, image conscious (i.e. rich image) posh kids who would spend £100 for a table in China White...... 
I have never paid more than about 3.50 for a beer. 8 quid is ludicrous.
Still, even crazier is the prices in some bars in places like shanghai - 5 pounds a pint and over - when you consider what the average local salaries are (70-140 quid a month or so!)
Still, even crazier is the prices in some bars in places like shanghai - 5 pounds a pint and over - when you consider what the average local salaries are (70-140 quid a month or so!)
LD Rudeboy - just remembered that I have actually been to that place! So i was lying when i said i'd never paid more than 3.50 odd for a beer.
A mate took me and a couple of other people there in summer 2003... just had one cocktail and made it last all night. i think he paid actually, he was celebrating the fact he'd just started his well paying job...
quite nice bar but not worth paying that much money to drink in to be honest. although some quite fit indian babes in there Iirc
apparently the indian food upstairs is very good.
i agree that the prices are outrageous, although it is slightly false to compare bottles and pints in this way, as if you get a bottle in a pub it also costs roughly the same as a pint (except wetherspoons where they have their excellent value quid a bottle of stella deal).
A mate took me and a couple of other people there in summer 2003... just had one cocktail and made it last all night. i think he paid actually, he was celebrating the fact he'd just started his well paying job...
quite nice bar but not worth paying that much money to drink in to be honest. although some quite fit indian babes in there Iirc
apparently the indian food upstairs is very good.
i agree that the prices are outrageous, although it is slightly false to compare bottles and pints in this way, as if you get a bottle in a pub it also costs roughly the same as a pint (except wetherspoons where they have their excellent value quid a bottle of stella deal).
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
Would that be in Birmingham by any chance?PieEye said:
I've paid some silly prices for booze in various London hotels (The Dorchester springs to mind) but thankfully other people were picking up the account.
pinkmonkey
2.4 hour party person
I only go to those places if I'm forced - for instance - if it's someones birthday. Like last week, I went to a place where it was £9 for a drink. No one I went with was that well off, so why the hell did we have to go somehere like that? I had three drinks and it dawned on my that it had cost me more than my weekly supermarket shop for me and El Jugs!
pinkmonkey said:
Some people go to places like that just cos they think it gives them 'status'. Likewise some seriously rich people still watch their pennies...
moonsi til
worked it out now!
There is a Indian place where I live that charges £6 a pint so when I vist for the lush food I have no probs asking for tap water. Im not really sure what the most I have paid for a drink but about 5 years back in Brum I paid £5 for a single vodka an coke....it was my 1 and only that night. I went home sober in protest.
so when I vist for the lush food I have no probs asking for tap water. Im not really sure what the most I have paid for a drink but about 5 years back in Brum I paid £5 for a single vodka an coke....it was my 1 and only that night. I went home sober in protest.
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
Ah, there was a pub called central park in brum years ago that was connected to the next door ritzy nightclub....PieEye said:Newcastle. Hard times
thethejesterkid
I'd say about average jew
Cloo said:I'll tell you who goes to these places... certain types of North London Jewish kids. The type who go somewhere 'cos a z-list celeb has been there and so they can be seen to spend a lot of money.
Mind you, there's kids like that among all groups of people.
£20 in, £8 a drink, cheesy music, VIP area so if anyone well known is there you won't see them anyway, and I hear if they do let plebs pay to be in the VIP area, it'll probably turn out that there's an 'extra VIP area' within that, so you still won't see any celebs, if that's your idea of fun.
Well, good luck to 'em.
Seconded
They were always quite good fun though, that type. you can't dent their dedication, even from the youngest age dropping *loads* on nights out.ahh the old days...
chainsaw cat
Tea. Biccies. Happy now?
Xanadu said:
Port/sherry holds this crown in the offy. Watch your bartender; is the fortified wine counted as a spirit (25/35ml) or a wine (125+)? If the latter, whip out your calculator - most mobiles have one - and do the maths. No, you are not an alcy, you are just being sensible with money like Mummy said.
Kanda said:
They are ridiculous, although:
at least if you pay that for your spirit and mixer, you get a fair amount of vodka, at least a treble UK measure.
Try walking into London West End pub, or trendy bar, and ordering a treble vodka and coke. You wouldn't get much change from a tenner there either.
Giles..
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