Who's Crazier: Mixologists, Or People Who Pay $15 for Drinks?

Perhaps the only thing sillier than an unbearably serious bartender who calls himself a "mixologist" is the customer who's eager to pay upwards of $15 for a drink. To be sure, if you've got the money, an expertly-made cocktail at, say, Milk & Honey or Death & Company can, under the right circumstances, transcend such trivial concerns as "price." But the city's uptight cocktail culture is certainly ripe for parody, and so Thomas Chadwick, the owner of the superb Williamsburg cocktail den Dram, has plucked the low-hanging fruit. Here's his funny video skewering both pretentious sides of the bar.

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By John Del Signore in Food on November 24, 2010 2:25 PM

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BigUps

$15?! No thank you! I'll make my own.

matty

4 loko please

fuboy

Depends on the drink - one of my all-time favorite bars serves Tiki drinks for $12-20.

Then again, because of the alcohol content of one $15 151 rum swizzle, you don't need a second drink unless you're aiming for uncontrollably blotto...

Wza

Both are cornballs.

ides_of_march

Give me the cute, young women at Coyote Ugly or the Patriot serving up $2 PBRs and shots of JD any time.

Jamie McDonald

Coyote Ugly? If you need trashy B&T faux-dive goodness, at least have the decency to go to Hogs & Heifers.

ides_of_march

Been to Hogs many a time. Just found it too crowded, the barmaids a little too nasty, the restroom a little inaccessible to my liking. A matter of taste. Deal with it.

Cannibal

agreed. Who goes to Coyote Ugly anyway? I'm guessing the midwesterners that are too young to be all Sex in the City when they visit the new york? Or just white trash?