Maybe it’s just me, but I feel like cocktails have gotten more expensive in this town. I am a big fan of cocktails, so much, in fact, that my friends often crucify me for not drinking more manly drinks, a la Bud Light. Cocktails represent a right de passage in this town. It’s what separates the gentlemen from the boys. Honestly, cocktails represent the defining factor of how a restaurant thinks about itself.

Why cocktails?

Cocktails imbue those who drink them with status, prestige and mostly, alcohol. They are a way of explaining to your friends, I have an exotic palette and my sexual appeal is exponentially related to the exoticness of my palette. From whiskey muddles, to dirty martinis, you have a host of purchased meanings to flaunt at the bar. Oh, and did I mention restaurants love to be the granter of sex appeal?

Making us think that buying the silver fiery blue ball (tequilla, 151, blue curacao, in a baller glass) will get us chicks is oh so right. Now the question is, do you buy that drink for the lady or for the dude? Restaurants also make out like bandits. »Read More

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