This is what the younger generation calls a “flex” as in to flex in poors. It’s no different than then you buy a bottle of liquor at the night club for $800 or more and they come out with the bottle and sparklers shooting flames too the sky so every one sees that your private table spent that amount. It also signals all the younger females you have the disposable income to spoil them in exchange for their uh time.
That said the best Manhattan cocktail I have ever had was on the rooftop bar of the Hudson hotel overlooking central park. It was made with whistle pig rye 18yo and was worth every penny of the $60 it cost for a double pour. Hand crafted cocktails in Manhattan island are already going to always be in the $20 to $35 range that’s just the price point of The City.
Grrr autocorrect...
“Flex on poor’s”
Having a ten thousand dollar Rolex and wearing it with a t-shirt and flip flops is also a “flex” but that’s a quiet flex vs the loud flex