The booze/boozers thread.

Yesterday, we went to visit the Beatle Museum (which is called this way to avoid patent infringement), which is inside a complex with several food places. It was past 7 pm and I thought it’d be nice to have a beer. On site, there were Temple bar, Cervelar and The Cavern’s café. All of these only offered canned beers like Andes, Quilmes and Heineken for 3x the price found in the supermarket. I wonder what their idea of a pub is.
We left and went back home.

When we pay 3x what a can of beer costs in the local supermarket, it reminds me of why we rarely eat out. A bottle of wine can often be 5x the price.

Exactly. Last time I checked the price of a bottle of beer in a local pizzeria, it was $9000. At the supermarket it is half of that at full price. I am especially baffled at why they keep in stock the same stuff you could buy for a fraction of the price in any supermarkets. It would make more sense if they has a range of artisanal beer, so that one'd be at least tempted to pay that price to try something different and hopefully better quality.

90% of the time, there aren't even draught beer offered. I'd rather take a drought beer, even if one of the brands sold in supermarkets (Andes, Quilmes), than a can or a bottle that looks and feels the same that is every supermarket.

A glass of wine out costs as much as a whole bottle at the supermarket. Considering that restaurants don't pay supermarket prices, the markup feel ridiculous.

Now that school is over, I don't mind cooking more. My husband is fixated on wanting to try out pizza around all of Buenos Aires, but I am tired of overpaying mediocre pizza. I do as better as them on my own. I understand the change of scenery for going out, but there are very little options that are actually one of a kind (like the sourdough pizza place in Belgrano).

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Yesterday, we went to visit the Beatle Museum (which is called this way to avoid patent infringement), which is inside a complex with several food places. It was past 7 pm and I thought it’d be nice to have a beer. On site, there were Temple bar, Cervelar and The Cavern’s café. All of these only offered canned beers like Andes, Quilmes and Heineken for 3x the price found in the supermarket. I wonder what their idea of a pub is.
We left and went back home.

That particular Temple Bar is, in my experience at least, the most expensive of all Temple bar locations, though it did serve draft beers last time I was there.

Incidentally but perhaps of interest, the man who owns the Beatle Museum holds the greatest Beatles memorabilia collection in the world.

Largest collection of Beatles memorabilia

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That particular Temple Bar is, in my experience at least, the most expensive of all Temple bar locations, though it did serve draft beers last time I was there.

Interesting - I have always assumed that chains had the same price across locations. There was a waiter trying to catch tourists with the happy hour promotion near one of the pubs, but I can't remember which one. The offering was so poor (5 names, all of bottled beer) that I was wondering if it was just for tourists who don't know these are supermarket beers.

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Incidentally but perhaps of interest, the man who owns the Beatle Museum holds the greatest Beatles memorabilia collection in the world.

https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/…les-memorabilia

Yes, at the entrance it was framed the Guinness World record accreditation. The Museum itself is not very big, maybe 4-5 rooms, but it is stuffed to the brim with memorabilia, autographs, the birth certificates of the beatles and a room dedicated to each one. The signs are in Spanish, only, which is a pity since this is a tourist attraction (at least by its location). The entrance is also very cheap, just 5,000 ARS/each. My husband wants to go back to explore it more in depth. We stayed there about 1 hour, and it was just the two of us. Since it is small, if it is crowded it makes it hard to watch everything in detail. Since memorabilias are small, they are all preserved in crystal cupboards.

What caught my eye:

1) Ladies nylon socks with the Beatles' faces printed on it

2) Edible candy shaped as an vinyl with the cover sheet of the Beatles latest LP at the time (uneated, of course)

3) Beatles' phone cards

4) Chewing gum sold into boxes depicting all Beatles' album published until then

5) Hair gel used my the Beatles.

6) Monopoly-style game called Flip your Wig

6) The Beatles' cartoon I've just seen a face, available also on YouTube.

I’ve actually never been into the museum as each time it’s either been closed or on the occasion I did find it open it didn’t seem very inviting somehow so I didn’t enter. It’s in an interesting little complex nonetheless though I’ve never eaten in any of the eateries there, just a beer or 2 in Temple and another open air bar there whose name I don't recall.
For anyone wondering where it is, it’s about 300 metres further along past Pizzeria Guerrin on Corrientes.
It’s quite the claim to have the largest Beatles memorabilia collection but I understand it’s probably not the most valuable.

I wonder what it would be like to rummage through Paul McCartneys record collection 😳

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I’ve actually never been into the museum as each time it’s either been closed or on the occasion I did find it open it didn’t seem very inviting somehow so I didn’t enter.

It is open from 6 PM to midnight. However, when we were there at 6 PM, we were told 6.15 PM by the girls of the next door establishment. At 6.15, no one in sight to open the museum.

A young lady arrived at 6.40 PM saying she was late because she was coming from her other job. Mind you, that was Saturday evening. She was from Venezuela -- my thought is that she must get paid peanuts. The entrance ticket is cheap, but the premium location must be very expensive to rent.

There were other two tourists before us and they dashed through the exhibition because they were on a schedule and wasted 45' waiting for the museum to open. They did air their disappointment to the young lady, but something told me it is not the first time this happens and it won't be the last. As usual, the I don't give a fuck attitude is the way to go.

I don't think these possessions are particularly valuable. There are a couple of autographed guitars, but it seemed to me that were random guitars on which someone signed their name. All in all, I wouldn't say it is a must see in Buenos Aires, unless you've exhausted other options and are a fan of the Beatles.

There were autograph also from wives of the 4 Beatles, and of the 5th Beatles. I mean, it was something to do for someone living in Buenos Aires on a rainy day. I wouldn't recommend it to a tourist staying for a limited time. There was absolutely nothin interactive and it was just a cramped 5 rooms with some signs describing the story of the Beatles and the autobiography of each member (all in Spanish).

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Interesting - I have always assumed that chains had the same price across locations.

Mostly I frequent the one opposite Belgrano C station. The prices are of a different order.

The model is like Wetherspoons perhaps in the UK where prices vary by location and often within very small areas of the same city.