Am I being unrealistic?

Its about 2 pound for a coffee in Gregg's, I would expect to pay double that nearly anywhere else.

I knew there was a reason I haven't had coffee in a shop for about 5 years. I resent having to pay any money for something I don't need don't want and can get at home.
Maybe I am just a miser.

Rosina

I went into a cafe yesterday and had a truly awful cup of coffee - bitter and unsatisfying, and I felt quite bitter when I was asked for £3.00.
As for Waitrose coffee - I wish they wouldn't. I have seen people wobbling around the shop trying to steer a trolley and hold a cup of hot coffee, and on one occasion the whole lot went over the conveyer belt at the till.

Also Waitrose coffee is pretty weak and tasteless

I went into a cafe yesterday and had a truly awful cup of coffee - bitter and unsatisfying, and I felt quite bitter when I was asked for £3.00.
As for Waitrose coffee - I wish they wouldn't. I have seen people wobbling around the shop trying to steer a trolley and hold a cup of hot coffee, and on one occasion the whole lot went over the conveyer belt at the till.

Just another example of the high cost of living under this fatcat Tory government.

Waitrose Free coffee is back! Yay! You do need to do some shopping to qualify though, have a mywaitrose card(free) and also have to bring your own cup, but worth it with the prices of barista coffee shop drinks.

Och / somebody is making it for you, cleaning the dishes afterwards and you’ve got your feet up - still cheaper than therapy!

Depends where you go for it I suppose, but sounds about right… tart was probably about £3-4, leaving the two coffees at?

Ah, Pastel de nata. £1.50 at M&S; £1 at Co-op and S/burys and 59p at Lidl; Lidl was the best!

Prices rising everywhere, came through Faro airport last week, picked up daughters favourite Pastel de nata, four in pack,
€12 😳 good job I love her dearly 🤣

2 glasses of Sauvignon Blanc in London cost £ 20.50!

Fleurpepper

Yes, prices in the UK have soared recently.

Definitely not just the UK - energy costs have hiked prices everywhere. We have just been in France and cafe prices there are higher than 6 months ago. Daughter who lives in Spain says the same.

midgey

Trouble is you are not just having a coffee, you are sitting in a warm room and using a clean cup etc etc.

Yet my friend and I had a delicious two course meal last week in a small Thai restaurant, £7.95 each. The week before I met friends for a Japanese lunch, two courses for £8.99. Both in central Leeds. No wonder people were queuing for tables!

Fleurpepper

Yes, prices in the UK have soared recently.

Yes, it's become a luxury as it was when I was young.

GrannyGravy13

pascal30

although my local cafe charges, what seem to me, enormous prices they are always packed with young people and families..
and queues waiting.. it's extraodinary

I had to book a table last Wednesday lunchtime (myself, DD and GC) at our local coffee shop/bistro, it was packed with young families along with local business folks.

The bill came to £55, two lattes, one apple juice, one orange juice along with a child’s full English breakfast, prawn salad
Sandwich and a feta cheese and salad on sourdough.

Was it the Ritz?

I confess that I don't pay when I get taken out for lunch, but that seems on the expensive side to me.

I would happily pay up to €6 for a cappuccino - I don't have the means to make one at home and I wouldn't use them more than once a month anyway. I wouldn't bother with a cake or bun though.

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

2.65 for a herbal tea this morning. An older man was working on a laptop and when I passed 2 hours later he was still there.

midgey

Trouble is you are not just having a coffee, you are sitting in a warm room and using a clean cup etc etc.

Exactly, staff to be paid, business rates, rent, heating and light, water rates, insurance so many overheads all increasing.

Trouble is you are not just having a coffee, you are sitting in a warm room and using a clean cup etc etc.

pascal30

although my local cafe charges, what seem to me, enormous prices they are always packed with young people and families..
and queues waiting.. it's extraodinary

I had to book a table last Wednesday lunchtime (myself, DD and GC) at our local coffee shop/bistro, it was packed with young families along with local business folks.

The bill came to £55, two lattes, one apple juice, one orange juice along with a child’s full English breakfast, prawn salad
Sandwich and a feta cheese and salad on sourdough.

I don't think it seems excessive for an independent cafe

although my local cafe charges, what seem to me, enormous prices they are always packed with young people and families..
and queues waiting.. it's extraodinary

Our local 'real' bakery has closed. His fuel bill had gone up from £250 a week to £1,800. Raw matrial prices have nearly doubled and a good baker can command a wage of over £50,000.

That is why your coffee and cake was so expensive. You were lucky to get them so cheap.

Coffee and a selection of home made cakes £3. in my local heritage centre. Coffee not particularly nice but ok, choice of ordinary or decaf but I meet my friends there so don't mind. Cakes are delicious made by ladies from a local church to support an orphanage in Africa. We have met up in other cafes but never too expensive.