My wife and I just wandered into a minimalist looking coffee shop on the street in West London and (yes, I had to double check) this was the price list for an 8oz cup of filter coffee.
We turned on our heels. (Obv, I didn’t want to look cheap by ordering the £20 cup…)
Well… Was it good?
You can buy 350g from Square Mile for that price 
I will never know
Jeez … Item 12 … over 60 USD !!!
Was it by chance this café?
but tbh: a £10 Geisha sounds okay. If it is well prepared you can get a pretty unique drink (if you like strawberries 
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Now I feel stupid for complaining…
Tbh, I did see this video when it came out but that one comes in a gold espresso cup and other nonsense so I figured it’s just w@nker show off BS for people whose Maclaren sports car is slowed down by the 20mph speed limit in central London and a 22 carat gold paint job.
This was just a cafe on a side street so the shock was real.
The other day, I was wondering about the phasing out of the US penny coin. Since 1965, the value of $1 has inflated to $10.12. To equal a 1985 dollar now takes $3. Inflation is literally robbing everyone.
Gotta pay off that 35 Trillion of debt somehow 
Well, maybe it is… The price tag does not say if the coffee is good - it just says that it is expensive 
I usually buy espresso beans at around 40€/kg and they are pretty good! I once had a coffee that was 100€/kg and it was very funky - tasted like watermelon (yes, you read right). However, that was no coffee I would drink everyday. And if you ordered it as an espresso in the coffee-bar of the roaster, it was just 3,80€ instead of 3,30€… So, far away from the prices in London.
I guess it is similar to wine: you pay for the name and rarity. I know someone who got a 300€ bottle of french red wine for his birthday. I was invited to drink it. We prepared it very well, let it decant etc… But it tasted … not that good 
Later we read that this specific vintage was rated as a bad one, but still, for 300€ you expect something fancy.
Yeah, I’m not against paying over the odds occasionally just to try something. But this price list made me feel like if I paid for the just slightly insane cup, I’d be drinking from the bottom of the barrel.
Haha yeah, I can totally understand!
But London has so many good cafes - with normal prices! Last time I was there I had a long list I wanted to visit but we were there between Christmas and new year - where basically no cafe was open. The only one I visited was “Kiss the hippo” and it was pretty good! I also took £60 worth of beans with me 
Any recommendations? I currently buy from a Portuguese roaster for 22€ per kg but it’s just okay. I wouldn’t mind a fancier one for some occasions.
I read the last one as Striking Terror.
I usually buy from local roasters here in Vienna, like https://nomi.coffee/
Find a shop that roasts in house ans get that fresh roast. Makes a huge difference.
I buy from local roasters when possible. This is obviously easier when you live in a city and there is a good coffee culture. It’s not bad where I live because it’s the Pacific Northwest, so we benefit from the Vancouver/Seattle scene.
For anyone in this neck of the woods, I’m enjoying Cherry Hill’s dark roasts a lot, and Pioneer Gourmet Coffee make a surprisingly good decaf roast.
But generally I would echo @paperdigits’ advice to find a shop that roasts in-house wherever you live. You get to support local businesses as well as having the freshest coffee. Although, I’ve heard that about 7-10 days after roasting is optimal, rather than immediately after it’s roasted…
Does what it says on the tin
Coffee… sailing… cameras… skiing… etc etc etc.
An integral park of having an expensive hobby is complaining about the cost. It’s all part of the game.
I haven’t drunk coffee in over twenty years. I love it, but my body and brain does not. But if it’s fiver for their humblest, then I suppose their teas are on a similar scale. I used to pay 50p for mug of tea in Wentworth Street, EC1 (? Petticoat Lane) and my cooked meal came within a fiver. Up to about 2003. I’m sure that inflation has driven that up substantially.
On the other hand, I do remember paying pounds for a cup of Blue Mountain Something in Betty’s in York, in about 1991.
I can’t contribute any, because I do not have a pound sign on my current keyboard setup, but I hate menus without a currency sign. What idiocy is that all about!
You can always look up the symbol in a chart, and copy-paste it from there.
E.g., https://www.alt-codes.net/ There are many other sources as well.
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