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There is a little cafe near me that is housed in otherwise vacant upstairs members bar of the local rowing club, it's nice enough and does decent coffee.
They charge 5.50 for a standard issue sausage sarnie, 4.50 for a bacon sarnie and 5.75 for 2 eggs on toast with choice of 2 slices of whatever bread.
This seems like a piss take to me but my good lady feels it's par for the course for anything beyond a greasy spoon. I'm wondering what the going rate is for these items in your neck of the woods.
Depends entirely on quality, is it puree meat sausages or real ones? Good bread or soft white crap?
On the steep side for crap but probably about right for good stuff.
Too many variables, quality of food they use, expensive overheads etc....
But... I can get Eggs benedict or Huevos rancheros for brekkie at my local high street indy cafe for 6 quid, so aye, it seems a bit much.
I had effectively eggs benedict (bacon instead of ham) on a bagel with chives, cuppa for around £6 last Sunday at a nice café in a park near Leeds. I accept the bagel let it down over a muffin but <drool>
We're a bit cheaper than those prices for a bacon or cumberland sausage baguette but for that you are getting a foot long with the most expensive bacon we can find and 80+% pork sausages.
And we're in a tourist attraction.
Sausages are recognisable pork and served in bloomer bread. Same with the Bacon OK but not outstanding.
1x espresso, 1x flat white, 2x 4x4x1cm pieces of cake - £17.80. Just around the corner from Imperial College.
1x espresso, 1x flat white, 2x 4x4x1cm pieces of cake – £17.80. Just around the corner from Imperial College.
That is the London price due to expensive prime property rent.
If you can afford it then why not ... 😀
Me, the most I will pay for a coffee is £2.50.
Any other form of sandwiches maximum £3.00.
... and I demand them to be drinkable and edible; and cheap and good. ... not rubbish stuff.
😀
Monmouth Cattle Market. Double breakfast consisting of 2 big sausages and 2-3 rashers of bacon (locally sourced), 1 fried egg from local free range farm, 2 hash browns, mushrooms, black pudding, baked beans AND tomatoes, slice of toast, plus tea/coffee in a mug. Princely sum of £6. A single looks like poor value at £5 with just 1 sausage, 1 bacon, 1 hash brown, and either beans OR tomatoes.
Most round here are £5-6 for a coffee and bacon cob on the club run. We went to one once, cob and a coffee came to just shy of £10. I’ve not been back to that one.
Im quite liking the new cafe velo at tugby, but it’s usually thick end of £25 for 2 of us for breakfast which is too much.
If I can get a proper coffee and a cake/bacon cob for less than £5 then I'm happy but my extensive research locally has revealed it is possible in a few places in the Derby/Nottingham area.
£6-7 is more usual.
The café I'm taking a group to on Saturday does a bacon and sausage sandwich on rustic bloomer for £6.99 - sounds steep until you open it up and see 4 medium sized, locally produced solid meaty sausages on top of 2-3 rashers of proper local butchers bacon. Gives you the meat sweats that thing!
Though I was in the local branch of Aldi one Saturday evening when he was stocking up on the rustic bloomer bread. First time he's not wanted to stop and chat in the two years I've known him!
Last year I had the same breakfast of 2 poached eggs on toast and Americano coffee in Edinburgh, Birmingham, Brighton and London. In decent indie cafes it was c 9-10 quid a go regardless of location.
£3 for greggs sausage baguette and a coffee.
Although some of the places the cycling club stop at the VFM makes me question who their market is. Paying £6+ for coffee and cake is fine in a nice cafe on a high street with table service, grotty garden center portacabin with an automatic coffee machine selling costco cake less so!
I get the cheaper Greggs deal £2 for the roll and give the coffee out the machine away to whoever, £2.60 most coffee shops for my flat white and no discount for takeaway
They charge 5.50 for a standard issue sausage sarnie, 4.50 for a bacon sarnie and 5.75 for 2 eggs on toast with choice of 2 slices of whatever bread.
No mention of smashed avocado on toast, so I can only assume this is some hovel north of the Watford Gap....
At those prices it must be a southern cafe.
I don't visit cafes as pubs exist, but I'll do you an ale baguette filled with a venison and bacon ragu, topped with Cheddar and Guinness rarebit and pickled mustard seeds served with a side salad and fries.
For £11.
Hmm where are you sbob... that sounds like a much more tempting cafe stop!
Yup steep or southern, unless good/top quality as mentioned.
There are a lot of premium piss takers now-a-days, premium price average quality. Mind you commercial landlords are worse ruthless parasite ****s than domestic!
There's a fairly posh cafe near me, sausage or bacon sandwich is £4ish, eggs on toast the same (not sure why they'd be more expensive in the OP's cafe?). I think it's 50p extra in a small baguette vs bap. So unless you're in a trendy/posh/touristy area I'd say it was over-priced.
Mate you have no idea. Try Perth prices. $7 for a sausage roll. $20 for fish and chips. $4 for a samosa (singlular!).
Does Wetherspoon's still do a 2 quid breakfast? Give me three! I'm still winning.
Used to get a BEST triple decker (with that white bread that sticks to your teeth) for 4 quid. And that was with a brew too.
Hmm where are you sbob… that sounds like a much more tempting cafe stop!
The Green Man, Grantchester, Cambridge. Remortgage the house and pop in for a pint!
cafe velo at tugby
Called in there yesterday....£5 for coffee and slice of lemon cake.....on the pricey side, but I do like to support ventures.....up to a point though.
The community cafe at Barrowden, near Morcott A47 is pretty good.
Eggs benedict and endless filter coffee at spoons in Peebles, £4.50, Biking breakfast of champions.
I had scrambled egg on toast and a black coffee in a cafe in west London somewhere for £18 🙂
I had scrambled egg on toast and a black coffee in a cafe in west London somewhere for £18
£18 for that !!!
Chris oh mighty !!!
Nice, but not that posh, cafe near me does a full fryup, including tea/coffee and toast for £6.99 (all locally sourced ingredients too).
The also do a frankly amazing chorizo and bacon hash, with two poached eggs, for £5.
I'm now salivating!
The community cafe at Barrowden, near Morcott A47 is pretty good.
Only about half hour ride from me. I should really check it out at some point.
Fancy café I sometimes near work go to works out around £8 for a sandwich / panini plus coffee. Nice sandwiches and decent coffee, but sure isn't cheap. Interesting it's a "cash only" place. Berkshire.
Or couple of greasy spoon type cafés on bike rides, start at £3-4ish for an all day breakfast with tea or coffee and go up a few quid on the size of the breakfast. Even the basic is usually a fair amount, especially with chips or beans. Surrey.
I remember when egg on toast was 40p .. . Feel old
Mid range round here would be £3. Maybe more for artisan bread and rare breed sausages but I can't be sure as we don't have any artisanal cafes.
Even venturing onto the North York Moors, places like the Yorkshire bike hub are £4 for eggs in toast or £3.50 for sausage or bacon on a roll. It's as nice and pleasant a cafe as you could hope for.
The only place I tend to get that sort of grub when not at home is Sam Turners in Northallerton. Bacon/sausage/mushroom sarnie with a latte is about £6/7 so yours sounds expensive to me. Turners use quality local suppliers too.
Very hard to make any money with a cafe. Prices don't sound particularly high unless it's a greasy spoon type of cafe.
JP
2x butty, 2x coffee, 1x cake used to be about £8 in the Glentress Hub. Now at the Peel it's £17!
When did the hub close?
Very hard to make any money with a cafe. Prices don’t sound particularly high unless it’s a greasy spoon type of cafe
10 years ago stock cost was 25% to 30%, now it’s touching 40% of turnover.
A big factor in the costs is rent/rates. If the property is owned then prices can come down.
there was a cafe near me that recently closed due to the landlord nearly doubling the rent from £35k to £75k, add the rates on top and that’s £120k for a cafe/restaurant in an area that doesn’t have the footfall during the week and is only full at weekends.
thats why a coffee and flapjack are £6-£7
A big factor in the costs is rent/rates. If the property is owned then prices can come down.
^^^ The rent & rates are the killers for all small businesses.
There are so many empty shops in Newcastle city centre not because some of them are selling unwanted items but with the high rents & rates; it leaves little room for small business to learn and to gain experiences.
I don't care what sort of sandwiches there are they all taste average at best, even cold and blunt. It's like eating thick cardboard papers with silly fillings. Then we have those that put slightly more efforts into the fillings of their sandwiches to charge "gourmet or artisan" price ...
Most coffee are so bad I drink them because I have either forgotten to have a cup at home or colleagues asked me to join them for lunch. Most coffee are 3rd rated at best and so far I have only drank one cup of good coffee (£2.50) in Newcastle. Now I keep a Nescafe in the office if I need some or if forget to drink one in the morning at home.
There is a restaurant / cafe whatever near my place of work that opened for nearly a year now ... the coffee is so bad it is like drinking one spoon of Nescafe mixed with 500ml of water in an average cup size. I am counting how long they will survive ... my bet is in another 1.5 year they will close.
The persona is slipping a bit there chief...
the OP sounds slightly cheap for the area I'm in (Hertford- A10 Corridor)
I never visit a coffee/cake shop/Greasy spoon anymore - shit food and coffee in the main. I just pop into tescos(choose your own supermarket) for a meal deal or something.
Although I do pop into the national gallery/tate Britain cafes as I get 10% off and its normal good food 🙂
A fiver in the back pocket on a ride out rarely covers a coffee and a cake, it has to be a tenner nowadays.
IMHO Morrisons cafe after school deal evening meal is great VFM. For £11.50 you get two adult meals with drinks and two childrens meals with drinks and fruit. Mostly sausage, chips 'n beans type meals but there is salmon to be had and other more interesting options.
Getting hungry now...................
1x espresso, 1x flat white, 2x 4x4x1cm pieces of cake – £17.80. Just around the corner from Imperial College.
A bargain for four dimensional cake. A by-product of one of the college experiments I'll warrant.
As mentioned it's all about the quality plus what the local market will stand/demand.
I had effectively eggs benedict (bacon instead of ham) on a bagel with chives
That reminds me a terrible experience.
Bacon does not belong on eggs Benedict and a bagel is not an appropriate muffin substitute without breaking the news to the customer first...especially not a rubbery overcooked one that you have to pick up and gnaw at as the knife can't cut the thick rubber skin.
One substitution I can live with if told about it and offered a free cup of coffee for the extended wait while the staff runs out twice to get more supplies, 2 substitutions without telling me is not on.
£7 for 5 item breakfast and a coffee at my sailing club, that’s with 10% discount for being a member applied too.
Expensive, agreed.
But then that’s what was voted for recently innit.
Im a bit mystified that families go to a supermarket to eat their evening meal?
i guess i need to get up to speed with 21st century eating habits.
Been living in the very south of Germany for a while now and prices are pretty similar to where I lived in Sheffield for the usual Sunday cake and a brew stop (circa £5-£6), struggling to get hot breakfast type food early on a Sunday here though. However, a few weeks ago we did a longer loop into Switzerland and stopped at a cafe there - standard Americano brew equivalent to £9! Needless to say I didn't ask about cakes and quickly made my excuses and left sharpish!
I do miss proper bacon sani's on a Sunday... :0(
Im a bit mystified that families go to a supermarket to eat their evening meal?
Get your order in at the cafe, do the weekly shop and by the time you've got through the till your meal is ready! We don't do it every week, but it makes a change.
my comparison meal is always beans on toast.
sub - £3 - like the old days
£3 - £4 - solid
£4 - £5 - bit steep
£5+ don't go back
I ordered a sausage sandwich on Sunday in a nice garden centre cafe (mill view east of oxford). Think it was £3.50 which seemed steep, but it turned up with 3 full sausages, propper ones too and freshly cooked not dried out in a serving tray all morning. That's a bargain round these parts!
Yeah that is a bit steep, so I would expect good quality. Local to Univeristy, trendy, good coffee, central Bristol is 4.60 for bacon or sausage butty or 5.00 for eggs on toast. Though it's 10.95 for the full English.
(Greasy spoon in the suburbs from 2.30 for a butty.)