Guess the price of 2 drinks in a London pub these days

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South London, not central London.

Standard pub. Saturday night.

One medium white wine, one pint of beer
Packet of nuts and olives.

Wow, just wow! I knew the UK was expensive but wow,. Beer 3 euros, wine 1.25 euros nuts and olives 2 euros!.

I can believe it actually. We are in Brighton and I have friends that like to go to a fairly expensive pub and with rounds including snacks we I was regularly spending £40 on a midweek night- i do the really see them in the pub anymore as too expensive!

I don't even remember the name if I'm honest bit the way the UK economy is going this will soon be most pubs in London and in a years time will sound like a very good deal!

I don't see them not do.

I rarely go out but the other night at the cinema (northern town, not London!) I was gobsmacked to be charged £10 for one small glass of cheap white wine and a small pack of peanuts! Won’t be going out for drinks again for a while!

It’s insane isn’t it - I rarely go to the pub but met some friends the other evening and was going to have a gin and tonic, my friend said oh let’s have a double - I nearly passed out when the guy rang it up £15.55 for 1 double G&T. Luckily it was before he poured it, so I said leave it, I’ll have a pint! This is in a boring west London suburb zone 4.

Is it just a UK city thing we have just visited Amsterdam and we weren't going to tourist venues but it was really pricey. We bought some wine annd chocolate from a shop one night like a Londis style shop and it was £30! We tried to buy it more cheaply in a Tesco extra style shop to take back to the hotel but this shop didn't sell alcohol from 4pm so no luck there.

I live in London, never paid anywhere near that. You OP, have been ripped off!!

This really isn't representative at all.

Beer £8? That'd need to be some extremely fancy stuff.

Whenever I have a meet up with friends now we just do it at one of our houses. We all bring a (cheap) bottle of wine and a snack contribution. £10 usually covers it. So many more pubs will end up closing. It's just too expensive. I also feel they aren't as "fun" any more. Maybe that's just me getting old! But there is nothing now that tempts me to sit in a pub paying extortionate prices when I can sit in my own home or garden with a glass of wine at a far cheaper price!

£25 would have been my guess.

OP there's no such thing as a 'standard south London pub' prices will vary hugely by neighbourhood. My favourite pub in Catford still charges 4.50 a pint.

I also live in London, and will say that £12 for a medium wine is not normal. It must have been a very fancy wine!

@saraclara well I live ooop north and you can pay £6 for a pint in the town centre so figured a couple more quid for London.

This is why I live in Yorkshire that would be around £15 here

I was going to say £25

Dh and I made the error of having drinks in the centre of Barcelona £26 euros for a pint and a half!!! And that was in 2008!

I’m in central London and it’s pretty standard so I barely go pub anymore 😢

The copa bar on the Thames was £12 and that was ridiculous. Never mind an average pub.

I'm sorry you paid that OP but was it the old NZ Sauvignon thing which is loads dearer than French or Chilean. There are honestly places in central London where the prices are nothing like that. Yesterday we were in a really historic pub in Bloomsbury and half a Doom Bar plus 175 ml Sauvignon was £8.55. Also in China Town which is as touristy as it gets the white wine was £6.25 and a Tiger Beer £5.50.

That was dangerous to ask for a NZ sauv without seeing the price list.

Absolute pisstake.

Bog Standard dry white wine eh? a NZ Sav Blanc is £9-10 ‘up north’. You can’t compare a Marlborough to a glass of ‘Jack
Rabbit’ 🤢

The British Beer and Pub Association place the average cost of a pint in the UK at £4.07, estimating that Londoners pay £4.84 on average.

From an article written in April this year (but warning of a 50p rise).

www.gbnews.uk/news/beer-prices-set-to-soar-to-7-a-pint-in-london-with-pubs-charging-50p-more-across-uk/213532