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.

Gosh I live in the north and this would cost around £12

I like a Marlborough too but it’s very often the top end of the wine list!

About 15 years ago I visited some of my employer’s offices in Scandinavian countries and was surprised that my colleagues there didn’t go out to the pub for the evening. They drank at home then went out already drunk to socialise and have a soft drink - because beer was £14 a pint. Seemed a bit miserable to me. But that’s what’s going to happen here. I’ll be surprised if the pubs survive. Makes me wonder what my kids social lives will be like when they grow up, because there’ll be nowhere left to go!

Evidently! Won't do that again!

Wandered into a small village pub yesterday and ordered a pint of beer, a wine and a lemonade and was very happy to find it came to £7! The wine wasn’t even bad! And we got to hear all the gossip from the village too (it was a very small
pub indeed).

It's astonishing isn't it, especially when you are not from London.

Im northern, and went to London a few years ago sightseeing with my husband and daughter.

We went to a burger van somewhere near Tower Bridge for a quick bite to eat while wandering around.

Two (small) burgers, one chips to share and two cans of coke. Was over £20. I could have cried. I wanted to give them back.

Definitely think you have been fleeced. NZ white normally around £7-8 unless it was something like a Cloudy Bay one. I like a Provence Rose and the Young's pubs offer three different types with quite a big price difference between them. I always ask for the wine menu. They've probably given you the most expensive one.

That's a lot two drinks in a standard pub in central London would usually be £15ish.

I never get snacks so no idea on that.

Couple of tinnies on a park bench for me from now on!!

That wine is theatre prices and they have always been insane (but worse lately).

should have been less in a pub. Although the pub selling olives should have been your first clue….

Was it Northcote Road or Clapham Junction area....

Didn't the van have prices posted on the menu?

Didn't the van have prices posted on the menu?

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Of course they had prices.

My husband got the food and brought it to where I was sitting with our child, then told me what it cost.

Not far from Clapham Common (south)

£24.20

OP - was it Balham? Was it the Avalon, Devonshire? A fancy wine bar place?? Tell us!!

£18.50

26 quid??!!

My local is £11 for a large house white and that's toppy for zone 4, if the sauv blanc want their 'house' that's where you've been done for 175ml.

We were out tonight and everywhere very quiet, not sure if because people on holiday over bank holiday or don't want to pay £33 for a bottle of house wine...beer / lager is £6-£6.50, the 'craft' stuff is more.

As a Londoner I find the price equally disgusting and typical. That’s about what I’d expect to pay, it actually makes me really sad.

I'm in London for a couple of days next month.
I'll be taking food that doesn't go off, so crisps/crackers/biscuits/apples/custard pots.
At most I'll buy a meal deal.
I am quite a skinflint thrifty though.

Sounds like you got stiffed on the wine by being specific OP.

We live in a pretty expensive place and the most notoriously expensive bar runs at about £8.50 for a large house (sauv blanc or cab sav) wine, but dare to go off the 'house' and it very easily be north of £12 a glass.

Nah that’s not common, I was in London about a month ago, rounds were very cheap, like four pounds a pint in one pub, was very working men, twice the price in another, which was more wine bar. And asking for a wine so specific and some olives on the side, it was always going to be high. And there is no such thing as a medium wine normally it’s small or large.

so basically you ordered a large glass of an expensive wine in a posh bar.

I'm Welsh and haven't stopped talking about the drink prices on a Bristol night out. I paid over £25 for two double gin and tonics. If we ever go out locally (about once or twice a year) it's to a local social club where gin and tonic is about £3. I don't think I'll ever go out that side of the bridge again!

Wine is £11 and pint of lager £8 here in W London.

Crazy.

DH (pub landlord in central London) says drink prices were ott but NZ sauv is the most expensive wine to drink in a pub (usually about £10 a glass)