How much would you pay for a croissant?

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Just a single croissant, no butter, no filling. From a terribly naice shop, to take away.

I was stunned by the price. I promise to come back & reveal it, but I'd like to know what others think is reasonable - maybe I'm out of touch.

Is that an independent bakery and organic?

I’d say that’s reasonable if it was a good one. A coffee is about £3 so a croissant at the same price doesn’t seem overpriced.

OK then. 🏆Did you buy it & was it worth £5?

Part of me wishes we had a nice bakery around here, the other part of me is very grateful we don't!!

Yes & I don't know. It was solid & earthy rather than flakey & buttery. I wouldn't bother again.

A loaf of bread is £3 to £5.50 (huge sourdough) at ours so £3 for a single croissant would be too high. What does the bread cost?

75p from our local French deli. £3+ at Gail’s which is around the corner.

The price of croissants is a slight obsession of mine as they're a go to grab a snack for my fussy kids.

I no longer grab them from most cafes / bakeries on the high street, unless it's Greg's or a supermarket.

Went to a standard cheapy looking cafe today and realised that taking the kids to dinner there would cost as much as our favourite restaurant.

I get it, everything has gone up and times are hard . They need to charge what they need to charge but I think it's a shame we can't just go for a quick cheap cafe dinner on occasion and I also worry for their business as I don't know who will tbh. (Probably if I was single or childless so only paying for 1.)

They don't do bread. It's a cafe + takeaway.

I pay £1.90 at my village artisan bakery, totally worth it!

Our local independent bakery makes croissants fresh every day and they are about £2.20 - £3 each. They are awesome and the size of your hand.

Other more exciting pastries were the same price so I bought one of those. Was nice but not £5 nice.

We pay £2.50 but it is made by a French man in his patisserie, he has queues out the door. It has ruined baguettes for me as they are so delicious nothing compares to them. His cakes are also delicious. I am glad he is not on my doorstep as it would be hard to resist.

Once got charged £4 in a hipster coffe shop, was too stunned to say anything but I left in shock!!

Yes £3 doesn’t surprise me.

A single plain croissant - £1.80, MAYBE £2 if it was huge. My dad makes lovely ones with high-quality butter so I'm aware of the costs that go into them, let alone with rent and staff pay, but as a business making batches this needs to be balanced out among the other products on sale.

A special croissant with filling eg a proper almond one, etc. then I'm more likely to pay £3-4.

I don't.

as a Mumsnetter, the only thing I live on is massive salads

Croissants and other associated pastries like pain aux raisins and pain au chocolat take bloody ages to make though, they are a heck of a lot more involved than a loaf of bread. Somewhere independent where they are made by hand rather than brought in half baked and frozen bloody well should be charging a tidy sum for them. It's weird, we've taken this thing that French people only really traditionally had on high days and holidays and expect to have it cheap any time we like.

I include myself in that, bloody love a pastry. And France is changing too of course with cheap, crap, pastries available as fast food.

Dh makes them from scratch sometimes to after many trial runs with varying degrees of success he's got rather good. Dd asked for them for her birthday breakfast so he was even up at about 3/4 am shaping and leaving for the final prove so that they would be ready for her.

£2 if eating it out £1.50 if bringing it home from supermarket.

Which is why I only meet my friends in the pub. £6 buys you a real ale which you would struggle to recrate at home and a packet of scratchings . (And you get a nice fire). Coffee and cake I can get at home.

Maybe £2. I pay £3.50 for the posh almond ones near me.

I'd pay anywhere from £3-£5

I don't think £3 is too bad. A quick goggle tells me Starbucks charges £2.65. A nice café not too far from me (in East Anglia) is £3.80 for a croissant. Coffes (lattes) in the nearby town are all £3.70. I'm sure London and South East are more.

It feels like everything is expensive these days.

I was in a swanky bakery yesterday ... croissants were easily £4 each, artisan doughnuts £4+ ... the place was packed with a queue ... and it wasn't in a 'posh' area.

Fair point! I shall use this as a good reason to go to the pub more…