To think that £7 for two small coffees is a bit much?

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This afternoon at a Nespresso cafe in the City.

Mumsnet - the place where a simple question about coffee, will turn into a heavy discussion about water rates.

Yes I'm always shocked at the price of a couple of coffees. It's a bloody scam if you ask me.

If you bought one every day it'd be £1260 a year. And why is it now trendy to carry round a coffee cup from Starbucks? All the students round our way have one glued to their hand

I suppose it depends on what you mean by small and whether they were plain or fancy, but it certainly is well above average and well beyond a reasonable price.

Most chains and independents are between £2.50 and £3 for a 12 oz size, and we paid £3.10 each I think in Gloucester services which is probably one of the ponciest most spendy placesin the UK.

I'm not fussy and tend to get mine in Greggs or McDonalds for half that. I know people witter on about finding a nice independent, but 9/10 there isn't one anywhere near when I need one.

Good point Barbara if the cups were tiny almost like thimbles then that's outrageous.
I'll never order an Espresso shot again that's for sure. What an overpriced disappointment that was.

"Well, that’s 3.50 each so not really."

Well, that's £3.50 each, so, yes it's outrageous. But I'm not in London.

€40 in st marks Square Venice

This is a pretty standard price, but it is outrageous really isn't it? When did paying £3.50 for a cup of coffee suddenly become normal?!

I thought Nespresso cafés were free! I certainly don’t pay
@Snog in Florence a perfect small
Cappuccino is €1.20 practically everywhere.

*For a Nespresso? From a pod?! I wouldn’t pay 50p. Bleugh

Then you obviously know nothing about coffee.*

Are Nespresso coffee pods considered the height of coffee sophistication then?

(Really????)

Was really small not like a Costa or Pret small. No biscuit.

@Silvercatowner
There are better coffees but Nespresso pods are better than 90% of what’s available and 100% reliable.

Totally ridiculous. Extortionate prices.

No biscuit? Well that's criminal.

There was a Nespresso machine in a hotel room I stayed in last year (not in the UK). Not impressed with the coffee tbh.

Join the Nespresso club and you'll get it for free!

There's a nespresso club?

We are coffee snobs but someone gave us a pod machine for Christmas and we ended up putting our Gaggia in the loft. Pods are consistently pretty good. Our old coffee machines required constant fettling.

Biggest negative about them is the environmental issue with the pods.

The Nespresso club sounds like a cult. You probably have to donate 10% of your wages or something and have secret meetings in village halls where you're forced to pledge allegiance to Nespresso.

I spent the same on a shit coffee in Paris and they use the tiniest cups imaginable, I was so fucked off.

I usually pay £2.60-3 for a good coffee from a decent independent coffee shop in London. Personally I wouldn't be happy to pay that for a Nespresso. I've had Nespresso pod coffees in hotel rooms and they have been nice, but I enjoy a fresh coffee made by a barista more, I guess part taste, part the experience, and £3.50 is on the pricey side so I'd want something really good for that.

I wouldn’t say it’s overly expensive, £3.50 each for a coffee, it’s on the higher end but not to extreme.

Those who think that £3.50 isn't expensive must live in London. In Sheffield/Barnsley a coffee shop would go out of business if it charged those prices.

@LonericaJaponica clearly not been to Steam Yard in Sheffield then!

Clearly not then