Hipster Cafes and Bakeries

Lidl down the road don't serve you at a table, nor have a nicely decorated premises, nor have the same staff/insurance/god knows what else requirements.

Luckily, attendance at said hipster cafés and bakeries is not yet compulsory in this country.

Off with you to Lidl if that's your preference.

If the cafés and bakeries have priced themselves above the market that's there for their offering, they won't be in business for long.

Flick a splash of water from the cold tap onto them, into a warm oven for 5-8 minutes and you won't know them from today's ones. Yesterday's bakery goods at a knockdown price are great bargains!

I won't buy those individually wrapped ones on principle because of the gratuitous plastic waste.

I can't get my head around some of the prices charged for take away coffee from casual trading (van/converted horse box) locations. It's not an expensive drink to make and overhead should be low.

I accept people can just pass up on the high price coffee if they want. Nothing wrong with Lidl pastries.

If people are stupid enough to buy at those prices, there'll always be someone smart enough to sell it to them.

demand will always seek supply.

It’s the standard in most places due to rise in min wage and coffee cups and I am in Munster so I don’t know what the prices are in Dublin but I’ve seen them more and be more than €3.80 even €4 in more tourist towns. They have gone up in costa and Starbucks very rarely you see coffee that’s between €3-3.60. The cheapest you get be to get an americano and add your milk in. The sol machine in dunnes is the cheapest you might get that’s aprox €2.50 use own up or €3 if it’s to use their disposable cups.

The only way to reduce it in a hipster and other local coffee cafes or franchised coffee cafes is to bring your own reusable cup if they offer that service and discount. Can reduce it by 20-35c depending where you go. You can’t get a takeaway coffee cup anymore in Killarney either you drink it from their own cup ware and sit in or have your coffee to go reusable cup to reduce the price when it’s their packaging cup is what is driving the price up aswell not just the bean they use, providing a service and the machine and other overheads they have.

Anyone been to that non-alocoholic board games pub near Harold's Cross?

€12 for a non-alcoholic cocktail, €5 to rent a board game.

Absolutely wild, no wonder the place was empty.

Sounds like fun, not.

Surrounded by water and no fish

People need to cop on … I never buy a takeaway coffee., and I can afford it. I was cycling into work, 10 km each way, for 10 years. Brought my own lunch, no coffee. Garbage dumped at work, toilet roll looted.

Offo?

It's offy, where I'm from.

Mind blown.

Google "paddy tax".

Thsts just a tightwad

Labour costs are higher in France than here.

Yet you can get a main course in a restaurant in central Paris for 9.50 - 12.50.

I'd love to know where that is. Even small side street hidden restaurants used by locals charge €18-€20.

In Germany the standard main course is over €20 in most ordinary restaurants and it's fairly basic food.

In Dublin you can get good value without looking too hard - here's my favourite place - brilliant food and superb value https://enotecadinapoli.ie/eat-italy/lunch-menu/

A frozen, laughably titled Cuisine De France baguette? A favourite of builders without any taste buds.

An insult to a proper baguette.

FfS you should be ashamed of yourself. Rubbish dropping off at work and nicking the toilet roll. I'd say you wouldn't spend Christmas and everyone in your circle knows it.

Hospital shops are a worse rip off than that.

Unfortunately, i didn't have the luxury of just pissing off to the next shop as I'd just been a few days after major surgery - nil by mouth and only sipping water until 2 days before, doctor finally said i could eat - awkwardly it was between hospital meals, so.. famished as i was i wheeled myself down to the shop which took a good ten minutes being as weak as a kitten and bought a prepacked ham and cheese sandwich from a company that makes them for the hospital (company based in finglas)

7 euro.. for a f**king ham and cheese sambo on white bread with nothing else on it.. I had enough sense to ask how much is the sandwich, young lad behind the counter confirmed it was 7 quid and looked at me as if i was going to be a Karen.. i just handed him his cash.

in fairness, it was good, but i'd not eaten in 5 days.. so yeah.

I could if i'd the strength and energy went to aldi or lidl, bought a loaf, butter, ham and cheese for the same price and left whatever i didn't use with the ward and still had change left over from that seven quid.

Anyway..

The catering staff from my ward in the hospital that evening asked me if i'd like a sandwich, i greedily said yes.. and guess what.. same package, same company, same ham and cheese.. these guys are catering to the hospital too.. they must be minted! :D

The fresh baked goods in supermarkets are mostly prebaked from Cuisine de France, aren't they?

Sceál Bakery has recently opened in Greystones. Queue out the door constantly. Coffee 4e and I think it was just an Americano. Miso Sourdough 7.50. The pastries are the 4-5e mark. I'm not stingy, but jaysus.....

Firehouse the bomb - way better value and I enjoy the walk to Delgany

Had a pastry in Bread 41 recently. €5.40. It was amazing, and nowhere else does anything like it. I know it's overpriced, but I don't mind treating myself sometimes. They were sold out of it on Friday, so got something else, which was €3.40.