Re: Wine
**It's not really surprising that wine is more expensive in a restaurant than in a supermarket. After all the restaurant has to pay someone to open it, pour it, a license to serve it, a glass for you to drink it from, a corkscrew to open it with and insurance in case after you drink a bottle of it you fall over and sue them. **
I don't buy this at all - was in Rome last weekend, had many meals out in restuarants, and the price of a bottle of wine varied from €3 to €5. There is no reason why a restuarant cannot charge the same as retailers do for wine. They are already making a profit on the food, but the wine prices in restuarants are so outrageous that I would say a high % of their profits are from overcharging for wine.
Yes, this is ripoff Ireland.
Also, after eating out in Rome, Paris, Amsterdam, and more, we can be proud of the quality of Irish restuarants, they are as good as their European counterparts. The problem only starts with the bill!