Price of food and drink in Dublin

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Visited Dublin yesterday and was astounded by the exorbitant prices charged for food and drink.

Govindas: €12.45 for a smalll plate.
The Duke: €8.90 for a pint of IPA.
Leo Burdocks: €19.95 for a medium fish & chips.

Are these prices correct or did they see me coming?

The Duke website drinks menu has all pints at a much lower price than €8.90.
 
I was in ballyboffey last week.

4.50 for a flat white
6 50 for a pint of G
7.50 for a basic deli sambo

Its not just dublin
 
It's not just Dublin as @ArthurMcB says. we In Cork paid €19.00 for two coffees and two "crafted" scones recently along with two wrapped small butters and a small plastic container of lookalike blackcurrant jam. You can "catch" me once . . .
 
Leper said:
It's not just Dublin as @ArthurMcB says. we In Cork paid €19.00 for two coffees and two "crafted" scones recently along with two wrapped small butters and a small plastic container of lookalike blackcurrant jam. You can "catch" me once . . .
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That is shocking. We were in Harrods recently (browsing!) and treated ourselves to tea and scones - loose leaf tea, fancy jam, clotted cream, fancy butter, scones second only to my father's baking - and we paid less than that. Now Cork is much nicer than London, but still...
Carnmore said:
Leo Burdocks: €19.95 for a medium fish & chips.
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Is it because Burdocks gets a lot of tourists?
 
Costs are horrendous. A min wage person costs about €17.50 an hour incl prsi, bank holiday and holidays.

A friend is in Spain and he used to be in hospitality in kildare, and he knows a cafe owner near Málaga. Wages are under €11 all in, electricity is much cheaper as they have a lot of solar and heating bills are near zero due to warmth. So they can charge €10 for pizza, €4 for beer and make a decent profit.

In the flip side, my sister was over from the States and thought Donnybrook Fair was cheap!!!!!!!
 
Protocol said:
Roast pork dinner in a pub-restaurant in Munich. Not in city centre, call it an inner suburb.

Elec prices in DE are as bad as here, and their wages are similar.

19% VAT versus 13.5% here.

€14.50.
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Not really comparable. That will literally be small size pork, a bit of coleslaw and a dumpling. Ideal lunch.
Pan fried pork fillet is €23 with a side salad and fried potatoes.

Much of the rest of the menu looks par for Dublin pub grub prices. Here's an example https://theoldschoolhouse.ie/bar-food-menu/
 
I have no problem with the guy who has tea and a scone in a restaurant very occasionally. You can pay over the odds and so what, it's just a few bob more. He/she won't be in the charity meals queue as a result. But, if you're using restaurants for light meal sit-downs in restaurants every few days you may have to address the issue. I walk the dogs every morning and I found that a good flask (not one of the big ones) can be used pretty very inexpensively for that outside coffee-hit. But, you need a decent metal flask. Forget the ones you get free with cornflakes or a freebe in the Captain's Prize.

Added Later:- Bring a couple of triangles of Toblerone with you too and wrapped in tinfoil, heavenly and suddenly you couldn't give a whit if the Russians invaded.
 
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mathepac said:
A tenner for a toasted ham&cheese sambo? No thanks and that place is DNS to add insult to pocket injury! :(
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It's in Swords, sure that's hardly Dublin at all! Once you go north of the airport you're in the wilds of the country.
 
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