So, today I paid close to $7 for a cafe latte! Wasn’t even that good….
What’s The Most You’ve Paid for a Latte?
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Well at this rate it looks like meth will be cheaper than coffee soon so we might as well start preparing our bodies somehow
I wonder if heating up the Blend 43 spoon with a flame helps? 🤔
I heard it was an accident at the ATM machine.
50 dirams in Dubai 2013 (roughly A$16) for 2 predictably bad coffees.
We'd just got into the city from the Airport, off an overnight flight with a baby that cried the entire time, so the smallest note we had was a 50.
Paid cash at a busy table service cafe and never saw any change.
We were too tired to be able to remember who our server was to chase it up.
what's a latte?? 😂
just give me single or double shot black with no sweetener/sugar please. I love the bitter water flavour.
I remember recently walking into a starbucks because I was in a rush and had no other options. I ordered a large plain black coffee to go. the worker had trouble understanding exactly what I wanted and I swear every single person lining up in the store was silently judging me (you know that staring at ground/phone, then up at you for a second, then down, every single person in line was doing that to me). like wtf this person came to starbucks and got THAT?!
Yeah Starbucks is like telling the Italian PM never to eat pizza without pineapple.
Latte was just like pizza a way to create something new from waste, in this case with leftover milk.
England put milk into stolen tea, Germans used stolen lemons
Italy stole the show being the most popular.
$6
I think my iced latte is $5.80 and he puts in a double shot. I don't have any cream etc.
$20 in China in 2016. The coffee shop was barren. Guess they were trying to be edgy with a western drink. The coffee was awful which should've been expected in a country of tea drinkers.
Why pay that? Every Jamaica Blue was empty 24/7 and made drinkable coffee?
haha you don't know how close to the mark you are
This must have been in the absolute middle of rural nowhere to be edgy, given that there was a Starbucks tucked away in the corner in the Forbidden City twenty years ago.
Zero.
I drink cappuccinos, with the occasional macchiato or espresso.
About $20-25 I think when I was there, I didn't pay for it though. You could also smoke in the palace while drinking your gold coffee. They also have the bathrooms with real gold fittings.
The Emirates Palace Golden Cappuccino at the Emirates Palace in Abu Dhabi costs around $32. The price is primarily due to the 23-karat gold flakes that adorn the cappuccino's foam. The coffee is served with dark chocolate discs and fresh dates.
I rarely buy coffees at cafes because they're invariably too weak. Tastes either watery, or is barely distinguishable from hot milk. I mean, I'm not saying I'm better than a barista, but I know what I like. I'm not paying >$5 for a cup of hot milk.
I too find most cafés make weak coffee. Very irritating to bupay good money for warm milk. Makes me sleepy.
OP are you in VIC and copped public holiday surcharge? $7 for a regular (?) coffee is expensive IMO.
I'm no coffee snob so usually happy with $2 Coles Express, 7-11 or whenever Macca's have coffee deals on the app.
Yes in Vic. Copped an undisclosed 20% public holiday surcharge!
20%! I feel your pain…
stop drink coffee at $10 to $7 per cup now just drink at home
$150, but it was supposed to come with a happy ending
Even an extremely average Costa coffee at a servo in England is like $9. RIP if you want an extra shot and oat milk. We should probably be paying more
Since almost nobody buying coffee at a servo wants oat milk, you are paying for the whole carton
Just as in China, coffees are expensive in Pommydom because it is still a tea drinking country.
Haha, afraid not. Coffee overtook tea there a while back
Tree fiddy.
$10 in Reykjavik last year
$20 in Maldives.
I've paid $7 once in Melbourne, that's with oat milk, credit card and weekend/public holiday surcharge. Now that it's $5-6 for a medium I rarely buy coffee at cafes any more.
I buy my own green beans and roast them myself (usually middle of the day when solar is covering the power as well), they have gone up about 50% in the last 3 years, but at ~$15 per/kg it still costs me very little to make coffees at home.
About 10 years ago I was at the Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam. I got a hot chocolate from a machine, it filled up maybe a quarter of the cup. Assuming something went wrong, I pressed the button again and got another quarter of a cup.
I got charged €12. €6 per hot chocolate, and the cashier accused me of trying to steal a second hot chocolate, which I suppose I was. I still get a little bit annoyed about it when I think of it.
Still far cheaper than a pint and involves more skill. Doesn't make ugly people better looking however.
$26 at the hotel I stayed in Hong Kong, made the $17 I paid in a Tokyo mall look cheap. My local @ $4.60 is better than either.
We studied the coffee business when I was doing my Masters - it's an interesting industry. Yes, input costs are rising but the profit margins are (usually) incredible. Some areas can get oversaturated with outlets and dry up profits but coffee shops in strategic locations can make insane money. Coffee and airport parking are two industries that you'd want to be involved in if you had the capital.
Made me think of bubble tea- must be very profitable at high traffic outlets also.
Paid 5 Euro for a tepid tea once, 20 years ago. Got a free chocolate coin though, the coin was huge.
Presumably this was a large or extra large latte? Once you’re at that size of latte you’re really looking at a warm coffee flavoured milkshake.
Each to their own but I don’t really get the large latte as a drink.
A small flat white should be less than $5 and is more likely to taste good.
Agree, just getting lightly flavored milk at that size. But I think for a a normal sized coffee without any weekend or public holiday surcharges with normal cows milk you would be looking at about $4.50 to $5.50 anywhere across the country.
The people complaining about prices always say they got something like a large something something with oat milk and it was a public holiday so it was extra lol.
Also all the people saying a price overseas? Great, our currency is weak and our conversion is crap to many of those countries.
I always laugh when i see the price of a cup of coffee approaching the cost of a beer at a pub.
coffee is much more difficult to produce than beer
I now buy Vittoria Coffee Bags @ Coles / Wollies. 20 coffee bags for $8. Long black, taste great and I’m no longer paying a truck load of money for Coffee.
Just paid 60 RMB (~$12.70 AUD) in China. It was an iced Americano with pineapple juice and fruit bits. Sounds weird but surprisingly refreshing.
Yeah it's pretty cooked, beans go up say 20% so cafe owners put their prices up 20%…
It seems you can't reason with them though, the concept that beans are only represent a fraction of the coffee cost is a difficult concept for many to grasp.
So apparently we have cheap coffee in Australia compared to a lot of other countries. I remember paying $7 in Hong Kong for an espresso based coffee back in 2015.
Recent Vietnam and Bali trips, flat whites, cappuccinos etc were about 3.50 to 4 Aud…where as you can get full meals for that price in those places
Just paid 9.60 Singapore dollars or about 11 AUD dollars for a medium latte with extra shot at Singapore Changi Airport.
70c
I dont drink coffee but my wife stopped buying cups of coffee when it reached $5.
A $5er is my max for a coffee. Any place more than that is a rip off.
95% of cafes are garbage in Qld, was in Melbourne a year back you honestly couldn't get a bad cup of coffee anywhere, it was consistently awesome.
I was overseas for 6 months, came back and honestly it's gotten that bad where even my usual haunts that I pay a premium for, even with an extra shot is at best mediocre warm milk with a little coffee.
I honestly just get 7 eleven coffees now out of frustration and at least the 7 eleven coffees are consistent. I dump a short black in first and than add my latte, in some of the older machines the amount of caffeine is a massive bump, newer ones I have to dump another short black into.
And for 2.5$ with the app it's consistently better and less stressful than gambling with your morning fix.
Yeh, off topic, but the cafes in Melbourne are better than the ones in Sydney. Melbourne probably have the best cafes in the country.
I would go with the world, definitely Asia and Europe. No experience in the Americas for safety reasons..
The most I've paid for a latte doesn't matter, I'd rather pay 9$ and be happy with the quality, than 6.5$ and be left fuming with a cup of hot milk. Really does ruin my morning which is the biggest price.
It's the water. Same reason why NY has the best pizza and bagels in the world
America has the worst wheat in the world, they can't even sell it in most countries.. But it's definitely the coffee, they put nothing but milk in it in Qld.
25$ at Chadstone. It was some special beans. I couldn't tell the difference. To be fair, should have had it as an espresso instead.
I tapped and paid 7.80 for a mediocre flat white in Exmouth… Stupid me didn't look at the price list before, and didn't notice the charge till I was half way down the street after leaving
Bought a cap in Doha on the airport not knowing what the conversion rates were, and it was well over $10, but I can't remember exactly what the price was
Was in Singapore a few months ago and in a fancy premium cafe off Orchard Rd it was ~$14 Australian.
Coffee shops are a scam but then again bottled water can be $4
Get yourself a nice coffee machine or a nanopresso if you need one on the go.
I like making myself a nice breakfast at home and thinking about how it would have been $70 bucks at some cafe with bad service and long wait times.
Bottled water is for the real suckers. Anyone that pays for water in Australia has rocks in their head.
I notice many nearly arrived Asians buying truckloads of it at the supermarket. I guess old habits die hard and its a weird status thing.
Madness.
About $11 AUD at Starbucks in Hawaii a couple of months ago. NFI why
It's got to be Kopi Luwak
I was paying $8 USD for a coffee in New York last month. For some odd reason they don’t believe in soy milk so I had to get oat which was terrible.
If I must buy a coffee outside, and that is a big IF, a $1 Coles Express brew is my only indulgence.
Nothing beats my Nescafe Smooth n Creamy Instant coffee seeds at home.
And for a special occasion, made on milk in the micro.
With so many claiming Inflation, Fuel, Home Loan Rates and Groceries are hurting so much,
why anyone would need to let alone justify paying more for a hot brew is beyond me.it's 1.50 now, and you might as well make tea for free that tastes much better
$32
$22 aud in a hipster cafe in shanghai
Free…there’s endless packets of Nescafé sachets at work.
Might as well brew dirt.
mostly hitting up the 1.50 7/11 coffee [normally 2 bucks but 1.5 if you use the app]
Just got some close-to $7 latte from Lindt yesterday coz they were all out of anything else (!) and they seriously were the pits, never again.
how many lattes can you buy for the price of a iPhone 16
Or a deposit for a house! Give up the smashed avo as well and any house is affordable.
- Boomer logic and mindset
gave up buying coffee to reduce weight last month, now got used to office machine coffee 🥲
switch to using pauls smart milk and equal. That helped me.
using organic soy milk in office. tasty
Just back from Europe where asking for a latte in Italy is likely to get you quizzical looks - 'a milk' ? So the order there is 'Caffè latte per favore'
in France it might be 'cafe au lait' - sounds like 'olay' !
in Spain it might be 'cafe con leche' - sounds like 'letchay'
In Portugal I ordered something like 'caffe con leite' - sounds like 'layitay'
typical prices seemed similar to Oz - from free hotel machines I'd choose the milky coffee
Paying from a cafe or shop I'd usually get (the tiny) espresso - for something like AUD2
In Germany: Kaffee verdammtnochmal!
noch einmal bitte ! - ha - when I stayed in Munich for 9 months I'd go with my Irish friend to a local Tschibo stand-up coffee place to order two kaffee for eine mark each - cheap as - they'd give them to you in a china cup and saucer, and getting two you'd stack one on top of the other, and walk over the tiny standing room height ledge to place one while you drank the other - a quick gulp, warmed sufficiently to start the day in the ice and snow outside in winter.
When it comes to efficiency, Germany remains unbeaten! You want culture I suggest to sit in a street cafe in any old town. You want cake, nothing beats a Linzertorte in Austria. You want coffee to wake you up: Small Italian bars that have machines with large levers to pull down. Fancy slight soapy taste? Cheap hotels in France tent to have that. Why not Turkish coffee in the middle of Prag?
.40 cents
I’m not fancy so the coffee pods rated by Choice magazine as their best buy- does me.
Honestly to me 80% of the flavour and complexity of store bought Latte
https://www.choice.com.au/food-and-drink/drinks/tea-and-coff…
https://www.coles.com.au/product/daley-street-mediumdark-alu…
There are too many capsule systems
but if the original Nespresso is too bland, you just got to grind some freshly roasted beans by hand and then jiggle with heat and pressure to make it a treat.
Back in 2009, I paid $8 for a bad expresso at Urumqi Airport and felt royally reemed. But due to the one china time zone nonsense, I was up 5 hours earlier than I had any right doing so and needed a coffee hit.
Beautiful place. I'm glad I got there before the crackdown but feel terrible for the locals now.
$7 recently, a few in the $6 range but they were with oat milk, rarely get one out now, too expensive.
What really annoys me is getting charged the same price for a long black which is what I usually drink. Surely 50c cheaper is a reasonable expectation.
Brisbane CBD, $6.30 for medium oat flat white at a decent place. Delicious, though. Bought two today, no regrets.
$21 Aud for 6 oz custom frozen distilled milk designer latte. Once in nostos in the UK, once at march studio Perth.
It's a specialty coffee thing.
All I can say is buy a Breville Barista express (the black one, as silver looks a but like a milo tin) It makes fantastic coffee and If you buy Aldi Lux beans its only $23 per kilo and you will be drinking a bag of that stuff for a month. Get a thermos cup and take to work and have within the hour or so. I took one to work in my backpack on my ebike. Better than the capsule crap at work
$18 in japan
You can still get a good (like proper good) coffee around Sydney CBD for about $4.50-$5. Dedy's in Regent Place is about that price for a large latte.
I'd also recommend Stitch QVB, Chinatown Country Club, Gumption and they're all in the range of $5-6.50 for a large latte.I did pay about $25 for a pour-over from Only Coffee Project in Crows Nest once. It was a bit ridiculous but was certainly a nice coffee.
I had to go to Seattle for work recently, supposedly renowned for its coffee culture (which I guess is how you end up with Starbucks). $12.50 AUD (with tip) for an alright takeaway latte.
I have spent up to 6.50 for a flat white but what I usually do is use Macca's app and save points for coffee, bonus points are that I use lactose free milk which is usually an additional charge but when buying just the coffee it's on the house….. Make me feel special about that saving.
$10aud for a small flat white in San Francisco.
At Luckin, a basic latte costs just about $2.
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-11-06/china-…
$7 USD! Latte oat milk, NYC.
Trump has promised to bring the price down!
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RIP in peace Jimothy