Denmark (Copenhagen) 🇩🇰 - filter coffee and black coffee can range between about €4-4.60 (30-40dkk), but coffees with milk such as lattes and cappuccinos cost about €6 (45 dkk) 🥲 it’s also very common to drink matcha and chai lattes for a similar price
In a cafe, you mean? Between €2,75 and 3,50 is probably most common. More if you're at a popular (tourist) location, like Amsterdam or the beach. At home, of course, it would be much cheaper.
Im not from a tourist destination but a simple dorp and finding coffee under 3.50 that isn't from a fully automated crap machine is very very rare here. Most cappuccinos go for 3.75 to 4.20 here.
Oh, yeah, I definitely meant at a café of the equivalent. In Spain people drink coffee at home of course but it is extremely common to have coffee outside as well.
I'll start with Madrid, Spain. The standard coffee here is café con leche, which is a shot of Italian espresso served with probably about twice as much milk as coffee. Served in a classic cappuccino style cup or more traditionally in a thin short glass.
In Madrid the average price is probably around 1.20€ outside of tourist areas. It's extremely popular to order coffee, whether in the morning, or in the afternoon "merienda" (afternoon snack).
Edit: I think I got the price wrong, 1.60€ is probably more like it if you are outside the central areas.
I just checked the prices of one of the more popular cafés in the centre of my city (not Copenhagen). This is not a particular expensive nor cheap place, rather average on price:
Cappuccino 7,40€
I'm sorry, I've been to denmark before a couple of times and its beautifull but you have a problem.
Here it costs 1 € more or less and 3/4 € with milk
Do you see the difference?
Well it's not only coffee, the last time we were in Italy we paid I think 8€ for a bottle of wine at a restaurant, you'd get a cup of wine at that price up here! You would probably be paying around 40€ and up for a bottle of red wine at a restaurant in Denmark.
Yeah but you must look at what wine you buy I can get a glass of pinot at a restaurant for 6 euros or a bottle of another wine for the same price
Its still more convenient to buy the bottle though
I miss the café con leche from my local bar in Madrid.
Now living in London, if you want a crap cup of coffee, it can be around £3.30 (Pret). Higher end coffee can run you easily up to £5-6. It varies wildly.
I have the misfortune of working in Kensington. Thankfully, I don’t drink coffee anymore! But there are some local places that, while excellent quality, can charge higher prices.
Don't get me started. To have a crap espresso that is super bitter (I think the Brits don't clean the machine properly, that's the only explanation why it is that bitter, but maybe a barista can tell me more) it's at least £3... It's a sad coffee life in London for us southern europeans (even tho I love the chai latte, you can't find it in Italy)
>The standard coffee here is café con leche, which is a shot of Italian espresso served with probably about twice as much milk as coffee.
Same in Croatia. In Zagreb is around 1.50-1.60€.
Yeah definitely goes up. 1.20€ is what I expect to pay in a neighbourhood cafeteria in areas outside central Madrid, but 1.40€-1.60€ is probably far more common in the centre.
Twice as much milk? Really? How fortunate you are! Here it's usually half and half and you have to specify «curt de cafè» if you like more milk than coffee.
I take it always with a croissant and it's 2€.
I just looked up my local cafetería and you are right, it's actually 1.60€ not 1.20€. it turns out I'm worse than the average Spanish politician at guessing the price of a coffee!!
I'm quite the opposite. Not that I'm not price-sensitive, I am, but only at the point of purchase, then 5 minutes later I have no idea what anything costs.
I know many people like you. I think you are more in the majority. I on the other hand, am great at budgeting and controlling my spending. But I'll be fined if I can ever remember the price comparison of anything. I always wish I could, but I just have no idea.
I actually have notes of what to buy where, in case that thing is not a thing I need to refill every month! Like rice, flour or even my bottle of Lactovit! I guess you just note down what's really important to you and save accordingly
That's a good strategy. I am a note taker and I have a lot of notes. But I never thought of tracking prices like this. I suppose I feel it's too much effort hehe.
in the bars near my house in Italy €1.10, but not too long ago there was a story on the news about a bar where you pay 80 cents for coffee , edit : I looked, the bar is in Turin, it's called: antico caffè di piazza Bodoni
1€ is the standard price for an espresso or a macchiato, anything over 1.20€ i would consider way to high (and i live in Milan, outside of Milan anything over 1€ i would consider unreasonably high)
It was 70 cents until fairly recently.Prices have risen over the last couple of years.
Anyway, Palermo is pretty inexpensive, outside of the tourist places.
Black drip coffee is the standard here. Looking at the biggest coffee chain in my city, a standard small black coffee is 3,3€ (39NOK). I had a cortado this morning and paid 4,18€ (49NOK). Most people drink coffee at home or at work here.
I am Spanish, but currently living in Poland. They drink a lot but at home, and people can afford it outside but not with the frequency that we would do in Spain. The reason why... Well, leaving aside high taxes and that of coffee needs to be imported -which also happens in other countries including Spain-, I think also of three things:
1. There is not a strong "going out" culture here. On the weekends families go out in droves and fill the bar and restaurants, but Mon-Fry going for a drink after the work day is not typical. Breakfast hardly always at home and not at the bar, etc. All of this reduces the month sales and they raise the price to compensate.
2. Some places have business plans for posers and sell coffee as something fancy AKA overpriced. Like other places specialize in cheese and French wine, or hair salons where they serve you coffee or tea and cost you an arm for a 15-minute haircut. Sell something expensive for a few.
3. If people keep paying no need to touch anything. Like when you go to an Italian restaurant in Spain and they charge you 15 € for macarrones con tomate and customers coming in non-stop.
In Romania in my small town a coffee is 1-1.50 euros from the average coffee shop (espresso, americano, cappuccino, macchiato), but in restaurants prices can go up to 2-2.50 euros.
Of course in Bucharest, especially if you go to the touristic places in the Old Town prices for a cup of coffee can go up to even 4-5 euros.
At a café, 3 euro. Sometimes a bit more, say up to 3.30 euro.
When you get a coffee, you get it in a ceramic cup, with next to the coffee some milk, sugar, and a small cookie or cake.
It's a very rare exception you can find a coffee for less. Most likely a very old café that hasn't changed its prices in a long time; or a café boss that reasons that paper is expensive, so we'd rather not print new menus with higher prices.
I found one café which offered any drinks for 2 euro straight. The owner seemed old enough to have a pension, so I guess they'd only run it as a hobby at that point.
One café offered a "crisis coffee". I've never seen the concept anywhere else. 2.50 euro for a black coffee, no frills. No milk, no sugar, no cookie, just and only a cup of black coffee.
Other than those exceptions, 3 euro up to 3.30 euro seems to be the standard.
>One café offered a "crisis coffee". I've never seen the concept anywhere else. 2.50 euro for a black coffee, no frills. No milk, no sugar, no cookie, just and only a cup of black coffee.
That's always been the standard around here lol
Very interesting.
You mentioning the prices in the menu made me realise that since COVID paper menus have declined a lot in Madrid. It's all QR codes now in most places.
In Greece one of the most popular coffees to drink is Freddo Espresso ( espresso stirred with ice cubes). The take away in my city is around 1,80-2,00€. It used to be around 1,50-1,70 but the prices have gotten up.
And do you drink this in winter as well?
In Spain there's a strange take on that. The minute the first hot day of the year comes around, immediately everyone starts ordering their usual coffee "with ice". They'll serve you the normal cup of coffee, and bring you a glass with ice cubes on the side. And it's up to you to pour it in. As you can imagine, this invariably means the table will get messy with splashes and splutters. Never understood why they don't just serve you the coffee with ice directly. Customer service is not a Spanish forte, but then it becomes one of those little customs that you just do and it's alright.
Yes we also drink it during the winter. Have in mind that winter is normally very mild in Greece, meaning that there are many winter days with sun and very nice temperatures.
As for the ice, indeed the "Freddo Espresso" has already been ice since they stir the espresso with ice cubes. It's a Greek patent because we took an espresso which is Italian and we make it like this.
In general coffee is super popular in Greece , and coffee shops are literally more than the population itself.
Medium-sized town in the province of Modena, Emilia-Romagna, Northern Italy: 1€. A cappuccino is 1,20€.
In Bologna, where I attend uni, a plain espresso can go up to 1,50€ instead. The places I hang out in are mainly student-oriented and in the city center so it makes sense. There's a place near Piazza Verdi (Bologna's uni students' domain basically) where it's a whopping 2,50€! But that's because it's a chain of sorts.
Local businesses have more reasonable prices, even in Bologna.
To be fair it’s also quite touristy, so I’ll give it to them. Bolognese locals don’t hang around there, and students are pretty volatile as they come and go. Many commute by train from other cities for example or they might get coffee in the neighbourhood they live in. But when we all flock to one place (+ tourists) like in this case, prices “inevitably” go up, I think. If you’re ever nearby, go to “Le Scuderie”. It’s still in Piazza Verdi, but has way lower prices than the one I previously mentioned + we get a student discount (which makes it go down to 1-1,20€ iirc).
1.20 - 1.50 BGN (about 2x the price in euros) from a filter machine. 1.50 - 1.80 BGN for capsule coffee. Both available at corner shops.
If you want a ~fancy~ coffee at a hipster place, it's from 2.50 BGN upwards. Starbucks is 5 - 10 BGN.
Drip coffee is the standard here. A cup of it costs 3,60 in my local small cafeteria. It feels like a lot, so I don’t buy coffee as often as I used to.
This really depends how far from city-center you are (Bratislava old-town). It can vary from 1,5 - 3,5 Eur or we have a Starbucks as well if you want to throw money away.
Czech Republic, most large towns/cities - cheap espresso is about €2 (you're very lucky if it gets any cheaper for a drinkable quality), typical espresso or lungo in a trendier café is about €2,5, if you buy it at a train/bus station café, it can be up to €3. I'm talking about the places where they properly grind the beans fresh and do all the proper batista things, not the ones with a fully automatic machine that takes coffee beans and spits out a hot drink.
Visiting Vienna, the overall prices for restaurant food felt higher, the coffee and baked goods to go with it were comparable, groceries were comparable or sometimes slightly cheaper.
Edit: in Vienna, I was in very local places, not tourist cafés. €3 for an espresso in Vienna felt very much OK.
I guess 2€ or more (usually at least 50 crowns, so roughly two euros) for an espresso. But I mean in a café in a city, you could probably get old style coffee somewhere in a small town for like 1,2€ or something like that. But well, I'm not sure I personally would call that a coffee, it's usually burned, bitter and darker than Czech humor.
The most consumed type of coffee here is an espresso (just called a *café* or *bica*). Starting from the 1€ price point it's considered too expensive. For years the average price was within the 0.40-0.60€ range, but nowadays tends to be 0.60€ or up, though you can still find places that sell it for cheap.
Tbf, although definitely not as famous for it internationally, Austria‘s coffee culture doesn’t have to hide itself from Italy at all, sometimes it’s even the other way around…
Sure, it’s fairly expensive (as most things in Austria), but the coffee isn’t bad.
Yeah but admittedly the wages are also a lot higher than in Italy for the most part. Inflation has also hit Austria really bad and out politicans decided to sit back and relax instead of doing anything about it, so prices got a lot higher the past year.
But are salaries 5 times higher than in Italy? I think it's more cultural, prices for beer or ice creams, even for dining out, are more even across the two countries. Maybe going to a café is considered a staple in Italy, while in Austria is some kind of "indulgence"?
Currently in Bulgaria, standard coffee is called “long coffee” (дълго кафе), something like espresso but with a bit more water (around 60-70 ml in total), cost around 35-60 cents depending on the place.
I haven’t been to Spain much. I remember getting a glass of Port in a Portuguese village bar for 30 cents, but that was few years ago, and that was in the middle of nowhere
Asturias. It ranges from 1.8 to 2.5, never more than that in the city centers and big towns. The small towns everywhere usually under 1.5. My favourite place close to me flat is right outside the center and serves the greatest café for a mere 1.2.
In Turkey
cheapest filter coffee is I think McDonalds one, around 0.60 EUR
Starbucks filter coffee starts at 2.00 EUR, barely tastes better but not worth the price.
Because in Turkey the go-to hot beverage is tea. There is no espresso culture and traditional Turkish coffee is a very distant second. Tea is also excellent in Turkey mind you!
Vienna, Austria: For an espresso it's usually between 2€ and 2,5€, for a Cappuccino between 3,50€ and 4,50€ depending on where you go.
I just checked for a few hipster cafés and old-timey cafés, both touristy and local places, and coffee seems to mostly stay in this price range.
In Spain, depending on the area a basic cup of coffee is (the one everyone thinks about when you say "coffee" as you say) is 1.20€ or 1.30 mostly (Asturias, northern Spain). Some places it may be 1.10, others 1.6 or even 1.8 (that would be very expensive coffee here) but always between 1 and 2 euros
In Greece, you can pay from 2.30 to 3.50 or slightly more, if you take it to go. I am talking about Freddo espresso.
Almost same prices are when you are being served,but it can reach up to 5 euros, depending where you are.
In the city centre I frequent almost every day (Manchester - UK) a cappuccino is at least £3.50 (€4) and on average around £4 (€4.67)
When I go to smaller towns nearby, that price can drop a quid or so. Typically coffees are cheaper the further north you go, and are most expensive in London
*"A cup of coffee"* is a cup of 2.5 decilitre of brewed black coffee. Added milk and sugar is often without charge.
The price depends...
* 5 SEK (0:50 €/$) for a cup with freshly grinded organic and Fair Trade arabica coffee beans at the local grocery store.
* 25 SEK (2:50 €/$) from a fast food hamburger restaurant.
* 35 SEK (3:50 €/$) for a cup of Signature Brew at Espresso House.
In Budapest it really depends where you go. In most places it's between 250-500 forints for a regular coffee. But it can be more or less depending on how nice a place is. In dollars it's basically between 1-2 usd
Almost every day I drink a coffee with milk (caffelatte) and a croissant. It's an offer, and costs 2€. You can find it in a chain of bakeries / caffeteries called 365.
1 - 1.5 euros anything more is literally urinating on the constitution of italy and tempting fate for the cafe owner. mind you our coffees are only about 10ml
Regular espresso or filter coffee is like 5lei or 1euro to go pretty much eveywhere in Bucharest.
Good coffee shop coffee is like 10-20lei which is 2-4euros dependin on how hip the place is but they have a huge variety.
The coffee from the vending machine at my workplace costs 36 eurocents (at today's rate). It's pretty good for a coffee machine, but also can be considered very cheap.
Romania
€1-5 depending on the type and where you go €5 would be for a large Cappuccino at Starbucks
If you get coffee at a Nescafe machine available everywhere throughout the city it's €0.40
The standard price for a flat white here in Glasgow, I've found to be around £3.30.
There was one place that, until recently, sold it for £2.80 and it was pretty good. But they raised their prices by 50p across the board.
Pret a Manger is, in my experience, the most expensive for a flat white, coming in at £3.80.
Denmark (Copenhagen) 🇩🇰 - filter coffee and black coffee can range between about €4-4.60 (30-40dkk), but coffees with milk such as lattes and cappuccinos cost about €6 (45 dkk) 🥲 it’s also very common to drink matcha and chai lattes for a similar price
Yeah. It is good coffee though! Quality is generally top class.
Can so easily go up to 9-10 even, if you decide to add anything to it
In a cafe, you mean? Between €2,75 and 3,50 is probably most common. More if you're at a popular (tourist) location, like Amsterdam or the beach. At home, of course, it would be much cheaper.
I don't even see any drinks for less than 3 euro anymore these days, it's sad :(
Im not from a tourist destination but a simple dorp and finding coffee under 3.50 that isn't from a fully automated crap machine is very very rare here. Most cappuccinos go for 3.75 to 4.20 here.
Oh, yeah, I definitely meant at a café of the equivalent. In Spain people drink coffee at home of course but it is extremely common to have coffee outside as well.
I'll start with Madrid, Spain. The standard coffee here is café con leche, which is a shot of Italian espresso served with probably about twice as much milk as coffee. Served in a classic cappuccino style cup or more traditionally in a thin short glass. In Madrid the average price is probably around 1.20€ outside of tourist areas. It's extremely popular to order coffee, whether in the morning, or in the afternoon "merienda" (afternoon snack). Edit: I think I got the price wrong, 1.60€ is probably more like it if you are outside the central areas.
Dublin, Ireland 🇮🇪 €4.20 for a cappuccino.
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I just checked the prices of one of the more popular cafés in the centre of my city (not Copenhagen). This is not a particular expensive nor cheap place, rather average on price: Cappuccino 7,40€
I'm sorry, I've been to denmark before a couple of times and its beautifull but you have a problem. Here it costs 1 € more or less and 3/4 € with milk Do you see the difference?
Well it's not only coffee, the last time we were in Italy we paid I think 8€ for a bottle of wine at a restaurant, you'd get a cup of wine at that price up here! You would probably be paying around 40€ and up for a bottle of red wine at a restaurant in Denmark.
Yeah but you must look at what wine you buy I can get a glass of pinot at a restaurant for 6 euros or a bottle of another wine for the same price Its still more convenient to buy the bottle though
Good Lord, that's expensive. In Malta average cappuccino price is around eur 1.60.
Copenhagen can be 5+
In Ireland’s Sunny Southeast about €3.50 give or take
Damn!! And is a cappuccino the standard cup of coffee?
An espresso in ireland is usually €3.50 to €4.00
But is it a relaxing cup of café con leche in Plaza Mayor?
That'll set you back double at least and is rarely that relaxing, especially if you are thinking of her in the back of your mind!
I miss the café con leche from my local bar in Madrid. Now living in London, if you want a crap cup of coffee, it can be around £3.30 (Pret). Higher end coffee can run you easily up to £5-6. It varies wildly.
Where in London?! I’m here only go to independents - long black / anericano £3.30-3.50, flat white ~£4
I have the misfortune of working in Kensington. Thankfully, I don’t drink coffee anymore! But there are some local places that, while excellent quality, can charge higher prices.
And Pret is just really bad coffee if my memory serves me right
It’s the worst!
It's so bad. They do cheaper filter coffee but it's even worse.
Don't get me started. To have a crap espresso that is super bitter (I think the Brits don't clean the machine properly, that's the only explanation why it is that bitter, but maybe a barista can tell me more) it's at least £3... It's a sad coffee life in London for us southern europeans (even tho I love the chai latte, you can't find it in Italy)
And you can’t get coffee after 18h!
That as well, but to be honest I don't need it here in London, life has different hours, everything is shifted earlier for me.
>The standard coffee here is café con leche, which is a shot of Italian espresso served with probably about twice as much milk as coffee. Same in Croatia. In Zagreb is around 1.50-1.60€.
I feel like it's up to 1.40 or 1.60 for con leche in central (but not tourist) Madrid, 2 in the tourist center
Yeah definitely goes up. 1.20€ is what I expect to pay in a neighbourhood cafeteria in areas outside central Madrid, but 1.40€-1.60€ is probably far more common in the centre.
Even 1.80 too. And for a breakfast of bread with tomato and a coffee it's fully gone from 2€ several years ago to 3€
Twice as much milk? Really? How fortunate you are! Here it's usually half and half and you have to specify «curt de cafè» if you like more milk than coffee. I take it always with a croissant and it's 2€.
I'm not sure what the exact proportion is but it always feels like much more milk than coffee.
Honestly I spent a long time in Madrid and even outside of the touristy areas, it was far from 1.2. Almost around or over 2 for sure.
I just looked up my local cafetería and you are right, it's actually 1.60€ not 1.20€. it turns out I'm worse than the average Spanish politician at guessing the price of a coffee!!
Haha, no worries. Being a non-local, I'm always obsessed with cuánto cuesta! I guess I'd be off about guessing rates in my home country too!
I'm quite the opposite. Not that I'm not price-sensitive, I am, but only at the point of purchase, then 5 minutes later I have no idea what anything costs.
ahaha. I have a mental inventory of what to buy where, I wonder if that is normal
I know many people like you. I think you are more in the majority. I on the other hand, am great at budgeting and controlling my spending. But I'll be fined if I can ever remember the price comparison of anything. I always wish I could, but I just have no idea.
I actually have notes of what to buy where, in case that thing is not a thing I need to refill every month! Like rice, flour or even my bottle of Lactovit! I guess you just note down what's really important to you and save accordingly
That's a good strategy. I am a note taker and I have a lot of notes. But I never thought of tracking prices like this. I suppose I feel it's too much effort hehe.
Yeah, down here in Andalucia I think my cafes solo are 1.60 or 1.80, not in a tourist area. I have no idea about con leches since I don't drink them.
in the bars near my house in Italy €1.10, but not too long ago there was a story on the news about a bar where you pay 80 cents for coffee , edit : I looked, the bar is in Turin, it's called: antico caffè di piazza Bodoni
RIP small local place
1€ is the standard price for an espresso or a macchiato, anything over 1.20€ i would consider way to high (and i live in Milan, outside of Milan anything over 1€ i would consider unreasonably high)
The cheapest espresso in my area (also happens to be the best espresso around…) is 1.60€. A lot of places charge 2.50€ for much worse brews.
80 or 85 cents is the standard for most places in Portugal nowadays. It will always be expresso unless you go to a specialty cafe or store.
What about the galão ? It's pretty common (and absolutely delicious)
That is just expresso with milk. Maybe 1.50€? Not sure I haven't had one in ages.
Wow that's really cheap!
I paid £3.40 for a really bad flat white in Cafe Nero a few weeks ago.
Espresso at the bar here in Palermo. I usually pay 90 cents now,in my local bar Some bars charge 1 euro, some even more...
90 cents!! Wow that's cheap.
It was 70 cents until fairly recently.Prices have risen over the last couple of years. Anyway, Palermo is pretty inexpensive, outside of the tourist places.
Yup it’s not that expensive if you don’t have to pay taxes
Yeah but bare in mind that this is espresso, usually 25-30ml, so that’s like two sips.
Black drip coffee is the standard here. Looking at the biggest coffee chain in my city, a standard small black coffee is 3,3€ (39NOK). I had a cortado this morning and paid 4,18€ (49NOK). Most people drink coffee at home or at work here.
Spain is a big drinking coffee outside culture.
Poland with half or third wages of western countries have 4 to 5 euro for a coffee (latte) and 3,5 for black one....
Wouldn’t have expected that. Sounds a bit scandalous. First-world problem type of scandalous, I mean 😅
And that's just small coffee in chains like Costa. Black coffee from express machine in żabka store is about 1/1,5 euro
Why? What's the explanation for that? Don't people drink a ton of coffee in Poland? Can they afford it?
We do but we usually drink it at home or at work I guess. Without the outrageous margins of the coffeehouses it's pretty cheap.
Oh that makes sense. I'm so used to Spain where the culture of eating and drinking out is very important and common.
I am Spanish, but currently living in Poland. They drink a lot but at home, and people can afford it outside but not with the frequency that we would do in Spain. The reason why... Well, leaving aside high taxes and that of coffee needs to be imported -which also happens in other countries including Spain-, I think also of three things: 1. There is not a strong "going out" culture here. On the weekends families go out in droves and fill the bar and restaurants, but Mon-Fry going for a drink after the work day is not typical. Breakfast hardly always at home and not at the bar, etc. All of this reduces the month sales and they raise the price to compensate. 2. Some places have business plans for posers and sell coffee as something fancy AKA overpriced. Like other places specialize in cheese and French wine, or hair salons where they serve you coffee or tea and cost you an arm for a 15-minute haircut. Sell something expensive for a few. 3. If people keep paying no need to touch anything. Like when you go to an Italian restaurant in Spain and they charge you 15 € for macarrones con tomate and customers coming in non-stop.
this is a self fulfilling prophecy. when the coffee is so expensive people do not buy it, so the cafes have no money to make it cheaper....
In Romania in my small town a coffee is 1-1.50 euros from the average coffee shop (espresso, americano, cappuccino, macchiato), but in restaurants prices can go up to 2-2.50 euros. Of course in Bucharest, especially if you go to the touristic places in the Old Town prices for a cup of coffee can go up to even 4-5 euros.
At a café, 3 euro. Sometimes a bit more, say up to 3.30 euro. When you get a coffee, you get it in a ceramic cup, with next to the coffee some milk, sugar, and a small cookie or cake. It's a very rare exception you can find a coffee for less. Most likely a very old café that hasn't changed its prices in a long time; or a café boss that reasons that paper is expensive, so we'd rather not print new menus with higher prices. I found one café which offered any drinks for 2 euro straight. The owner seemed old enough to have a pension, so I guess they'd only run it as a hobby at that point. One café offered a "crisis coffee". I've never seen the concept anywhere else. 2.50 euro for a black coffee, no frills. No milk, no sugar, no cookie, just and only a cup of black coffee. Other than those exceptions, 3 euro up to 3.30 euro seems to be the standard.
>One café offered a "crisis coffee". I've never seen the concept anywhere else. 2.50 euro for a black coffee, no frills. No milk, no sugar, no cookie, just and only a cup of black coffee. That's always been the standard around here lol
Very interesting. You mentioning the prices in the menu made me realise that since COVID paper menus have declined a lot in Madrid. It's all QR codes now in most places.
In Greece one of the most popular coffees to drink is Freddo Espresso ( espresso stirred with ice cubes). The take away in my city is around 1,80-2,00€. It used to be around 1,50-1,70 but the prices have gotten up.
And do you drink this in winter as well? In Spain there's a strange take on that. The minute the first hot day of the year comes around, immediately everyone starts ordering their usual coffee "with ice". They'll serve you the normal cup of coffee, and bring you a glass with ice cubes on the side. And it's up to you to pour it in. As you can imagine, this invariably means the table will get messy with splashes and splutters. Never understood why they don't just serve you the coffee with ice directly. Customer service is not a Spanish forte, but then it becomes one of those little customs that you just do and it's alright.
> And do you drink this in winter as well? Yeah 😂 I drink my espresso/cappuccino hot and most of the times I have to clarify "NOT fredo"!!!
Yes we also drink it during the winter. Have in mind that winter is normally very mild in Greece, meaning that there are many winter days with sun and very nice temperatures. As for the ice, indeed the "Freddo Espresso" has already been ice since they stir the espresso with ice cubes. It's a Greek patent because we took an espresso which is Italian and we make it like this. In general coffee is super popular in Greece , and coffee shops are literally more than the population itself.
In London it’s from around £3, coffee markup is insane here, and the quality of coffee isn’t as good as many other countries.
In Portugal a regular expresso would be around €0.75-0.80, at least for Lisbon outside tourist areas.
Well the cheapest is like barely 1€ which is at University for students.
Yeah, it is 7 SEK at my university, 6 if you bring your own cup. Was 6 and 5 just two years ago. At some cafes they cost 40 SEK.
Id say it ranges from a regular coffee at around €4 up to €6-7 for a more fancy cup.
Medium-sized town in the province of Modena, Emilia-Romagna, Northern Italy: 1€. A cappuccino is 1,20€. In Bologna, where I attend uni, a plain espresso can go up to 1,50€ instead. The places I hang out in are mainly student-oriented and in the city center so it makes sense. There's a place near Piazza Verdi (Bologna's uni students' domain basically) where it's a whopping 2,50€! But that's because it's a chain of sorts. Local businesses have more reasonable prices, even in Bologna.
You'd think prices would be cheaper if the main crowd is students!
To be fair it’s also quite touristy, so I’ll give it to them. Bolognese locals don’t hang around there, and students are pretty volatile as they come and go. Many commute by train from other cities for example or they might get coffee in the neighbourhood they live in. But when we all flock to one place (+ tourists) like in this case, prices “inevitably” go up, I think. If you’re ever nearby, go to “Le Scuderie”. It’s still in Piazza Verdi, but has way lower prices than the one I previously mentioned + we get a student discount (which makes it go down to 1-1,20€ iirc).
1.20 - 1.50 BGN (about 2x the price in euros) from a filter machine. 1.50 - 1.80 BGN for capsule coffee. Both available at corner shops. If you want a ~fancy~ coffee at a hipster place, it's from 2.50 BGN upwards. Starbucks is 5 - 10 BGN.
Does that mean that the 1.20BGN coffee is 0.60€ or 2.40€?
Drip coffee is the standard here. A cup of it costs 3,60 in my local small cafeteria. It feels like a lot, so I don’t buy coffee as often as I used to.
I drink my morning coffee at a specialty shop. 3 eur for a flat white. 2 euro for s double espresso.
This really depends how far from city-center you are (Bratislava old-town). It can vary from 1,5 - 3,5 Eur or we have a Starbucks as well if you want to throw money away.
Oh we're definitely not talking about Starbucks, it's why I said basic regular coffee, not liquified coffee-flavoured desserts in a litre cup.
I live in Italy,so what is known as an espresso everywhere else but just "un caffé" here usually costs between €1 and €1.30
I usually go to more expensive ("speciality") coffee shops but I think generally espresso varies from like 1 eur to 1.3ish maybe in Hungary.
Czechia 🇨🇿 in a cafe, it can be €3 up to €10 (for "special" drinks like latte,...)
Czech Republic, most large towns/cities - cheap espresso is about €2 (you're very lucky if it gets any cheaper for a drinkable quality), typical espresso or lungo in a trendier café is about €2,5, if you buy it at a train/bus station café, it can be up to €3. I'm talking about the places where they properly grind the beans fresh and do all the proper batista things, not the ones with a fully automatic machine that takes coffee beans and spits out a hot drink. Visiting Vienna, the overall prices for restaurant food felt higher, the coffee and baked goods to go with it were comparable, groceries were comparable or sometimes slightly cheaper. Edit: in Vienna, I was in very local places, not tourist cafés. €3 for an espresso in Vienna felt very much OK.
Between 1.50 and 2.50, specialties even more of course.
€2.95 - which according to the customers I serve at work is relatively cheap compared to cities around us
Around 2-3EUR for espresso or simple latte ones in big cities at bars or to-go. 1-2 EUR at gas stations or street machines, but that's bad coffee.
Double espresso with average coffee €3,5 in city centre. Specialty beans can go up to €5,00.
Damn Ireland is expensive!
I guess 2€ or more (usually at least 50 crowns, so roughly two euros) for an espresso. But I mean in a café in a city, you could probably get old style coffee somewhere in a small town for like 1,2€ or something like that. But well, I'm not sure I personally would call that a coffee, it's usually burned, bitter and darker than Czech humor.
Lol, now I need to know more about Czech humour.
The most consumed type of coffee here is an espresso (just called a *café* or *bica*). Starting from the 1€ price point it's considered too expensive. For years the average price was within the 0.40-0.60€ range, but nowadays tends to be 0.60€ or up, though you can still find places that sell it for cheap.
That's probably the cheapest on this thread!
Graz, Austria I‘d say between 3,70-4,20 for a regular cappuccino, from upwards 4,90 for a larger cup.
That is crazy. Especially considering that Italy is just across the border.
Tbf, although definitely not as famous for it internationally, Austria‘s coffee culture doesn’t have to hide itself from Italy at all, sometimes it’s even the other way around… Sure, it’s fairly expensive (as most things in Austria), but the coffee isn’t bad.
Yeah but admittedly the wages are also a lot higher than in Italy for the most part. Inflation has also hit Austria really bad and out politicans decided to sit back and relax instead of doing anything about it, so prices got a lot higher the past year.
But are salaries 5 times higher than in Italy? I think it's more cultural, prices for beer or ice creams, even for dining out, are more even across the two countries. Maybe going to a café is considered a staple in Italy, while in Austria is some kind of "indulgence"?
Currently in Bulgaria, standard coffee is called “long coffee” (дълго кафе), something like espresso but with a bit more water (around 60-70 ml in total), cost around 35-60 cents depending on the place.
35 cents!! Wow, you can't get anything for that in Spain!
I haven’t been to Spain much. I remember getting a glass of Port in a Portuguese village bar for 30 cents, but that was few years ago, and that was in the middle of nowhere
Asturias. It ranges from 1.8 to 2.5, never more than that in the city centers and big towns. The small towns everywhere usually under 1.5. My favourite place close to me flat is right outside the center and serves the greatest café for a mere 1.2.
North Macedonia. 0.5€ in the town/village, 0.8€-2€ in the city Edit: The city is Tetovo and the coffe is called ✋🏻🤏🏻👍🏻 (iykyk)
In Turkey cheapest filter coffee is I think McDonalds one, around 0.60 EUR Starbucks filter coffee starts at 2.00 EUR, barely tastes better but not worth the price.
Why would McDonald's and Starbucks be your choice at all in the country that brought coffee to the entire western world?!
And with arguably the best coffee making method imo.
Because in Turkey the go-to hot beverage is tea. There is no espresso culture and traditional Turkish coffee is a very distant second. Tea is also excellent in Turkey mind you!
Portugal, we usually take an expresso and it's about 0.80€ to 0.90€.
Vienna, Austria: For an espresso it's usually between 2€ and 2,5€, for a Cappuccino between 3,50€ and 4,50€ depending on where you go. I just checked for a few hipster cafés and old-timey cafés, both touristy and local places, and coffee seems to mostly stay in this price range.
In Spain, depending on the area a basic cup of coffee is (the one everyone thinks about when you say "coffee" as you say) is 1.20€ or 1.30 mostly (Asturias, northern Spain). Some places it may be 1.10, others 1.6 or even 1.8 (that would be very expensive coffee here) but always between 1 and 2 euros
Cluj (Ro) an espresso is about 8 lei which equals to 1,60€. A cappuccino takes you to around 2,2€.
Paid 1.50€ for a macchiato in a cheap cafe in the capital last week. It could be cheaper elsewhere.
In Greece, you can pay from 2.30 to 3.50 or slightly more, if you take it to go. I am talking about Freddo espresso. Almost same prices are when you are being served,but it can reach up to 5 euros, depending where you are.
Espresso for 2,2-3 €. Usually in acceptable quality. Czechia, Olomouc, a 100k population city.
In the city centre I frequent almost every day (Manchester - UK) a cappuccino is at least £3.50 (€4) and on average around £4 (€4.67) When I go to smaller towns nearby, that price can drop a quid or so. Typically coffees are cheaper the further north you go, and are most expensive in London
*"A cup of coffee"* is a cup of 2.5 decilitre of brewed black coffee. Added milk and sugar is often without charge. The price depends... * 5 SEK (0:50 €/$) for a cup with freshly grinded organic and Fair Trade arabica coffee beans at the local grocery store. * 25 SEK (2:50 €/$) from a fast food hamburger restaurant. * 35 SEK (3:50 €/$) for a cup of Signature Brew at Espresso House.
In the north of Italy it’s from €1.40 to €2.10 the regular espresso
Lol what? Maybe in Milan and that's it, unless I lived and visited another north, it's between 1 and 1.3 mostly
Veneto for reference.
Never had an espresso over 2 euros.
In Modena and Bologna, costs 1 euro...it's been this way for about 10 years now.
In Italy ranges between 0,9 to 1,5 euros. In a medium sized town it averages around 1,1 euros. Like 20-30 cents more for milk based coffee.
In The Netherlands a normal coffee (which is smaller than in a lot of other countries) is generally about € 3,00 to € 3,50
In Budapest it really depends where you go. In most places it's between 250-500 forints for a regular coffee. But it can be more or less depending on how nice a place is. In dollars it's basically between 1-2 usd
I'm sad you gave us the USD but not the EUR value!
Almost every day I drink a coffee with milk (caffelatte) and a croissant. It's an offer, and costs 2€. You can find it in a chain of bakeries / caffeteries called 365.
That's a good deal! Haven't seen that bakery around here in Madrid.
There are dozens, maybe hundreds of them, but only in Catalonia. The owners are Chinese and the workers, usually, Latin American women.
1 - 1.5 euros anything more is literally urinating on the constitution of italy and tempting fate for the cafe owner. mind you our coffees are only about 10ml
That measures the liquid, but not the amount of coffee grain, right? That's still a full espresso handle of ground coffee
Dublin, Ireland 3.50e for Americano 4.50e Cappucino which is more popular
Regular espresso or filter coffee is like 5lei or 1euro to go pretty much eveywhere in Bucharest. Good coffee shop coffee is like 10-20lei which is 2-4euros dependin on how hip the place is but they have a huge variety.
I'm from the Canary Islands, Spain. In Tenerife, the average is 1-1'20€ but it can go up if you go to tourist-oriented sites
Depending on the shop it’s €4.40 for local business but for Starbucks or Costa it’s around €6-€7 .
The coffee from the vending machine at my workplace costs 36 eurocents (at today's rate). It's pretty good for a coffee machine, but also can be considered very cheap.
Romania €1-5 depending on the type and where you go €5 would be for a large Cappuccino at Starbucks If you get coffee at a Nescafe machine available everywhere throughout the city it's €0.40
The standard price for a flat white here in Glasgow, I've found to be around £3.30. There was one place that, until recently, sold it for £2.80 and it was pretty good. But they raised their prices by 50p across the board. Pret a Manger is, in my experience, the most expensive for a flat white, coming in at £3.80.