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A few years ago you could get a mug of tea & flapjack for a couple of quid - on the weekend I paid £7.20 for a Mocha & Lemon drizzle cake. Admittedly it was in the Surrey Hills but still ridiculous.
What's the most anybody has paid for tea and cake whilst out biking?
Add in a bacon sandwich and I've probably spent £15 at a cafe stop.
£7 for tea and cake is pretty normal around here.
In a shop? You know you're not really paying just for tea and cake though, right?
Anyway I live in the frozen north, so tea is given away free as it's considered to be essential, and cake for is children, but you do get a ship's biscuit and you'd better be happy about it.
I'm with ff on this one. I don't think I've ever been unhungry enough to have tea and cake in a cafe.
Think it was £13 for my stop on Saturday but usually more.
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Anyway I live in the frozen north, so tea is given away free as it’s considered to be essential,
#makethislaw
nickc for Mayor
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the tower at the top of Leith hill (in surrey hills) charge £2.50 for a can of coke.
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This wasn't a cafe - it was a trailer in a car park
I’m with ff on this one. I don’t think I’ve ever been unhungry enough to have tea and cake in a cafe.
I normally have a full english + tea and cake 😉
Anyway, on Sunday's audax, it was £5.50 for homemade soup, bread roll, cake and a mug of tea. God bless the WI.
Ice cream van at Roach end 5 ice creams £28 quid. The kids were seriously flagging after a massive walk so it was worth it. I pretty sure was wearing a mask before covid.
Decent-ish coffee from a proper machine is £2.50 I think from Pedalabikeaway in the FoD. Maybe more if you're a savage that puts milk in it. Cakes run to about 3 quid so I reckon we're getting off lightly. Their home made Boar/Chilli/Garlic Sausage rolls are bout £4 tho.
Having said that they're about the size of a human head 😉
First time I ever spent over £10 on two pints was in that pub in Peaslake. About 2009 I think. I'm still traumatised !
@nickc - Marie Antionette missed an opportunity there 'let them eat ship's biscuit'*
*yes I know she didn't say it. Away with you pendants!
Ah yes Surrey hills. Usually "artisan" coffee from a re-commisioned Citroen H-van or similar. You pay for the experience!
Leith Hill tower - terrible overpriced coffee but great view. Head down The Mother to Heartworks in Holmbury St Mary for great coffee and no view.
A few years ago you could get a mug of tea & flapjack for a couple of quid – on the weekend I paid £7.20 for a Mocha & Lemon drizzle cake.
How much would a mug of tea & flapjack have cost if you hadn't pushed out the boat for Mocha & Lemon drizzle cake? £5?
I'm hungry now.
We had lunch today in Castleton, tea for one person £2.55. I had eau du robinet.
I think I paid £2.40 for gnat's piss from a posh teapot in Denbies Wine Estate next to Box Hill last week.
I made a mental note to remember to take my own teabag to pump up the flavour next time there is a club ride to there.
I get caught out every time in the Forest of Dean. I carry a tenner in my phone for mid ride cafe stop. I usually go for a pasty or a panini, a small cake and a medium coffee or hot chocolate. Despite my best mental mathematics, the last 3 times my bill has always been £10.30!
I think I paid £2.40 for gnat’s piss from a posh teapot in Denbies Wine Estate next to Box Hill last week.
I made a mental note to remember to take my own teabag to pump up the flavour next time there is a club ride to there.
Or go to the brewery at the back and have a pint for not much more.
I started riding locally with a group of 5-6 riders 19 years ago, and tea and a bacon cob involved £3 going into "the kitty". Keith used to flutter his eyelashes at the waitresses and we'd get free refills on the tea.
Rarely see change from £7 now, though the quality of what we get has improved noticeably. Back then there were two cafe choices we could get into a local Sunday morning loop. There's now at least 10 decent cafes within a 10 mile radius.
Well yesterday Mrs g and I had 2 cups of tea and a piece of carrot cake in a cafe for £5.90. But not in Surrey.
Rarely see change from £7 now, though the quality of what we get has improved noticeably. Back then there were two cafe choices we could get into a local Sunday morning loop. There’s now at least 10 decent cafes within a 10 mile radius.
Yep amazing choice of really decent cafes now with very extensive menus etc.
20 years ago I thought stopping at a cafe was a sign of weakness, now it's the highlight of the ride!
I remember when you could fill up your car and still have enough change from a tenner for a slap-up meal. With a lovely cuppa made with proper loose tea.
This place used to do coffee or tea & a slice of homemade cake for £2.50 if you were local, holiday makers got charged £4.50 but I think it's under new ownership now.
I started riding locally with a group of 5-6 riders 19 years ago, and tea and a bacon cob involved £3 going into “the kitty”
Similar here in the post-ride pub. 12 years ago it was £6.50 into the kitty and that would be 2 pints each, crisps and change to carry over until there was enough for more for everyone. Now £10 doesn't even cover the 2 pints.
It was over £6 for coffee and carrot cake at Dale Head in Rosedale a couple of weeks ago. Decent coffee and home made cake and the position must make the money worth it! Yes they have gone posh and have an inside option now but why would you want to look at walls!
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Come to Portugal. Coffee and a pastal de nata 2.50 euros!
This wasn’t a cafe – it was a trailer in a car park
Allez Nutrition at the top of Staple Lane per chance?
Best VFM in the area has to be Peaslake Stores. Unfortunately supply chain issues during Covid impacted their range, but they’re still my go to chomp stop.
In a local village stores I can have: a mug of tea, slice of cake & a sausage roll all for the price of a Hobbs House sausage roll 1/2 a mile away.
Yeah, i know that van OP. Certainly priced to suit the pockets of the local population.
I was at a Forestry Comission concession cafe on Monday with my daughter. Hot chocolate plus marshmallow bits = £3.60. She'd drunk it in about 3 minutes.
A mug of tea and a flapjack would have been about £4 from the cafe in Delamere Forest when I had it (until June 2020).
I know the new guy has £9 hot dogs on his menu.
Paid £16.80 for a large Sauvignon blanc and a pint of pale ale in the Dog & Gun in Keswick the other week. Had to switch Mrs ColP onto cider after the first round.
I called into the hipster cafe in Knutsford (Apus Peak) a few weeks ago.
Clearly I am out of touch and am not on trend when it comes to cafe's.
I appreciate the old school charm of a pint of tea and a bacon buttie at Bernies Cafe in Ingleton for ten bob is a thing of the past.
However a cup of coffee (small) and no option other than muffin things was a bit steap at over £8.00
Rant over (well a small rant I grant you)
I have the solution, mrs_oab and I spend the cake and coffee money on travelling. We therefore do:
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This is much better than some fancy pants cafe stuffed with sweaty customers and a view of the fridge:
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Hobbs House
Posh Cotswold villages I get it, but how they keep their Bristol store going at those prices amazes me.
The pork and apple slice in the Peaslake Village stores is so nice I don't care how much it is.
New personal record £18.60 yesterday for the small cooked breakfast, small cake and two pots of tea!
Haven’t stopped off for tea or coffee and cake on a ride for some years, but I do occasionally go into the Café Nero in town for a Tuna Melt, a large Mokka with cream and a Belgian Lemon Curd muffin, all of which costs less than ten quid.
Chester's by the river is as expensive as it is nice. It's actually amazing. I can't get enough.
Can second Chester’s by the river, cake portions are (or were) huge.
Not cycling but paid about 40 euros for coffee and cake for two at Florian in St Marks Square recently.
This is about to get a whole lot worse.
Global prices for lemon drizzle cake have gone up?
Global prices for lemon drizzle cake have gone up?
NOW it's reached the time to take to the streets!
Milk is expensixe, theres alot of milk in a latte and its going up in price too. well its going up in price or all the dairy farmers will be signing on.
Global prices for lemon drizzle cake have gone up?
Most lemon drizzle is mined in Eastern Ukraine 🙁
Putin knows what he's doing - it will cause riots across tea rooms in England....
It's the bike shops with cafes that get me. Bound to end up with some cycling related knick-knack/clothing/accessory that I really didn't need in addition to the tea/cake/etc refuelling.
It’s the bike shops with cafes that get me. Bound to end up with some cycling related knick-knack/clothing/accessory that I really didn’t need in addition to the tea/cake/etc refuelling.
But how do you carry it home? By the time I get to the cafe all my pockets are stuffed with arm warmers etc that I've taken off as I've warmed up.
But how do you carry it home? By the time I get to the cafe all my pockets are stuffed with arm warmers etc that I’ve taken off as I’ve warmed up.
They sell you some bikepacking luggage to put it in.....