Scone and a coffee - how much is too much?

Sleeper12

I'll take your word for it. Had afternoon tea with my wife a few years back. Can't remember how much it was. Just remember it was expensive

the_pen_turner

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118847488#Comment_118847488

this wasnt the palace thow. mikey ryans is on the street

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118847576#Comment_118847576

No. It was The Palace. Mikey Ryan’s Bar and Kitchen is next door. I think they’re owned by the same company.

Cyclingtourist

I wouldn't be seen dead in Mikey Ryan's.

jolivmmx

I made my scones for about €1. It is hard to justify the prices of eating out now.

You can get scones and various baked goods for heavily discounted prices on Too Good To Go

Necro

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118846744#Comment_118846744

Opulence my arse, read the Twitter thread. They were sat outside adjacent to a car park on the main street in Cashel on cheap garden furniture you'd pick up in Homebase and waited 25 mins after their coffee for these magnificent, diamond encrusted scones that cost 10 euro.

It's a ridiculous price.

Greyfox

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118846744#Comment_118846744

I think people who believe this have lost touch of reality or else they are just easy to fool. Theirs nothing special about a scone, it's made with fairly generic ingredients and I bet there coffee ain't that much better than starbucks or Costa. The surroundings don't sound special, just a decent venue, your hardly getting a majestic view overlooking the coast.

the_pen_turner

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118847912#Comment_118847912

seams to be outside mikey ryans

buried

15 Euros for a bun and a bit of water fragranced with beaten coffee beans? Is it 2005 again in Cashel?

enricoh

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118847483#Comment_118847483

They wouldn't get 100 likes on Twitter then, n that is no use at all.

Sultan of Bling

I can only imagine they charge this because people pay it.

I wouldn't pay it myself for a scone and coffee or tea.

TBH I wouldn't be getting my knickers in a knot over it. No one has a gun pointed at their heads making them spend this money.

What I can't understand is why people pay this amount and then upload the receipt on social media, similar to the outraged who buy a pint in temple bar.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118848370#Comment_118848370

It a 5* hotel. Not a greasy spoon.

I would really worry about hospitality this year and next. There’ll be no support coming and I don’t believe that people will continue to pay these prices. Prices for breakfasts in my local, not flash, cafe in inchicore have been jacked right up. Once the post Covid spending splurge recedes, people will start to notice their bills and grocery costs. I’d be considered well paid but I’ve pulled right back on coffee and snacks from local cafes, as well as pints

HeidiHeidi

There seems to be a bit of confusion over whether they were sat outside some pub with the traffic roaring by, or if it was posh scones and coffee in the lap of luxury of a 5* fabulous hotel.

If it was the latter, then I don't see a problem - we've paid stupid money on a few occasions for an afternoon tea treat with our mother in the Merrion Hotel - when you boil it down it was a few sambos and cakes, and some tea and coffee - but they were all amazing, and we enjoyed every crumb/ drop/ minute.

If it was seats outside a pub on the side of the road - well, then I'd have a few questions alright!

I don't know either establishment, though, so I can't really understand why the confusion.....

But price =/= value necessarily, in either direction.

fryup

sit in - a fiver

take out - 3.50

Patrick2010

google says it’s a 4 star. Probably an idea to check the price first but who would have expected to pay 15 euro for a coffee and one scone?

They probably asked for "sconze", hence the markup.

billyhead

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118847098#Comment_118847098

True. Its well worth it if you get the roide that night 😁

KaneToad

They obviously place a premium on their surroundings, service and produce. Good luck to them.

Some customers are happy paying this premium for these perceived extras. Some customers are just happy over paying so they can reduce the chance of rubbing shoulders with the riff raff. Some customers treat these meals/snacks as an experience to be savoured and enjoyed.

I'm not like any of these people. I don't particularly enjoy eating in restaurants unless they are self service!

Montage of Feck

You can stick your staycation....

laoisgem

It's a mad world out there. My favorite sandwich is €5 in my local cafe, €5.50 if you take a can of mineral with you. Went for a sit in for a treat, €9.70 for the same thing, nearly fell off my seat!

Why would you have a coffee and scone in a place like that? if it's just to have a look around the posh new hotel have a drink, go to the local bakery for the coffee and scone, google tells me in Clonmel that would be Hickey'ss bakery.

On a side note, Clonmel has always struck me as a very wealthy place in the Irish sense i.e based on good land and big farms.

Also, there is a really good Japanese restaurant in Clonmel.

HeidiHeidi

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118849118#Comment_118849118

Why on earth wouldn't you have a coffee and a scone in a "place like that"??

If that's your bag, off you go!

If you think it's far better value to get yesterday's scones at half price in the corner shop, then do that.

And anything in between that takes your fancy.

Jaysus!

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118849170#Comment_118849170

What's that got to do with the price of cabbages scones?

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118849236#Comment_118849236

You have a point, maybe it's like going for afternoon tea in a post restaurant.

touts

You're not paying €15 for the scone. You are paying €2 for the scone and €13 to eat in a place where people who can't afford to pay €15 for a scone won't eat.

Coolmore spend a lot of money on the local community but at the end of the day they built the Cashel Palace as a place where their rich Arab and Oligarch customers can stay while visiting. They don't want the €2 scone brigade hanging around the lobby.

billyhead

There's obviously a market for the 15 euro scone and coffee so if people are willing to pay that let them be. Its no skin of anyone elses back.

Demonique

I paid almost €9 in KC Peaches recently but it was for coffee and a pistachio raspberry tartlet, their scones are €3, I shudder to think what that hotel would charge for a tartlet like that if they're charging €10 for a scone

sporina

i wonder if the scones wer warm.. and if not, imagine what they wudda been charged if they had asked them to be heated.. 😣

its ridiculous - i'd pay that mayb if the hotel was an ancient heritage site and 2000 mts above sea level or something where everything had to be flown in and out, or somewhere really inaccessible.. ie: somewhere wer there are loads of overheads... but Cashel? no!

riclad

If you go to a fancy cafe you are paying for the location of course you could get a coffee in spar for 2 euro and buy a packet of scones you are paying to sit at a fancy table with proper chairs some spars have a few chairs to sit down but there's no room for a large table i think it's expensive but there's plenty of cheap coffee shops you can go to or go to subway if you want to save money

so it's the free market I presume cafes at museums would be much more expensive than Starbucks or Mcdonalds so I think it's wrong to complain its like if I go to an apple store I presume the laptops will be twice the price of a hp laptop from power city