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Given all those museums are free at the point of entry I have no problem with paying an inflated price for a cake and a cup of tea as a small contribution to their upkeep.
kerspatula | 06.07.22 - 7:16 a.m. | #
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Tip for entering the British Museum without queuing - go to the rear entrance on Montague Place.
Nigel | 06.07.22 - 7:29 a.m. | #
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I don’t have prices to hand, but I think the cafés on the ground floor in the Great Court of the British Museum, with the long white shared tables, are considerably cheaper than the fancy sit-down restaurant upstairs (where Coke is 3.2 but Diet Coke only 3, and I think a latte is more expensive, at 3.7).
The queue at the BM’s main entrance is often very long, but the queue is usually much shorter at the entrance around the back, a short walk away on Montague Place.
Andrew | 06.07.22 - 7:33 a.m. | #
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And my wife and I boycotted Lyons when they put the price of a cup of tea up to a shilling!
stapler | 06.07.22 - 7:59 a.m. | #
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Counterpoint: museum coffee is often badly made and not as nice as a similarly priced cup from an independent place.
I think most of London's museums outsource their catering to either Benugo (either branded or 'white label') or CH&Co. The Tate is an outlier and does it in-house. Perhaps reflected in the price of a cuppa?
martin | 06.07.22 - 8:03 a.m. | #
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I very rarely have a tea out for those reasons. The one exception is sometimes at football matches as the coffee alternatives are terrible. Cup of Bovril the preference on a cold day.
At least with coffee they have the outlay of the expensive coffee machine costing thousands of pounds.
David | 06.07.22 - 8:19 a.m. | #
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I believe the V&A used to advertise itself as 'An ace caff with quite a nice museum attached'.
Alan S | Homepage | 06.07.22 - 8:22 a.m. | #
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In the Louvre's Café Mollien, if I am reading the prices right, a 'grand café latte' will cost you another 6 euros on top of your 17 euro entry fee.
BWB | 06.07.22 - 8:24 a.m. | #
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I think the big espresso machines are usually leased.
Richard Morris | 06.07.22 - 8:26 a.m. | #
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Not only is a commercial grade coffee machine expensive to buy or lease, it seems to unavoidably come tied to a contract for the supply of coffee beans, at prices which can be above the open market rate.
Malcolm of Kent | 06.07.22 - 8:34 a.m. | #
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The affectation of giving prices to one decimal place and without a pound sign infuriates me out of all proportion to its relative triviality, but anyway I avoid giving them my money whenever possible.
Andrew | 06.07.22 - 9:51 a.m. | #
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The prices of bottled water would also have raised eyebrows. That said, I've seldom bought a drink in any of these museums since the smaller people stopped accompanying me to them. But a post with my favourite Seurat (Bathers) and my museum bête noire (school trips!) is still enjoyable.
Frank F | 06.07.22 - 9:59 a.m. | #
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At what point in time did it become normal that buying a cup of tea become being given a cup or pot of hot water and a teabag?
Mikey C | 06.07.22 - 10:09 a.m. | #
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No prices I can find online except for a full afternoon tea at £24.75, but I suspect the Wallace Collection would be about the most expensive. Saddled with a bequest that means they can't charge admission and with no public funding, they have to make their income where they can, and high-end catering is one way.
Andrew S | 06.07.22 - 10:57 a.m. | #
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Out here in the suburbs you can still get a latte for under £3 at, eg, Caffe Nero, but I remarked to my mates last week that it isn't going to be long before it's over £3. I still remember the furore in my student days when they raised the price of coffee from 6d to 3p (= 7.2d).
Peter | 06.07.22 - 1:00 p.m. | #
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Mikey C - Dave Gorman gives a reasonable explanation on how the tranition in tea provision came about.
MKIan | 06.07.22 - 1:08 p.m. | #
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When I had a spare hour waiting to get the Eurostar my go-to was always the National Gallery, what an amazing place and yes! you just walk in and there it all is. I guess that’s how I was at the 2012 Olympics location reveal thing outside.
Kevin | 06.07.22 - 6:34 p.m. | #
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I rarely buy a cup of tea (a pint of beer is better value and in some pubs cheaper than a cup of tea in some other venues!!). I am not happy with paying over £2 for a tea bag. Remember yhat it costs no more to have milk and sugar and no less if you have neither.
JOHN PARKIN | 06.07.22 - 10:23 p.m. | #
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MKIan - I did enjoy Dave Gorman's explanation - priceless!
Thanks for giving us the link.
Petras409 | 07.07.22 - 10:28 a.m. | #
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Excellent link MKIan, thanks!
That's why I never buy tea outside.
Mikey C | 07.07.22 - 12:03 p.m. | #
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The Wallace Collection is a national museum majority funded by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport.
Jack Kirby | 07.07.22 - 11:54 p.m. | #
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