A trendy Mayfair coffee bar, SHOT, is currently selling the most expensive cup of coffee in the UK which will set you back £265 a cup.
The coffee is made using topica beans shipped in from Japan's 'island of eternal youth' and baristas at the shop says it's ordered around 2-3 times a week.
Obviously this is hateful, thinking of people spending that much money on one cup of coffee when the list of social goods they could do with that money is so very, very long.
And there's literally no way that coffee is ever going to taste 50 times better than a regular cup of coffee from a regular chain.
It's probably just the extreme rarity of the bean that pushes the price up so high, rather than it being particularly good!
A shop that's probably not for me!
SHOT has three branches in London, but actually on digging around I'm half sold on making a trip there to try out just an ordinary coffee, which costs around £10.
That's a lot of money for a coffee, even if it is decent, like the reviews suggest.
I'm not completely put-off trying ONE coffee from there, but wha is off-putting is that you just know the crowd in the shop is going to be HIDEOUS. Trendy young hipster types from wealth no doubt.
And I can just imagine the barristas having a touch of Orwell's waiter in Down and and Out....
If they sniff a hint of your being working class, they'd look down on you, despite being of the same class themselves.
I can't imagine myself getting on that well in such a shop, I just wouldn't feel comfortable enough to sit down and enjoy the coffee for 20 minutes or so.
More about Status than flavour...
As a final word I think it's just so obvious this is about conspicuous consumption, about showing how much money you've got to waste or demonstrating you're mastery of coffee culture.
It's certainly about more than enjoying a cup of coffee or getting a perk.
And I'm not paying £10 to bear witness to that sort of nonsense.
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WTF! Another luxury for the rich to fritter their money on. I've actually just walked through Mayfair that is full of overpriced crap and flash cars. It has no appeal for me.
I do like nice coffee, but you don't have to spend that much on it.
It's bonkers for sure. I am tempted to try the £10 variety but I think I'd hate the atmosphere!
I spend £1 on amazing Guatemalan coffee and pay with $HBD to boot 😄
I think the cheapest coffee here would be more than that. I mostly make my own anyway.
A lifetime ago when I worked as a room service waiter in a large hotel, I thumbtacked a photocopied page from that book describing the workers in a Parisian kitchen and hotel onto a bulletin board. Several of my coworkers mentioned the parallels to our kitchen and hotel.
It's funny how that particular scene in the book sticks with so many people! He had a point!
That is one expensive cup of coffee xD
I am honestly interested in tasting both of those coffees xD
As long as someone else pays, then me too!
Do they take HBD? :p
I don't imagine so but there's a thought!
That would make it easier to pay for xD
Yeah, I'm not saying no if someone offers to pay, lol.
If they would take HBD, maybe down the line! :p
I wonder if you can get it on credit? I also wonder if one could just go on vacation to Japan and get the same basic thing for 100x cheaper...
But tbf, if we're gonna complain about people throwing their money away on an expensive novelty, we should be consistent and point out people's spending habits generally: Vision Pro / any apple product, luxury cars and jewelry. It's all frivolous wastage orders of magnitude higher in expense!
Absolutely fair point about all the other goods. And if I'm ever in Japan I'll remember to go hunt down the bean!
The price is absurd haha. When I converted it to our local currency, that's more than a year of coffee + snacks in a local coffee shops in our area.
I WILL never buys such for sure.
That is bonkers!
There was a time when I wasted much more money. But I wouldn't buy this coffee. I'm not such a coffee fan that I would look for something unusual in it for a lot of money.
I imagine there are plenty quality blends for s lot less!
To be honest, it's crazy how some people spend so much on just one cup of coffee. I’d rather put that money to better use, like supporting a local cause or helping someone in need and just saving for my car😂
Yes, such places are not exactly about quality or taste, but about status. The most expensive places are not always the places where you consume the most delicious and high quality things, but the places that are decorated with unnecessary presentations or where people go just to show people that they can go there.
my goodness 265 is really not cheap!
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