Precisely, Mr T.
Anyone who thinks it’s about food value is nuts – it’s about exclusivity.
I wish I could remember who said ‘but it sure keeps the riff-raff out’…
ollie
Hotel breakfast in Amsterdam is €30.
So, either book breakfast with your room or go elsewhere, either way stop photographing the receipt and complain to the management.
doncolleone
you’d get a decent steak meal for two out that, well done you.
Best insult I’ve had on here in a long time :) Had to look that one up !! :)
Neilo
Bizarrely, I directed that mild slam at me, myself and I but who doesn’t love validation?
Optimus Grime
Centra a couple of doors up could have done you a roll and a cup of coffee for about the price of the americano alone! But no you had to have breakfast in the Shelbourne, then photograph the receipt then parade it around the internet going “look how I spend my money on fried pork products”
Jones
It clearly says the Westbury you numpty
Optimus Grime
Balls! Totally rendered my rant useless there!
Conor
Errr breakfast in a 5 star hotel. Price is on the menu so please, just f*k off with the false outrage. Sick of these.
Deadly
I’m sick of people with your outlook Conor. Name and shame. Awareness, word of mouth. Encourages people not to cross the door. Personally, I appreciate the heads up.
Paps
Often go into the Westbury ?
rotide
Why shame? What has shame got to do with this at all?
Name it by all means, but thats the price, people with more assets than you are clearly willing to pay it.
I was actually shocked by this, and even slightly annoyed…. until I saw it was the Westbury.
More fool you.
Toe up
But was it any good? That’s the real question here.
Barry
Toe up, well said!
Was it nice?
Starina
went to a quiet cafe in copenhagen with a hideous hangover and didnt ask how much the breakfast buffet was before digging in. cost 50 quid with a coffee and still water. that was two months ago and i’m still in shock
The ratio of (1:1)=(water:money) must form part of a larger equation touching upon the complexities of human consumer spending and the emotional payoff that comes from squandering resources. I’ll wager that more than a little dopamine flew through the customers synapses upon settling that tab…..
ahyeah
For what it’s worth, Jimbob, I think your observation deserved more. I enjoyed it.
“Prices are inclusive of VAT plus a gentle tinkling of Chopin’s Piano Concerto 2 in F minor and a freshly ironed Financial Times, m’lady”
Jennifer O'Shea
5.40 for an Americano?! That had better be the best Americano in the world. 10.80 for two coffees that are the least amount of effort to make. I would have hoped that it would be kopi luwak, the coffee crapped out of a Civet cat. Failing that, I hope the beans were brought to the table, ritually ground in front of the person, by hand, with a pestal and mortar, and carried ceremoniously to the difficult to operate piston espresso machine, which was operated by a person of impeccable coffee making credentials. 5.40. I’m outraged. Except, fupp anyone who can afford to pay 5.40 for a coffee. You get what you deserve.
Original comments only, please
Toast seems fair enough!
A reasonable Duck Egg, for sure.
To Marta!
:) power of advertising, eh?
If you paid €7.50 for a bottle of water you deserve to be robbed.
WOW!!!!
FREE TOAST!!
My thoughts exactly!!, marvellous stuff. I’ll pop in shortly for mine.
Jasus, the cheek !
You’d swear it was a 5 star hotel !!
……….oh wait
Someone paying this is like, darwinian or something
Feck off 1%er.
Gerrys in Montague Street: two bellybuster breakfasts with coffee refills for 18E total. That’s livin’ large as opposed to livin’ stoopid.
it is a thinly-veiled “ooh-look-where-I’ve-just-been-for-brunch” post
Well, I don’t like to brag but 18E is a lot of money to shell out on brunchfast when you’re as pathologically tight as I am!
Brunchfast?
Lorraine Keane in da house.
Complisult*? I’ll take it!
*courtesy of the peerless Albert Brooks
It was for 2 breakfasts
In reply to Neilo
Thanks, birney, food-related posts excite me a little too much
When you are out, you are out.
that is mental.
An “Americano” constitutes food?
For certain people, yes.
Shame there’s nowhere apart from 5 star hotels in Dublin city centre serving breakfast.
It’s to keep the lower middle class out.
* sniggers *
Is that you Lucinda?
Precisely, Mr T.
Anyone who thinks it’s about food value is nuts – it’s about exclusivity.
I wish I could remember who said ‘but it sure keeps the riff-raff out’…
Hotel breakfast in Amsterdam is €30.
So, either book breakfast with your room or go elsewhere, either way stop photographing the receipt and complain to the management.
you’d get a decent steak meal for two out that, well done you.
No thanks, I prefer mine medium rare.
I’d hope it’s the fullest of Irishes
I’d be asking Marta to sit on my lap – for a split second, mind, I’m only mildly perverted – for that kind of outlay. What? Come on now. :)
ha! you don’t know Marta, do you?
I know a Martha, and not a Marta, sadly. Close but no biscuit.
You’d be fetching Neilo out of A&E if Marta sat on his lap. Let’s leave it at that.
The Larder, Parliament St, D2
Had a really gorgeous all day breakfast in there on Sunday…. just €10.
Dunno where they get there feckin’ mushrooms, not in LiDL/Aldi/Tesco/Dunnes anyway… licking me lips thinking of it :)
Probably Evergreen in Aungier Street – their fruit’n’veg is top quality.
Wetherspoons does a full Breakfast for 5:95 and that includes a drink
The Larder on Parliament Street? Didn’t have you down for one of those homosexuals, Clampers.
Dammint, ahyeah – can’t you leave an ageing roué to his idle, skeevy daydreams?
Who’s that? You or Clampers? Or both? It could yet end beautifully.
“ageing roué”
Best insult I’ve had on here in a long time :) Had to look that one up !! :)
Bizarrely, I directed that mild slam at me, myself and I but who doesn’t love validation?
Centra a couple of doors up could have done you a roll and a cup of coffee for about the price of the americano alone! But no you had to have breakfast in the Shelbourne, then photograph the receipt then parade it around the internet going “look how I spend my money on fried pork products”
It clearly says the Westbury you numpty
Balls! Totally rendered my rant useless there!
Errr breakfast in a 5 star hotel. Price is on the menu so please, just f*k off with the false outrage. Sick of these.
I’m sick of people with your outlook Conor. Name and shame. Awareness, word of mouth. Encourages people not to cross the door. Personally, I appreciate the heads up.
Often go into the Westbury ?
Why shame? What has shame got to do with this at all?
Name it by all means, but thats the price, people with more assets than you are clearly willing to pay it.
I agree, Deadly. Let’s name this rich bastard!
I was actually shocked by this, and even slightly annoyed…. until I saw it was the Westbury.
More fool you.
But was it any good? That’s the real question here.
Toe up, well said!
Was it nice?
went to a quiet cafe in copenhagen with a hideous hangover and didnt ask how much the breakfast buffet was before digging in. cost 50 quid with a coffee and still water. that was two months ago and i’m still in shock
: )
They probably charged for digging you out.
That’s a terribly long hangover. I’d get that checkout out if I were you.
Checked out. Ah, …screw it!
There’s an elegance about the price of the water.
750ml for 750 cents.
Or .75 of a litre for .75 of a tenner.
The ratio of (1:1)=(water:money) must form part of a larger equation touching upon the complexities of human consumer spending and the emotional payoff that comes from squandering resources. I’ll wager that more than a little dopamine flew through the customers synapses upon settling that tab…..
For what it’s worth, Jimbob, I think your observation deserved more. I enjoyed it.
Wait until Lovin’ Dublin find out about this.
Just the toast for me please.
“Prices are inclusive of VAT plus a gentle tinkling of Chopin’s Piano Concerto 2 in F minor and a freshly ironed Financial Times, m’lady”
5.40 for an Americano?! That had better be the best Americano in the world. 10.80 for two coffees that are the least amount of effort to make. I would have hoped that it would be kopi luwak, the coffee crapped out of a Civet cat. Failing that, I hope the beans were brought to the table, ritually ground in front of the person, by hand, with a pestal and mortar, and carried ceremoniously to the difficult to operate piston espresso machine, which was operated by a person of impeccable coffee making credentials. 5.40. I’m outraged. Except, fupp anyone who can afford to pay 5.40 for a coffee. You get what you deserve.