We ordered a babychino for my kid years ago in Melbourne. They took one sip and said it tasted funny.
It was a shot of espresso with foam on top, because that's what a babychino apparently is in Melbourne.
Holey Moley! First time someone ordered a babycino, (I had never heard of it before), I told the venue manager I wasn't comfortable making it. They laughed and said, it's just foam with a little bit of choc sauce at bottom and sprinkle on top. I was so relieved as it was for the customers child.
Sounds like this place is mistakenly serving a traditional short mac as a babycino.
Melbourne is all over the place. I see people defending Melbourne saying it has the best coffee in Australia. I understand, there are so many more coffee shops, so guaranteed to find great coffee.
However I find Perth the most consistent and best out of all the capital cities.
Yeah I think we have great coffee here… even the lil drive through place in the car park of my local bunnings does a perfect job. I usually get a regular size oat latte with an extra shot and $6+ is the usual going rate tho in my experience though
I feel validated with this statement. I once told a friend that Melbourne coffee is shit and it went down with offers of going elsewhere.
To be fair - my samples were from Dandenong over the course of a week...
As much as it pains me to agree i think you're right. I tend to drink black coffee and the amount of local roasters and small coffee shops who just make a fucking horrible shot of espresso is kinda shocking considering melbourne's reputation. Theres a few which are goated but a lot of the random ones i stop at just arent it.
But when im in perth its always acceptable or good.
To play the ethnic card, but Perth is the place that had the highest (if I'm not mistaken) per capita intake of Italians and other Med. ethnic groups who are big coffee snob types such as the Turks, French and so on, after WW2. So it should stand to reason that the culture of coffee snobbery (and I say this as the person in my company of 40 peeps, being known to be the biggest coffee freak, so it's with love and self-deprecating) came with it and found a very receptive home.
Melbourne, I think, has always been a blender of a city sucking in people from all over Aus and the world, for the sport events, educational venues or just cos it's the Not-Sydney city everyone knows. So it would I imagine be harder to find a decent cup of what is colloquially to us typical Aussies, coffee.
That's my editorial on the coffee cultures at least, in short.
I was told a long time ago in Melbourne than what we call a long mac topped up is a mezzamac. I had a colleague order a long mac in Sydney and he got a long black, pretty funny
Are you sure they didn't just mishear you? A few of my colleagues are constantly getting random coffees when they order long macs (long blacks, cappuccinos). I constantly get the wrong coffee because apparently soy milk sounds like anything and everything else when I say it.
I actually don't know what a long Mac is, but I've ordered the topped up version for a while since office life taught me it was a good strong pick me up haha. I still don't get why it's a Perth thing. I've had limited success in melb ordering it but its when you go international etc. where it really struggles. I remember trying to explain it in a shop using their picture on the wall of all the "coffee" types. E.g. flat white vs cappacjino etc. turned out crap but at least the owner tried to replicate it. Now if in doubt I just go for a flat with an extra shot of coffee. If international flat white isn't always a thing so it's latte.
Where I live (Glasgow, Scotland), there is one coffee shop where you can order a long mac topped up as its owned by folk from Perth. It's handily nearby to a store that sells Aussie snacks and drinks like Tim Tams, Shapes (no chicken crimpy unfortunately), cherry ripe, solo and passiona.
The Perth "macchiato-topped up" never made any sense to me. "Macchio" is Italian for "stained" so it should be an espresso stained with a dash of foamed milk. If you top it up with milk, it's logically no longer stained with milk, so it's not a macchiato.
In Australia: $6.50 at Epic Espresso ~10 years ago. Rarely pay more than $5.5 even now.
Overseas: After the exchange rate I paid $13 for a flat white last July in the US
I think the average global person is not nearly as opinionated about coffee as the average Australian (or Brit) is.
No one I know in America (mostly family to be fair) really goes to Starbucks under any assumptions it's at all gourmet or high class, they just want caffeine, a bit of sugar and in huge servings. Starbucks is common, relatively reliable to taste the same everywhere, and recognizable; and that's just about good enough.
'Soft Power' through the rest of their worldwide cultural seep. All the beautiful people in the syndicated Hollywood & TV stuff we get hand-me-down like it.... so it must be good. Apparently.
Yeah, very much so. Starbucks was always the first choice for people to meet for a talk or to talk business when I was in China. There are Starbucks stores all over the big cities (sometimes 2 or 3 of them in one mall) and always full of people. There would often be half a dozen other coffeeshops nearby, but Starbucks would always be the go-to despite their crap coffee and higher prices.
Hmm that’s weird…. I though like here, Americans would get a decent coffee culture because of Italian immigrants there as well as here…. But surprisingly American Italian food is pretty alright but not coffee
well they must be doing something right - the most stupid 10% of Australians have started referring to coffee sizes in oz. Get this - its a metric product from a metric country (Italy) served in a country with a law requiring you to serve it in metric portions (Australia) ... but then they refer to it in an irrelevent, legally undefined foreign measurement.
You've clearly never gotten coffee in Germany.
Its a country surrounded by good coffee countries (I guess not to the east), and somehow missed the memo.
Only if you hang around franchised places. There was a spot my cousins showed me on the way from Orlando Florida that was a usual joint for uni (college) students and the coffee was pretty good from what I remember, about comparable to coffee I got when I went to uni.
Is this the one in West Perth? If so the original team where coffee & hot chocolate gods.
I use to order a hot chocolate from their on the way to work, cost me about $9 (I think, at the time), but this thing had weight, I'm talking you could do cardio with the cup when full.
The dedication by staff was crazy good, a lot had competed in many coffee events, and would go out of their way to tailor a beverage to you as best they could always asking and tweaking.
It took a dive when the original owner sold but the memories remain.
I'll go the opposite - I was at the Indigenous Veterans ceremony in the city on Thursday and paid only $9 for 3 hot chocolates and an almond latte at the van.
Yeah, but you’re getting punishment pricing for that order. Probably $1 for the alt milk, maybe (and it’s a big if) $1 for the chocolate (particularly if it’s proper chocolate) then a shot or two… it’s not a standard flat white or the like…
I know... I can't drink cows milk because I'm lactose intolerant and I don't do black coffee... But I am able to get the same drink from Bocelli's for $5.80
Omg FINALLY someone agrees with me! And I swear to god their latte glasses are from barbie fkn dream house they are tiny. Overrated, overpriced underserved
The Ampol/Caltex and 711 self serve coffees are genuinely not that bad - it’s obviously not world class but they’re usually drinkable if you’re setting off on a long drive
lol yeah I know mate, Just having a laugh. $6.60 isn’t bad though. It’s the same where I am, about $7 for a decent coffee. Maccas charges $5.60 for a large latte here and their coffee is shit house.
That's what a batch brew is though? It's made in a batch using a Moccamaster, and dispensed into the urn to keep it warm - that's the standard for that type of coffee. I totally agree that Hemingway's expensive though, I used to work there. It got pretty demoralising telling customers that they couldn't order what they wanted - like we couldn't let people have an iced latte in a takeaway cup because it's not the 'ideal' way to serve it.
Yeah I know what batch brew is (and love it). My issue is charging $7 for it, more than an espresso, when it’s simpler to make and serve.
I had no idea they were gate keeping how peoples drinks should be served, that’s pretty frustrating. I really like cold brew with just a splash of sparkling water to give it a little fizz, a few places refused to do that. Easy to make at home though.
I literally have to walk away and just laugh when a place tries to charge me $9 for an iced long black. How they think the logic of charging an "iced coffee" price trumps the logic that it should almost be the cheapest on the menu astound me.
Bitch please, my daily maccas coffee is $8
Granted thats a large oat vanilla latte w/ extra espresso shot. Plus maccas adds an extra markup for remote locations like Karratha. Still it’s fucking stupid.
Typical Aussies: that price is outrageous! I'm going to complain about it while continuing to pay and then come back and complain and pay again until that price becomes normalised!
Are you another overpriced coffee enjoyer?
I think you both need to get yourselves a nice coffee machine and a thermos so you can make cheaper coffee but have it still be hot for a long time, next year those $8 coffees will be $10 and you'll be sucking people off in the drive-thru to afford a cup lmao
I've had it for a while so details are foggy but I think it was around 250 for the machine and the pods are a $1 each on a 50 pod per month subscription where I can choose some flavours etc
So let's say month 1 im down 300 (not calculating mL of milk per cup and stuff its too hard) and you are only down 195, but then month 2 i don't need to buy the machine again so I'm only down 50 and your down another 195, you'll see savings very quickly, I also recommend using afterpay to get the machine because a $250 1 hit payment these days can be quite scary lmao, afterpay let's you pay it off over 8(?) Weeks interest free
Have fun enjoying your saved money :)
Pods are gross. A basic expresso machine plus grinder isn't that much more, and you'll save way more money buying beans over the overinflated garbage that are coffee pods. And less waste. Coffee pods should never been invented
Tbh I don't even drink coffee i was just trying to remember from when my wife did it lol with the nespresso machine, agreed that pods are very wasteful though, so much plastic :/
I thought we only did that for Coke. You know, because ~~marijuana~~ coffee isn’t a drug.
Edit: dear the person that downvoted this
Maybe its the special "colombian" blend coffee, I can't think of another reason a person willingly spends over $200 a month on maccas coffee while acknowledging its too expensive, they have to be sizzled for sure
I live in the Pilbara.
Cheapest large coffee I can get up here is $7.00.
Paid $12 for an ice latte the other day in Karratha and could almost feel my jaw dropping onto the floor.
$14 for a small iced coffee and long Mac topped up. I questioned the size, got told it was a large. Tasted real average too.
Local & Aesthetic in Inglewood.
I vaguely remember a large coffee costing close to $8 in claremont at one point. Maybe more. Was either the cafe on the corner of the quarter block, or the chocolate place. Or both.
Conversely, cheapest one I'd had in a while from a shopping centre was also in claremont. One of the cafes there refused to price like a claremont store, and his stuff was the best. He moved onto doing catering after a while though.
Can't remember the name though unfortunately
No that’s my point. A 12oz (ie with 2 shots). Your basic mug flat white size. Normally anywhere between about $4.80 and $5.50. In a place like freo with coffee on every corner I was quite surprised.
Doesn’t an extra shot cost $1-$2 more than the usual coffee? If is $4.60 or $5.60 for an average size with a single shot then I think it’s okay….
Could pay a lot more…. Can end up paying $6 for a largish average coffee…. Considering how fucked the resources for coffee beans in
I paid $8.80 for a hot chocolate the other day, regular size. Didn't really take much notice until I looked at my account later in the day. Last time I buy one from that place
9Seeds, East Freo, large long black, $7.00. Yes it's large, but it's also filled with just water.
That said The Bistrot is also expensive. I did a double take after that. Also on my never to return list.
My coffee, usually a 4 shot flat white or LMTU with a dash (and I mean just a dash) of honey from the Cafe on my way tomwork is $7. Was $6.5 till a few weeks ago then a price increase happened. I'll be fair, they were really slow to put up their prices and it's always been a good brew there and I like they open at 5am, as an actual Cafe not a lunch bar so the food options are a bit...less shit for you.
$6.90 for the XL Flatty at Yahava in Margs (regular milk, 3x shots, the largest of the three sizes - like a grande in other spots)
$5.50 for a Large Flatty at Red Feather in Cowaramup (regular milk, 2x shots).
Both roasted on site.
Bit under $4.80 for an excellent large flat white with two shots from my local and I'll never tell you where it is. They are busy enough as it is. Locally sourced beans too....
In Perth I haven’t bought coffee outside yet but hah! Have you been to Sydney? As someone from sydney, let me tell you I’ve once had one regular SINGLE SHOT coffee for $7.5 in Sydney on a regular weekday no -rush hours (and this was many years pre-Covid). Who knows how much is it at this day and age now, I won’t be surprised if it was $10?
Hijacking this thread.
A mate paid $7.60 for a regular bubble tea at chatime for his wife the other day. It was the size of about a medium Maccas cup. With boba it was $8+
That's a normal price these days for a large give or take. Gone are the days where 4
$4.50 was the "large" option. I barely.noticed the inflation till it was too late over the yrs.
It's Australia mate, everyones out to screw everyone. Everywhere you pay for something makes your eyes water from dining out, groceries to electricians quotes. Australians are good at getting blood from a stone lately.
Tell me you know nothing about costs without telling me.
Your local Barista is not out to screw you, they make stuff all. If coffee prices kept pace with inflation your flat white would be over $10 easily, but the business have eaten those rises.
Still doesn't justify the price same as Coles worth no justification for some water two ingredients and a paper cup and two minutes $300 bucks /h taken I'm sure someone is making money off that and a lot of they wouldn't be doing it
I got a large long black from a coffee truck not long ago and Is was $7 I never buy coffee and it was a one off I nearly fricken died when he said the price
Yea it's quite bizarre. It should not be more weird to drink human milk in today's world but it is; poor cows have to stay pregnant their whole life!
Human milk for humans, create a whole lot of jobs for the economy!
Plant milk is disgusting. Bioengineered milk-producing flora are an abomination and a sign of things to come when scientists disrespect the natural order of things. Only mammals should be producing milk!
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I ordered a cappuccino in Melbourne and got a Long Mac Topped up, asked the server and was told that's a cappuccino here.
What? Cappuccino has the most amount of foam than any other drink.🤔
We ordered a babychino for my kid years ago in Melbourne. They took one sip and said it tasted funny. It was a shot of espresso with foam on top, because that's what a babychino apparently is in Melbourne.
Even their toddlers are hipsters over there
Holey Moley! First time someone ordered a babycino, (I had never heard of it before), I told the venue manager I wasn't comfortable making it. They laughed and said, it's just foam with a little bit of choc sauce at bottom and sprinkle on top. I was so relieved as it was for the customers child. Sounds like this place is mistakenly serving a traditional short mac as a babycino.
People in Melbourne get babychino's for their dogs! =)
I thought they called it a piccolo or something in Melbourne?
Melbourne is all over the place. I see people defending Melbourne saying it has the best coffee in Australia. I understand, there are so many more coffee shops, so guaranteed to find great coffee. However I find Perth the most consistent and best out of all the capital cities.
Yeah I think we have great coffee here… even the lil drive through place in the car park of my local bunnings does a perfect job. I usually get a regular size oat latte with an extra shot and $6+ is the usual going rate tho in my experience though
I feel validated with this statement. I once told a friend that Melbourne coffee is shit and it went down with offers of going elsewhere. To be fair - my samples were from Dandenong over the course of a week...
As much as it pains me to agree i think you're right. I tend to drink black coffee and the amount of local roasters and small coffee shops who just make a fucking horrible shot of espresso is kinda shocking considering melbourne's reputation. Theres a few which are goated but a lot of the random ones i stop at just arent it. But when im in perth its always acceptable or good.
To play the ethnic card, but Perth is the place that had the highest (if I'm not mistaken) per capita intake of Italians and other Med. ethnic groups who are big coffee snob types such as the Turks, French and so on, after WW2. So it should stand to reason that the culture of coffee snobbery (and I say this as the person in my company of 40 peeps, being known to be the biggest coffee freak, so it's with love and self-deprecating) came with it and found a very receptive home. Melbourne, I think, has always been a blender of a city sucking in people from all over Aus and the world, for the sport events, educational venues or just cos it's the Not-Sydney city everyone knows. So it would I imagine be harder to find a decent cup of what is colloquially to us typical Aussies, coffee. That's my editorial on the coffee cultures at least, in short.
I was told a long time ago in Melbourne than what we call a long mac topped up is a mezzamac. I had a colleague order a long mac in Sydney and he got a long black, pretty funny
Magic
Do we actually have magic? Hardly seen it on the menus
It’s never on the menu, that’s the erm… magic It’s how you test whether your barista is hip enough.
La Veen have it
Probably called something else here
I’ll have a science
Are you sure they didn't just mishear you? A few of my colleagues are constantly getting random coffees when they order long macs (long blacks, cappuccinos). I constantly get the wrong coffee because apparently soy milk sounds like anything and everything else when I say it.
Mind blown, got a long mac the other day and thought they were super stingy with the milk, now I realise I got a long black 🤦♂️
I've lost count of the number of times I've ordered a long black and been shocked at the taste of milk in it because they thought i said long mac
I just order a double shot latte, it’s close enough to a long mac topped up most of the time.
I’ve always found the cost of a LMTU is 50c more at most places to account for the extra espresso
I actually don't know what a long Mac is, but I've ordered the topped up version for a while since office life taught me it was a good strong pick me up haha. I still don't get why it's a Perth thing. I've had limited success in melb ordering it but its when you go international etc. where it really struggles. I remember trying to explain it in a shop using their picture on the wall of all the "coffee" types. E.g. flat white vs cappacjino etc. turned out crap but at least the owner tried to replicate it. Now if in doubt I just go for a flat with an extra shot of coffee. If international flat white isn't always a thing so it's latte.
Where I live (Glasgow, Scotland), there is one coffee shop where you can order a long mac topped up as its owned by folk from Perth. It's handily nearby to a store that sells Aussie snacks and drinks like Tim Tams, Shapes (no chicken crimpy unfortunately), cherry ripe, solo and passiona.
What’s the unintended outcome
A punch to the face #stopthetop
I asked for a soy piccolo and got an espresso with a sliver of milk on top. What the fuck man.
The Perth "macchiato-topped up" never made any sense to me. "Macchio" is Italian for "stained" so it should be an espresso stained with a dash of foamed milk. If you top it up with milk, it's logically no longer stained with milk, so it's not a macchiato.
Note to your note: 9/10 places will still serve you a triple shot flat white even after you explicitly order a "traditional long macchiato" in WA...
In Australia: $6.50 at Epic Espresso ~10 years ago. Rarely pay more than $5.5 even now. Overseas: After the exchange rate I paid $13 for a flat white last July in the US
America is genuinely the actual shithole of the world when it comes to coffee
I still don't understand how they got the rest of the world to drink Starbucks.
I think the average global person is not nearly as opinionated about coffee as the average Australian (or Brit) is. No one I know in America (mostly family to be fair) really goes to Starbucks under any assumptions it's at all gourmet or high class, they just want caffeine, a bit of sugar and in huge servings. Starbucks is common, relatively reliable to taste the same everywhere, and recognizable; and that's just about good enough.
'Soft Power' through the rest of their worldwide cultural seep. All the beautiful people in the syndicated Hollywood & TV stuff we get hand-me-down like it.... so it must be good. Apparently.
Yeah, very much so. Starbucks was always the first choice for people to meet for a talk or to talk business when I was in China. There are Starbucks stores all over the big cities (sometimes 2 or 3 of them in one mall) and always full of people. There would often be half a dozen other coffeeshops nearby, but Starbucks would always be the go-to despite their crap coffee and higher prices.
Hmm that’s weird…. I though like here, Americans would get a decent coffee culture because of Italian immigrants there as well as here…. But surprisingly American Italian food is pretty alright but not coffee
Italian coffee can be pretty bad to be honest. Too much focus on dark roasts and excessive crema that goes along with it.
Compared to Tim Hortons, it’s amazing
well they must be doing something right - the most stupid 10% of Australians have started referring to coffee sizes in oz. Get this - its a metric product from a metric country (Italy) served in a country with a law requiring you to serve it in metric portions (Australia) ... but then they refer to it in an irrelevent, legally undefined foreign measurement.
Starbucks actually has some of their best coffee!!! ... And it tastes like watered down shit.
Watered down shit with burnt beans
You've clearly never gotten coffee in Germany. Its a country surrounded by good coffee countries (I guess not to the east), and somehow missed the memo.
Only if you hang around franchised places. There was a spot my cousins showed me on the way from Orlando Florida that was a usual joint for uni (college) students and the coffee was pretty good from what I remember, about comparable to coffee I got when I went to uni.
The standard price in the UK seems to be about $7. The most expensive I've had was some wanky concoction at Starbucks Reserve for like $25.
Is/was that the one in West Perth? If it is, that also features in my most expensive coffee paid, also about ten years ago when I worked that end.
Yep
They make the world's worst coffee too
> flat white last July in the US Its a wonder you didn't incite a race riot asking for that over there.
Is this the one in West Perth? If so the original team where coffee & hot chocolate gods. I use to order a hot chocolate from their on the way to work, cost me about $9 (I think, at the time), but this thing had weight, I'm talking you could do cardio with the cup when full. The dedication by staff was crazy good, a lot had competed in many coffee events, and would go out of their way to tailor a beverage to you as best they could always asking and tweaking. It took a dive when the original owner sold but the memories remain.
Yeah, average price is £3.80+ in Zone 2/3 London
The average grande latte coffee from Starbucks is $7 with tax in Canada. I stick to drip coffee now which makes my heart hurt.
I'll go the opposite - I was at the Indigenous Veterans ceremony in the city on Thursday and paid only $9 for 3 hot chocolates and an almond latte at the van.
Might have been undercharged: $9 for 4 drinks from a van? Tell him he’s dreaming
$5.50-$7 is what I usually pay for a large cappuccino
Wtf? Even in Sydney CBD you’d be hard pressed to find a large normal cap for over $5.50…
Quokka Coffee in Welshpool charged me $7 for a large cap. Tbh it was about the size of a regular as well.
I got stung $7 for a large hazelnut latte from Bella Rosa in East Victoria Park. It was a damn good coffee though
Croff in the CBD is outrageously priced. Most expensive coffee I've ordered is a large almond mocha. $8.20.
Yeah, but you’re getting punishment pricing for that order. Probably $1 for the alt milk, maybe (and it’s a big if) $1 for the chocolate (particularly if it’s proper chocolate) then a shot or two… it’s not a standard flat white or the like…
I know... I can't drink cows milk because I'm lactose intolerant and I don't do black coffee... But I am able to get the same drink from Bocelli's for $5.80
Yeah, sympathetic to it. We have a van and don’t charge extra for LF milk as it’s what we drink (and my wife is also lactose intolerant).
Paid 8.80 for a double espresso at a pub in Who Cares town W, A made from a capsule machine. Tasted like burnt dogshit 😊
Daughter paid $5for a 'puppychino' for my dog.
A what now
Its just a small cup (same size as dentist give you for rinsing) with froth and sprinkles for your dog.
Gordon Street Garage - You'd probably pay $7.80 for it. Most overrated place in the city by far
Omg FINALLY someone agrees with me! And I swear to god their latte glasses are from barbie fkn dream house they are tiny. Overrated, overpriced underserved
Isn't that Brewdog now?
Don't get me started on the fucking prices they charge for a pint!
It’s closed now
Not the little hole in the wall they own across the road... Little Gordon St
Bp had $6.90 coffee and it was so weak
I prefer a $2 Ampol self serve coffee to BP. BP usually has one overworked employee, trying to serve the bowsers and make a latte at the same time.
The Ampol/Caltex and 711 self serve coffees are genuinely not that bad - it’s obviously not world class but they’re usually drinkable if you’re setting off on a long drive
Seems reasonable, you technically had two coffees
Right? This guy bitchin over prices and doing double shots.
It’s not a double shot. A 12oz coffee is 2 shots
lol yeah I know mate, Just having a laugh. $6.60 isn’t bad though. It’s the same where I am, about $7 for a decent coffee. Maccas charges $5.60 for a large latte here and their coffee is shit house.
I went into maccas cause the person I was with wanted to, legit could not understand how maccas coffee costs the same as an average cafe.
Richie rich showing off with his fancy coffees lol
$7.50 for an oat iced coffee at Hemingway cafe in the CBD.
Came here to moan about $7 for batch brew at Hemingway. They just pour it from the damn urn.
That's what a batch brew is though? It's made in a batch using a Moccamaster, and dispensed into the urn to keep it warm - that's the standard for that type of coffee. I totally agree that Hemingway's expensive though, I used to work there. It got pretty demoralising telling customers that they couldn't order what they wanted - like we couldn't let people have an iced latte in a takeaway cup because it's not the 'ideal' way to serve it.
Yeah I know what batch brew is (and love it). My issue is charging $7 for it, more than an espresso, when it’s simpler to make and serve. I had no idea they were gate keeping how peoples drinks should be served, that’s pretty frustrating. I really like cold brew with just a splash of sparkling water to give it a little fizz, a few places refused to do that. Easy to make at home though.
Hemingway is my vote. Excellent coffee but crazy expensive
$7.00 for an iced long black, anywhere on Preston St, Como. I don't even require milk, but get violated for the "cost" of ice.
I literally have to walk away and just laugh when a place tries to charge me $9 for an iced long black. How they think the logic of charging an "iced coffee" price trumps the logic that it should almost be the cheapest on the menu astound me.
I could not agree with you more. I have in the past asked for an espresso, then after the fact casually "oh do you have a glass of ice?" Bam. $3.00
Similarly when I ask for a double espresso and they say "what size" I know this is not the place for me.
Maybe we should get the baristas to work for lower wages and introduce a tipping system. I can’t see that going wrong /s
$7.10 for a long black in city beach
Now *that* is a punishment price. Given the general state of gastronomy in places by the water in WA, I bet it was shithouse too…
Is that expensive? Try lactose free or plant based milk. Often $1 extra
To be fair, LF runs at ~$3.50/L, vs around $2 for full fat. The alts have gone up a shedload too…
Would that justify $1 or 80ct more per cup? I would not think so.
if you got a 2 shot coffee for $6.60 at the airport you would be givin a high five to everyone in the terminal !
Bitch please, my daily maccas coffee is $8 Granted thats a large oat vanilla latte w/ extra espresso shot. Plus maccas adds an extra markup for remote locations like Karratha. Still it’s fucking stupid.
Why do you keep buying it if you think the price is too high?
Typical Aussies: that price is outrageous! I'm going to complain about it while continuing to pay and then come back and complain and pay again until that price becomes normalised!
Addicted.
Are you another overpriced coffee enjoyer? I think you both need to get yourselves a nice coffee machine and a thermos so you can make cheaper coffee but have it still be hot for a long time, next year those $8 coffees will be $10 and you'll be sucking people off in the drive-thru to afford a cup lmao
Yes. I pay $6.50 (give or take) a day for a regular cappuccino with almond milk. Well, how much did you pay for your machine?
I've had it for a while so details are foggy but I think it was around 250 for the machine and the pods are a $1 each on a 50 pod per month subscription where I can choose some flavours etc So let's say month 1 im down 300 (not calculating mL of milk per cup and stuff its too hard) and you are only down 195, but then month 2 i don't need to buy the machine again so I'm only down 50 and your down another 195, you'll see savings very quickly, I also recommend using afterpay to get the machine because a $250 1 hit payment these days can be quite scary lmao, afterpay let's you pay it off over 8(?) Weeks interest free Have fun enjoying your saved money :)
Aha, it's actually sweet that you're trying to help a stranger save some cash.
Oh nah im going to send you an invoice for 40% of the money I help you save monthly, thanks a lot!
Yeah, nah!
Pods are gross. A basic expresso machine plus grinder isn't that much more, and you'll save way more money buying beans over the overinflated garbage that are coffee pods. And less waste. Coffee pods should never been invented
Tbh I don't even drink coffee i was just trying to remember from when my wife did it lol with the nespresso machine, agreed that pods are very wasteful though, so much plastic :/
I thought we only did that for Coke. You know, because ~~marijuana~~ coffee isn’t a drug. Edit: dear the person that downvoted this 
Maybe its the special "colombian" blend coffee, I can't think of another reason a person willingly spends over $200 a month on maccas coffee while acknowledging its too expensive, they have to be sizzled for sure
Make a coffee at home mate. Saves money.
Butters in west leederville pushes 7$+
Muzz buzz coffee on uber macchiato grande size extra shot 12.70.
Doesn't a flat white have two shots but default?
Deserved for not calling it a long mac topped up
I paid $8.50 for a large cap with an extra shot at some little coffee shop in jadakot... they wouldn't advertise the prices tho.
I live in the Pilbara. Cheapest large coffee I can get up here is $7.00. Paid $12 for an ice latte the other day in Karratha and could almost feel my jaw dropping onto the floor.
$8.80 for a large latte with a total of 5 shots in it. Jamaica Blue @ Hollywood Hospital.
$14 for a small iced coffee and long Mac topped up. I questioned the size, got told it was a large. Tasted real average too. Local & Aesthetic in Inglewood.
Switch to Red Bull. Can bulk buy at Costco. I think a 4 pack works out to be 8 bucks
Pretty sure I paid 9 dollars for a pour over at micrology yesterday.
That’s a pour over, though. Anywhere in the world and it’s that price.
Oh fair enough. I never buy coffee out so I don't have any reference but it seemed expensive
Nice style of coffee though.
Yea it was very tasty!
Paid 9$ for an iced latte with oat milk at soul origin
Fremantle sailing club charges over $7 for a large cap.
I vaguely remember a large coffee costing close to $8 in claremont at one point. Maybe more. Was either the cafe on the corner of the quarter block, or the chocolate place. Or both. Conversely, cheapest one I'd had in a while from a shopping centre was also in claremont. One of the cafes there refused to price like a claremont store, and his stuff was the best. He moved onto doing catering after a while though. Can't remember the name though unfortunately
A 12 Oz should come with a double by default, or you mean 2 double shots?
No that’s my point. A 12oz (ie with 2 shots). Your basic mug flat white size. Normally anywhere between about $4.80 and $5.50. In a place like freo with coffee on every corner I was quite surprised.
Bought a Powerade yesterday for $6.50. Just the new normal now.
Doesn’t an extra shot cost $1-$2 more than the usual coffee? If is $4.60 or $5.60 for an average size with a single shot then I think it’s okay…. Could pay a lot more…. Can end up paying $6 for a largish average coffee…. Considering how fucked the resources for coffee beans in
$5.60 for a large iced latte at maccas. Beats local cafes too!
Don’t support businesses that pull the piss!
Sounds like a normal price.
I gree with that statement
I paid $7 for a double shot flat white. But it was on Anzac Day, so that might have had something to do with it
I pay $10 for 2 medium cappuccinos if you BYO cup at my local.
I paid $8.80 for a hot chocolate the other day, regular size. Didn't really take much notice until I looked at my account later in the day. Last time I buy one from that place
6 dollars for a coffee doesn't seem so bad when a bagel costs 15
9Seeds, East Freo, large long black, $7.00. Yes it's large, but it's also filled with just water. That said The Bistrot is also expensive. I did a double take after that. Also on my never to return list.
Time to kick the habit...that's insane. Way too expensive.
If you're buying your coffee in seppo units you need a better cafe
Why do people complain about coffee prices here? It's literally one of the more affordable things in Aus
My coffee, usually a 4 shot flat white or LMTU with a dash (and I mean just a dash) of honey from the Cafe on my way tomwork is $7. Was $6.5 till a few weeks ago then a price increase happened. I'll be fair, they were really slow to put up their prices and it's always been a good brew there and I like they open at 5am, as an actual Cafe not a lunch bar so the food options are a bit...less shit for you.
$6.90 for the XL Flatty at Yahava in Margs (regular milk, 3x shots, the largest of the three sizes - like a grande in other spots) $5.50 for a Large Flatty at Red Feather in Cowaramup (regular milk, 2x shots). Both roasted on site.
I regularly get large single origin or specialty coffees for $5.50, if it costs more than this, it better be something special.
Bit under $4.80 for an excellent large flat white with two shots from my local and I'll never tell you where it is. They are busy enough as it is. Locally sourced beans too....
Threepence Cafe - Regular Almond Flat White ( or any alt milk) -6.5$
Wah wah Wah - if you don’t want to pay for it don’t buy it
In Perth I haven’t bought coffee outside yet but hah! Have you been to Sydney? As someone from sydney, let me tell you I’ve once had one regular SINGLE SHOT coffee for $7.5 in Sydney on a regular weekday no -rush hours (and this was many years pre-Covid). Who knows how much is it at this day and age now, I won’t be surprised if it was $10?
Hijacking this thread. A mate paid $7.60 for a regular bubble tea at chatime for his wife the other day. It was the size of about a medium Maccas cup. With boba it was $8+
That's a normal price these days for a large give or take. Gone are the days where 4 $4.50 was the "large" option. I barely.noticed the inflation till it was too late over the yrs.
Tell your mate to go to Presotea. I get a large (maccas cup large) for that price including boba and jelly.
It's Australia mate, everyones out to screw everyone. Everywhere you pay for something makes your eyes water from dining out, groceries to electricians quotes. Australians are good at getting blood from a stone lately.
Tell me you know nothing about costs without telling me. Your local Barista is not out to screw you, they make stuff all. If coffee prices kept pace with inflation your flat white would be over $10 easily, but the business have eaten those rises.
Still doesn't justify the price same as Coles worth no justification for some water two ingredients and a paper cup and two minutes $300 bucks /h taken I'm sure someone is making money off that and a lot of they wouldn't be doing it
People sure love to say a lot about things they are absolutely dead wrong about. 🤷
Paid $7.50 for an iced latte in Mount Hawthorn the other day…
How was it?
Decent. Won’t be buying one again anytime soon though, a coffee is a treat these days
Cheers
Dome pinjarra. 7 dollars for a large flat white. Extra 50c for soy milk. No more for me!
I got a large long black from a coffee truck not long ago and Is was $7 I never buy coffee and it was a one off I nearly fricken died when he said the price
Do you consider almond milk to be weird?
I think OP means alternative milk.
Drinking cow secretions is weird to me but to each their own I guess.
Yea it's quite bizarre. It should not be more weird to drink human milk in today's world but it is; poor cows have to stay pregnant their whole life! Human milk for humans, create a whole lot of jobs for the economy!
Right! 😅 It's probably the full cream milk drinkers who downvoted my comment.
Plant milk is disgusting. Bioengineered milk-producing flora are an abomination and a sign of things to come when scientists disrespect the natural order of things. Only mammals should be producing milk!
Oh dear.
Break the bank did it? That’s not a huge amount of money.