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> ?6.30 for Camden Hells, ?5.50 in the park.



I paid over 6 for Camden hells in the Chelsea Potter (Kings Road) - first pub I went to in a year - but the staff were so out of practice they added my bill to my mates card (I apologised the next day).


i suspect 6 is the new 5.

Went for a walk in Bermondsey and onto Rotherhithe yesterday, near Tower Bridge 7 is the new 6, and even in a Sam Smiths pub two halves of cider and a bottle of beer was over ?12 (no draught or fizzy beer on tap). Obviously Bermondsey proper is cheaper.


Although you have refuges like the Blythe and the Hope in West Norwood (hasn't done what the rest of Young's Estate has done) Where you will get plenty of changer out of a tenner for two pints. And there is always Tim Brexiteer's places.

They've put their prices up as pubs have to make up for lost trade. Bitter is still hovering around the ?4 mark, but they have the IPAs and the like which will be much higher. They tried to keep Guinness down to below four quid for yonks but will have passed that by now. I don't drink lager, but the farmhouse cider remains decent in terms of cost and price.


Another fave is the Ivy but their prices are well above the Blythe and not the same quality - I do tell them!


I see that Tim Brexiteer wants to bring European bar staff in on a special working visa. That takes the biscuit, but is for another thread.

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