Café experience today in Esquires, Eyre square: I had porridge, coffee, both average, not bad but nothing special.
“I would call it an absolute rip-off. 16,15 euro for oat porridge with few toppings and oat late. Basically 7,50 for plain porridge with compote.”
Colm McDonagh, owner of the Esquires Coffee Eyre Square, told Galway Beo he was ‘disappointed’ to read the scathing review.
He said: “In the 7 years that we have been in business, not one person has complained. This gentleman spent one hour and 50 minutes in the shop, and at no stage did he ever complain to us and we know that he was very well looked after.”
Colm says that they make the costs clear on the menu outside and inside the cafe, adding: “Our menu is clearly displayed and so are the prices – there’s no pressure put on anyone whatsoever to go over what they expect to spend.
“The seeds, the oat milk – they were all decisions made by the customer.”
Seen this on Facebook earlier today.
Its not me btw.
Did the person know before they ordered how much they were charging?
Is the price not shown in the menu before ordering?
Restaurants should have a sheet listing the foods they have and prices on so people can see them before placing orders.
They’ve deconstructed porridge into all it’s constituent parts and charged separately for each as well.
That’s absurd.
Ordering oat “milk” but then ordering porridge which was more than likely made with real milk?
they can keep it would have full bag of porridge for that 🙂
On the bright side Berry Compote was thrown in for free.
You know if you get up a half hour earlier (if that’s possible, don’t know your situation) you can make the porridge at home, pack it in tupperware, and flask a strong coffee, if you need to be on the go and want to save a bit. Ungouge the gougers lol. What a rip off.
We’re they seriously there from 8:20 till 9:55?
Porridge is just one of those things you need to never buy in a cafe/restaurant. It costs 65c a KG or something and it’s literally prepared in minutes in a microwave.
The exact same bowl of porridge in a nice cafe in Romania or Malaysia would cost 1 to 2 euros.
Western Europe’s inflation is awful and needs to be remedied. Our prices are completely out of line with global standards. We are killing ourselves with bad economic policies that create monstrosities such as a 7.5 euro bowl of porridge.
Was it nice?
I see That a bowl of porridge on the kids menu is also €7:50. Will avoid this place at all costs
Ridiculous price, more fool to pay it.
Agree with the overall sentiment that costs for products are too high but also understand that the actual cost of the porridge oats are minimal in comparison to the costs to actually have the establishment open. Council rates which have been increased this year, electricity which has essentially doubled in price, wages, insurance, vat. The list of costs in endless and all the time they are going up which everyone is aware of but still expect costs in small establishments to remain stagnant. Overall 12 euro for porridge is still over the top but also having to give the council maybe 60 grand a year or it could even be more in a prime location in Galway for rates which entitles the business to absolutely nothing as they still have to pay water charges, waste charges and so forth
As Mary Harney used to say, “Shop around”!
7.50? No mate you paid 12 they itemised all the toppings
That’s one of the best customer service restaurants I’ve seen. They have menu displayed. This customer spent almost two hours there and always was answering that everything is fine when asked. Seriously this place is not cheap, but the treatment the customer receives is top notch.
Mines a decafe and a berry compote please!
Same here in Cork. €7 for overnight oats in a “healthy” cafe. Greedy fucking owners with their perfect timing.
More fool you for going there. A place charging that much for porridge is taking the piss, avoid it until they learn the error of their ways
€4.15 for a cup of coffee ain’t great either…
€1.50 for seeds lol
Make your own then ffs
K just don’t buy there? You know service charge is like 70% of the cost right
You went to a cafe and had porridge? Fuck.
The biggest cheek of all is displaying the price as how much it costs before vat… people would swear we’re in the states
lol thats more expensive then a bag of porrige.
4.15 for an oat latte!!!
Seriously… Seeds for €1.50. This is madness. I can’t wait to see this on Joe.ie headlined “Galway Cafe goes viral for charging €12 for porridge”
If you remember free butter and sauces in restaurants you are old as fook!
Ah here enough of this shite. I don’t get why you’re surprised? You knew the prices while ordering and while it was being rung up on the till. It’s not as if they gave you a latte and porridge out of the blue when you arrived then when had finished magically produced a 16 euro charge. If ye didn’t want to spend 16 quid then why order it in the first place? Yeah it’s a load of bollox the places are charging this amount and they shouldn’t be, but you have the choice wether or not to buy it, they’ll keep selling it at that price if people are willing to pay. A smarter thing to have done would’ve have been to a picture of the price of it on the menu not bothered to order it at all then posted and complained about it, save yourself looking like an eejit paying 7.50 for something that costs 80c in Aldi.
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I’m more annoyed by the charge for a drop of milk.
Were the seeds/maple syrup/nuts on the porridge?
https://www.galwaybeo.ie/culture/food-drink/five-star-tripadvisor-irish-restaurant-7294691
Café experience today in Esquires, Eyre square: I had porridge, coffee, both average, not bad but nothing special.
“I would call it an absolute rip-off. 16,15 euro for oat porridge with few toppings and oat late. Basically 7,50 for plain porridge with compote.”
Colm McDonagh, owner of the Esquires Coffee Eyre Square, told Galway Beo he was ‘disappointed’ to read the scathing review.
He said: “In the 7 years that we have been in business, not one person has complained. This gentleman spent one hour and 50 minutes in the shop, and at no stage did he ever complain to us and we know that he was very well looked after.”
Colm says that they make the costs clear on the menu outside and inside the cafe, adding: “Our menu is clearly displayed and so are the prices – there’s no pressure put on anyone whatsoever to go over what they expect to spend.
“The seeds, the oat milk – they were all decisions made by the customer.”
Seen this on Facebook earlier today.
Its not me btw.
Did the person know before they ordered how much they were charging?
Is the price not shown in the menu before ordering?
Restaurants should have a sheet listing the foods they have and prices on so people can see them before placing orders.
They’ve deconstructed porridge into all it’s constituent parts and charged separately for each as well.
That’s absurd.
Ordering oat “milk” but then ordering porridge which was more than likely made with real milk?
they can keep it would have full bag of porridge for that 🙂
On the bright side Berry Compote was thrown in for free.
You know if you get up a half hour earlier (if that’s possible, don’t know your situation) you can make the porridge at home, pack it in tupperware, and flask a strong coffee, if you need to be on the go and want to save a bit. Ungouge the gougers lol. What a rip off.
We’re they seriously there from 8:20 till 9:55?
Porridge is just one of those things you need to never buy in a cafe/restaurant. It costs 65c a KG or something and it’s literally prepared in minutes in a microwave.
The exact same bowl of porridge in a nice cafe in Romania or Malaysia would cost 1 to 2 euros.
Western Europe’s inflation is awful and needs to be remedied. Our prices are completely out of line with global standards. We are killing ourselves with bad economic policies that create monstrosities such as a 7.5 euro bowl of porridge.
Was it nice?
I see That a bowl of porridge on the kids menu is also €7:50. Will avoid this place at all costs
Ridiculous price, more fool to pay it.
Agree with the overall sentiment that costs for products are too high but also understand that the actual cost of the porridge oats are minimal in comparison to the costs to actually have the establishment open. Council rates which have been increased this year, electricity which has essentially doubled in price, wages, insurance, vat. The list of costs in endless and all the time they are going up which everyone is aware of but still expect costs in small establishments to remain stagnant. Overall 12 euro for porridge is still over the top but also having to give the council maybe 60 grand a year or it could even be more in a prime location in Galway for rates which entitles the business to absolutely nothing as they still have to pay water charges, waste charges and so forth
As Mary Harney used to say, “Shop around”!
7.50? No mate you paid 12 they itemised all the toppings
That’s one of the best customer service restaurants I’ve seen. They have menu displayed. This customer spent almost two hours there and always was answering that everything is fine when asked. Seriously this place is not cheap, but the treatment the customer receives is top notch.
Mines a decafe and a berry compote please!
Same here in Cork. €7 for overnight oats in a “healthy” cafe. Greedy fucking owners with their perfect timing.
More fool you for going there. A place charging that much for porridge is taking the piss, avoid it until they learn the error of their ways
€4.15 for a cup of coffee ain’t great either…
€1.50 for seeds lol
Make your own then ffs
K just don’t buy there? You know service charge is like 70% of the cost right
You went to a cafe and had porridge? Fuck.
The biggest cheek of all is displaying the price as how much it costs before vat… people would swear we’re in the states
lol thats more expensive then a bag of porrige.
4.15 for an oat latte!!!
Seriously… Seeds for €1.50. This is madness. I can’t wait to see this on Joe.ie headlined “Galway Cafe goes viral for charging €12 for porridge”
If you remember free butter and sauces in restaurants you are old as fook!
Ah here enough of this shite. I don’t get why you’re surprised? You knew the prices while ordering and while it was being rung up on the till. It’s not as if they gave you a latte and porridge out of the blue when you arrived then when had finished magically produced a 16 euro charge. If ye didn’t want to spend 16 quid then why order it in the first place? Yeah it’s a load of bollox the places are charging this amount and they shouldn’t be, but you have the choice wether or not to buy it, they’ll keep selling it at that price if people are willing to pay. A smarter thing to have done would’ve have been to a picture of the price of it on the menu not bothered to order it at all then posted and complained about it, save yourself looking like an eejit paying 7.50 for something that costs 80c in Aldi.