Met a friend for lunch in Dublin on Saturday, one look at these prices handed the menus back and left. Wishbone, Dorset Street, €6 for a side of chips (50c extra for salt) that don’t come with a €16 burger, €3.50 dips from a blender’s bottle. Restaurants are taking the piss with prices these days

by Shiv788

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  2. Good for you, most people just pay and then grumble after. Where did you end up going instead?

  5. If people don’t want to pay it, they can do what you did.

    The reality is, most people are willing and able to pay higher prices.

    For that level of food, those prices are pretty standard these days. You’d struggle to get a burger in a pub for that price and Wishbone ought to be consderably better quality than that.

  7. Not to be *that* person but chicken salt fries is like seasoning, not sea salt.

  9. >one look at these prices handed the menus back and left

    Hallelujah, someone posting on Reddit who actually voted with their feet 🙌🙌🙌

  10. Fair play for leaving. But it’s not just Dublin.

    I’m in Amsterdam this week for holidays, one restaurant wanted €9.50 for two slices of toast with jam.
    Got up and left too.

  11. The quality of food for the prices we pay is criminal. Easily spend 18euro on a tasteless, badly cooked burger.

    Basic pasta dishes 12 euro

    Brunches (french toast, pancakes, eggs benedict etc) again easily 15euro for disappointing presented, badly cooked food.

  13. I used to really like wishbone then they closed with no notice and didn’t pay any of their staff now they are back open staff still not paid and prices twice as high. Pure scum.

  14. I don’t think it’s bottled dips, considering the range of them I imagine they are sauces used to make some of the mains.

  15. Im in rome right now and just paid 7.50 for an unreal pizza. So a full meal for the price of those mozzarella sticks. Paninis for 2.50, cappuccino 1.40

  16. The state of those prices! Bloody hell you were right to leave.

  17. If it’s any consolation I went there before and it was mediocre at best.

  18. Well done OP, quite different to these, “look at the outrageous price of this thing I bought 6 of” threads.

    Went in, identified rip off prices, walked out.
    You’re the consumer hero we need but don’t deserve.

  19. It’s harder than you realise to extract the salt from the chicken OP.

  21. Giving me flashbacks to Dubrovnik where me and the wife ordered two burgers for 40 quid and they came out with no chips 😅

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