{"id":30744,"date":"2026-05-07T12:04:37","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T12:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/30744\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T12:04:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T12:04:37","slug":"no-a-pint-does-not-cost-10-in-london-see-for-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/30744\/","title":{"rendered":"No, a pint does not cost \u00a310 in London (see for yourself)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tThursday 07 May 2026 10:38 am<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0Updated:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tThursday 07 May 2026 11:32 am\n\t<\/p>\n<p><img width=\"742\" height=\"495\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Pints-of-Guinness-UK-pubs-1-e1769083316923.jpg\" class=\"media \" alt=\"Pints of Guinness on a bar counter in UK pub, highlighting traditional British pub culture and popular beer choice\" fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"sync\"  \/>\t\tRumours of \u00a310 pints in London have sent punters into a panic\t<\/p>\n<p>Headlines appeared over the weekend that a London pint now costs \u00a310. This leaves a bitter taste.<\/p>\n<p>Granted, look hard enough and you\u2019ll find a private members\u2019 club here, a chichi restaurant there, that has found customers with deep enough pockets to pay a fortune for supermarket lager.<\/p>\n<p>But this has always been true \u2013 in the way that clubs in Manchester keep a four-figure wine behind the bar for when Premier League stars stride in.<\/p>\n<p>The reality in London is quite different. A few weeks ago, City AM <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cityam.com\/londons-cheapest-pints-surprise-fall-in-square-mile-as-some-boroughs-rise-by-16\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">collected pint price data<\/a> from more than 100 pubs across the capital. We found the average pint price was \u00a35.77. Not \u00a310 \u2013 not anything close.<\/p>\n<p>While average prices are a little over \u00a37 in swanky neighbourhoods like Westminster and Kensington, pints for less than \u00a35 are common on London\u2019s fringes, like in Newham, Barking and Havering.<\/p>\n<p>And it\u2019s really not hard to find a sub-\u00a35 pint even in the City, where things are steeper. In the nearest Spoons to City AM towers, prices start at \u00a32.99.<\/p>\n<p>Pubs have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cityam.com\/wetherspoon-issues-profit-warning-over-substantial-cost-hikes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">had it hard<\/a> the past few years. Many are on their knees and hundreds have closed.<\/p>\n<p>The sector has had to muddle through the Covid lockdowns, followed by soaring inflation, and then punishing tax hikes, business rate upgrades and minimum wage rises that have pushed pubs to the brink.<\/p>\n<p>The last thing they need is clickbaity headlines from national newspapers that should know better, saying \u201cpubs are a rip-off, don\u2019t go,\u201d or words to that effect.<\/p>\n<p>Pubs need your patronage: if you don\u2019t go, they will. So ignore the noise and go out for a pint. You might be pleasantly surprised.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tRead more<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a class=\"read-more__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cityam.com\/does-a-pint-in-london-really-cost-10\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Does a pint in London really cost \u00a310?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\tSimilarly tagged content: <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tSections\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tCategories\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tPeople &amp; Organisations\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thursday 07 May 2026 10:38 am \u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0Updated:\u00a0 Thursday 07 May 2026 11:32 am Rumours of \u00a310 pints in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30090,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[4142,633,1411,13375,27,12796,18,13079,13080,13081,1127,431],"class_list":{"0":"post-30744","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-beer","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-hospitality","11":"tag-j-d-wetherspoon","12":"tag-london","13":"tag-london-pubs","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-pint","16":"tag-pint-price","17":"tag-pint-prices","18":"tag-pubs","19":"tag-uk-economy"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/116533203022495782","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}