The most expensive cup of coffee in the world?

In December 2008, I did a blog posting about my experience of ordering a cup of coffee in a London hotel that cost a staggering £5.20. I speculated about whether this was the most expensive cup of coffee in the world.

Then, in April 2010, I did a further blog posting about a cup of coffee that cost me even more: £5.50. This was at Chengdu Airport in China.

Well, my friends, I can now announce a new record which simply smashes the old one. I’ve just returned from a break in the Danish capital of Copenhagen where everyone speaks English and is incredibly polite and helpful but everything is mindblowingly expensive.

In an excellent museum called the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, there is a delightful cafe overlooking a bright covered courtyard and here I spent 60 Danish kroner for a cup of cappuccino. That is an utterly incredible £7.

Can you beat that?

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2 Comments

  • Mavis
    August 10th, 2010 at 3:14 pm

    How about a pot of tea for five and a jug of hot water and one teabag in Monte Carlo for – wait for it – a tenner and that was in 1976 and I have never forgotten it.

    Anyway I loved Copenhagen, but I visited both breweries, Carlsberg and The one who makes Cherry Heering. The pink elephants outside the Carlsberg Brewery have to be seen to be believed.

  • David Eden
    August 12th, 2010 at 3:22 pm

    As it happens, on the day I read about the expensive coffee you had in Copenhagen, the New York Times published an article titled: One of the World’s Most Expensive Coffees Now in New York (For Sale or For Free). (The link to the story is below)

    The issue of the expense reminded me of a story about Abie Nathan, the Israeli peace activist and creator of the pirate radio station “The Voice of Peace”, which in the 70’s and 80’s broadcast in the eastern Mediterranean, and could be heard in Israel & the Occupied Territories, Lebanon, Jordan, and Egypt. When he started selling advertising time for the station, he approached the regional Coca Cola distributor. The Coca Cola guy refused to buy time, saying that tying his product to the peace movement would alienate a large part of the public he was trying to sell his product to. Abie ended up making a point by recording and broadcasting an advertising jingle telling people to “drink cool, refreshing water …”

    http://dinersjournal.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/11/one-of-the-worlds-most-expensive-coffees-now-in-new-york-for-sale-or-for-free/?scp=1&sq=expensive%20coffee&st=cse