Upmarket London cafe is selling a pot of just six blueberries for £1.50
London coffee house Blend has been ridiculed for selling pots of just six blueberries for £1.50 – making the price per kilogram £75.
The posh London cafe, in the 62-storey skyscraper 22 Bishopsgate, offers blueberries as toppings for porridge.
By contrast, a nearby Tesco Express sells the fruit for £2.20 for 150 grams, or £14.67 per kilogram.
On Reddit, social media users were outraged at the cost of the fruit. One user said: ‘Anyone who buys a pot of five blueberries deserves to be ripped off.’
Another wrote: ‘That is absolutely disgusting. A massive waste of plastic and a massive rip off.’
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One parent pointed out: ‘If blueberries cost this much everywhere, my toddler would be working through around £20 worth of blueberries per day.’
Metro has contacted 22 Bishopsgate for a statement.
Though Blend sells expensive blueberries, its coffee is much cheaper. Still, the most expensive cup of coffee was sold for £265 in a Mayfair bar in 2024.
Speciality coffee bar Shot went viral in 2024 while selling the speciality coffee from Okinawa, available in an espresso, macchiato, flat white, americano, cappucino or latte.
One other option on their menu was a £70 Haiti-based coffee drink, with another St Helena-made £32 drink.
And in 2020, a coffee shop in Mayfair was selling a cup of coffee for £50.
Dubbed the ‘Cup of Excellence’, it was sold at Queens of Mayfair, a shop owned by two sisters, Grace and Victoria Sheppard.
According to the owners, the particular blend was bought at auction by its roaster, Difference Coffee Co, and was only offered to one other company in the UK.
The coffee beans, which are from Ethiopia, are also extremely rare and award-winning, too – having won the Cup of Excellence Competition (which also explains its name).
And the cost of your cuppa also reflects the retail price of the beans, which are sold at around £2,000 per kg.
For £50, customers were given a superb presentation too – served in a crystal wine glass, with the beans ground by hand.
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