The humble 99er was once synonymous with a sunny day, with kids (and adults) across the UK heading to an ice cream van to pick up a soft serve cone and Cadbury Flake for under £1.
But, with this summer marred by a cost of living crisis and with stylish ice cream parlors now a high street staple, some people are shelling out up to £10 for an icy treat.
While many ice cream vans will still offer a classic Mr. Whippy, bakeries will add extra charges.
Amorino, which has stores across the UK, charges up to £9.20 for a soft serve ice cream when you order it on Deliveroo.
They offer a create-your-own option, as well as classic flavors like vanilla, caramel, strawberry, and lemon.
Also £10 is British Patagonia in the trendy north London district of Islington.
Amorino, which has stores across the UK, charges up to £9.20 for a soft serve ice cream when you order it on Deliveroo (left). Also £10 is British Patagonia in the trendy north London district of Islington (right).
Chin Chin, famous for its viral – incredibly indulgent – hot chocolate, recently launched an ice cream topped with “caviar.”
The bakery pioneered a vegan ‘old ice cream’ of soft serve ice cream wrapped in a croissant that costs £9 and draws people from all over the city to get it.
The bakery is run by Michelin-starred chef Matías Barbat, offering vanilla with pistachio pieces among a variety of flavors.
And it’s not just Londoners who have to spend money to get a decent scoop.
Tsjuri in Manchester’s Chinatown sells smooth matcha for £6.50, while a scoop at Moo Pie in Edinburgh will set you back £4.50, although it comes with a topping.
Tourists in central London can head to places like Instagram-famous Creme and pay £4.50 for a cone, while Soft Serve Society in Seven Dials Market starts its services at £4.55.
Chin Chin, famous for its viral – incredibly indulgent – hot chocolate, recently launched an ice cream topped with “caviar.”
Tourists in central London can head to places like Instagram-famous Creme and pay £4.50 for a cone, while Soft Serve Society in Seven Dials Market starts its services at £4.55 (pictured) .
A simpler option, the classic golden vanilla, costs customers £5.20 at Chin Chin in central London.
Tsjuri, in Manchester’s Chinatown, sells softserve matcha for £6.50 (pictured)
A Moo Pie Edinburgh scoop will set you back £4.50, although it comes with a topping
Taking to Instagram to describe the dish, they wrote: “Ruffles of ice cream with a hint of vanilla vegetable caviar that explodes on the tongue, topped with a handmade daisy butter cookie.”
A simpler option, the classic golden vanilla, costs customers £5.20.
Elsewhere, Milk Train in Convent Garden sells heavy soft serve ice creams for £6.50.
It comes as two girls faced a cost of living crisis after an ice cream van tried to charge them £9 for two ice creams.
Twins Marnie and Mylah, from Burnley, were walking in a park when they thought they would stop for an ice cream.
The cost of living has hit many households in the UK, with families having to cut back on non-essential items and make their pennies and pounds count.
Elsewhere, Milk Train in Convent Garden sells heavy soft serve ice creams for £6.50
But the eight-year-olds didn’t realize how much the price of the products had skyrocketed until they got to the ice cream van, saw the price, and got a big shock.
Their mother asked them what had just happened when one of the twins said: “There’s an ice cream van that sells just two ice creams and gum for £9.”
Meanwhile, the cost of lattes has also risen to £5.
At Starbucks, the price of a large latte is £5.20 when ordered for pickup on Uber Eats in London, while Queens of Mayfair, in one of the British capital’s poshest postcodes, charges £13 for your coffee with milk.
Danish juice and coffee brand Joe & the Juice, which has more than 50 branches in London alone and outlets across the UK including Liverpool, Brighton, Birmingham and Oxford, currently charges £4.70 for a coffee with large milk (16 ounces) with regular milk.
Add a syrup, say vanilla, and you’ll be charged an extra 50p, although unlike many other establishments you won’t be charged extra for extra milk.
It comes after it emerged that Britain’s most expensive coffee, made from topical beans shipped from Japan’s “island of eternal youth”, is selling for a whopping £265 a cup.
Twins Marnie and Mylah were furious when they found out how much ice cream in the park costs now.
Coffee lovers with a few hundred pounds to spare can find the expensive drink at Shot, a darkly lit cafe based in Mayfair and Marylebone in London.
The coffee is made with typical beans, a higher-quality version of Arabica beans, and shipped from the Nakayama farm, based on the island of Okinawa, Japan.
At Shot, this high-priced drink can be made into any form of coffee that you would find in a high street coffee shop. It is available as an espresso, macchiato, flat white, Americano, cappuccino or latte.
But while the drink’s price has raised eyebrows, even the modest latte is apparently becoming more expensive, with many coffee lovers saying they are already paying more than £5 when adding extra shots, dairy alternatives and flavored syrups .
High-end fashion brand Prada’s London cafe in department store Harrods, opening in 2023, charges £6.50 for a latte.
Caffe Nero’s is priced at £4.40 for a large latte, the same as Costa Coffee. Pret A Manger and Patisserie Valerie are slightly cheaper at £4.05.
But this is before any additions are made; For example, adding coconut milk and oats to your Caffe Nero drink will again cost you up to 50p.
Meanwhile, syrups such as caramel, vanilla and hazelnut at Costa Coffee will cost up to 55p.
