Food prices?

[eoJ]

One amazing pasty place (better than welsh oggie imo, and more selection) charged £3.20 for a nice big pasty, with lots of different choices of fillings. Ate there twice.

[stylishkids]

TBH I found the prices pretty costly at times. I remember going to that Fine Burger Co on Friday near the other stage. I saw that it was £5.50 for a burger which was poor in itself. Fancied a cheeseburger though and asked for it to find out it was £6.50! A pound for a single slice of cheese! Other places were costly too. £2.50 for a bottle of Fanta is n't good value.

I know people say move on to find another which is better priced, but I ate in between bands and I don't want to go searching for the best priced burger in between 2 sets I want to watch, so reluctantly pay for it.

[Sauna Meister]

I like my drinks. But £1.50 for a 330ml can or £2 or even £2.50 for a 500ml bottle is a tad expensive, especially when it's hot and you're regularly thirsty. The shops that were selling 2 litre bottles of Coke for £4 were better value though, even though outside of festivals these prices would be deemed outrageously extortionatly overpriced. Best deal I found was when leaving the festival I discovered on onsite Supermarket at the edge of the festival near to the Dance Arena. £1 for 330ml cans of pop, but BUY ONE GET ONE FREE! Wish I'd have known about that before. Is it there every year?

Edited June 28, 2011 by Sauna Meister

[Amii]

I did six days on £90. I've got IBS and I'm intollerant to almost everything so I have pretty much the same daily diet from the stalls that meet my needs!

Breakfast was a stall doing a full English brekkie with free tea refills for £3.50.

Lunch was usually a jacket potato/pasta for no more than £4 or £5.

Dinner was usually Pieminster or something similar for about £7.

I only eat things which will fill me up so I eat less. I bring all snacks from home and spend no more than £15/£20ish a day. I honestly think if you go to the right places (good portion size and quality), the prices are absolutely fine for what you're getting.

[Bisque]

You can not moan about the food prices at Glasto, go to Reading & it'll be the same price (or more) for your standard burger van muck.

[serendipitous]

If you're looking for a late night snack a good thing is to look for stalls that are closing up and ask them to do you a deal on their last bits of food. I got a huge portion of decent vegetable tempura from a Japanese stall for £1 which was priced at £5 just before. Exactly the same stuff and an even bigger portion than normal. Plenty of lovely food on offer all over the place, Goan fish curries are beautiful.

That said I found that I eat very well for no more than it would cost me to eat out. Like any city you may have to look around but you can always find a good deal, you wouldn't go out and run into the first restaurant you see for convenience without considering other options. I also genuinely enjoyed the Hare Krishna food more than I should have. It was lovely, I always donate but I don't think they'd object if you didn't. Lovely place to sit and relax as well.

That said, the price of soft drinks was extortionate.

[eoJ]

TBH I found the prices pretty costly at times. I remember going to that Fine Burger Co on Friday near the other stage. I saw that it was £5.50 for a burger which was poor in itself. Fancied a cheeseburger though and asked for it to find out it was £6.50! A pound for a single slice of cheese! Other places were costly too. £2.50 for a bottle of Fanta is n't good value.

[headshrinker1979]

i love the moans about food prices. if you can't be arsed looking around a bit you will pay more and get less for your money, there are plently of options for food at very reasonable prices if you can be bothered to look. if your diet consists of living off burgers and chips for 5 days from near the pyramid stage then you will spend a fortune on food that is shite!

I actually thought compared to last year it seemed cheaper/better value for money in a lot of places? I found the amazing Goat curry stall again so i was happy, which was excellent VFM for what you got.Also the tagine stall well worth a mention. Overall IMO plenty of variety, good VFM if you could be bothered to look around a bit and great quality from a lot of stalls selling stuff a bit different to the usual burgers, hot dogs etc

[bsolxiv]

Also people smirked at me when I paid like 5.50 for a full english baguette then I was a bit like.... I have a stick of bread, 2 eggs, a jumbo sausage & 3 rations of Bacon... I think thats ALLLL DAMNED RIGHT BY ME

[doubledutch]

I don't think you're sorry at all.

But seriously, where were you? Because there *are* taps all over the place. Next to almost every toilet. A steward would always be able to direct you to one. You're right, sometimes there are queues -- it's a good idea to fill your bottle whenever you see an opportunity. If you were in the sort of serious dehydration emergency you describe -- like, obviously about to pass out -- I reckon people would let you jump the queue. I would, even though I'm a dick and a jackass apparently.

Edited June 29, 2011 by doubledutch

[doubledutch]

TBH I found the prices pretty costly at times. I remember going to that Fine Burger Co on Friday near the other stage. I saw that it was £5.50 for a burger which was poor in itself. Fancied a cheeseburger though and asked for it to find out it was £6.50! A pound for a single slice of cheese! Other places were costly too. £2.50 for a bottle of Fanta is n't good value.

I know people say move on to find another which is better priced, but I ate in between bands and I don't want to go searching for the best priced burger in between 2 sets I want to watch, so reluctantly pay for it.

Edited June 29, 2011 by doubledutch

[TwistedReligion]

Fancied a cheeseburger though and asked for it to find out it was £6.50! A pound for a single slice of cheese! Other places were costly too. £2.50 for a bottle of Fanta is n't good value.

[soundmangar]

The samosas from the stall beside the other stage were amazing. On the downside the sit down cafe to the right of the pyramid were charging £2 for a can of coke, disgraceful

[SJC]

The more expensive but delicious stuff I had was the goan fish curry, leon by brothers bar, lebanese meze at the park. I also went to Childrens World cafe three times (seeing ME there on the Sunday ) - a massive plate of eggs, chips and beans for £3.50. Amazing.

[AnnaGrant]

Me and my partner spent about £150 tops between us over the five days we were at the festival. That included all meals, snacks and loads of bottles of water and cups of juice (didn't buy alcohol).

The choice was amazing, and I would say that the food was one of the big highlights for me.

[jono_01]

Wood fired pizza place near the bourbon bar - £6.50 for a full pizza was a bargain. I paid £7 as I got extra toppings and I couldn't finish it. The quality of the pizza was even better than volume. They had their own tomato sauce and it was lush. Got to be my recommendation for the weekend.

As far as drinks are concerned, the Milk Stalls seemed to be very reasonably priced.

Although when sober I cringe at this; negotiating prices of items seemed to work all too often. I got phone charging (when the CnC was shut) reduced from £5 to £2.50, some cheaper clothing and also food.

I think that people will still sell at a discount from advertised price so long as they are still making a decent mark up. Not that I would do it in 'the real world' though!

[Rootsfran]

I did laugh at £18 for a small coffee and walnut cake at the bakery near the kidz field, wonder if they sold it?!

[The Nal]

Food was very expensive this year, and very different prices for similar stuff from different vendors. The crepes have doubled in price over the last 4 years for example.

[grumpyhack]

Glastonbury only reflects the outside world. Go into any town and you can find expensive restaurants or good value places by shopping around. If you compare the cost of shopping in any supermarket with a year ago you'd find a lot of price increases.

Generally we self-catered for main meals and when we did eat out found some excellent food at sensible prices.

[rachface1]

That childrens world café was great.

Also the piemeister stall I think it was, at West holts next to brothers bar, at the end of the night we got a steak and chorizo pie with mash and gravy for 2 pound! And it was amazzzingg

[coxy99]

I found this amzing place at the park at the top of the field that did an all day breakfast for £5.50...was best meal I had all weekend...queue was massive but guess that was becuase it was just before Pulp played...

[Colin88]

Did you get one from the Fine Burger?

It urinated on anything I've ever had from a fast food chain. A really soft floury bap, fresh lettuce and tomato and the burger tasted like I'd ordered from a gourmet burger restaurant where I live

[Monorail]

Does anyone know how much do these places make in total over the festival. The prices can seem high but I know that some of the pitches cost a fortune, even tens of thousands for some. Would just be interesting to know.

[housemusic12]

For the food we had, I must say represented very good valie for money. The only it didn't was when I broke the golden rule of not eating from anywhere too near the Pyramid stage on the Saturday night about 2/3am I had a chicken curry jacket spud and it was rank. All else, from breakfast rolls through to Thai etc was truly supurb fodder.

[LondonTom]

The more expensive but delicious stuff I had was the goan fish curry, leon by brothers bar, lebanese meze at the park. I also went to Childrens World cafe three times (seeing ME there on the Sunday ) - a massive plate of eggs, chips and beans for £3.50. Amazing.

Edited June 30, 2011 by LondonTom