How much would you expect to pay.........?

we have a sliding scale for wine - 1, 2 and 3 with guests deciding whether they're top or lower end consumers of wine. It works well as those who don't drink can become fed up of subsidising those who drink a lot then have a free lift home!

In France you can bring your own wine and just pay a cork fee. Don't they want your business? When we go and want a drink we ask for a pitcher of house wine which are a good price and the wine is reasonable.

In London £20-25 for house wine, in an average Italian restaurant...
Others who frequent more ‘fine dining’ restaurants than we do, will have a different story.

I suppose it does depend on what they offer as house wine.

Some is cheap plonk and some restaurants offer something quite reasonable.
We've paid between £14 and well over £20 for a house wine.
As there will be quite a number of you and you are eating too perhaps you could negotiate a reduction to say, £15 depending on what they're offering.

I think it varies in different areas, presumably London and other city prices would be higher.

About £17 for house.

All replies & comments appreciated and taken on board!

This will enable me to go back to the next meeting with some relevant info.

Mr P & I rarely eat out (he's too tired after getting up at 4.30am!) and the member of staff I gave the info to is teetotal.

Thank you to all.

KatyK restaurants are not ripping you off. Did Lidl offer you a pelasant location, soft lights a table and chairs and an hour or more to drink your wine?

Restaurants have a higher overheads and staff ratios and restaurants like any business need to make a profit. They are not charities. They spread their mark-up across food and drink to make it most attractive to their customers. Customers tend to look at the meal menu to make a decision, so they limit their profits on the food and even it up on the drinks. Makes absolute sense to me.

Yes that's a reasonable price in a restaurant I think

Definitely not expensive and the food sounds a good price too.

I think that is reasonable.

Sounds very reasonable!

Fine dining restaurant in Durham a bottle of house wine is £19.50 and is by a good grower.
A decent restaurant will always serve a decent wine as a house wine because often their reputation depends on it.
I see you mentioned Italian food, sorry but Italian wines are not in the same class and you could be sold a pup at any price.

I tried to check some price list online, but theBeefeater and wetherspoons have removed prices from their online drinks list.

However The Harvester prces go from £10.50 to 21.50 with an average price of around £17.50

A bit late here I see , but £18/£20 would be OK imho .

Phoenix
Can you not ask if there's a bit of wiggle room on the price of the wine. If you don't ask you don't get.

Hmm, thanks all for the responses.

It would seem that I'm rather out of touch They quoted £16.95, which both my colleague and I thought was quite expensive! The food will come to around £550, and we always tip well.

Aldi not Lidl.

Restaurants and so called posh pubs usually rip people off. We went to what you might call a gastro pub in the Lakes a while ago. We bought two medium glasses of Chardonnay, £9 each. We watched them being poured. It was the same wine we buy in Lidl for £3.69 a bottle.

I would not expect to pay more than £18 for house wine but here in the North prices are cheaper.
In Wetherspoons a bottle of Harvey's red, quite drinkable, comes in at under £8.

I was out for a similar meal last night. The house wine was very acceptable and only £15 per bottle. I’d say that’s standard for hereabouts (West Yorkshire).

GrannyGravy it's not exactly Michelin starred! Nice food, but not high end. Set menu, bruschetta, salad, couple of pasta dishes, variety of pizzas other bits & bobs, brought out in large dishes so people help themselves to what they want.

BlueBelle last year we did food only, everyone paid for their own drinks. But as it's been a tough year and everyone has pulled together since the boss died, we thought we would go that extra bit.

The mark up is usually 300%.

I'd say around £25.

Around £18.

Can’t everyone buy their own glass that’s how it works for our Christmas do

Anything between £18-25 I would think, but it does vary on the restaurant and how “good they think they are”!