One main course.

@joancooke5 Yeah, but whoever heard of this Rome?

@fmcomment We foundvgoid value on every side street. It's the same everywhere.

@joancooke5 I was in Rome last weekend and genuinely could not get over the value for money for food. I stayed with friends, and 3 coffees, 2 pastries and 2 freshly squeezed OJs was about a tenner. Unbelievable!

@orlabaz That's our experience too. A bottle of still water costs €1, bus tickets are very cheap as are pharmacy prices.

@joancooke5 £29.00 for lunch last week, 2 fish/chips 2 soft drinks!

@Jockaline Too dear to be sustained.

@joancooke5 Ah but the wonderful weather we have in Ireland and the safe streets to walk in our cities. That linked with the best dining and wining couldn’t be matched anywhere else in the world.

@Desdoes :D

@joancooke5 Frango chicken garlic potatoes chips tomato and onion salad carafe of white wine two coffees bread olives and pate €18 in Silves in the #Algarve #portugal . All delicious served in the sunshine.

@GreallyHelen Brilliant.

@joancooke5 Well in the North of spain you can get, doble serving of patas braves, 2 fillets of hake with a huge salad, calamares, 2 pints of local beer and 2 fresh fruit jucies and bottle of water for €22.

@JamesAFC14 That is something else. My God.

@joancooke5 We’ve been out for several meals lately. Omg the price rises are astronomical. We are really out pricing ourselves. What happened to the vat reduction. Coffee x2 and two buns from a coffee shack 16€ the other day. Still jot over the shock

@Suzieq2021 A wonderful Americano here tonight was €1.50

@joancooke5 Just opened a business in Dublin and the rates are INSANE. That on top of rents and wage taxes, food pricing is rising. The government is taxing the heck out of me before I even opened my door. It’s nuts.

@VAK_72 I wish you nothing but success and will support you. What type of business is it please?

@joancooke5 Our weekly bills from our food suppliers have doubled, our energy costs have tripled, we have new bank holidays to pay out for and upcoming paid sick days per employee per year to pay for too.Please talk to someone who runs an independent food business & ask them if they are ok.

@SkinnyBatchBake I understand all that and believe it to be true. Still it's hard to understand that in one of the world's named most expensive city, good food can be delivered at great value.

@joancooke5 Hate this 'bring ripped off' nonsense. The Irish restaurant is probably working off the exact same margins. Why do people not understand costs differing in different countries?

@Lazare76 Well Conor I can only say that it's hard to fathom.