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London's £13 OJ, Beefeater Closures & Smart Drinking Picks
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A £13 orange juice at Stanley's Mayfair just rewrote the rules on London drink prices — and it's not the only shock on the bill this week. Discover where prices are surging, which restaurant brands are disappearing, and the insider picks that keep your London trip brilliant without the ambush.
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A glass of orange juice. Two hundred and fifty millilitres.
Here's where the numbers get even stranger. At Stanley's, a pint of Heineken or Birra Moretti will set you back eleven pounds.
This isn't just a Mayfair problem. Across the city, drink prices are moving in one direction.
Away from the bars, a major shake-up is reshaping where Londoners and visitors eat. Whitbread is closing two hundred Beefeater and Brewers Fayre restaurant locations across the UK.
On the brighter side of the ledger, the West End is firing on all cylinders right now. Ralph Fiennes and Rosamund Pike are both headlining theatre runs this week, and London's stage offer is as strong as it's been in years.
London right now is a city of two price realities running side by side. The luxury tier has broken through a threshold that most visitors aren't ready for.
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