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Where Can You Find the Most Expensive Cup of Coffee in the World?
There’s no denying that tourists regularly pay outrageous prices for their caffeine fix. My priciest latte of all time cost 8 euros, in a beautiful old cafe on Venice’s St. Mark’s Square. Of course, I knew perfectly well that I could get a coffee for a quarter of the price just a couple of blocks away. I was paying for the setting and the experience as much as anything—two factors that this kind of survey can’t account for. Photo by roevin via Flickr (Creative Commons) Categories: Weblog • Food: The Moveable Feast • Global Village • Moscow 
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COMMENTSI used to work at a cafe where we had a seperate price for tourists and a cheaper one for residents. Couple of times tourists cottoned on, and they vowed never to come again. Which was no big loss since they weren’t likely to come anyway… By Ling on 8.4.08 at 08:31 AM
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And the winner is ... Moscow, where the average cup apparently costs $10.19. Forbes brings us 
