Most Expensive Cups of Coffee

Most of us have gotten pretty picky about our coffee over the past decade. Starbucks is probably to blame for that. These days, plain old home brewed supermarket coffee-from-a-can hardly cuts it for even the most forgiving caffeine addicts.

Still, it took a while to get used to the cost of a cup of designer joe, and these days, we might be rethinking our coffee choices. Well, before you despair of being able to afford a decent morning jolt, take a moment to be grateful you don’t live in any of these places which, according to Forbes magazine (based on cost-of-living surveys by consulting firm Mercer) are home to the world’s most expensive cups of coffee.

If you live in any of these places, our sympathies. Send up a signal, we’ll send beans.

Here’s the list, followed by the average price per cup in U.S. dollars:

– Tokyo: $5.04

– Berlin: $5.15

– Beijing: $6.28

– Athens: $6.62

– Paris: $6.77

– Moscow: $10.19

In the United States, the cuppa tops out at $3.75, in New York City. Seems like a bargain.