Muriel's Cakes & Colanders

 Muriel's Kitchen now has three outlets with this latest one in Soho.

 Cakes are the feature

 plus colander lights

 swinging seats

 and pastries with a twist - sour cherry mince pies and berry topped chocolate loaf.

Cakes & Carvery

Bowler hat lights plus bread and cake display table at Euphorium Bakery's new unit in the City.

 Carvery unit

 Tea & Toast Offer.

Great Layout

Company of Cooks' Brewhouse Cafe servery at Kenwood House has four tills, does great business and is worth a study of how to bust queues in a tight space.  All the kit is mobile so rapid conversion to a function space is possible.

Raw & Cured

Impressive health club menu, drinks and design at Lime Wood hotel in the New Forest.  The spa where you can do yoga on the roof in a herb garden. More details of their Raw & Cured food bar at http://www.limewoodhotel.co.uk/pamper/raw-and-cured/

Artful Cafe

 The Cafe at the Palais des Beaux Arts de Lille - the easels set the scene.

 Striking food-related posters

Sogood

 Lille's version of Pret with self-serve soup.

 and hot food to go.

Miss-Match

Miss-matched china is so in fashion that Churchill China have launched a retro range which has the pluses of being vitrified and not needing to be acquired in junk shops.  Spotted by my colleague Charles.

Not Quite the No 9 Bus

 The Rosebery has converted a Routemaster bus to a very smart affair

Cocktail bar and dining room - possibly too smart for a cafe.

Keeping it Simple

Simple and effective blackboard wall at Bocketts Farm Park's new cafe in Surrey.

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Veg Tray Shelves

Café Muse in Hull with shelves made from vegetable trays from next door shop as spotted by my colleague Charles Manners.

Definitely that front room feel.  Who says fit outs have to be expensive?

We've Got to Start Somewhere!

Norwich furniture shop Warings has a cafe and the owners clearly were involved from the start.  "Apparently we've got to start somewhere?!" say the general sweepers/clearers and washer-uppers Harriet & Jemima Waring.

Great building, good coffee, tasty cakes and stylish furniture.

Expensive Glassware

Note the home made lemonade glass at the Anthologist in the City - a jam jar.

Fun Reading

Books/stageplay on the ceiling at the new Park Theatre Cafe Bar in Finsbury Park.

 Butchers block as table plus assorted quirky furniture.

Your Front Room

 Designing a cafe as if your front room just works.  The Front Room in N4.

Oven Fresh

Scones fresh on display with back up cooling on the oven shelf behind - smart design at Levy Restaurants operation at Hatfield House.

Self Help Cafe

Architectural Plants are a Sussex nursery specialising in interesting, unusual, quirky and bizarre plants - they reckon they are an antidote to garden centres!  They want the best and their self-help cafe is beautifully kitted out.

The horticulturists are trained baristas, the cordials are on dispense and the coffee is free if you are a good enough customer.

 Custom made tea selection box

Laser-etched signage on wood and marble sideboard.

"If you'ld like a cup of tea or coffee and don't mind making it yourself, please help yourself"  message and in several languages.

Follow the Pink Bison

Wonderful quirky tea shop and garden at Sussex Prairies in West Sussex.  You park among the sheep, wander through an oak wood, pass rare breed pigs and emerge at the tea shop and gardens.

Open afternoons only June through October.

 Cakes and tea - simple.

 Atmospheric tea room and terrace

 Only in England!  Paul & Pauline McBride are to be congratulated.