Coffee Loves You

External tables as signage plus window cake display at Curators Coffee Studio in the City.

Three Price Café

Wonderful French sense of humour (and manners) at Le Petite Syrah, Nice.

Why We Have Two Hands

Drinkypoos & Iced Dwinks

Puccinos keep the seriousness out of cafes.

Benugo's Latest

Wooden block signage at Benugo's Garden Cafe off Oxford Street

 plus good sandwiches

Edible Gardening

 Edinburgh's Royal Botanic Garden has an Edible Gardening Project with on-site polytunnel.

Caterer Sodexo uses the produce in their on-site restaurant

 Attractive signage in theire cafe.

Who Needs Twitter?

Sign spotted at a Thames lock.

No WiFi? We Have a Solution

Courtesy of Facebook, Lotte Duncan, my bro and the Tree of Life Resort, Jaipur.

Keeping it Simple

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

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Tomorrow is for Broccoli

Ice cream cart sign at Hobbledown Farm Park.

Baristas Not Button Pushers

Guest Spot

Thanks to Roy Westwood, Creative Director for Levy Restaurants, for spotting this sign at Benugo

Muddy Boots (and BBC Radio Interviews) Welcome

Rydal Hall's Old School Room tea shop in Cumbria welcomes the walkers and dog owners.  See my local pub's welcoming signage http://greatcafes.blogspot.co.uk/2011/04/stuff-rules-make-me-smile.html

Chris was interviewed last night on the BBC on 'What makes a Great Cafe?'.  The clip from the Mark Forrest programme, syndicated to most local radio stations and 1.6m listeners, can be downloaded at BBC Radio Interview with Chris Brown

Two Magpies

 The Two Magpies Bakery in Southwold combines unpretentious food and signage with great home-baking.

Bloody Lovely Garden

Pub in Shoreditch High Street emphasises its alfresco attraction.

Wooden Spoon Signage

Guest Spot

Photo taken at Greene King Food Festival last weekend sent in by Claire Martinsen, Founder of Breckland Orchard Drinks.  Claire says "the wooden spoons were effective and made a cheap way of marking prices!  Would work brilliantly well in cafes for cake pricing".

What's Yours?

Price list visual at Taylor St Baristas in the City.

Blaa

The kind of food we all like to eat "in-between times" at Hatch & Sons Irish Kitchen in Dublin.  They make the effort to get a speciality of Waterford - a bread roll Blaa - from over 100 miles away every day.  Blaa are famous for needing to be eaten fresh.

Charming Intelligent Staff

Metro Cafe in Dublin grabs attention, praises its staff and is one of the best 'staff wanted' signs we have seen.

Goodbye & Hello

The Breakfast Club's topical comment.

Eye Contact

Guest Spot

 Thank-you Lisa Looker from Haskins Garden Centres for these eye-catching photos of Greenwich's pop up cafe The Movement (MVMNT), constructed from containers and located by Greenwich DLR station.