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.

Guardian Pop Up

 #Guardiancoffee is a pop up cafe at Boxpark, Shoreditch operated by Nude Espresso with some fun ideas.

Tables with tablets plus wide screen summary of top drinks, tweets and photos.

Sustainable Inspiration

If you want to know the practical ways you can make your cafe sustainable visit the Sustainable Cafe of the Year 2012 - Ode Cafe, Shaldon in Devon.

 Coffee grounds for your garden

 Vegware cutlery

Simple wooden chairs and tables

St Austell Project

 The Eden Project's free-standing cafe in St Austell has loads of features and examples of best practice.

 Central open firepit plus discreet messages on every table top

Pride of Plymouth

I am a huge fan of the Town Mill Bakery in Lyme Regis and they now have an off shoot - the Royal William Bakery - in the Royal William Yard, Plymouth.  Fabulous freshly-baked items in unpretentious surroundings.

How it works plus the wooden 'plates'

Bakery equipment and production is all on show

Bench seating is planks mounted on steel girders

Napkins=paper roll; butter in a big bowl; home-made peanut butter

Tables with a Difference

Table at POD

'Tables and chairs' outside MADD mango restaurant in Rupert Street, Soho

Street Smart Tables

Seen on a Soho street, half-width tables that are perfect for balancing a coffee cup but not much more.  Great idea if it means you can fit in that alfresco seating.

Cake Break

Great homemade cakes, on old workshop table, at Salvation Jane cafe in the City.  Sister cafe to Lantana and as they say "a little bit of Australia in Shoreditch".

On the subject of cake, may I wish the MS Society all the best with their Cake Break 2012 charity event today - read about it at http://www.mssociety.org.uk/ms-events/2012/05/cake-break

No More Wobbly Tables?

Stable Table as exhibited at Hotelympia

Not necessarily stable but good looking external furniture as used by Gourmet Burger Kitchen in Brighton

Similar model from German company Go In. 

See previous blog http://greatcafes.blogspot.com/2011/08/sit-back-at-spianata-co.html

We now have a Pinterest Board on tables and chairs http://pinterest.com/turpinsmale/great-cafes-tables-chairs/

Design Tips 2

Wall as menu in Barcelona

Communal 'distressed' table at Workshop Coffee (previously St Ali), Clerkenwell

Concrete chairs and sun loungers by Barcelona beach

See our Pinterest Board on cafe design http://pinterest.com/turpinsmale/great-cafes-design/