Vintage Tea

On a visit to Gateshead I heard about Stacie Stewart who supplies savoury tarts to the Sage: 

Stacie - a Masterchef finalist from Sunderland - has set up the Beehive Bakery and comes to your home or workplace in a vintage VW campervan with "an array of stunning handmade cakes and sandwiches on vintage kitsch china served with high tea!"   Check out  http://www.thebeehivebakery.co.uk/the-beehive-vintage-tea-party-experience.html

I love her on-line profile: "Ive been a mod since about 96, I love music, clothes and food. I ride on a 68 Lambretta Li 125 and a Lambretta J125 Starstream. I can't spell, but I have impeccable manners."

Food wagons and afternoon tea are all the rage; Stacie and her Vintage Tea sound fun.

Fighting the Cold

Pret's Hot Winter Menu - soup, wraps and toasties

Soup at Caffe Nero with toasted ciabatta bread - another clever use of that panini grill

Peyton & Byrne's Soup & Lamb Sausage Roll for a fiver offer

Pod's Pots

Pod's pots - Oaty Lemon Curd, Blackberry Fruity Superfood, Honey Seed & Prune Yohurt and Mango Superfood

Water on Tap

A new, fun meaning to 'water on tap' at Department of Coffee & Social Affairs Cafe

North of the Border

We occasionally get north of the Border and my colleague Charles reports that Hendersons in Edinburgh Old Town combines a characterful vegetarian restaurant, bistro, deli and shop plus a few seats and free water.

Carrot, Mango & Lime

EAT continue innovating with their juices - Carrot, Mango & Lime plus Pink Grapefruit & Passionfruit are their winter recipes.
see previous http://greatcafes.blogspot.com/2011/08/beetroot-apple-ginger.html

Grind to Stratford

Grind Coffee has a unit in Putney and has gone east to Westfield Stratford

Open bakery kitchen