Red (Chocolate) Roses

Three special ladies in my life - wife and twin teenage daughters - will get Carluccios chocolate roses and a short break to Barcelona - anyone know some great cafes there?

"Marry Me?" cakes and cupcakes at Dobbies garden centre cafe at Ashford - this is one very switched-on cafe operation and a treasure trove of future blog posts.  Tesco, who owns Dobbies, is on to a winner.  Will Dobbies will sort out Tesco cafes one day?

You just cannot get enough heart shapes - Krispy Kreme's doughnuts and Millies cookies.  I prefer the chocolate roses.

Buckets of Ingenuity

Chozen Noodles' new unit in Borough High Street with lights in buckets from Ikea - the contents of the buckets are changed with the season.  Eye-catching and inexpensive.

No Froth Here!

A. Gold - traditional foods of Britain - in Spitalfields has proudly not joined the  espresso revolution.  Great place for new ideas of well packaged British food and drink.  Check out http://www.agoldshop.com/



         

A Great Start to the Day

Bacon Sandwich with HG Walter's organic bacon and Lantana tomato chutney on white sourdough bread.  £6 of great grub at Lantana Cafe, W1.

See also http://greatcafes.blogspot.com/2011/12/sex-drugs-bacon-rolls.html and http://greatcafes.blogspot.com/2011/10/75p-bacon-buttie.html

Jamie's Chic Shack

Bicester Village - the chic outlet shopping venue for hordes of overseas visitors - has an interesting mix of catering.  The largest Pret I have ever seen plus Carluccios, Villandry Grand Cafe, Busaba Eathai and this shed by Jamie Oliver's outside catering company Fabulous Feasts.  Quite what the visitors think of chelsea buns and eccles cakes, goodness knows but they were of good quality.

Snacking

Apostrophe

Benugo

Pret

"Healthy" snacks = Growing sales

Mini Cakes Part 2

The mini-cake roll-out continues

See previous blog posts:

http://greatcafes.blogspot.com/2011/08/mini-cakes.html

http://greatcafes.blogspot.com/2011/05/new-mini.html