Eccles Heaven

The bakery at St John Bar & Restaurant in Smithfield is out front and on show.  The message is clear - if you have real bakers and chefs, put them and their equipment on show.  'Homemade food' menu descriptions and signage are then wonderfully redundant.

They still do the best Eccles cakes - £2.50 worth of heaven.  See http://greatcafes.blogspot.com/2011/05/best-eccles-cake-ever.html

The Postcode for Cafes - EC1

J&A Cafe

Shoreditch Grind

plus those already featured

http://greatcafes.blogspot.com/2011/11/st-ali-of-melbourne-clerkenwell.html

http://greatcafes.blogspot.com/2011/11/disciplined-deli.html

http://greatcafes.blogspot.com/2011/11/not-just-any-doughnuts.html

Seeds & Sticks

EAT's pot of pomegranate seeds and Costa's Tropical Fruit Sticks show that cafes are not just purveyors of sugar and fatty foods (a.k.a. cake).

Flowerpot Bread

Spotted at Borough Market and an idea just waiting to be picked up by a garden centre coffee shop!

Self-Serve Soup Station

Welcome Break's self-serve soup station with accompanying bread items that show some original thought - Tomato Swirlys and Savoury Cheese Twists

 

Freshly Baked

Benugo in Clerkenwell with "All our products have been freshly baked this morning in our Bakery"

Basket of 4 types of sandwiches plus prominent bake off oven clearly in use

Not Just Any Doughnuts

Sourdough doughnuts, with homemade jam, at the Clerkenwell Kitchen.  I just love the new variation of an old favourite.

A far cry from Krispy Kreme's seasonal Gift Tin