Cupcake Croissants

 Cupcake Croissants at Lola's.  @lolascupcakes

 Six sweet and three savoury cupcake croissants.

Coffee & Booze

 The Cafe of the Future includes a bar to capture that evening trade.  Boundary Coffeehouse, Kitchen & Bar in Southwark.

 Happy Hour(s) @BoundaryCafe

 Original outside seating

January Health Kick

 Raw Tiramisu - Free from gluten, dairy and refined sugar - at Southsea Coffee Company, Portsmouth which they advertise on Facebook as " just cut these bad boys up. these babies are pretty much the embodiment of "have your cake and eat it"..Get these in your mouth with absolutely ZERO GUILT.

@SouthSeaCoffee.  Check out their slightly different cake menu at http://www.southseacoffee.co.uk/cake/

Graffiti and No 1

Mexican restaurant Chilango has eye-catching entrance walls and serviette messages.

Mini Treats

Costa has caught up with Starbucks in offering bite-sized Little Treats/Mini Tarts - Chocolate cherry, Caramel Hazelnut and Orange & Cranberry - £1.55 with 2 for £2.50 and 3 for £3.25.

Sourdough Crumpets

New, tasty and worth a premium price - Sourdough Crumpets.  When will we have the first Crumpet Cafe?!

Crisp Cafe

It started as a joke about the popularity of crisp sandwiches and now Belfast has its own Crisp Cafe. #SimplyCrisply@thatweecafe. Serving 35 types of crisps it has been inundated, quite apart from the national publicity.  The humour is fun too: January Special - We'll cut off your crusts for free!

Whether it's crisps, cereal, board games, dogs or 3D printing cafes need to have a differentiator.

Today is Special

 

Daily changing scones at The Ditsy Teacup, Elgin, Morayshire - cherry, orange matchmaker, fruit, marzipan, cheese, plain - posted on Facebook every day.

Strawberry & dark chocolate, caramac, banoffee, cheese & sunblush tomato

Snickers, strawberry & white chocolate, cheese & caramelised onion, banana & cinnamon

One of the Best

Hermitage Rd Cafe and Bagel Bar in Hitchin, Herts by Anglian Country Inns.

Voted one of the best 50 coffee bars in the country by The Independent.

@HermitageRd

Getting Your Order Wrong Since 1992

Don't you just love Goswell Road Coffee's business card humour. @bricklanecoffee

Happy to Have a Chat

Great idea at Turl Street Kitchen, Oxford @turlstkitchen - If you see someone in this cafe with one of these shells, it means they're happy to have a chat with a stranger.

Bugged about Buggies?

Buggy locks might be a solution for a cafe that appeals to the mum and baby market and space is getting a little crowded inside. @CardeaUK.  See http://cardea-solutions.com/products/buggy-lock and we take no payments for mentioning any suppliers.  Also see previous blog post about buggy parks http://greatcafes.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/buggy-park.html

Street Bell

Itsu are now mounting their bell and half price, half an hour before closing sale details on the outside of the store.  Can't miss it. @Itsu

Cereal Cafe

 Queues at the new Cereal Killer Cafe in Shoreditch. @CerealKillerUK

American, British and Global cereals plus vintage cereal memorabilia - 100 varieties of cereal; 13 kinds of milk; 20 different toppings and 18 flavours of pop tarts!

Porridge Gets Even Healthier

 Five Grain Porridge from Pret - Pinhead Oats, Quinoa, Amaranth, Chia and Flax Seeds plus Coconut Water.

@Pret

Beefy

Bovril and Buttered Toast - simple old-fashioned appeal at the Black Country Living Museum and popular too. @BCLivingMuseum

Stay Together at Shake Shack

Vibrating flashing pager at Shake Shack in Covent Garden. @ShakeShackUK

Can't Miss It

Brasserie Blanc's outside tables - effective and eye-catching. @BrasserieBlanc

Tables don't have to be Square or Round

 Beautiful wood tables and stools at Annandale Distillery's new visitor centre cafe. @AnnandaleDstlry

Unusual shaped tables at the Serpentine Gallery's Magazine restaurant. @theMagazineLDN

Free Waste

Starbucks at Corley Services have a clever way of reducing waste, promoting recycling and themselves - just more coffee consumption needed!  @StarbucksUK

Time for a Story

Urban Coffee in Birmingham  have their story up on a blackboard in the toilet.  http://www.urbancoffee.co.uk/emporiums/birmingham-jewellery-quarter/  @UrbanCoffeeCo