Have a Sniff

 Ship of Adventures cafe at Hackney Pirates in Dalston encourages tea sniffing of their loose leaf teas.

 @HackneyPirates  @ShipOAdventures

Window Rings

 Itsu's eye-catching and colourful Summer Sushi window display.

Trayful of Colour

Wyevale has ditched the standard boring, ugly cafe tray for a themed, colourful and relevant cafe fixture that almost every customer uses.

Ship of Adventures

The Ship of Adventures cafe at Hackney Pirates charity has great sandwiches, drinks and theming.

Local suppliers, built-in cold drinks fridge and superb ambiance.

 @ShipOAdventures

Wyevale's Botanic Kitchen

 Check out the new thinking at Wyevale's Botanic Kitchen - the design, menu, colourful trays and interesting cakes will make some garden centre cafes have to up their game.

Courgette and Orange cake

Beetroot and Chocolate cake.

Name that Volunteer

Hackney Pirates charity and cafe honour their volunteers by a wall of names on post-its.

Fresh Beans

Fresh (but not too fresh) coffee beans really do make a difference to the taste of your espresso coffee.  Weekly deliveries to the home coffee consumer are now commonplace.  How fresh are your beans?

Film Theming

Jurassic Shortbread at the Cavan Bakery in Teddington.

Great display of bakery items.

Coffee, Cake and Naughtiness

Coffee, Cake & Kink in London holds fondant icing workshops and much more.  There are simply no limits to what a cafe can encompass!  @CoffeeCakeKink  Thanks to one of my regular contributors for this gem.

Car Tyre Table

Table made of car tyres at Goodwood Festival of Speed.

Simple Sausage Rolls

 Every food item seems to get its variations - are you offering just one plain old sausage roll?
Pork and Chilli Sausage Rolls at M&S.

 Hog Roast Sausage Rolls

 Davidstow Cheddar & Dry-Cure Bacon Sausage Rolls.

Black Pudding & Pork Sausage Rolls

Gone but not forgotten

 Fred's at Tesco Osterley is no more.

 How many more of Tesco's cafe and restaurant concepts will last?

The Story of a Great Cafe

Great Cafes have always been a fan of Cafe in the Park - they get it!  Watch their video and check out what makes this dynamic couple and team create such a special business.

Creative Stairs

 Hackney Pirates in Dalston have really made their  cafe and learning space shine with creativity and originality.

 All the stairs feature book titles. @Hackney Pirates  @ShipOAdventures

Nutrient Packed Fusion

Boost soup with quinoa or noodles, vegetables and hot broth at POD.

Sweet Blitz

POD's indulgent blitz (you take to the counter to get blended) of milk, yoghurt, popcorn, Nutella and chocolate powder.

Bakery Heaven

 Thomas the Baker have 33 shops across Yorkshire and make a mean eccles cake.  Great Cafes is so addicted we even have a specific Pinterest page dedicated to the humble eccles cake https://www.pinterest.com/turpinsmale/eccles-cakes/.  Sad!

Cake and Counter

 Counter and cake display at Bristol Museum & Art Gallery's cafe operated by Compass.

Tasty Little Treats

Maybe we really are learning to have smaller portions of what we like - M&S's tasty little treats.

 Mini-eccles cakes, lemon meringues and eton mess

Baked on Board

All the cakes at SS Great Britain in Bristol are 'baked on board'.  Always celebrate that point of difference. @ssGreatBritain

Cemetery Cafe

 There cannot be many cafes in working cemeteries.

Arnos Vale in Bristol is a wedding venue (woodland weddings a speciality and booked out in 2015), houses a crematorium museum (including a bone crushing machine) and the Atrium Cafe. @WhiskArnosVale

 Worth a visit.  @ArnosValeCem

Cold Drink Flavours

The cold drink flavours for 2015 - cold brew coffee and home made iced tea - at Lantana, Shoreditch and Benugo at the British Museum. @LantanaEC1   @benugo

Thinking and Meeting

 Funky design at The Book Club for "daytime eating, drinking, thinking & meeting".

 @TheBookClubEC2