The Cafe business for the professional operator - keeping up to date with what's new and interesting - written by Paul Cottrell, Turpin Smale Catering Consultants
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Friday, 29 April 2016
Thursday, 28 April 2016
Guilt free
Wheat free, low sugar offerings at Lola's cupcakes - the health message is getting through in every area of the cafe business.
Wednesday, 27 April 2016
Superb Salads
Ottolenghi sells the following ingredients - no doubt the secret to their great salads. Verjuice - the juice from unfermented grapes. Dukkah of various seeds.
Pomegranate Molasses
Tahini
Seeds for salads
Lemon salt and Lemon Myrtle salt
Pomegranate Molasses
Tahini
Seeds for salads
Lemon salt and Lemon Myrtle salt
Tuesday, 26 April 2016
Monday, 25 April 2016
Ripping Cake
Ripping cake at the RAF Museum - Captain Albert Ball VC always flew with his mother's home-made plum cake and wrote home about the 'ripping' cake.
Caterer Centreplate also features a Berni Inn Menu!
Caterer Centreplate also features a Berni Inn Menu!
Friday, 22 April 2016
Hail Yotam
Still the best in my book for salad and pastry quality and presentation - the standard to judge all others by.
Yotam Ottolenghi's cafe in Spitalfields and now featuring on our London Cafe Tour.
Yotam Ottolenghi's cafe in Spitalfields and now featuring on our London Cafe Tour.
Thursday, 21 April 2016
Tour de Toast
Rapha Cycle Club's cafe in Spitalfields has no kitchen or prep space and keeps its menu offer delightfully simple including three sorts of toast with six types of topping.
Wednesday, 20 April 2016
Japanese Bakery
The Japanese Centre off Shaftesbury Avenue (up a mirrored escalator) has an interesting range of bakery items
Adzuki & Green Tea Bread, Choc Cream Roll, Cream Bread
Melon Bread and Green Tea Melon Bread
Triple Chocolate Melon Pan and Orange & Choc Buns
Tuesday, 19 April 2016
London leads the Way
Another French baker, Oree, has decided London is worth an opening - on the Fulham Road.
Mini baguettes
Unlike in France you can get heavenly pastries, good coffee and sit down in a cafe setting - http://www.oree.co.uk/
Unlike in France you can get heavenly pastries, good coffee and sit down in a cafe setting - http://www.oree.co.uk/
Monday, 18 April 2016
Milk Alternatives
Doppio Coffee Warehouse have supplied an article about alternatives to milk - see https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-kEiywXoqi4QjRIQ2RET2l0NFk/view?usp=sharing. Watch the supermarket shelf space expand as this market booms - do you offer milk alternatives in your cafe?
Friday, 15 April 2016
Morning Chlory
Chlorophyll is the detox drink of choice and Tanya's cafe in Chelsea gets £3.50 for it. Will this be on all hot drink menus in the future?
Thursday, 14 April 2016
Festival Food
Interesting food at the London Coffee Festival from Moroccan and Lebanese restaurant Maison Touareg and Austen's Smokehouse
Pollen + Grace's 'deliciously free from wheat, gluten, dairy and refined sugar' food.
Arancini Brothers rice balls and burgers
Pollen + Grace's 'deliciously free from wheat, gluten, dairy and refined sugar' food.
Arancini Brothers rice balls and burgers
Wednesday, 13 April 2016
Honey & Tree Waters
Just Bee water "enriched with a drop of honey" and flavoured.
Sibberi Tree water - birch is out now; bamboo and maple to follow.
On display at the London Coffee Festival
Sibberi Tree water - birch is out now; bamboo and maple to follow.
On display at the London Coffee Festival
Tuesday, 12 April 2016
Healthy Buns
Another great use for a bun tin submitted by Tina Divito-Lones of the award-winning Cafe in the Park, Rickmansworth.
Monday, 11 April 2016
London Coffee Guide
Allegra's latest guide to the flourishing London independent cafe and coffee scene. The London Coffee Festival last week was larger than ever and just booming.
Friday, 8 April 2016
Thursday, 7 April 2016
Coffee plus
Chilean coffee shops encompass the sale of 'herbs'/cannabis seeds, sushi, chocolate and much else besides.