Cafes, Chile and Cape Horn

17.3.16 off Cape Horn

To celebrate five years of continuous blog posting - over 1,400 blog posts and 400,000 page views - Great Cafes is off to check out the cafes in Santiago, Chile and then visit Cape Horn by sail boat.  Chris is back after Easter.

Target Your Advertising

To celebrate getting to 1,000 blog posts over three years and our wonderful readership of  professional cafe operators Great Cafes is trialling some (limited) advertising.  If you have a product - cake, cold drink, equipment for instance - target your advertising by using Google Adwords and specifying the Great Cafes Blog.

Dreaming of Dry Cafes

Living on the Thames flood plain has its pleasures and challenges.  Blog posting is suspended whilst we wade, row, (bake bread) and look forward to a return to normality.

Free Knowledge

Vespertine Press' second edition of their excellent London Cafe Guide is just out - a free copy to the first two e-mail responses from the over 450 caterers and clients who have already taken our London Cafe Tour.  
You may find you need to come out again and see all that is happening in one of the most dynamic cafe cities on the planet.  There is just so much that is new, innovative and 'popping up'.  If you haven't yet organised a Tour for your organisation, get persuaded by checking out  http://greatcafes.blogspot.co.uk/p/london-cafe-tour-benefits.html

Free knowledge continues via the Great Cafes Blog - over 800 posts to date - and something new every week day.

The New Pubs

London Evening Standard yesterday "Cafes are the new pubs" talking about places where you can actually meet a friend without being intimidated and where you can hear yourself speak.  You can't argue that pubs are closing and cafes are growing.  The Standard list their top 50 cafes at: http://www.standard.co.uk/goingout/bars/londons-50-best-cafes-8509145.html

Tart Comment

The best comment (compliment, naturally!) about the Great Cafes blog added to this post by the weekend wins the ring.  If you are shy about commenting, a photo I can use on the Guest Spot will qualify.  A Great Cafes Christmas present for rebellious teens unearthed by my teenage daughter from an outfit called Punky Allsorts.