"Have the Builders Left" Design!

 Fun knock through counter at White Pine Cafe in Covent Garden

Happy (Sanitised) Christmas!

 

Holkham brings festive spirit to its hand sanitisers.  Seasons Greetings to all our readers.

Ironing Table

Fun tabling and ceiling/wall design at New Zealand's Cafe Kaos outside Auckland

Certainly Memorable

One of the most distinctive cafes we have come across and certainly memorable.

On the main highway halfway Between Auckland and the Coromandal in New Zealand

Distinctive Cafe

New Zealand's famous Bugge* Cafe with theming galore!!

Flip Flop Fun

Flip flop table numbers at AstroLabe Brew Bar in Mount Maunganui, New Zealand

Frequently Asked Questions

This famous old New Zealand hotel has a good way of answering tourists' questions - love it.

Social Distancing

Holkham strikes the balance between responsibility and a little humour at its Courtyard Cafe's take-out offer before its closure on Friday.

Trying to Keep a Sense of Humour

£5 Don't Panic bag bought by my brother Nick at his local farm shop Bucksum in Long Crendon yesterday.

Great Cafes blog and the three of us at Turpin Smale Catering Consultants know how tough it is for owners and staff at cafes throughout the land dealing with the closures, short-time working, cash flow challenges, staff worries and lack of customers.  We are very much thinking of you.

Our photos and stories are often prepared well in advance so we will keep going for as long as possible whilst home working.  We have a treasure trove of photos from a recent cafe tour of Australia and New Zealand to come.  Do send in items of interest to chris.brown@turpinsmale.co.uk

To all our blog readers; Keep well.
Chris

No Nonsense Coffee Guide

The Old Ship Aground pub in Minehead avoids the BS

Sell Those Drinks

Wine selection and Beer o' Clock at Mercato Metropolitano

Fun Touches

 The Hyde offers fabulous accommodation on the Netherwood Estate on the Herefordshire - Worcestershire border  and is linked to their new gourmet restaurant Pensons.

 Hot water bottles to use

 Helpful notice in the laundry room

 and fun 'parts of the cow' origami picture

Four Legged Friends

 Cannon Hall Farm in Barnsley have a new Dog Cafe and The Golden Cross pub in Cirencester catches your attention.  Dogs and their owners= more business.

Lots of Cake

Lots of cake offered by our 2018 Cafe of the Year Spider on a Bicycle in Aboyne, Scotland as part of its recruitment of cafe superstars.

Roll out the Barrel

 Original urinals at No 29 Burnham Market

Be Happy

 

The wi-fi password at Catalyst Cafe on Gray's Inn Road includes an emoji: BeHappy

Two Legs

Bar stools at Italian refugio in the Dolomites.

Caught Short

Toilet sign seen in Norway

Tyre Dog

 

Bould Brothers Coffee cafe is dog friendly! 

http://bouldbrotherscoffee.co.uk/

Coffee Cup Holder

In an Instagram age those little touchesbmake all the difference; coffee cup holder at 200 Degrees, Birmingham.