Food Capital

 Malton in Yorkshire lives up to its claim with sheep and cattle auctions in town

 and new artisan food producers a'plenty - Roost Coffee & Roastery @Roost_Coffee

 Rare Bird Gin Distillery

 Florian Poirot Macaroons

 Groovy Moo artisan gelato

and bakeries - see next week's posts

Roasting This Week

 Hot Numbers Coffee in Cambridge whets the appetite and demonstrates their credentials @hotnumbers

Setting a Standard

JJBean, Vancouver set a standard with their in-store coffee roaster and daily in-store baking. They just have a more original and innovative approach than most UK cafes - Raspberry Crisp cakes and Pumpkin Coffee Cake with chai glaze.

Coffee & Cheesecake

 In-store roastery at Trees Coffee & Roasting House, Vancouver

 plus the best claimed cheesecake in the city.

Small Batch, Big Humour

Small Batch Coffee in Brighton

plus some toilet humour

Kiwi Ozone

Ozone, near Old Street in the City,  is another New Zealand cafe roastery that is showing us how the artisan coffeeshop can be done.

Tasty and well presented food and  fabulous coffee

St ALi of Melbourne & Clerkenwell

St ALi is a cafe and roastery all the way from South Melbourne and now in the north of the City of London.  All sorts of goodies - living wall, great sandwiches, bags of coffee and free water in old-fashioned milk bottles.