Take Me Home Ice Cream

Take Home ice cream from a Sydney Gelato shop.

Deaden the Noise

Look carefully under the tables and there is noise-deadening foam to reduce the noise from the hard surfaces in this Melbourne cafe. Great idea.

Street Art

Great street art and graffiti in Melbourne - Eye catching.

The Future of Restaurants?

An enterprising restaurant in Amsterdam with mini greenhouses.

Mannequins filling the spaces at The Inn at Little Washington, USA

Shower curtains as table seperators

Cake Heaven

Brunetti in Melbourne is famous for its cake, coffee and stylish design.

Weekend Surcharge

Great Cafes loves the Australian and New Zealand habit of charging customers a menu surcharge on weekends/Sundays and public holidays and paying staff more on those days.  Will it catch on in the UK?

Weird Cookie Dough

Weirdough's 100% plant based food in Melbourne Australia

Vegan & Veggie

Trends that will endure long after the virus is vaccinated away - vegan and veggie food.

Mussel Mobile

Mussel mobile at Queen Victoria Market, Melbourne

Layered Lemonade

Layered lemonade as seen in Vietnam

Breakfast Down Under

Breakfast menus with lots of toast, avo and eggs at various Aussie cafes and always a great cup of coffee.

Be With Them When You Can't Be Near Them

A really worthwhile idea - tablet devices in Intensive Care Units so that families can communicate with their loved ones.  Donations at https://justgiving.com/campaign/life-lines

Plant Based Pastries

Weirdoughs 100% plant based pastries in Melbourne

British Blends

 British blends at Harris & Hoole - Darjeeling & Blackberry Iced Tea, Mango & Pear Smoothie, Strawberry Shake

Variety the Nut Butter of Life

Extend the range and flavours of something that everyone knows and most people like - a winning formula for so many foods and one that can be easily copied by cafes.

Cups of Salad

 Harris & Hoole and cups of salad

Hello Vietnam

Lattes with a twist - Okinawa Brown Sugar Latte and more - at Starbucks in Vietnam

Feed NHS

Turpin Smale Catering Consultants is proud to have donated to FeedNHS

Award Winning Coffee

Good Coffee Doing Good from Change Places

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

Tiramisu Flavours

Bakery by Day; Singaporean by Night

Arome in Soho

with the largest, tastiest almond croissant found anywhere

 and Singaporean by night

50 Varieties of Cookie

Seen in France by one of my eagle-eyed spies.  Thanks Ben.

What a Load of Crock...ery

Buy your cup at Harris & Hoole if you like it that much

Popcorn & Soda

Square Root Sodas and freshly made popcorn at Seven Dials

Coffee & Donuts

Big Shot Coffee and Donuts at Seven Dials

Ice Cream Ideas

Fwip's gelato/frozen yogurt/sorbet with berries, espresso coffee or cake