Mini Pancakes

Dunkers & Co at Westfield White City with their mini pancakes and toppings.

Self Help Cafe

Architectural Plants are a Sussex nursery specialising in interesting, unusual, quirky and bizarre plants - they reckon they are an antidote to garden centres!  They want the best and their self-help cafe is beautifully kitted out.

The horticulturists are trained baristas, the cordials are on dispense and the coffee is free if you are a good enough customer.

 Custom made tea selection box

Laser-etched signage on wood and marble sideboard.

"If you'ld like a cup of tea or coffee and don't mind making it yourself, please help yourself"  message and in several languages.

Baristas Not Button Pushers

Guest Spot

Thanks to Roy Westwood, Creative Director for Levy Restaurants, for spotting this sign at Benugo

Just Chips

My daughter liked the Hot Chip in Norwich.  It just sells chips, fried in rapeseed oil, with all sorts of sauces and toppings - check them out below.  A winner.

Follow the Pink Bison

Wonderful quirky tea shop and garden at Sussex Prairies in West Sussex.  You park among the sheep, wander through an oak wood, pass rare breed pigs and emerge at the tea shop and gardens.

Open afternoons only June through October.

 Cakes and tea - simple.

 Atmospheric tea room and terrace

 Only in England!  Paul & Pauline McBride are to be congratulated.

Notable in Norwich

 Honeycomb in a glass plus Naked Fruit Cake and Miniature Lemon Tarts at Jarrold's cafe in Norwich.

Clotted Cream & Nutella ... in a Scone

Double Chocolate Chip Scones with clotted cream and Nutella at Pandora's Kitchen cafe in Norwich.

Chocolate & Chilli Buns

Flavourful buns at Albion

Scone Stars

The Jarrold Department Store in Norwich has always set high standards with their 'legendary' scones - by showing they are always fresh and selling yesterday's scones bagged up for take-away at a reduced price at the cafe till.  Bravo Jarrolds.

You wouldn't believe the number of caterers selling stale scones at full price.   Shame on those that don't bake a simple scone seven days a week and make the false economy of keeping those left over to the following day and passing them off as 'fresh'.

Filing Remembered & Recycled

Remember those old filing cabinets; Ozone has pulled one out to hold and present their business cards at the cafe entrance.

Drop a Scone

Drop scones - sour cherry and dark chocolate / apricot, blueberry and ginger -  plus peanut butter cookies at the Guardian's pop up cafe #guardiancoffee in Boxpark, Shoreditch.

Style & Sandwiches

Food matches the style of cafe Maison 3 Garcons in Shoreditch - see http://greatcafes.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/more-style-in-shoreditch.html

Customers Customise

Itsu Pimps Your Potsu - see http://greatcafes.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/pimp-your-potsu.html
Fastoche offers a Spice Sweet rack.  The trend is to allow and encourage customers to customise their food and drink.

Holes & Hay

 Colander light fittings and table decor at new restaurant and bar Grain Store, Kings Cross

Grain Store also offers Hay Water distilled by their drinks specialist!

Pimping

Kookybakes pimped Up Brownie.  It seems to be a word that caterers love to describe customising and souping-up your food - see http://greatcafes.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/pimp-your-potsu.html

Delicious At Any Hour

 Kedgeree is just part of the retro street food landscape.  What the Dickens!'s stall at Kings Cross.

Kid Appeal

 Good kids offer at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew by caterer Peyton & Byrne

 Healthy options with planty of eye appeal

Coming to a Tesco Near You?

 Harris & Hoole's flagship in Cannon Street has a good looking food offer.

Dirty Laundry, Clean Hair & Coffee

Guest Spot

Interior Designer Katie Danson spotted this Belgian design studio which combines a launderette, a cafe and a hairdressing salon to create a place where customers can get a drink or a haircut while waiting for their washing.  See more of the story and photos at http://www.dezeen.com/2013/02/16/wasbar-laundrette-ghent-by-pinkeye/

In London, Katie also spotted LilyMaila Hairdressing salon and Cafe - no launderette yet.

Bun It and Fork It

 Pulled Pork is always popular and EAT serve it in a bun or in a pot.