This Has Legs

 A vision of things to come - Giraffe Stop at King's Cross Station.  Fast takeaway service as well as some sit down space.

 Giraffe (sorry, Tesco) is on to a winner with this concept in high footfall locations.

Serious Recycling

Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, and their caterer Sodexo, are serious about recycling with notices on every outside table plus the appropriate bins.

King's Cross Kiosk

 The Great Northern Hotel has set up this rather splendid hot meat sandwich Kiosk within King's Cross Station.

Keeping it Simple

Simple and effective blackboard wall at Bocketts Farm Park's new cafe in Surrey.

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Jammy

Scones with jam already in the top of them at KC Peaches in Dublin.

Rustic Rack

Rustic (and inexpensive) rack for traybakes at Hobbledown's kiosk

Veg Tray Shelves

Café Muse in Hull with shelves made from vegetable trays from next door shop as spotted by my colleague Charles Manners.

Definitely that front room feel.  Who says fit outs have to be expensive?

Tomorrow is for Broccoli

Ice cream cart sign at Hobbledown Farm Park.

Buggy Park

 Buggy Parks are a great idea when there are hordes of little ones around as at The Old Barns Tearoom, Bocketts Farm Park, Leatherhead.

We've Got to Start Somewhere!

Norwich furniture shop Warings has a cafe and the owners clearly were involved from the start.  "Apparently we've got to start somewhere?!" say the general sweepers/clearers and washer-uppers Harriet & Jemima Waring.

Great building, good coffee, tasty cakes and stylish furniture.

Expensive Glassware

Note the home made lemonade glass at the Anthologist in the City - a jam jar.

Great British Summer

M&S' Fish & Chips and Beef Burger crisps.

Fun Reading

Books/stageplay on the ceiling at the new Park Theatre Cafe Bar in Finsbury Park.

 Butchers block as table plus assorted quirky furniture.

Pork, Pickle & Fly

Guest Spot

 
Pork & Pickle at East Midlands Airport was spotted by Holkham's Johanna Tennant. Local supplier Dickinson and Morris, based in Melton Mowbray, have supplied them with a range of local cakes, pork pies and pork sausages.

A good example of local sourcing.

Marmalade Queen Whoopee

 Marmalade Queen of Pudding Cake

 and Chocolate Whoopee Cakes at the new, second, Albion at NEO on Bankside

Your Front Room

 Designing a cafe as if your front room just works.  The Front Room in N4.

Herbs & Homemade Lemonade

Levy Restaurants, at Hatfield House, with quality condiments nicely displayed plus high margin homemade lemonade.

N4 Find

 Boulangerie Bon Martin in Finsbury Park N4

Buy Ice With Your Eyes

Guest Spot

Hotel consultant guru Melvin Gold sends in this great display of ice lollies at the Gelataria Lariana in Como.

Very Cosy

 Would you know what this is?

 All becomes clear - tea pot cosy courtesy of my neighbour's collection of family heirlooms

Oven Fresh

Scones fresh on display with back up cooling on the oven shelf behind - smart design at Levy Restaurants operation at Hatfield House.

Cafe Split Shifts

A local roadside cafe now opens for evening pasta and pizza with an afternoon gap.  How many cafes maximise the opportunity?

Bring Your Own wine will appeal - the £1.75 'Nescafe' is honest but may not quite match the Italian idyll of espresso coffee.