Church Cafe

 Graysons the caterer provides the Cafe in the Crypt at Christ Church Spitalfields.

Ripping Cake

Ripping cake at the RAF Museum - Captain Albert Ball VC always flew with his mother's home-made plum cake and wrote home about the 'ripping' cake.

 Caterer Centreplate also features a Berni Inn Menu!

Hail Yotam

 Still the best in my book for salad and pastry quality and presentation - the standard to judge all others by.

 Yotam Ottolenghi's cafe in Spitalfields and now featuring on our London Cafe Tour.

Tour de Toast

 Rapha Cycle Club's cafe in Spitalfields has no kitchen or prep space and keeps its menu offer delightfully simple including three sorts of toast with six types of topping.

Japanese Bakery

 The Japanese Centre off Shaftesbury Avenue (up a mirrored escalator) has an interesting range of bakery items

 Adzuki & Green Tea Bread, Choc Cream Roll, Cream Bread

 Melon Bread and Green Tea Melon Bread

Triple Chocolate Melon Pan and Orange & Choc Buns

London leads the Way

 Another French baker, Oree, has decided London is worth an opening - on the Fulham Road.

 Mini baguettes

 Unlike in France you can get heavenly pastries, good coffee and sit down in a cafe setting - http://www.oree.co.uk/

Milk Alternatives

Doppio Coffee Warehouse have supplied an article about alternatives to milk - see https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-kEiywXoqi4QjRIQ2RET2l0NFk/view?usp=sharing.  Watch the supermarket shelf space expand as this market booms - do you offer milk alternatives in your cafe?

Morning Chlory

 Chlorophyll is the detox drink of choice and Tanya's cafe in Chelsea gets £3.50 for it.  Will this be on all hot drink menus in the future?

Festival Food

 Interesting food at the London Coffee Festival from Moroccan and Lebanese restaurant Maison Touareg and Austen's Smokehouse

 Pollen + Grace's 'deliciously free from wheat, gluten, dairy and refined sugar' food. 

 Arancini Brothers rice balls and burgers

Honey & Tree Waters

 Just Bee water "enriched with a drop of honey" and flavoured.

 Sibberi Tree water - birch is out now; bamboo and maple to follow.

 On display at the London Coffee Festival

Healthy Buns

Another great use for a bun tin submitted by Tina Divito-Lones of the award-winning Cafe in the Park, Rickmansworth.

London Coffee Guide

Allegra's latest guide to the flourishing London independent cafe and coffee scene.  The London Coffee Festival last week was larger than ever and just booming.

Bread and Cheese

 Bread and cheese with sweetcorn and peas, Chilean style snack.

Coffee plus

 Chilean coffee shops encompass the sale of 'herbs'/cannabis seeds, sushi, chocolate and much else besides.

Freshly Toasted

 Pre-prepared hot food is a tough one to advertise and makes the case for those cafes with kitchens.

Baby Chew

 Chilean bull kelp - dried seaweed - as sold in markets and used as a flavouring, meat substitute and apparently as a great chew for babies!

Premier Smoothie

Freshly made smoothies are not new but on a Premier Inn breakfast buffet?  If you serve breakfast make sure your breakfast coffee, smoothies and food are as good as offered at your nearby Premier Inn.

Cafe with Legs

 A Chilean (sexist) speciality - cafes with legs.  There are apparently hundreds of these cafes in Santiago appealing to mostly men and where the female staff wear skimpy uniforms.

 Coffee was good and this was one of the more upscale ground floor cafes with legs

The cafes with legs became very much seedier in the underground units located by the metro stations - the research this blog entails!  No April fool.