Café restaurants in England
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Flat White
Sister to popular Milk Bar cafe.
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Patisserie Valerie
Founded in Soho in 1926, serving delicious sweet pastries and gelato.
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Serpentine Bar & Kitchen
This glass-enclosed cafe and bar is an excellent place for a drink or light meal while frolicking in Hyde Park.
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Taste of Bitter Love
We visit this small but upbeat cafe as much for its name and award-winning coffee as for its soups, salads and cakes.
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Le Pain Quotidien Marylebone
Simple, stripped-down French-style cafe serves salads, soups and tartine s (open-face sandwiches; £7 to £10).
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Pavilion Gardens Promenade Café
This bustling, touristy and spacious café has full-length leaded windows that offer fine views over the Buxton park.
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Pavilion Café at Victoria Park
Superb cafe overlooking ornamental lake in Victoria Park and serving breakfasts and lunches made with locally sourced ingredients.
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The Rowan Tree
This peach-coloured riverside café does a mean cream tea by day, with a more extensive menu of pizzas, fish and veggie-friendly mains by night.
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Hummingbird Bakery
Dainty cupcakes in a rainbow of pastel colours attract a largely female crowd to this pocket-sized cake shop. There’s a branch in Notting Hill.
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Pickwicks
Soup of the day, paninis and sarnies are the mainstays at this little pine-finished café; it's also a good bet for afternoon tea and sweet-tooth spoils.
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Maison Bertaux
Bertaux has exquisite confections, unhurried service, a French bohemian vibe and 130 years of history on this spot. Seating is limited to a half-dozen tables.
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Prior's Kitchen Restaurant
Housed in the former Fratry (monks' dining room) beside the cathedral, this reliable little tearoom is a good spot for cheap sandwiches, jacket spuds and afternoon tea.
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Le Pain Quotidien
Simple, stripped-down French-style cafes serve salads, soups, filled baguettes and excellent cakes from 12 outlets across London, including a South Bank branch.
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Nia
Rustic but chic, with solid wood tables, large windows and a chalkboard menu, Nia is one of the loveliest cafes in a town not at a loss for same. Set lunch starts at £7.25.
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Gourmet Burger Kitchen
A new boutique-chain burger joint with imaginative versions including chicken, camembert and curry or aubergine and goat's cheese, accompanied of course by doorstop fries and cold beers.
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Café Nathaniel
It's worth pitching up early to snare a seat at this relaxed but small café with scrubbed wooden tables and fresh seafood. It has an adjoining linen, lace and antique shop next door.
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Kindling
Another locals' favourite renowned for its carefully crafted café food and Manhattan coffee-shop vibe; plus free wi-fi for you and toys for the nippers (or maybe the other way round).
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Boulevard de la Bastille
Our favourite café in town is also one of the most handsome: a very French place on the top tier of the Rows that is perfect for a café au lait and pain au chocolat.
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Buttercups
There are plenty of tearooms and cafés in Hawkshead. Try Buttercups, on the first floor of the old Hawkshead Institute, which does a daily 'special sandwich' and a great value tea & cake combo.
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Arts Café
Local art on the walls and a Bohemian vibe throughout make this a popular place for quiet reflection, a chat and a really good cup of coffee to wash down the excellent food - how about some monkfish lasagne?
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Paradiso Café Bar
Hidden away in a small alley off Pilgrim St is one of the city's most popular spots. Good food, a mellow atmosphere and a fabulous little balcony for alfresco action keeps this place full almost all the time.
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Bay Tree
A cosy and reliable modern café popular with everyone from grannies to suits to young families and serving a varied menu of delicious soups, salads, meat dishes and pies even a fair Belgian beers selection.
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Seafood Café
Fish of every description comes straight off the day boats into the kitchen of this café, from weaver and turbot to sea bream and shark steaks. The ciabattas, club sandwiches and cakes are also really good.
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Green Room & Vats Bar
The café-bar at the Brewery Arts Centre serves drinks, wraps and sandwiches during the day, and a more upmarket evening menu featuring crispy pizzas and hearty mains such as Grizedale venison and vegetable tian.
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The Lighthouse
A buzzy continental café-restaurant split over three floors. It covers practically all bases, from breakfasts of cappuccino and cinnamon waffles through to sophisticated suppers of fell-bred lamb and sirloin steak.
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