Trendy cycle cafes

[derrick]

[QUOTE 3999674, member: 45"]You've not tried their coffee then?[/QUOTE]
Yes i have but as i said they don't do nothing good.

 

[Dave 123]

Still not been there - at only 7 miles from my house I wouldn't feel I've earnt a coffee by the time I get there. But it could be a destination for a pre-Christmas Cycle Chat Saturday ride from Cambridge........

That's not a bad idea.....

 

[TVC]

New in Leicestershire (Tugby, to be exact):
http://www.cafe-ventoux.cc/
Not visited it yet.

It's very nice, with a pristine old school Fiat 500 as its centrepiece. The coffee and grub are excellent and the 'apparal' for sale requires a remortgage. Best bit though is the location, some superb cycling and walking round there.

 

[jonny jeez]

you'd have to be a bit of an idiot not to make it pay.. .

Its in Brighton


...nuff said

 

[jonny jeez]

I like a good coffee and I love a good café but I may be the first to admit that I am sometimes more than a little intimidated to visit some of the uber cool joints in London, ...alone at least.

I just don't feel quite Hip enough. My Bike is pretty... but not bespoke, my chin is broad, but bare, I wear a helmet and sometimes sport high viz... and I don't even own a pair of skinny jeans, let alone a pair that I can fit into and then roll up past my commuter calves, on one side.

So sometimes I just like to roll into the local country café and worry all the locals with my odd choice of shorts and funny shoes.

In the Kingdom of the blind the one eyed man is King.

 

[jonny jeez]

I'm not sure what you mean?

I was "Dissing" your manor

...but only in jest

 

[totallyfixed]

[QUOTE 3999248, member: 45"]This is my favourite. It's in Maastricht.

[/QUOTE]

Where in Maastricht is that? We have cycled there twice now and spent a fair amount of time exploring but missed this cafe, not surprising I suppose, it is a city after all.
Regarding the http://www.cafe-ventoux.cc at Tugby, we have been there a couple of times, they have bike racks, a bike work stand, outside tap for filling water bottles and famous cyclists names painted on their drive. It has become a victim of it's success though, a friend went on a Saturday and left again because the queue was so long. On one particular day there were over 170 cyclists there at the same time, phew!

 

[Pale Rider]

I was "Dissing" your manor

...but only in jest

You should know better than to jest when Newtie's about - it's not a word which appears in her lexicon.

 

[annedonnelly]

My cycling group is not keen, we are more for the mug of instant coffee and tray of chips type of cycle refreshment.

Chips! Chips! Your cycling group took me to a cafe that doesn't serve food! Is that what you call trendy?

 

[Venod]

Have you been in there?

No never been in, I ride with a few who have and they recommended it, on the website it says they can store up to 15 bikes inside the cafe.

 

[Pale Rider]

Chips! Chips! Your cycling group took me to a cafe that doesn't serve food! Is that what you call trendy?

Ah, that's true, Cresswell Ices - the ride leader likes to go there on the rare occasions we get that far north of the Tyne.

After you left, I agitated for a hot dog from the stall in Blyth, but was over-ruled.

 

[annedonnelly]

Ah, that's true, Cresswell Ices - the ride leader likes to go there on the rare occasions we get that far north of the Tyne.

After you left, I agitated for a hot dog from the stall in Blyth, but was over-ruled.

That's the trouble with group rides - you have to be polite and go with what the majority (or the leader) wants.

 

[annedonnelly]

Ah, that's true, Cresswell Ices - the ride leader likes to go there on the rare occasions we get that far north of the Tyne.

After you left, I agitated for a hot dog from the stall in Blyth, but was over-ruled.

That's the trouble with group rides - you have to be polite and go with what the majority (or the leader) wants.

 

[Piemaster]

No never been in, I ride with a few who have and they recommended it, on the website it says they can store up to 15 bikes inside the cafe.

Inside is even better than within sight. I'll give the place a try next time I'm in Beverley. It's even a good reason to go that direction.

 

[albion]

Smug me is always 'heading somewhere' whilst everyone else is heading to the cafe.
Up the Great Norh Road everyone but me seems to turn off fowards Belsay, so maybe that is for the Blacksmiths Coffee Shop there?
And whilst regularly eating my way trough a very large sandwich pack sitting at Alstons market square, at my 2 o'clock viewpoint, the cafe there seemed to get a regular stream of arrivals. Popular?