Big Cup Little Cup

The dear old Bodum cafetieres are gathering dust. Our new Nespresso machine is simply magic. Pop in a capsule, or two for our favourite Americano and ta da. Done. Less washing up as well.

We quickly ran out of Nespresso capsules and looked around for other makers and came across Big Cup Little Cup. We ordered the Discovery Starter Pack and are currently trying out 8 different blends (that's 200 capsules!). Favourites so far are:

Millers Yard and Highwire have also just won some awards at the Great Taste Awards 2014. Well done the clever people at Big Cup Little Cup.

Sweet things

Amelia Rope creates not only fantastic tasting chocolate but it is the best dressed chocolate I have ever seen with bars wrapped in sophisticated foil. The individual squares almost look to good to eat. Almost.

 

We've been looking for some sweet favours for the 'ol wedding and have come across Ilze's Chocolat. Her honeycomb dipped in dark chocolate is glorious and just might be gracing the plates of our wedding guests. They also create chocolate and you can select individual chocs to fill up a gift box and I did this for my Pop and he thoroughly enjoyed them all.

Adnams Cellar and Kitchen Store, and Cafe

We were invited to the lovely little, but not so quiet, seaside town of Southwold by a couple whose parents own a cottage by the church green for a few days of sea air and most importantly food and drink!

A new addition to Southwold since we last visited is the Adnams store and cafe.  The building was designed by Ash Sakula Architects of London.  The front part of the store has a pitched barn-like roof and is incredibly light and airy with intelligent use of full length glazing.  As you move through the front of the building, which houses the store, you move towards the cafe. This part of the building has been kept lower so not to spoil views from the nearby church. You can either sit inside on colourful cafe/garden furniture (I think it is by the French company Fermob) or you can sit in one of the two old Adnams brewery vats which have been used as snug areas of seating.  There is also a outside square, but even with the sun shining, it was on the chilly side to be thinking that was a good idea.

But the BEST thing was the incredible sausage rolls! The ratio of pastry to sausage meat was in favour of the latter and it was huge! It kept us going to dinner time.  Delicious!!

Bambuni

A relatively new deli on Evelina Road in Nunhead - Bambuni.  M and I wandered through the cemetery to peruse what there was on offer and we were not disappointed - well - apart from the fact we went there for bread - and there was no bread - it was all made up for with copious interesting beers and ales and some lovely homemade cakes - a chocolate brownie for me - total buzzy afternoon from that!  I took a chance to look along the shelves and there was some interesting looking sauces and pates - rabbit.  Pops who came round to help with flat diy (again) enjoyed the ales muchly.  So we went back the other week and this time bought the wine refill bottle option (must be careful not to through this out with the recycling) and some bread - hurah! - which everybody enjoyed with sunday lunch.