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Café Liberty
This month’s scone blog features a couple of fabulous cafes in London as well as a day trip to York, where I managed to fit in two scone tastings including a visit to the legendary Betty’s. I’ll start with my visit to Liberty, one of London’s top department stores, with it’s beautiful Tudor-revival architecture.
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Speedy’s Sandwich Bar and Cafe, with its instantly recognisable red canopy, features in all three television series of the BBC’s Sherlock. It's located directly below the first floor flat which is home to Sherlock and Watson. Since featuring in the hit TV series, with its modern day twist on Sherlock Holmes, the cafe has been welcoming fans who visit. So the other day I stopped by for a delicious breakfast.
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One of the pleasures of writing this blog, apart from eating the scones of course, is discovering new, quirky places, so Yannick and I decided to visit Ham Yard Hotel in Soho, which only opened a couple of months ago. Despite being a Westminster Guide, I have to say to my shame, even I had a bit of difficulty finding it as it's tucked away behind Piccadilly Circus but for me that just added to it's charm. 
I ordered the scones which arrived warm and beautifully presented wrapped in a napkin in a wire basket. They were accompanied with a generous portion of clotted cream and two bowls of jam, one strawberry and the other cherry.
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Agatha Christie Mile Plaque - Torquay
Crime and Cream Teas Part II features more about my recent trip to the Agatha Christie Festival in her home town of Torquay. In Part I I wrote about my visit to Greenway, Agatha's holiday home but in this blog I am focusing on some of the other things I did.
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Foxcroft and Ginger
This month's scone blog is a bumper edition with six reviews and breaking with tradition it's including some of the places I visited while holidaying in Torquay. However before we do a Devon detour we start with Foxcroft and Ginger in London’s Soho.
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This month started with a long awaited visit to BB Bakery as I'd hear wonderful reports about their scones. The café has a contemporary Parisian patisserie feel with an eye catching selection of beautifully decorated cakes on their counter however I managed, for the sake of the blog, to stay focused on their scones.
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I was delighted to discover recently a small (no pun intended) model village in a secluded corner of Vauxhall Park. It’s utterly charming and evokes a wonderful sense of nostalgia with its olde worlde character.
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Photo by Yannck Pucci
Mari Vanna, a Russian restaurant in London, is like walking into someone's family home. Its style is retro, the atmosphere nostalgic and the decor is utterly bonkers but in such a good way and I loved it.
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The other week I was shown round Shepherds Markets in Victoria. London is a city known for its traditional markets, the most famous being Covent Garden flower market and Smithfield meat market. In the last few years Shepherds Markets has joined the list, a small family run business, established in 2005, it offers good quality food stalls in several pop up locations throughout central London.
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Charming and quintessentially British I started this month's scone fest with a visit to The Original Maids of Honour in Kew. These traditional tea rooms take their unusual name from a cake, which is still on their menu today and I confess I ordered one last time I visited, with a delicious puff pastry and a cheese curd filling its a recipe reputedly dating back to the time of Henry VIII (the one with the six wives).