Scrambling Eggs

Not everyone wants to start the day with a hearty serve of runny eggs, bacon, chips and beans.

Monday, 27 April 2009

Cocktail hour at Lantana

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All those thirsty people in Fitzrovia, including me, who don't want to sit on the footpath outside the rammed pubs on a summer evening w...
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Friday, 17 April 2009

A Busman's holiday

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A friend recently said to me that he hoped my time off over the Easter weekend wasn’t too much of a busman’s holiday. It wasn't a phrase...
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Sunday, 5 April 2009

Frequently asked questions #1. What is the difference between a latte and a flat white?

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The answer will depend on who you ask but if you ask me, and customers frequently do, a latte, flat white, café au lait, café con leche, etc...
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Sunday, 29 March 2009

Milestones

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Yesterday Lantana turned 6 months old. In our opening week, someone who had run a couple of restaurants told me that the next 6 months woul...
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Sunday, 22 March 2009

Loyalty has its rewards

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For six months I have resisted doing a ‘loyalty card’ because it felt too gimmicky. My argument has been that people will keep returning to ...
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Sunday, 15 March 2009

Familiarity breeds contentment

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In my previous workplace I sat in an open plan office with the same people day in and day out for many years. We could spend hours deconstru...
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Sunday, 1 March 2009

Coffee out

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After spending Mondays to Saturdays serving people in the café, on Sundays I get immense pleasure from sitting in someone else’s café, readi...
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Shelagh Ryan
13 Charlotte Place, London W1T1SN, United Kingdom
This is a story about a little girl, in stature rather than age, who traveled all the way to London from Melbourne Australia to open a café. Task: convince the Brits that there are better ways to start the day than with their most significant export, "the Full English"; Experience in running a cafe: none; Optimism: high. I’ve decided to keep a blog so that I can either press print and sell millions of copies of my amazing success story, or give those who are secretly thinking she'll never pull it off, an opportunity to see why.
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