Yesterday the whole family, us three went in to Crouch End for food shopping and my very romantic other half asked me “you want to go for a coffee date?”
I don’t know about you, but that extra word ‘date’ added to the phrase made it a bit more special. I really wish my other half would not work as much as he does, or work hard but come no later then 7.
I found UK really strange for not being more child and father friendlier. I am glad that our little one and I get to have him on the weekends.
Our Coffee date took place at this Café place name Riley. It’s fairly a new place, opened up over the summer. I really urged for a nice hot chocolate with a scope of ice cream. The place looked very busy over the summer having an ice cream bar and for some reason we had never gone till now.
A friendly young boy greeted us and I’m guessing the owner. We ordered our drinks. My “hubby wanted a latte and a Dounght and I, hot chocolate with a scope of ice-cream.
The owner looked with a question mark. I explained; you just make a normal hot chocolate and ad a scope of ice cream. The owner then took out an Ice-cream glass, to serve in, asking me if it is ok. As I have in my younger days worked in Cafes and bars thought to myself I’m going to be disappointed aren’t I??
“Hubby” was forced to go and take money out as the Café; Ice-Cream bar did not take card. As we sat down, having conversations around the wooden table. The place is very “woody”. Natural wood everywhere, the massive counter, the shelves behind the counter, the tables and going down stairs. It is a massive place with no personal touch or feeling, part from that on top of the each table there is a one flower in a glass/jug.
But that is a Pizza Express rip-off. We were asked if we wanted sugar, “Hubby” said yes and we got a small jar with lid on containing lose sugar.
It was not what I had in mind of a Coffee Date.
To begin with, it is not a place you want to sit in for very long. The Hot Chocolate was not what hot chocolate is meant to be. Tasted watery, but that is expected when you mix bad chocolate powder with water, and the massive counter had probably the smallest selection of what is meant to present tasty disserts and food. Dissert fairy would agree with me when I say/write ‘Waitrose has a better heavenly dissert aisle”.
You could tell if you ever worked within the service “food and dessert” business that the place was lacking of a couple of things.
Being who I am, I wanted a picture of Riley for this post on the blog and came across a couple of articles about Riley.
I am chocked! Seriously
This Riley place is meant to be an Italian-inspired café, where was Italy? I could not see anything about the place being Italian oriented.
And the owner is an ex banker, who I now really would like to offer my help. Let’s dig our heads in dessert books, bake tasty thing to decorate the counter on top of the wood we darkened. Keep the nature feeling and paint over cold blue with a warm green colour. Buy sugar cubes and put them in a nice bowl and place them on the table. With a bit of TLC we could turn this place to a “hip and trendy place” but before, we need to get rid-off those horrible red cheap looking chair cushions and have a stop at Wayne's Coffee House in Stocholm/Sweden so Mr Riley can have a taste of the service and has to try everything on the counter.
Final words, Riley place has ONLY had a lot of thoughts put in, instead of personal
TLC and fantasy.
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