Ice Creams and Outdoor Cinemas

Weekend:

Nobbly Bobbly's
Cats on flower pot lined steps
Lunch at the best cafe
Watching Grease on a hill (featuring wine, snacks and friends)
Burgers bigger than my face at Brockley Market
New dress

Tea & Cake London: Violet

After a dreary, rainy, Friday and a long (and very boring) day's work, I was in need of cupcakes. Naturally.

And since it'd been a while since I'd visited anywhere in my Tea & Cake London guidebook to the best shops around London, I decided to hop on a bus to Violet, a little bakery tucked away in Hackney.

It's kind of unassuming, a white-ish building with VIOLET down it's side. Inside there was an emptying display of treats, which I can only assume means good things about sold out snacks.

I chose a red velvet and then a chocolate with vanilla lavender icing, mainly because the light purple was too pretty to pass up. They were both delish, and I surprisingly liked the lavender best of the two.

It was a quick visit to Violet and then I was on my way, but not before several people were in and out picking up cakes and taking treats to go. I'd like to go back on a nicer day for an iced coffee and a violet salad and possibly a slice of that salted caramel chocolate devils food cake (I know!), taken to eat in the tiny back garden.

Violet
47 Wilton Way
London
E8 3ED
+44 20 7275 8360

(Previous Tea & Cake London posts!)

Columbia Road Flower Market

Sunday again!

Quick summary: Columbia Road Flower Market. Overwhelming crowds. Beautiful flowers. Bit of rummaging. Hackney City Farms cafe. Eggs on toast. Friends so cool they wear sunglasses indoors. Marathon vintage shopping.

Unpictured: The delicious pear and ginger muffin a friend bought over. Eaten too fast for documentation.