Monday, 3 March 2014

Fitzbillies - Cambridge

On my travels today I finally decided to try Fitzbillies, a café I have passed many times wandering the streets of beautiful Cambridge but only now finally visited. The café is attached to a beautiful cake shop, most recently displaying all sorts of red and pink heart shaped cookies and cakes for valentines day.

Inside, the cake shop gives way to a retro-looking café, decked out with pictures of Cambridge, pages from books and a giant clock (I will never ask the time in here!) the whole atmosphere, from the mis-matched pictures, the big red ‘Cambridge’ on the wall and the waitresses in chefs tunics is a little odd but efficient and comfortable.

Unfortunately the lunch menu is rather small but they were happy to tweak something for me and the sandwich they gave me (though on very thick bread,) was lovely. The tea is Tea Pigs, a brand a lot of places seem to be going with nowadays, not that I’m complaining, it’s lovely, bag in pot and tasted delicious. I was pleased with the dainty yet sizeable teacup I was given. My tea complaint is that the teapot, whilst holding glorious tea, didn’t hold very much of it, a largish cup and a half, possibly the smallest teapot I have been given on my travels.

A sweet touch I enjoyed was the sticker holding my napkin around my knife and fork, which proudly states “Fitzbillies Cambridge since 1922”. Cafés in Cambridge are always a pleasure and this odd shaped café-cake-shop combo is no exception.

Twitter: @fitzbillies
Facebook: facebook.com/pages/Fitzbillies
Website: Fitzbillies.com
Address: 51-51 Trumpington St, Cambridge, CB2 1RG

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