Tatties - Cambridge

Tatties is what would happen if you combined a café and a ‘greasy spoon’, it is elegant but rough around the edges. The café is one big, wide open space, surrounded by almost ceiling to floor windows, giving the whole place a light and bright feel. The walls are covered in fantastic works of art and old-style tin tea adverts and the wrap-around counter shines, illuminating row after row of delicious looking cakes and tray bakes. Chalk boards are dotted around the counter offering “Your Choice, Hot Ciabattas!” or drinks “For Your THIRST”, from juice through to milkshakes to teas and hot chocolates each as tasty as the last. As usual I opted for a tea (what else?!) which came in a huge cup, bag still in, and a chocolate crispy cake which was a little soft but delicious all the same!

The array of customers is quite brilliant, while I have been here I have seen: a couple, a mother and daughter, a father and son, varying numbers of students and a man in a kilt (though being a girl in waistcoat, who am I to comment on his clothes?!) Tatties also has outdoor seating surrounded but an arch of nearby sheltering shops that make it look like it would be a lovely place to sit in the summer but which now, in winter is empty.

Some small things I noticed that I liked were the breakfast menu that starts “Good Morning Cambridge!”, a sign boasting “probably the best value food in Cambridge” (I was pretty happy with mine) and the front of the menu which has a victorian-style drawing of a reclining woman and man with speech bubbles added (you’ll have to visit to see what they are saying!)

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Address: 15 Trinity St, Cambridge, CB2 1TB