In the middle of the Hornets roundabout is a pedestrian zone with cafes and shops. At one end is Domenic’s Cafe, run by the same Italian family since 1983. We went for lunch and had the lasagne and salad with a kid’s ice cream and fruit for pudding. The lasagne was very tasty and the…
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Croxley Green walk and Perch and Co. (13/05/18)
With the due date of our second child getting very close, we’ve been on the look out for local walks that have toilets nearby! We decided to go to Croxleyhall Woods the other weekend for a circular walk that ended at Perch and Co. cafe near Croxley tube station. Our son loves riding his balance bike through…
Good Food Market, Bushey (11/03/18)
If you fancy treating yourself to some yummy food, visit the Good Food Market in Bushey on a Sunday from 10-3pm. We’d heard about it from a friend (who we met through this blog!) and decided to check it out as a Mother’s Day treat. We started off with a coffee from Seriously Coffee before…
New to Watford meet up
Update: we’re meeting up on Sunday 3rd December, at the Cassiobury Park Cafe Cha at 11am. Hope to see you there! We’re organising another New to Watford meet-up! This time it will be a Sunday day-time get together (so people can bring kids if they want to). We’re thinking of meeting late morning at Cafe…
Cutteslowe Park and Jacob’s Inn, Oxford (14/10/17)
Looking for a day out? We had a great day in Oxford recently visiting Cutteslowe Park and having brunch at Jacob’s Inn. With Oxford being only an hour’s drive away on a weekend, it’s an ideal ‘day out’ distance. Both locations are near one another and away from the city centre, so there’s no need…
Viento Coffee Company (12/09/17)
We’d heard good things about Viento Coffee Company on St Albans Road, but only managed to make it there after a summer visit to the (highly recommended) cobblers next door. A mistake, as we wished we’d discovered it months ago! We haven’t eaten there yet, but you can see there’s a great range of fresh…
Berkhamsted to Boxmoor canal walk (03/02/17)
We’d spied the canal (and its pubs!) when visiting Berkhamsted Castle, and were keen to take a stroll along the towpath. We set off south with the intention of walking for an hour before stopping off at the Fishery Wharf Café at Boxmoor for refreshments. There were countless narrow boats taking advantage of the tranquil mooring spots (if…
Bar Mezé, St Albans (03/01/17)
Just a quick post about a great lunch find in St Albans: Bar Mezé is a Cypriot restaurant serving Greek, Ottoman and Arabic-influenced food. We ordered a couple of the usual bread-and-dips (houmous, tzatziki) as well as one of the house specials: an Egyptian filo pastry with chicken, feta, béchamel sauce and herbs. The food…
Watford v Walthamstow (28/12/16)
We’ve lived in both but which is better?
Flourish Bakery (22/12/16)
We came across Flourish Craft Bakery while browsing local restaurants on TripAdvisor. We were fortunate, as you’re unlikely to stumble across it in person, tucked away as it is on an industrial estate off St. Albans Road. It’s a craft bakery that supplies products to delis and cafes across London and recently opened a cafe on its site (with a baby…
Moving to Watford: One Year On (13/12/16)
It’s a year since we moved to Watford from London. But did we? We’re still having conversations with friends and colleagues over what really constitutes ‘London’. We both work in the capital and consider Watford – as it’s on the tube and a quick overland hop into Euston – still part of Greater London. Our commutes…
West Herts College café (04/10/16)
Here’s a useful find: the café at West Herts College is open on Saturdays and has spacious seating areas outside in the foyer (to the left and right of the picture below, as well as inside the café itself). It’s great for grabbing a coffee if you’re that end of town at the weekend (it’s next to…
Breakfast at The Boot, Sarratt (20/09/16)
Fancying a big Sunday brunch we headed out to Sarratt, a village a short drive north-west of Watford. It’s a lovely setting, with wide lawns bisecting picture-postcard cottages (apparently it’s used a lot for TV filming). A few pubs lie along the main drag, but we chose The Boot, a finalist in the Great British…
The Rhubarb Café (04/09/16)
We’d passed The Rhubarb Café driving around the Cassiobury estate. It’s a short walk from the bottom of Cassiobury Park but not easy to stumble across in a largely residential area (it’s on the roundabout near the Post Office on Cassiobury Drive). We popped in for a quick coffee with our little one. The coffee was good…
Café Cha re-opens (02/09/16)
We’d been hotly anticipating the re-opening of Café Cha in Cassiobury Park as we loved taking our little one to the playground before it closed for refurbishment. As the work went on we were a bit sceptical as the play equipment for very young children appeared to be being replaced with swings, a climbing frame and…
Tarboush, Market Street (30/07/16)
We’d been to Lebanese restaurant Tarboush once before, but not with our son, and fancied a tasty, inexpensive meal out as a family. Again, the experience was wonderful, and the staff could not have been more accommodating. We had four meze dishes between us – lamb arayes (see the pic below), halloumi, hummus, the house salad with…
George Street Canteen, St. Albans (19/06/16)
Just round the back of the cathedral, you’ll find the George Street Canteen tucked away in a courtyard. We’re not sure what it used to be but now it’s a café that does great breakfasts. We went there after parking in the car park near the Westminster Lodge leisure centre (two hours free parking by the way)…
Bakehouse Cafe, St.Albans (17/04/16)
Scouring St. Albans for a yummy eating stop, we came across the Bakehouse Café. Situated near the cathedral, it’s in a good spot for having some refreshments after visiting the playground in the Verulamium Park. We stopped for brunch one April morning and pretty much wanted to try everything on their menu! In the end…