“Cafe Treff Ambleside Review”
There are three things in Ambleside Cumbria, tonnes of shops with a fetish for Gortex, cafés filled with ice cream lickers & day trippers plus lots of rain.
And when it rains and rain it shall you’ll most likely end up sitting in one of the many cafés if you want to avoid buying a Gortex jacket with a price tag of a one week holiday in Spain.
I found my self in one such café after our AA 30 Walks in The Lake District got us lost somewhere up Loughrigg (Note to self: must learn how to use a compass)
The café in question was “Café Treff”. When me and girlfriend Zil entered the Café the decor was very pine & with the windows steamed up from wet walking gear it looked like a Sauna for hill walkers who did’nt like to take their clothes off.
Managing to dodge the walking poles we shimmied are way to a cosy table for two and grabbed a coffee menu that straight away told me these guys knew their coffee but did they know their latte art?
Walking up to the counter there’s a buzz of pretty baristas, the hissing of steam and the sweet scent of fresh coffee. I’m asked v promply what I’d like, the gauntlet was dropped i throw the curved ball. “I’d like a cappuccino with a bit of latte art”. “No problem” the barista replies. Impressive i thought not only
does this caf serve up a serious coffee speciality range they appear to be purveyors of latte art but we shall see.
A short wait later my cappuccino & Zils latte was served up accompanied by black chocolate wafers and yes 50% latte art. I say 50% latte art as the Rosetta pattern wasn’t a complete shape but a valiant attempt from a Barista in training.
So if you want to pick a café with a broad speciality coffee menu, switched on staff and no sales sight of a sales man trying to justifty a £300 jacket price tag head for Café Treff Address: Rydal Road, Ambleside, Cumbria, LA22
Telephone: 0871 963 2333
Whoops I nearly forgot, they do food as well :-)
“rent espresso machines” - serve coffee with latte art!
