Poppi Red, Hawkshead
 |
Poppi Red is the best option for relaxed coffee-sipping in Hawkshead, a picture-perfect village in the Lakes. |
Ideally, visit on a sunny day and sit on the terrace. There are plenty of things to enjoy: nice old houses; birds at their feeders; well-kept hanging baskets.
Poppi Red is small and the menu simple (hot drinks, cakes and wine). There are nice, chunky mis-matching mugs and plates, and the service is friendly. There's also a colourful gift shop. It's all good fun, and well worth a mention despite not being a typical coffee shop.
It's not cheap, but that's all one can expect in Hawkshead which, while charming, is a tourist hot spot.
Poppi Red,
Main Street,
Hawkshead,
Cumbria,
LA22 0NT
Open 7 days a week, 9 - 6
Amended August 2008
1 Comments
Leave a comment
Welcome to Cosy Coffee Shops, a blog dedicated to seeking out terrific independent coffee houses. Most places listed serve drinks that are ethically sourced (for example, Fairtrade). We've visited everywhere at least once. Read more about this blog...
71 entries so far.
Home
About
Contact / suggest
List of readers' suggestions
Links
|
|
Cosy Coffee Shops features in a BBC News Magazine article called "Giving it their best Shot". Click here to read it. |
tombo i have thoroughly enjoyed this website. it makes me feel very relaxed and calm. in fact, rather like I'm sitting in a cosy cafe drinking a coffee. i really don't understand hard drugs and alcohol, when there are such wondrous simple pleasures in life as coffee drinking in cosy cafes. i think I'm going to visit this site when i'm stressed! it has a therapeutic effect. oh how i long for a coffee now.