DishandtheSpoon

Hello Yes we are open all summer. Thanks

Lovely to see so many of you this morning. Good luck with all your planned events this quarter.

Hi Ellie We are not open at weekends yet. If you would like more information our Facebook page has up to date opening hours. Thank you

Hi Mustard Yes we are now closing at 3pm. We used to stay open later but found that trade was not strong in the afternoons, it is not unusual for us to have had our lunch rush by midday due to the high numbers of mums with younger children who eat early. We are now planning to use the time for bookable after school activities, such as a GCSE Maths revision course, & hopefully after school club. If anyone has any other good ideas for activities they'd be interested in booking up for just DM them. Thanks

Hi The survey is genuine. We are working with Anchor Tutors to try & understand the tutoring requirements of parents with 11 to 18 year olds with a view to starting afternoon tutoring sessions at the cafe. We know many parents with children in this age group use the family room and would like to engage with them. It is normal for surveys to offer an appropriate incentive which the half price tutoring session is. The data collected is only going to be used to try and create the best sessions we can. If anyone can suggest a better way to find & discuss this with the parents of local senior school children then please feel free to suggest it.

Hi All We reopened last Friday for takeaway coffee, cake, sandwiches, whilst we finish off the last decorative bits. At present we are just open week days to allow maintainable work at weekends. But we will be offering Party hire again in April. And looking to establish an after school club once the right partner organisation can be found. Thanks for the messages all, much appreciated. The Dish & the Spoon

Hi All A few people have been in touch asking if we'll be open this weekend, and yes we will! Only change is we'll close up at 4pm on saturday instead of 5, to accomodate staff leave. So if you are staying in London over the weekend & need to nip out for coffee, pastries, eggs, fresh bread, or a nice lunch keep us in mind! The Dish & the Spoon

Good Morning All Some of you may know that we were running a free wednesday morning drop in playgroup at The Dish & the Spoon. It was very informal, with a host just greeting people as they arrived, and toys at your disposal between 10am-11am. As the person who was hosting has since had a 2nd baby herself, she cant commit to being at the shop at that time anymore, and we are now hoping there might be someone else who could commit to that for a short period, just to help people feel more at ease when they arrive. Unfortunately if we cant find a host we'll have to pull the sessions for now. If this sounds like something you'd like to get involved in please DM us here, or pop in and say hi. Many thanks The Dish & the Spoon team

Hi All Just a quick post to let you know our Christmas Opening Hours. We wanted to make sure our customers know we will be open tommorow which as it is Monday we wouldnt normally be, if you need somewhere to hang out for a few hours whilst the other half wraps a few gifts, packs the car etc, we are here! So Xmas Opening will be: Monday 23rd December 9-4pm Tuesday 24th December 9-4pm Then we will close for an Xmas break, reopening on Tuesday 7th of January. We also want to say an enormous thank you to all our customers for their support in 2013. Merry Christmas! All at The Dish & the Spoon

Was just logging in to announce the news, but the news has been me to it! When we received the notification that we'd been nominated for London's Most Toddler Friendly Cafe we were delighted, but with so many fantastic other cafes in the running we knew it would be a hard battle to win. However, at 3pm today the news came in that we had won!!!! This is totally down to all of you voting for us, & all we can say is an absolutely enormous thank you for all your support & maybe do a little jump too

Thank you very much Strawbs, Knomeister, INMCD, & JonBateson. We'll find out tommorow!

opps just saw this reply, thank you Number 2 & Strawbs. Counting down to Friday now to find out!

Hello All MrsCake -Thank you very much for flagging up the nomination. We were delighted to find out The Dish & the Spoon is in the running. For anyone else interested, the list of businesses nominated for Londons Most Toddler Friendly Cafe are: -Tea House Theatre in Vauxhall - Beanies in Croydon - Gooseberry Bush Cafe in Wimbeldon - Arts & Crusts in Wandwsorth -Living Waters in Crystal Palace -Dulwich Park Cafe -Pistachios in the Park, Greenwich, -Eat, Play, Love in Battersea - Deli Nene in Beckenham -That Place on the Corner in Stoke Newington. Simonethebeaver, Pickle,Midivydale,Hazlenunhead,Susan,Mothersinc,No2, - Thank you all very much for voting & for the lovely comments. If we win there will be celebratory cake all round! The Dish & the Spoon team.

Hi All Just to let you know we will be holding children's events at The Dish & the Spoon throughout August beginning this week. Crafty Cooks - Children's cookery classes, suitable for ages 2-9 will take place at 9.30-10.30am & 11-12am on Thursday 1st August & Thursday 8th August. The children will be cook a different recipe at each session with something to take home at the end of it. Cost ?7 per class. For all enquiries or bookings please contact Heather at [email protected] or call 07890154651 Also starting this week we have the popular provider Tippee Toes holding 75 minute long entertainment sessions, suitable for 2-6year olds on Fridays (except Friday 23rd) 10.30-11.45 the sessions will involve: singing along to favourite songs & movement, story telling, fun crafts, parachute play & bubbles! These sessions are pre book only ?6 per child/?10 for 2 siblings. To book your child's place contact [email protected] Back by popular demand we have Tea Dance for Little People coming in on Tuesday 20th, Wednesday 21st & Thursday 22nd August between 10-11.30. They will be storytelling, playing music, leading the kids in movement & heuristic play with dishes & spoons. Suitable for up to 5year olds. ?7.50 per child/?3.50 under 1s & siblings. To book please contact TDLP at [email protected] or 07817176018. Thank you & hope to see you at some of the activities.

I would be happy to put up some posters in the shop if it helps? I dont think we could have a board though.