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If you enjoy really great food served in a relaxed atmosphere with fabulous coffee amongst some of the best art on offer locally then we think the artcafé is just the place for you!
We're open 9am-5pm daily. We do breakfast until 11am, lunch until 3pm after which our afternoon menu serves cake and sandwiches and all the usual drinks. We have a new menu coming to Art Cafe West Mersea! With some new dishes for the Winter season plus our perennial favourites such as Fry Ups, Toasted Chilli Bread and our Mersea Rarebit, you're bound to find something that takes your fancy. ~ Don't just take our word for it... This article from Essex Gourmet gives a wonderful insight into the sort thing you can expect from The Art Cafe. Also by simply putting 'Art Cafe' into Google you can get an idea of what people love about us. Have a read and we'll see you soon. ~ Have you seen our Cake Hole? Next door but one to the Art Cafe at West Mersea is our 'Cake Hole. Following years of being asked for our salad dressing, red onion marmalade etc. and the increasing need for a bigger kitchen, we have a shop selling all manner of delicious things. Our wares currently include; A wide variety of Cakey Delights; some old favourites with a few new faces - all homemade by us on site, Maggie’s amazing Red Onion Marmalade, our own Honey Mustard Dressing, a whole host of Teas and Coffees – both to drink in and take home and lovely Cold Drinks. You'll love our ever so more-ish Olives from olives et al, Fresh Bread daily including traditional loaves and speciality breads such as the famous Sourdough, Rye and Caraway and Foccacia. We have the most amazing Ice Cream from Hadleys Dairy in Colne Engaine - our current favourite is the Mango and Lime Sorbet but the Honecomb Crunch is giving it a run for its money! ~ We don’t like to brag but... In the past we have never really talked about where we source our ingredients, its not that we have anything to hide, we just don’t like to brag and believe that truly tasty food speaks for itself. However as everyone else keeps going on about how fantastic they are, we thought we’d let you know a bit about that side of us. We use fresh produce at every opportunity we get and change our menu four times a year to take advantage of what’s in season at that time. All our cakes are homemade by us either on site in the cafes or in our lovely new kitchen at our shop The Cake Hole. The term homemade gets bandied about a lot, often by people who don’t really mean it, but we really do and the sheer number of free range eggs we get through a week just baking cakes would make a chicken’s eyes water. The sausages we use are all freedom food certified as is our lovely ice cream. The veg we use is as local as we can possibly get and some of it is even grown at home, either by us or by local merseaites. Our bread is baked fresh every day and our cheese is veggie friendly. Although air miles are a constant problem in the world today we try our best to source locally or to limit the distance our ingredients have travelled where ever possible. We whole heartedly believe in slow not fast food so as the saying goes chillax and enjoy. ~ The Art Cafe on the BBC A very nice lady from the BBC popped in to see us the other day and decided to do this piece on us for their website, do take a peek when you get time. Can’t get enough of us? Why not check out our facebook and twitter pages for cutting edge art cafe action 2 Coast Road West Mersea Essex CO5 8QE Telephone 01206 385820 www.islandartcafe.co.uk Copyright 2005 - 2012 Island Art Cafe. All rights reserved. Created by Datapartners. |
