For the love of Maisy
Our chef in Colchester Matt and his wife Sophie have a beautiful 5 year old daughter called Maisy. She has cerebral palsy, severe epilepsy is visually... [read more]

A new cake at the Artcafé
Our Jenny has introduced her lovely 'Double Ginger Cake' to our arsenal of cakey delights. It's very gingery (as you might reasonably expect) and mois... [read more]

Work Experience
Meet Toby, he's with us this week doing his work experience. He's helping us with our day to day chores and hopefully learning lots in the process abo... [read more]

Another New Artist
We've just taken delivery of some exciting new work from artist Jane James. Jane used to live in this area until moving with her family to Jersey in 2... [read more]

Mussels
We're now serving a big bowl of Mussels in a White Wine, Cream and Parsley Broth, with French Bread and Butter for a very sensible £7.95. Maggie has b... [read more]

A New Blog
You can now keep up with Artcafé goings on here http://www.theartcafediary.blogspot.com/... [read more]

The Friday Interview
James and Maggie were the subject of Juliet Doyle's 'Friday Interview' last week...you can read the whole thing here http://julietdoyle.blogspot.com/... [read more]

Lee's Drop-Scones
The other day Lee made such beautiful drop-scones that I couldn't resist photographing them and posting them, so here they are!... [read more]

New boy Matt hasn't got the uniform right!
New to the artcafe, Matthew is not quite in step with our dress code...do pop in to the Colchester cafe to say hello and meet him and his merry band o... [read more]

Should Have Gone To Specsavers
Lee pointed out to me just the other day that our gossip was to say the least a bit thin on the ground. So pictured here for your entertainment are th... [read more]

The Art Cafe on the BBC site
The BBC came to see us for a chat the other day and decided to do a small but perfectly formed piece on their website, do have a peek when you get tim... [read more]

Great New Artcafé T~Shirts On Sale!
Three different slogans, Breakfast @ the Artcafé, Lunch @ the Artcafé & yes, you've guessed, Afternoon Tea @ the Artcafé. There are two styles, a regu... [read more]

Sorry for lack of gossip
We are trying out some new 'lovlies' in the Colchester Artcafe as Martin has deserted us for a trip around Europe but we have got his little sister 'L... [read more]

Another busy bank holiday
Another busy bank holiday weekend and the cafe lovelies still have energy left to pose for the camera...what a great team!... [read more]

Vandals break our glass
Last Friday night/Saturday morning (about 1.30am actually), someone put a dustbin through our largest window during some sort of fracas. We arrived fo... [read more]

Our Jane Gives Birth
Great news, Jane our Mersea 'Chef-Lovely' gave birth to a baby girl on Saturday 3rd November, over 10lbs and called Grace. Congratulations Jane and Pa... [read more]

Lee is now a 'Chef-Lovely'
Lee, pictured centre between Maggie and Helen has now taken up the reins at the stove here at the Artcafe, West Mersea. She's taken to it like a prove... [read more]

The Art Cafe comes to Colchester
You can now enjoy all our homemade goodies in the heart of Colchester you'll find us at 7 Trinity Street next to the Clock Museum opposite the Library... [read more]

Annette brings her 'Reading Room' to the Artcafe
Yes, we'd like to welcome Annette and the 'Reading Room' to the artcafe, this means that now you can not only enjoy our lovely food, coffee and art bu... [read more]

Linda returns to the artcafe
Yes that's correct Linda has made a return to the artcafe kitchen. Some begging took place but we're not going to reveal who begged whom, we are delig... [read more]

champagne breakfast
what a start to royal ascot ladies day, champagne breakfast at the art cafe with smoked salmon, scrambled eggs, the 'full monty'. Then by helicopter t... [read more]

Our new chef arrives
We're really pleased to announce the arrival of Jane, Maggies new 'right hand girl'at the artcafe. ... [read more]

Hot Chocolate Controversy
I was reading our visitors book today and two recent entries caught my eye. Daisy aged 10 writes "I loved the hot chocolate but you should get cadbrys... [read more]

Busy, busy, busy Easter Weekend
Despite working thier collective little socks off our artcafe lovelies came through virtually unscathed, although the mental scars may take years to h... [read more]

Emma's hair just got redder!
We don't know what lotion/potion she keeps putting on her 'barnet' but this week it definately went redder...now she tells us she's getting pink glass... [read more]

Kealy goes missing!
Kealy our effervescent 'lovely' had the weekend off and went to Bristol...we thought she'd given us the sack but she's back and apparently we are stil... [read more]

Peter Banks has double serving of Jungle juice!
That's favouritism!! That's favouritism!! That's favouritism!! That's favouritism!! That's favouritism!! That's favouritism!! That's favouritism!! Tha... [read more]