— All Things Nice —

In spite of the cursed Covids, a cacophony of coastal caffs seems to have sprung up in the last 18 months. One that appeared in Spring 2021 is All Things Nice with a sweet spot on Hamilton Road in the old Sweet Hut premises, adjacent to the Wimpy and diagonally opposite Coffeelink. Mask up to go in, mask down when seated.

Buzzing inside with most if not all tables occupied. Long laminated menu offered pretty much whatever you'd like in a Wetherspoons stylee. I'd biked to work and thus felt entirely justifed to order my fave egg/bacon/chips/beans (EBCB) combo -- see previously -- while advanced Andy chose the all day breakfast in a bap, which I'd say is his default option. October 27 was obviously stick-with-what-you-know day.

Part of the reason for our Felixstowe foray was to catch up with young Kev of this manor; shame that he cried off, leaving us sobbing into our excellent plates-o'-grub and mournfully sipping our medicinal Dr Peppers. Couple of mirrors if you want to watch yourself chewing and some random stock artwork, e.g. a London street scene, but the punters are here for the reasonably priced fill-you-up food. Shopfront has a curious mix of fixed-width Breakfast / Lunch / Dinner and curly-wurly cafe name. That and their choice of brown with yellow colour palette is all part of the appeal.

— Scribble Coffee Bar —

Given the reviewing backlog, we quickly reached a mutual decision to head elsewhere for kaffee und kuchen. Round the corner, just past the mighty Treasure Chest bookshop, used to be The Oaks. Not no more, 'cos celebrating its first birthday is funky fresh Scribble.

It's clear as Sealand on a clear day that owner (and musical theatre maestro) Wade Ablitt loves his music: there's an upright piano against the wall, a huge Pink Floyd poster to its left, and he's advertising an album of the week. Partners in Crime by Rupert Holmes, if you're asking. I could also mention the Spotify playlist and the "Scribble Sessions" tiny concert series.

Keeping with that firm favourites motif established at All Things Nice, I went for a flat white -- vg -- and surveyed the monster sweet items provided by local company Tray Bakes. As Wade says online, why pay for tiny cakes that Costa fortune? That man talks my language. Me and Andy opted for a gigantic yellow & pink battenberg cube topped with an individual marzipan-encased slice: two forks, please.

Great place to watch the world go by on that busy corner by the cinema: couple of others were doing exactly that. We were there during Spooky Season with pumpkin spice coffee and Biscoff white hot chocolate on the menu. Dunno if there's any connection to the local writing group, the Felixstowe Scribblers, but Scribble is well worth writing home about. Top cake, coffee and wall art.