If you went to a cafe.....what would you have?

[Swifey40]

I'm just revamping our menu for the summer and could do with some help please.
So....meze boards, what would you have on it for meat eaters, veggies and vegans.
Or poke bowls, or paninins or salads??
Please throw your ideas at me.
TIA 😊

I always like it if there are jacket potatoes available as I am gluten free.

Im in Devon.

I would want to see..

A decent fry up
Homity pie
Quiche
Pasty
Homemade sausage rolls
Ham egg and chips
Home made soup with a crusty roll
Freshly made sandwiches on handcut bread

Love a panini, quiche, ploughman’s lunch with crusty bread

I bloody love a cafe that still serves toast! Plain, old fashioned, white bread toast (that I don’t have to butter myself). Seems hard to find these days though!

I always want something I can’t easily whip up at home or would be a faff to do so. I love a good homemade slaw on the side. A proper panini in a sandwich maker with fresh ingredients is always a winner. My local Italian cafe makes one with mozzarella and beef tomatoes and a homemade potato, it’s so simple but so good. I could make it at home but probably wouldn’t, so it’s my go to.

Definitely a ploughman’s

I love an afternoon tea . Scone, jam, cream , buttered toast , toasted teacakes , Welsh cakes with butter on .
Lovely Ploughman's , home made Quiche , slices of hine made sponges , coffee and walnut , Victoria, Carrot cake .
China teapots of tea , china teacups and saucers , pretty gingham tablecloths, lovely serviettes , Doyleys , cake stands , crustless Sarnies , cheese scones , jam tarts , Eccles cakes , custard slices , sausage rolls ,Scotch eggs , Pork pies , any good old fashioned high tea type fayre 😊

ooh! A good Welsh rarebit

Good options for veggie/vegan could be these vegetables:
https://larderlove.com/roasted-mediterranean-vegetables-in-olive-oil/
Also roasted salted almonds.
For vegetarian I immediately thought of an olive, sun-dried tom and feta type salad.

I would be quite happy for the meze but don't want bog standard cold meats, factory produced dip or cheap olives. I also would want homemade or at least decent bread. I suspect though this would not be easily possible to produce at an affordable yet profitable price.

I would like things like homemade smoked fish pate with nice toasted bread.
Nice bread with dips like olive dip, hummus etc.
Made to order sandwiches so I can pick what I want in it.

I’m very boring:

Scone (homemade)
Soup with crusty bread
Toastie/panini
Club sandwich
Ceaser salad

Budha bowls
Smashed avocado on toast with lime.
Scrambled tofu on toast.

Cake wise it has to be lemon drizzle ( make sure there is lemon curd in the middle!) Coffee and walnut and also a good cherry sponge.

Nice sandwiches made with fresh ingredients - hopefully at a price that doesn't break the bank! For veggie options, I always enjoy fritters as well as the obvious salads

Jacket potato
Caeser salad / other types of salad
Soup
Sausage rolls
Cheese, ham and tomato toastie/panini
Sandwiches like ham, cheese, egg mayo, chicken, tuna, blt
Quiche

Absolutely no sharing boards. They are disgusting. If you serve mezze please put it in separate bowls with their own cutlery, not a board everybody grabs from.

Feta salad
sourdough bread
olives
flavoured butter
vegetarian quiche
salsa
guacamole
selection of cheese
side of triple cooked chips

coffee cake
bakewell tart
lemon drizzle
cherry cake

I’d happily eat all of that right now.

A panino with filling of a piece of cold herb omelette and cheese and tomato and a little touch of sun-dried tomato.

Individual quiche and spanish omelette with salad and optional chips
Sandwiches on nice bread
Mediterranean veg with flat bread - prefer them all to be chargrilled.

Nothing too fancy -- homemade soup, baked potatoes, a couple of toastie/sandwich options and decent scones and cake, preferably baked inhouse :)

A good fresh veg based soup. Fresh hot rolls (ie parbake) with a GF roll option too. Easy from the freezer for both soup and rolls.

Panini (love a mozzarella, sundried tomato and pesto)
Meze board with hummus, falafel, halloumi, roast veg, olives, nice bread
Soups
Nice baked goods
Cous cous salad

A decent salad - why are these so difficult to find!!??

Things to go on toast.
Poached eggs
Baked beans.

Home made cheese scones

Homemade porridge with brown sugar sprinkled over. So easy but good porridge is hard to find.

Also a few tray bakes like Milky Way blondies, salted caramel brownies, cookie slice, and i love good wholemeal, cinnamon and apple muffin - these are like gold dust in cafes, I only ever find muffins in places like Pret.