Day 414-419 Boboka & The Café Shops of Pécs

I found myself looking after my little niece and nephew (let’s call them Bobo & Boboka) all week. Well mainly my little niece, who has totally wrapped me around her 16 months old little fingers :-) We spent almost every afternoon at Anna Café, 24, Ferencesek Str. Pécs (http://indavideo.hu/video/Anna_Cukraszda_Kavezo_2). We got first class customer service. The business is run by mother (cake maker) and daughter (waitress). The home-made strudels, chestnut hearts and plum pies are so delicious I can’t even put it into words. Boboka loved the idea of small bites of cakes slowly chasing her little mouth while she kept saying hamm/yumm. The other café shop we visited once was ‘Varazslat’ Interior Décor and Café shop selling delicious Chocolate Cupcakes with Lavender. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Var%C3%A1zslat-Lakberendez%C3%A9s-cupcakecoffee/131300720266518 It reminded me of La Vende in Lodz. Heaps of lavender, white antique style furniture and soft coloured upholstery. Boboka woke up as soon as I placed my order and played with the teddy bear the owner gave her. The young waitress, who studies psychology, told me how much she is interested in child psychology. Boboka of course was very busy throwing the bear on one of the chairs and trying to rescue it ‘from behind the bars’ after. And of course have a little bite of the cupcake here and there. We also went to the Four Season a trendy café shop at Arkad shopping centre http://www.fourseasonscafe.hu/, where finally I could get a really long coffee. Hungary follows the footsteps of Italian espresso and the long coffee is the size of the English espresso. The waitress was surprised that I wanted the ‘Big’ size cup. I sipped even the last drops of it with a hamm/yumm. The coconut and biscuit roly-poly was probably the best I’ve ever had. Boboka run around the armchairs and became rather popular with a bunch of guys as she stuck between a chair and an armchair for a split of a second. Customer service was mediocre, legging way behind the other two small café shops. To be fair our waitress did her job well, but I did not feel the baby friendly vibe from the staff as a whole, which is a big no-no for an aunty with a cute niece. In a big shopping centre the concentration of potential customers wanting a cup of coffee is a lot higher than in a small shop where a customer making a decision to come in is valued as a potential long-term regular. Also, both at Anna’s and ‘Varazslat’ the owners took active part in giving customer service, but at the Four Season I doubt that was the case. I am back at The House with The Garden again and very much enjoying being able to connect the internet to my laptop again. Autumn is here and gives me overflowing joy. This is my favourite season. Wrapping big knitted cardigans around me and walking in fallen leaves swept by the cold breeze of the wind with warm the memories of summer.