The Kingfisher Cafe
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The cafe at Kingfishers Bridge Nature Reserve in the east Cambridgeshire fens, selling delicious seasonal treats from our kitchen and local suppliers.
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👻 🧙‍♀️ Trick or treat? 🦇 🎃

It's TREATS ONLY at Kingfishers Bridge this Halloween, with all sorts of family fun for just £3/person, plus fabulous food from @thekingfishercafe.bsky.social!

🕒 3-8 pm, Friday 31 October

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👻 Dare you visit us after dark on Halloween? 🕷️

🎃 Join us for freaky family fun and fab food from @thekingfishercafe.bsky.social, 3–8pm on Friday 31 October 🧙‍♀️

🎟️ Tickets just £3/person (free parking)
🥔 Baked potatoes £5–£7.50

🦇 Book: kingfishers-bridge-nature-reserve.sumupstore.com/product/hall...
Purple background festooned with pumpkins, bats, ghosts, witches' hats. The text in orange and black reads, "Join us for HALLOWEEN. Creepy craft making, pumpkin carving, toasted marshmallows, face painting from 5pm, spooky stories from 6pm, jacket potatoes and yummy cakes. Fri 31st Oct, 3pm – 8 pm"
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Yes, that's 10% on all your café favourites, from cakes to milkshakes — and free parking!

It's a bargain: sign up now!
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Become a Supporter of Kingfishers Bridge for just £45/household/year to get:

📰 Regular updates about the Reserve
🥾Priority booking and 10% discount on Guided Walks
🍰 10% discount @thekingfishercafe.bsky.social
🚗 Free onsite parking
💕 Our deepest thanks

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👩‍🍳 Our Katey's been baking for the weekend!

🧀 Cheese scones & fruit scones
🍪 Choc chip cookies
🤎 Vegan Biscoff loaf
🤍 White choc blondies
🍰 Victoria sponge

👍 And our ever-popular Tiffin is next up!

🥾🐾 Come and fill your boots before and/or after a walk on the Reserve. We're open every day 10am-4pm
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Friday morning, fresh from the oven:

🌿 hearty vegan sausage rolls
🍪 rich triple-choc cookies
🧀 cheese scones and fruit scones

🍰 and a classic Victoria sponge-to-be is next!

☕ 🥪Plus hot & cold drinks, paninis, milk shakes, ice creams... everything you need to fuel an autumn walk on the Reserve 🥾🐾
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✅ Amazingly, the A10 bridge work at Waterbeach has finished EARLY, so no need for complex route planning if you’re intending to visit us from the south this weekend 👍
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🚧 Road closure alert! A10 on September weekends: PLAN AHEAD

🚘 Do you visit us from Waterbeach or further south, and come up the A10 to Stretham to reach us?

📅 On 6-7, 13-14 and 20-21 September you'll need to come via Wicken instead.

👍 We'll be open as usual!
Installation of new A10 bridge near Waterbeach: Road closures the first three weekends of September - Waterbeach
Installation of new A10 bridge near Waterbeach: Road closures the first three weekends of September while the new bridge is installed.
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👩‍🍳 Friday baking just for you!

🍒 Cherry Bakewell blondies, right out of the oven
🍰 Coffee and walnut cake waiting to be iced
🍪 Vegan Biscoff loaf ready to be scoffed
☕ Carista coffee, milkshakes, paninis, ice creams, and all your other favourites!

7️⃣ We're open EVERY DAY 10-4 pm on the Reserve 👢🐾🌞
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😎 What a glorious day to be out on the Reserve!

👒 Bring sun cream, water, a hat and binoculars, and make the most of our woodland walks and riverside willows as well as the big open skies 🏞️

👀 What will you see on your visit? 🐴🦋🐃🌸🐝🌿🪶

☕️🍦🍰🌮 And @thekingfishercafe.bsky.social is open 10-4 every day!
A black water buffalo stands sideways on in grassland with hedges behind, looking straight at the camera at Kingfishers Bridge Nature Reserve Meadowland with trees on the horizon under a blue sky with mackerel clouds at at Kingfishers Bridge Nature Reserve A hedge, wooden gate and golden grassland with trees behind, as the sun shines though light cloud at Kingfishers Bridge Nature Reserve Coffee, milkshake and food on white plates on the wooden counter of The Kingfisher Cafe, drinks fridge and door in the background. at Kingfishers Bridge Nature Reserve
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🤍💛🤎 Victoria Sponge and triple-choc cupcakes, from kitchen to café counter today — and to YOUR plate this weekend?

Plus all the usual deliciousness: paninis, brownies, blondies, drinks, ice creams...

⚠️ (Don't forget: the A10 is closed from Waterbeach to Stretham this weekend: visit us via Wicken!)
Triple-choc cupcakes and Victoria sponge layers cooling under white covers on the wooden counter of the Kingfisher Café's kitchen Ace cook Zoe icing a Victoria sponge, with a black cake mixer in the background and a cake rack in the foreground, on the wooden counter of the Kingfisher Café's kitchen Seven triple-choc cupcakes on a white plate on the wooden counter of the Kingfisher Café, viewed from above Triple-choc cupcakes on a white plate in front and an iced Victoria sponge behind on the wooden counter of the Kingfisher Café. Drinks fridge and coffee machine in the background.
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☔ Need to shake off this sudden autumn weather? We've been baking just for you!

☕ Coffee & walnut cake
🍒 Cherry Bakewell blondies
🍪 Oreo cheesecake brownies
👩‍🍳 Vegan Biscoff loaf fresh from the oven!
🪨 Rocky road, triple choc chip cookies

🥪 Plus hot drinks and paninis in our cosy Visitor Centre 🥰
The counter of the Kingfisher Cafe, with blackboard showing prices on the left, cakes and crisps on the counter, and the coffee machine and drinks fridge in the background Three-layer coffee and walnut cake, with piped icing, on a white plate in a Tupperware container, on the counter of the Kingfisher Cafe, with drinks fridge in the background Triple-choc chip cookies and Rocky Road on a white plate under a mes cover decorated with strawberries, on counter of the Kingfisher Cafe Vegan Biscoff loaf being tested for readiness, by a baker using a skewer. The loaf is on the rack of an open oven at the Kingfisher Cafe.
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Don't forget - we are open today 10 -4 @kingfishersbridge.bsky.social and we want to feed you!
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🥳 Hurrah for Bank Holiday weekend! To celebrate, we've made lots of lovely cake for you:

🍰 White chocolate and raspberry cake
🍋 Vegan lemon and blueberry cake
❤️  White chocolate and raspberry blondies

☕🍦🍹🌮 Plus hot drinks, paninis, sausage rolls, ice cream and milkshakes: all your usual favourites
Multi-layered White Chocolate and Raspberry cake, with a slice cut out. Freshly made at the Kingfisher Café just yesterday! Chunks of Rocky Road, Blondies and Brownies, on a white plate, freshly made at The Kingfisher Cafe. White chocolate and raspberry brownies, freshly made at The Kingfisher Cafe. Lemon and blueberry cake, covered in icing, on a white plate, freshly made at The Kingfisher Cafe.
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🥳 Hurrah for Bank Holiday weekend! To celebrate, we've made lots of lovely cake for you:

🍰 White chocolate and raspberry cake
🍋 Vegan lemon and blueberry cake
❤️  White chocolate and raspberry blondies

☕🍦🍹🌮 Plus hot drinks, paninis, sausage rolls, ice cream and milkshakes: all your usual favourites
Multi-layered White Chocolate and Raspberry cake, with a slice cut out. Freshly made at the Kingfisher Café just yesterday! Chunks of Rocky Road, Blondies and Brownies, on a white plate, freshly made at The Kingfisher Cafe. White chocolate and raspberry brownies, freshly made at The Kingfisher Cafe. Lemon and blueberry cake, covered in icing, on a white plate, freshly made at The Kingfisher Cafe.
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👩‍🍳 Prepping for the weekend with a big bake-up!

🍰 A skyscraper of a Victoria sponge
🍪 Smarties cookies and cheese scones fresh from the oven
🍒 Cherry Bakewell blondies in progress

☕🌮🍹🍦Plus hot and cold drinks, paninis, milkshakes, ice cream...

🌳 Enjoy sun or shade in our lovely garden as you eat!
A large Victoria sponge cake under a glass dome on the counter of the Kingfisher Cafe Smarties cookies and cheese scones on baking parchment, fresh from the oven - still hot and smelling amazing! Two trays of cherry Bakewell blondies in the oven; two oven dials visible above The Kingfisher Café's wildlife garden, with a new dining cabin to the left and several picnic benches under the trees.
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🤔 Washing up or a walk on the Reserve after breakfast this Saturday? It's a no-brainer!

☺️ Wind down to Josh Robins' gorgeous folk songs as you eat, and leave the cooking and clearing to us.

🗓️ Live Music Breakfast on 9 August with options for all tastes:
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A water buffalo grazing in the meadows at Kingfishers Bridge Nature Reserve. Photo by volunteer Andrea Fellowes. Konik ponies grazing in the distance with reeds and wildflowers in the foreground. Water meadows at Kingfishers Bridge Nature Reserve. Photo by volunteer Andrea Fellowes. Willow trees on the bank of the River Cam at Kingfishers Bridge Nature Reserve. Photo by volunteer Andrea Fellowes. Meadows in the foreground, lake in the background under a blue sky at Kingfishers Bridge Nature Reserve. Photo by volunteer Andrea Fellowes.
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🤎 🥾 Coffee and cake = the perfect post-walk treat!

☕ Our big coffee machine is back in action, and we've been baking up a storm.

🍰 Victoria sponge, vegan lemon drizzle, rocky road, millionaires shortbread, blondies and brownies: take your pick!

7️⃣ Open 7 days a week @kingfishersbridge.bsky.social
Striped coffee mug and striped Victoria Sponge cake on the cafe counter with a coffee machine in the background A selection of baked treats on a striped plate under a glass dome Banner for the Kingfisher Cafe, reading "Now Open 7 Days a Week! For fresh baked cakes and sweet treats, lunches, ice-cream and milkshakes" www.kingfishersbridge.org
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😎 Oh look, it's going to be PERFECT weather for our Live Music Breakfast on 9 August!

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Weather forecast for the morning of Saturday 9 June is full sunshine, 19-21 degrees c. Perfect outdoor breakfast weather!
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🎼 Join us for breakfast in our beautiful wildlife garden, with two hours of live music from local talent Josh Robins!

🗓️ Saturday 9 August, 9–11 am

🥓 cooked breakfast with Spinney Abbey local meats
🫘 veggie cooked breakfast
🥐 continental breakfast

Book at www.kingfishersbridge.org/store/p48/Li...
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• Spinney Abbey sausage rolls, made on the farm just down the road from us

• Iced coffee, slushies, tea and coffee, bottled drinks from the fridge

• Ice cream

We can't wait to see you!
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🙋🏽‍♂️🙋🏻‍♀️ Hands up if you'd like DELICIOUS HOME-MADE CAKE with your walk this weekend!

We're open 10-4 Saturday & Sunday, serving:

• vegan sprinkle cake
• classic Victoria sponge
• cheese scones

• Freshly baked baguettes with ham, egg, cheese, tuna, or home-made lentil pate, all with side salad

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Looking for a wild adventure?

Then come to our Family Open Weekend on 12-13 July, 10 am - 4 pm

Bug hunting • Pond dipping • Owl pellet dissection • Bird ringing • Guided tours of the Reserve • Face painting • Live music • Fab food

... and much, much more, with lots of local nature organisations
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Come down to @kingfishersbridge.bsky.social this weekend for delicious home-made food, hot & cold drinks & ice-cream!

We're open 10-4:30 Saturday-Sunday, offering:
• Scrumptious sausage rolls
• Freshly baked filled baguettes
• Cookie-dough & vegan Biscoff brownies

We can't wait to welcome you! 🥰
People sitting at picnic benches enjoying cafe life at Kingfishers Bridge Nature Reserve