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The Kingfisher Cafe
@thekingfishercafe.bsky.social
The cafe at Kingfishers Bridge Nature Reserve in the east Cambridgeshire fens, selling delicious seasonal treats from our kitchen and local suppliers.
🎄We're entering the Christmas zone!

🥧 Home-made mince pies for sale from tomorrow, 6 December, plus all your usual favourites

🗓️ Weekend opening through December

🎁 Open Boxing Day and New Year's Day

👀 And watch this space for details of our New Year woodland quiz trail — fun prizes to be won!
December 5, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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We love the view from our new East Hide! 🌳🐃🦆🐴🌞

If you haven't tried it for yourself yet, pop over this weekend and stay for some lunch or* a cake at @thekingfishercafe.bsky.social — open 10-4.30 on Saturday and Sunday 🫖🍲🍰☕

*and
November 28, 2025 at 12:42 PM
🤔If only we could attach aromas here...

👩‍🍳 The most AMAZING smells are filling the kitchen as chef Zoe (of the stripy trousers) whips up some NEW RECIPE vegan apple, cinnamon and walnut cake.

🥣 There'll be curried sweet potato and lentil SOUP (also vegan) on the menu this weekend too. Can't wait!
November 14, 2025 at 2:54 PM
❄️ As the nights draw in and our weekday visitor numbers drop, it's time to move to Winter Opening Hours

☕ From now until the spring, we'll just be open Saturdays and Sundays, 10-4:30

🍰 We're looking forward to baking and serving all your usual favourites plus some seasonal specials! See you soon!
November 7, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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🕷️🕸️ Blow the cobwebs away and get outdoors with us this weekend!

👻 🎃 Halloween family fun @thekingfishercafe.bsky.social on Friday 31 October, 3-8pm £3

🥾🍂 Family walk into the Reserve, where visitors can't normally go, Sunday 2 November, 2pm £10/£5

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October 29, 2025 at 12:40 PM
🎃 We're looking forward to feeding you this half term: lots of lovely spooky-themed cakes and bakes in the oven... 🧙‍♀️

🔟 And don't forget your 10% cafe and events discount for Supporters — we keep a members' list by the till in case you don't have your card with you 🪪
Something for everyone on the Reserve this half term!

☕🍰 @thekingfishercafe.bsky.social open every day 10-4

👻 Halloween family fun for just £3, 3-8pm

🥾 NEW! Sunday 2 Nov 2pm, family walk into the Reserve, where visitors can't normally go £10/£5

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October 24, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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🧙‍♀️👻 Book now for Half-Term Halloween hi-jinks at Kingfishers Bridge! 🕸️🦇

🎃 🔥 🎨 📖 Lots of family-friendly fun for just £3 per person, plus scrumptious food to order or buy on the day 🥔 🍰☕

🗓️ Friday 31 October, 3-8pm

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Halloween
Join us on Friday 31 October for family-friendly Halloween fun! From 3pm to 8pm, you can enjoy: - Delicious baked potatoes with a choice of toppings,* from the Kingfisher Café - Toasted marshmallows o...
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October 15, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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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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October 9, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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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

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October 6, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Yes, that's 10% on all your café favourites, from cakes to milkshakes — and free parking!

It's a bargain: sign up now!
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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October 3, 2025 at 1:56 PM
👩‍🍳 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
September 26, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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 🥾🐾
September 19, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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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 👍
🚧 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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September 18, 2025 at 8:49 AM
👩‍🍳 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 👢🐾🌞
September 12, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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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!
September 7, 2025 at 7:46 AM
🤍💛🤎 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!)
September 5, 2025 at 2:56 PM
☔ 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 🥰
August 29, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Don't forget - we are open today 10 -4 @kingfishersbridge.bsky.social and we want to feed you!
🥳 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
August 25, 2025 at 8:27 AM
🥳 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
August 22, 2025 at 9:18 AM
👩‍🍳 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!
August 15, 2025 at 10:51 AM
🤔 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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August 6, 2025 at 5:13 PM
🤎 🥾 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
August 1, 2025 at 10:36 AM
😎 Oh look, it's going to be PERFECT weather for our Live Music Breakfast on 9 August!

Book now at www.kingfishersbridge.org/store/p48/Li...
July 30, 2025 at 9:06 PM
🎼 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...
July 25, 2025 at 12:50 PM
🙋🏽‍♂️🙋🏻‍♀️ 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

and...
June 27, 2025 at 6:10 PM