Folly Row Café

13 Kington St Michael, SN14 6JB

www.follyrowcafe.com (01249) 750887

Open Tuesday to Friday 9am-5pm and Saturday 9.30am-4.30pm

Takeaway option

Folly Row, which opened three months ago, is very much a local café, with a great variety of cakes baked on site and even the walls showing off photos of familiar places.

It has a homely, light and airy feel and the very friendly owner has time for her customers and is genuinely open to conversation.

She mixes a talent for baking with creativity, dressing the window each month with new theme, currently a festival goer passed out in a tent with welly boots poking out.

The baking themed lavatory is also a talking point, with its wooden whisk toilet holder and colander lightshade. There was something fun about turning on the jug and washing my hands in a bowl.

The soup of the day, priced at £4.50, was tomato and basil. It was clearly homemade, with bits of skin and herb leaves all adding to very real, not synthetic, full flavour. It was served piping hot and with the freshest and most delicious, fluffy granary bread and real butter in a dish for you to add as you liked.

Folly row Café probably won’t be found my many non-locals, but those who stumble upon it will think themselves lucky, finding a better cream tea than many places in Bath, and at £4.50 probably cheaper.

The soft scone was of course homemade and would surely have won first prize in a village fete competition. The indulgent clotted cream was yummy and the equally so strawberry jam made by a woman in the village.

The Tardis like teapot of Assam was accompanied by a timer set to three minutes so you could remove the tea pouch at the optimum time or to taste. There was also a jug of cucumber water for you to help yourself to.