My Tinderbox receipt proclaims "Coffee In Aberdeen Just Got Better". I don't know about the coffee but the tea and cakes are pretty good! My friend and I visited Tinderbox twice on the same day, first for a quick lunch, and later for tea/coffee and cake. Lunch was a pre-prepared roast vegetable and mozzarella panini, chosen from the chiller cabinet and toasted. Food and drink is normally collected from the end of the "bar", but the staff very kindly took our orders to the table for us, as we each had babies and buggies. The panini was served with a small pot of mayonnaise and, rather oddly, an unmarked silver foil bag of crisps - I wonder if it was supposed to be opened and served on the side of the plate? Whilst paying for lunch I spotted the lovely looking cakes and waffles, and we came back later to sample them. I had a pot of earl grey tea - turns out it's Suki tea they serve - and a piece of apple and spice tray bake, which was very nice. Tinderbox is quite "grown up" in both decor and the food and drink they offer, and I think attract a slightly more mature customer than Starbucks. It's somewhere I'll be happy to visit again for tea and cake, but perhaps not lunch - anyway, I definitely want to try a piece of that decadent red velvet cake! My tea and cake cost £4.80, and my lunch around £7.
http://www.unionsquareaberdeen.com/website/Modules/StoreDirectory/StoreListing/StoreDetails.aspx?retailunitid=355983f4-faa6-4e8b-993a-8c8d1cec92a0&pageid=10
Visited 12.30 and 2pm Tuesday 3 May 2011
