The Oatcake Cafe

As my regular readers will already now, today's date (08/08) means it's Oatcake Day, a celebration of that wonderful Staffordshire dish.  Where else can you get a tasty cooked meal for 4 people, and change from a fiver?

I was thankful that a reader of this blog, and former Oatcake maker, Kevin Deakin let me know that another Kevin has just opened Kev's Oatcake Cafe:  

This shop belongs to Kevin Lockett, who used to own what is now Premier Oatcakes, and before the Lockett family had a place in Normacot.  They have been making oatcakes since 1969, so they know a thing or two about them.

I went for my usual order (a double bacon and cheese (with tomato sauce).  Here they do a double in a slightly different way to most oatcake shops, and put the filling on each oatcake (see first picture) and then fold them over.  This way makes it easier to eat.

There was a generous filling in each oatcake:

Kev also does wholesale, for any unlucky people who don't live near a proper oatcake shop.:

The cafe is nice, Kev has commissioned some interesting pictures, from a local artist:

If you'd rather sit outside, just around the corner is  a lovely building (currently for sale) which was formerly Fenton Magistrates Court, and before that Fenton Town Hall.  Stoke-on-Trent is one city with 6 towns (Arnold Bennet got it wrong) and 13 Town Halls!  I hope it doesn't disappear like Fenton Athenaeum did in the 70's. There's also a rather fine Cenotaph commemorating the Great War:

The Oatcake Cafe
24a Christchurch Street
Fenton
Stoke-on-Trent
Staffordshire
ST4 3AD