Biscuit Ceramic Cafe

Lovely little ceramic café in the heart of historic Greenwich.
Great for kids and adults alike, and it’s a great way to to let your creativity out (even if you don’t consider yourself very creative!) Hubby took me here as a birthday treat for my 27^th!
They do children’s parties and hen do parties too.
large selection of items to paint, ranging from ~£8-£25 (though the nicer/​larger items do tend to be at the upper price end).
All their food is made fresh and locally (lots of scrummy cakes! And healthy options too), and good range of drinks too.
Definitely a fave for a good morning/​afternoon out in Greenwich!
(they do a loyalty card, too)

Fantastic way to spend an afternoon.
Whilst it’s slightly pricey for the ceramics themselves, it’s worth it for the fun.
Whilst a 25 year old software guy isn’t their usual clientele, it’s genuinely good fun to fail at painting pottery! Mine was a total disaster but it was fun either way.
Food was good, drinks were good. Neither was particularly memorable but maybe that’s because I was so focused. Service was great, relaxed and friendly.
Definitely come along if you’re in need of something to do! But don’t wear clothes that you love.

I can’t comment on the ceramic aspect of Biscuit because I just popped in for a sit down and coffee/​scone after a trip to the Royal Observatory. The staff seemed like they couldn’t especially be bothered with my presence and it was also slightly pricey. However I am prepared not to condemn Biscuit to 2 star damnation because the atmosphere was quite relaxed and folk did seem to be enjoying the ceramics and painting.

Another sunny day in London so I thought its about time I explored Greenwich a little more, what with living so close! Arriving at lunchtime I had a quick look round for somewhere to eat and came across this great, colourful café with a cheeky twist (I do love a cheeky twist, makes things interesting and unpredictable!)
This bright coloured establishment is a ceramic café where as well as serving coffee to keep the parents happy, you can buy white ceramic (mugs, figurines, that sort of thing) and paint them to keep the kids happy. Although when I went in there was definitely a mixture of kids and parents painting alike — kind of like a mini competition, the parents were eyeing up other families designs and then ‘modifying’ their owns children’s painted disasters to make the more impressive. Gotta love parental rivalry, like primary school sports day all over again!
Now, being mature and grown up, I didn’t partake in the painting… Also I thought it would be weird to see a grown man without children in the corner painting a pretty pink elephant (a grey one would be SO drab). But I did have a very tasty and reasonably priced lunch here. Iced latte and a generous portion of warm goats cheese and vegetable quiche filled me up nicely. The quiche was just how I like it, warmed through and not too dry. Pastry wasn’t too dry and the filling was just right for a summers day.
I can think of a few friends who would definitely come here for a craft based lunch or even a birthday party — don’t worry guys, there’s a function room downstairs to paint to your hearts content! Just a tad expensive (at £12 for a mug I’d have to be Monet to feel I got my money’s worth!)

(IF I COULD GIVE NO STARS THEN I WOULD) Well. what can be said. This has to be one of the worst eating experiences I’ve ever encountered. In a café which seemed to be run by several young girls all Im guessing were on their first days. Who’d seemingly had no experience of working in a café and with little stock.
Me, my girlfriend and some friends were staying in Greenwich and looking for somewhere to eat stumbled onto ‘biscuit.’ A café-​come-​ceramic painting eatery.
Looking fairly nice we decided to step inside. The menu, although limited, didn’t seem too bad and I opted for a bacon bagel (as they had chicken and bacon listed). ’ we don’t have bacon ’ I was told amazingly. Glancing down at the congealed mess of bacon and chicken in a bowl I realised that was the only nearest option and so me and my girlfriend opted for toastees (£4.95!) with our other friend opting for a cheese and beans baked potato. Simple. right?
So we sat down and waited and waited Our friend was then told by the waitress that ‘they didn’t have beans’ .unimpressed she said it was fine with extra cheese. So we waited a little bit longereventually our friend’s baked potato (which closer resembled a large new potato with minimal cheddar cheese and butter somehow at the bottom) clearly not properly cooked.
We still carried on waiting and waiting a bit longer, I eventually went up and asked the young girl behind the counter where they were. With a vacant look to her co worker ‘toastees?’ ’ toastees?’ ‘Erm just coming ‘
At this point I should’ve asked for a refund and cancelled the order which clearly wasn’t ‘just coming’. But giving them the benefit of the doubt I went back to my seat and waited and waited. Eventually we were brought two ham and cheese sandwiches with bread that had been barely toasted. Not a toastee, the cheese was hardly melted! These things clearly hadn’t seen much of a toastee/​panini or any other proper bread warmer.
At this point I’d had enough and went up and demanded a refund. ‘Why’ I was asked ’ because these things aren’t toastees?! And we ve waited quite possibly the longest ever time recorded for a very simple meal!’ I was duly refunded.
What made this all so much worse was the fact we’d passed so many nice cafes and eateries in Greenwich and we ended up wasting time in a substandard, sloppily run café.
Seriously don’t make the mistake we made.
DO NOT GO HERE!

We really enjoyed our afternoon at the Biscuit ceramic café. The staff are helpful in design and technique tips and the food and drink was pretty good too. The café can get extremely busy, so don’t expect individual attention and the items are quite expensive too. Having said that, I haven’t found a ceramic café in the South East that wasn’t expensive. I paid £12 for a small plate but opted specifically for a small item because it can be quite tiring to paint a larger item!
When visiting a ceramics painting café, you should be aware that you won’t be able to pick your item up straight away. The ceramic piece needs to be fired the oven after painting to seal the paint, give it a gloss and bring out your colours.

I only went to Biscuit because I wanted a piece of the lovely looking chocolate cake in the window. I left over an hour later, full of cake but also having painted my own little jug, now waiting to be glazed.
What a fun afternoon! Firstly, because it’s a café, the food. There’s a lovely little sandwich bar, but for me it’s all about the homemade cakes. The window is stuffed with them, chocolate, chocolate fudge, cheesecake, lemon chiffon…, and then there are fantastic brownies and squares of millionaire’s shortbread by the counter too. It’s all waiting to be washed down with nice organic fruit juices, teas and hot chocolate. Very good. Slightly pricey, but very good.
If you want to, you can just sit down, eat and read the paper. But I challenge you not to stray over to the large wall of white pots, just waiting to be coloured in. Surely you can find something that you need, a jug, a mug, a piggy bank, a vase… Once you’ve decided, you pay for it at the counter and go over to the paints. Squirt the colours you want on to a pallet, and then sit and paint! There’s everything you need — pencils, paints, brushes, sponges. And you have all the time you need to get your pot just right.
Once its done, you take it back to the counter and leave it for a week for them to glaze it, and then it’s done! Brilliant.
It’s a lovely place and I’ll definitely be back. The atmosphere is fun and relaxed without being so arty it’s scary, and it’s surprisingly grown up with mainly couples or groups of friends painting over coffee (although you certainly wouldn’t feel out of place with a kid either). Enjoy!

A great idea, poorly executed.
Cons: The service is slow; there is not much room inside; the ceramics are overpriced; the lattes were tepid; the tables were not cleared in a timely manner, no table service; loos needed a clean; painting aprons not provided.
Pros: A nice idea for the kids to paint while/​after they eat; nice décor.

Ever wanted to paint your very own ceramic mug, figurine, vase, car, alien? Don’t be silly, of course you have!
Take your inner child (or even a real one) to the adorable Biscuit Ceramic Café in Greenwich. Brightly decorated in cutesy colours and with a whole wall of ceramic objects to paint and decorate, it is the perfect location to unleash your creativity.
Choose your object — £10 for a small figurine, £14 for a larger piece and right up to £22 for a vase/​jug. Yeah it sure ain’t cheap.
Once you have painted your creation, you drop it off at the counter and the café will fire it, ready for you to collect a week later. Such a fabulous activity for kids and adults, I was so tempted to pick something out. But at those prices, I can get my kicks at the pub.
Biscuit has a lovely looking range of cakes, all called cutesy names like Sally’s cheescake etc. Even if you don’t paint something, it is a nice place to sit and be surrounded by ‘artists’.