Baker Street Meet, Middlesbrough

Well, you may have heard me twittering on about organising a meet up in Middlesbrough, last Sunday it finally happened! Quite a few people dropped out last minute which was disappointing but I think the small meet worked really well as we all got to chat to each other.

Firstly we met up at The Baker Street Kitchen on Baker Street, had some food and chatted to Tara from The Tara Emporium about her indie nail polish collection and her expanding variety of products including fashion, jewellery and bath products. She provided us all with a nail polish that she created to take home in our goody bags. Also in our goody bags was two products from Oriflame, a set of samples from Oqibo and some pop chips! I also received some tea from Bluebird Tea Co. but it came on the Monday after!

After we had our fill of food, we headed off to Lush where the lovely staff let us make a fresh face mask filled with blueberries and a Think Pink bath bomb then told us about all their new Mother's Day products as well as showing us how the Secret Garden bath bomb appears in water. Sorry for the overload of pictures.

L-R - Tracy, Rachel, Steph, Tara, Jen, Becca and Me!

We all got to take away a little bag of treats from Lush which was lovely and unexpected! I had a great afternoon and it was lovely to meet some local bloggers! I'd like to thank all attendees for coming along, Lush Middlesbrough for having us in store, The Baker Street Kitchen for reserving our tables and also the lovely brands that gave products for the goody bags!

The Baker Street Kitchen, Middlesbrough

Trying out new places to eat is kind of my thing. I don't stick to one favourite, but rather try out lots of new places that people recommend to me. In Middlesbrough there aren't an abundance of cool trendy restaurants to eat at so when The Baker Street Kitchen opened I was really excited to go!

The Baker Street Kitchen is on the corner of Baker Street, an up and coming section of town featuring a unique collection of independent retailers and service providers, facing on to Albert Street in the centre of town. They describe themselves as - "A new cafe/bistro for Middlesbrough in the heart of the independent shopping quarter, with an emphasis on homemade food including cakes, cookies, soups, breakfasts, daily specials, good coffee, and food to go."

My boyfriend and I tried this out on its opening day to see if it would be somewhere to rave about.

The Baker Street Kitchen looks like somewhere you'd find in London. It is so well presented, with chalkboard menus lining the walls, wooden tables and chairs filling the space and a gorgeous counter to order food from. The owners of this bistro have definitely taken their time to think about how they wanted it to look, even using small milk bottles filled with water and rosemary to decorate the tables. Their branding is very clean and edgy, feeling a lot like the London underground with their quirky take on a station stop sign as their logo.

On to the food... I ordered a jacket potato with beans and coleslaw whilst Matt ordered a ham, mushroom and cheese omelette. Both were immaculately presented with my coleslaw coming on its own side plate and us both having a simple side salad to accompany our food. I really enjoyed my jacket potato and Matt thoroughly enjoyed his omelette.

This place is just what Middlesbrough needed; somewhere simple, clean and trendy to enjoy breakfast, lunch or an early tea where you can watch the world pass you by. I am very keen to see what desserts they have next time I go as I did see pancakes listed on the menu.

Have you tried this The Baker Street Kitchen? What did you think?