Aaron Sneddon, 17th December 2007

What Bleu has to say:

"Located in the heart of the lovely highland resort of Aviemore at the foot of the Cairngorms, Caffé Bleu is a contemporary coffee shop with internet access, soft leather chairs and sunny pavement tables"

What we have to say

Cafe Bleu was taken over by Cobbs a few months back. Cobbs is traditiionally baker and caterer, but also runs small Coffee shops in the Highland area, all modern and tasteful.

Wifi - There's free 1 hour wifi if you buy a Coffee at Bleu, just ask for a scratch card when ordering. The WIFI will work with PDA's, laptops etc equipped with a dongle or built in WIFI appliance.

Now that Bleu has been taken over, there has been a change - not that things were bad, quite the opposite, things are now a whole lot better, because now theres cakes!

The shop in aviemore used to be Aviemore Photographic, and upstairs was the studio. There's an upstairs and downstairs downstairs is the bar area with nice granite style counter, tastefully designed, and of course the nice big Italian Coffee machine. There's clean child seats (cant remember how many dirty child seats i've seen in places before, especially at the larger food retailers), there's a loo upstairs with separate ladies and mens, and again the loos are tastefully decorated, not the usual loos!

Upstairs is the nice quiet area, mostly because people nowadays cant be bothered climbing stairs, so only the restless venture up, or those who cant find a seat downstairs.

Food is nice, if not a little expensive, so too is the Coffee, which again is probably the second or best in the area, but you get what you pay for.

Staff are friendly, there isnt a high turnaround of staff, i guess because there is no evil boss or production line style catering here.

Definitely worth a treck, even if you're getting pies next door, dont compromise, buy the best!