Bonbon Café

After nearly 20 years making Jam for friends & family, we decided to see if they were just being nice when they asked for more, and launched Bonbon Café last year. We make everything at home in our kitchen, and use seasonal fruit & vegetables from our garden wherever possible. Neighbours and friends supply more. We use only fresh ingredients, and no preservatives or other additives. We produce small regular batches, and constantly experiment with seasonal flavour combinations. Our range has expanded from our original Jams, to include Jelly, Marmalade, Chutney and Fudge, and now we offer two jar sizes as well as hampers. We have lots of lovely samples to taste, so come and discover your new favourites. If you can’t we are at Greenwich Market on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. At the end of 2014 we found a source of honey to supplement our range, so we now offer local honey together with our preserves.

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Greenwich Honey

After the success of our past sales of Catford Honey, we are now supplying (even more) local Greenwich Honey directly from Eltham. You can purchase either 100g or 240g jars. Remember that honey has an incredibly long natural shelf life.

We’ve heard that this year’s yield is very good, so we hope that it should last a full year, until the 2019 stock arrives.

We also have a limited stock from the Queens Orchard in Greenwich Park itself, a wonderful and little known oasis in the middle of the city, and recommended for a visit.

The health benefits and myths surrounding honey have been covered by the Guardian in an interesting article from 06/09/2018. See HERE for the link if you are curious.

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Lee Green Open Studios event weekends

We are at Lee Green Open Studios again this year over 2 weekends - Sat 11th & Sun 12th Nov AND Sat 18th & Sun 19th November, from 12 - 6 pm. 

This year the management of the event has changed to Arts Network, a local arts charity, and we are in a different venue, the Manor House Library (venue 4 above on the map).

We hope to see lots of old friends and customers, and interest many more locals to try our homemade jams, jelly, marmalade, chutney & confectionery. See you there.

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The BBC meets BBC!

Back in November, Gregg Wallace came to Greenwich Market to film for ‘Supermarket Shopping Secrets’, and Bonbon Café was featured in an item about how we can become confused by too much choice. It was finally transmitted on Monday June 19th on BBC1 at 9 pm. Grace demonstrated that sales increased when only 6 flavours were made available, compared to the typical 23 she normally sells. 

Early morning at the market

Gregg with Paul Marsden, a social psychologist who studies shopping habits

Grace during the experiment

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Chilli Inferno!

It’s Spring at last, and Bonbon’s thoughts turn naturally to heat. Red, orange, yellow and green chillies have been used in our latest creation, a hot chilli jelly.

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For the last 2 weekends we have been at Lee Green Open Studios, an event we have been coming to for 4 years. It was great to introduce our newest jams, including mulberry and medlar, and the chutneys were very popular this time.

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As we approach Christmas, we get involved in several extra events. This charity event is next, near to the Museums in South Kensington. We’ll be selling some of our Christmassy flavours, and interesting chutneys to enliven any Xmas meal.

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Many people have asked us for honey since we started, so we looked hard for a source. Then we came across Catford Honey, whose bees search SE6 for lime, sycamore and apple trees to do their work. 2014 has been a bumper year, and as a result we hope to offer honey for most of 2015. We're keeping our fingers crossed for next year's output.

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We will be here on Sunday with our newest flavours.

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As Christmas approaches, the Bonbon elves busy themselves with lots of extra jam batches to satisfy demand.

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A new quince and chestnut chutney at the ingredient stage. It's a new combination of flavours, and I can't wait to taste it...

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