With an array of restaurants and cafés, there are many more food options available if all the strawberry love leaves you at a zero. Wimbledon’s venerated Britishness runs through the rest of the offerings, and cravings for fish and chips abound with 30,000 portions served during the two weeks. There are also 200,000 glasses of Pimm's sold. The Wimbledon signature sausage, known as the Dutchee, is a spicy take on the hot dog and a whopping 60,000 are sold each year.

Special guests can take advantage of the exclusive restaurants only available to selected visitors, including The Courtside, a fine dining establishment. Past tournaments have seen top chefs such as Tom Aikens, Martin Wishart, Bryn Williams and Albert Roux in the kitchen. From top quality dining to picnics on Murray Mound, Wimbledon offers the best in idyllic British summer food.

Over in the United States they have their own Wimbledon food traditions. Due to the time difference, US viewers tend to watch Wimbledon over breakfast. In fact, their televised Wimbledon coverage even contains a section called ‘Breakfast at Wimbledon'. Shaun Hill’s Smoked salmon with chard and dill pancakes is the perfect recipe to cook if you want to join in this tradition at home. Those lucky enough to attend Wimbledon in person can sample the various preparations of salmon supplied by several British producers and smokehouses, such as the Severn and Wye Smokery located just outside the Forest of Dean, which uses traditional techniques to produce its distinctive smoked fish.

But while the tennis players always face stiff competition, strawberries and cream remains the eternal favourite for the silver trophy.