Friday, 8 August 2014

The Velo House - Tunbridge Wells

I’ve heard about The Velo House (so called because 'velo' is french for bicycle), the café for cyclists but being neither a bike-rider or a sporty person of any description, I was reluctant to visit it. However, sitting in the café, I have no idea what I was so worried about. Though half the building is a bike shop and workshop don’t let their tag “bikes, beers and community for cyclists” put you off if you don’t love everything on two wheels, you don’t have to be speedy sporty to enjoy their fantastic menu of hot and cold drinks, sandwiches and salads and gorgeous cakes. While here I have seen an assortment of people from myself, in jeans and a t-shirt, a man in a suit, to people in full cyclist’s gear.

The ground floor of the building is taken up the café and the kitchen, with a big open space full of tables with maps on the surfaces and cycling memorabilia is all around, I especially love the sign in the corner which reads “ you can’t buy happiness but you can buy a bike and that’s pretty close” and the flags hanging from the high celling and with screens blaring Tour De France footage all the time, the large room is by no means quiet! The Velo’s stone floor also means that you can push your bikes to the workshop at the back and they are prepared for cyclists whatever the weather! The second floor is the shop , a cyclists heaven, full of everything from gloves and clothes to energy bars and other great energy foods (I don’t pretend to know anything about any of it!)


My cheese baguette is great and the huge slice of rocky road messy but gorgeous, I even ordered extra tea so I could sit and try and finish it…and I couldn’t… but I liked this café so much I brought my brother for lunch the next day! An excellent haven for cyclists and a great café for everyone else!

Facebook: facebook.com/pages/The-Velo-House
Twitter: @TheVeloHouse
Website: thevelohouse.com
Address: 5 St Johns Road, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, TN4 9GW

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