I have to admit, this
isn’t my first time at the Sevenoaks Bookshop, I love the idea of combining a
bookshop and café, one which was taken up by Waterstones and Costa in 2012.
However, here in this independent bookshop with homemade café simply named
‘Bookshop Café’ it works so much better. The feeling is very different in here,
with the staff not under the strain of a big company name and a three-floor
mega-bookstore they have time to chat with customers about books, their tea
choice, the gorgeous tiffin on the shelf or anything else. The crockery cabinet
to one side is laden with gorgeous home-made treats, towered over by shelves of
cafetieres, teapots, milk jugs and take away cups. That’s all this café needs,
plus three small table and chair sets, it’s perfect. The one corner of the
world and the shop that feels calm and genuine, run by genuinely friendly
people who are there because they want to be. It’s a blissful rest from the
heat today and a lovely cup of tea in this lovely shop. Here at the front of
the shop, the front window is full of books and leaflets about Sevenoaks and
Kent, another sign of the homely feeling this shop gives out.
I really love the tea
here (however, unfortunately I’m not sure what company it is, the symbol is a
tea cup and saucer with steam curving from it) and the elegantly slim sugar
packets from ‘Allpress Expresso’, makes you think about just how much goes into running a café and
ordering all the necessary bits in and making all the tasty things. I don’t think
I think about what really goes into making a café often enough, just appreciate
how lovely that effort makes the places I write about.
All in all a lovely
shop, perfect for a cup of delicious tea and home-made cakes, surrounded by the
smell of books and some truly great people. Delightful.
Twitter:
@7OaksBookshop
Website:
Sevenoaksbookshop.co.uk
Address: 147 High
Street, Sevenoaks, Kent, TN13 1XJ
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