Chocolate Cafe - Canterbury

This is another café that was around when I lived in Canetrbury but I never visited. I think I thought it was a restaurant and so I didn’t bother to check it out properly. Now I’m inside, I am sorry that was the case. With delicious crepes on the menu and my tea beautifully served in a glass mug it’s a shame I didn’t visit sooner.

I got a ‘hello’ before I had even entered the café from a member of staff coming out as I was going in, and this really set up the rest of my visit. All the staff were so friendly, even finding me a table next to a plug so I could charge my phone, though I felt really rude for asking (… sorry!) I didn’t want to be stuck miles from home without a phone (though in my beloved Canterbury, I think I’d be ok).

So here I am staring out of the window upstairs at the street below, Canterbury is really beautiful if you just sit back a watch... Anyway, inside here there is 80’s music blaring just a tad too loud but fine because it’s good music. I love the way the food and drink is presented, I have a cup of lovely breakfast tea in a glass mug, so I can see the sugar cubes (yes more than one) swirling around inside and a gorgeous lemon and sugar crepe with a slice of lemon for extra juice on top! The only thing I will say about the crepe is that you need to eat it fast because if you leave it to chat of look at your phone or… write a blog… then it will cool and get a bit tougher and less enjoyable (but enjoyable all the same).

As I said, the staff have been really friendly and accommodating to my phone-charging needs and sitting up here surrounded by art work everywhere, on the walls, on the floor and above the doors, there is even a lovely painting of a couple having tea painted on my table (the varnish over which made the table a bit sticky…), a glass covered installation of a masquerade mask in the floor made me jump because I thought I was going to fall in! All this is like a metaphor for how eclectic this place is in itself, the design is all over the place but somehow it all fits together in a huge mad pattern and the customers are the same. Around me there are school students, university students, mums and daughters, families and even dates and they all seem to be regulars, rushing for a favorite table or seat and relaxing like it was home. I highly recommend this beautiful place, who doesn’t love tea and a crepe!

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Website: cafecanturbury.co.uk

Address: 1 Guildhall St, Canterbury, Kent, CT1 2JQ