The New Bookshop — Restaurant in England

The New Bookshop is both an excellent bright and spacious bookshop and a good café staffed by a lovely crew of women!!

The bookshop has a good children's book section and plenty of interesting fiction too.... I even browsed the poetry shelves hoping for a way in to appreciating writing in this form. Good fiction, recommended book shelves too, which I always love. Interesting card ideas also found with the Instead-of-a-Card range sampling a few poems on specific themes, which is a brilliant idea, new to me. Bookshop 5 stars with no problem. Loved it! Bought a book and a couple of those poetry cards.....

Café-wise, expect a really nice cup of coffee (you'll fancy two.... I had another one) and, if that's your bag, a superb cheese scone with chilli jam or onion marmalade. There are clean loos and really good service, delivered with a smile.

They even put up with a recommendation from a bloke like me, as I'd had a lovely cheese scone in Cley-next-the-Sea, with cream cheese and a good chutney. Check my Google reviews for detail.

Lunch items on the specials board looked worth trying and sounded tasty. Café definitely 5 stars as well and a brilliant bolt hole on a day when it was a thick, wet-you-through,. drizzle-cum-rain.

You can tell I liked this place. I think you might too if you like books and/or cafés. Try them out!! Did I say the cheese...

Coffee very good as are the scones when they are fresh, the soup leaves a lot to be desired, I had tomato and red bean which was not pleasant at all it tasted like watered down tomato and chilli sauce with the day before cheese scone I will however give the food another try on my next visit, I have been spoilt after eating in the Rendezvous cafe in Cockermouth where the food and soups are delicious and the...

We had a really fantastic lunch here. We were looking for some lunch in the area, but unfortunately everything was just basic stuff. This piece was totally different to the food. He was absolute fantastic and we had a very very best lunch you could imagine. Both myself and my wife enjoyed our meals. I had the rarebit and my wife had the frittata. Highly...