Where shall we meet?: Aroma Express Bar
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Your support makes all the difference.Americans use bookshops as pick-up joints. Your average Briton uses them to meet their mother where they know she'll be safe. Foyle's is a rabbit warren which, once entered, holds out little hope of egress let alone
finding the aged relative. Books etc have had the
brilliant idea of
allowing a coffee bar to
operate on their premises, so you can buy your copy of Death, Dissection and the
Destitute and start reading it straight away with a sticky cake. The bar, tucked in the window between book stacks, is bright and cheery and the coffee is good (pounds 1 for filter, pounds 1.20 for cappuccino).
But watch out for men with American accents.
Aroma Espresso Bar, in Books etc, 120 Charing Cross Rd WC2 (071-240 4030)
Serena Mackesy
Tomorrow: Olivo, Eccleston St SW1
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