It’s a modern catering with the sheer and light scale. The 100-seater cafe is a pleasing blend of brightly-coloured chairs and well-spaced tables, set off by a plain grey wall and the shiny chrome of the bustling counter. Huge windows along two sides are perfect for people-watching across Princess Square.
It provides beautiful and exquisite handmade food. Prices are keen (porridge with honey, 99p) and the menu broadly populist, to keep the pensioners onside. But, at the same time, there is the sort of emphasis on proper food - fresh local ingredients, honest cooking - that you would never get from a large contract caterer. Hot specials are prepared daily, attractive scones and cakes, wraps and paninis, or just pop in for a Tunnock's tea cake (69p) and a cup of Rington's tea (99p). A rustic bacon, mushroom and onion quiche (£3.99) is fantastic, despite the drab side-salad.
But, afterall, it’s a library. There is a literary air around the café. It seems be established on an open library’s book.
Perhaps breakfast is not the right time for young people, I sat among some senior people who were enjoying their foods and books. I was so quiet to taste my cappucino as well as the culture, even afraid my breath could disturb the serenity.
It’s a dinning room of Newcastle city. If you are visiting here, please do enter in the library, order a cup of coffee, share a cake with your friends, and taste the literary from the City Library.
