Richard Booth's Bookshop Café

SquareMeal Review of Richard Booth's Bookshop Café

A not-so-well-kept secret in Hay-on-Wye, this friendly café is squirreled away at the back of Richard Booth’s famous bookshop. It makes a pleasingly unpretentious & good-value spot for a quick bite in a town more known for second-hand books than for food. The setting feels bright & breezy, the cooking is straightforward, & the short, regularly changing menu is heavy on comfort food: Welsh rarebit, cauliflower, bacon & blue cheese soup, & braised lamb shoulder with cannellini beans, chorizo, tomato & smoked paprika are some of the tasty dishes that please at lunchtime, while the likes of lemon polenta cake cheer the sweet-toothed, coffee crowd. Also open for breakfast, when French toast with spiced apple compote & whipped vanilla yoghurt or an ‘open’ BLT go down a treat.

Good to know

Cuisines

Location

44 Lion Street, Hay-on-Wye, Hereford, Kington, Herefordshire, HR3 5AA

01497 820 322 01497 820 322

Website

Opening Times

Wed-Sat 9.30am-4.30pm Sun 11am-4pm

Reviews

Share your thoughts with other diners

Write a review

Book a table

Call Richard Booth's Bookshop Café to make a booking on:

01497 820 322 01497 820 322

Visit their website

Sorry, you cannot spend SquareMeal vouchers here yet.

Other restaurants we like near Richard Booth's Bookshop Café

The Bull's Head
Hereford

The Bull's Head

The Hope and Anchor
Ross-on-Wye

The Hope and Anchor

The Whitebrook
Monmouth

The Whitebrook

Check availability