Bookfinders Cafe

Long before Waterstones started incorporating café’s into its stores, Bookfinders, a bookshop in the city’s University district, was serving coffee and tea to customers. It’s got a very Parisian, bohemian feel to it, influenced by its owner to spent much of the 1980’s in Paris in café’s once frequented by Sartre and his peers. It’s basically a long hall with second hand books lying in piles with a single kitchen table for customers extended around the back corner. Popular for poetry readings and artist presentations, it tends to be the haunt of student and staff from Queen’s University’s School of English just across the road. 5 stars for cosiness and sheer character.