Boars Nest Café, Hull
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This excellent café happens to be in an old butcher's shop, and I could happily sip coffee here until the cows come home. I understand the excellent Boars Nest has (sadly) closed down. This entry will remain here for the time being. |
It's just over the road from its "mother" restaurant the Boars Nest. The prioprietors opened this little place in 2006, and chose thankfully to keep much of the old butcher's interior. There are still the old iron racks with meat hooks, tiled walls and livestock mosaics.
The unique decor (for a café) has been carefully augmented with a chalk board menu full of ice creams, an old style telephone, a copper kettle and glass cylinders of ice cream toppings. The old, oddball tables and chairs fit the bill nicely.
It mostly deals in coffee (all fair trade), ice cream and cakes, so just what the doctor ordered. There are some snacks available too. It's very small, but even when I popped in on a Saturday lunchtime and it surprisingly wasn't full. The service is friendly.
All in all, it's an authentic cosy café experience, and comes highly recommended. Without doubt it is now my favourite coffee spot in Hull.
63 Princes Avenue
Hull
HU5 3QX
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