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Poetry Café (The Poetry Place)
22 Betterton Street
London WC2H 9BX
Email: Ely Ahamed
Telephone: 020 7420 9888
Opening times
12 noon - 11pm Monday to Friday
7pm - 11pm Saturday
Closed on Sunday, and on occasion for private hire - please check the calendar before you visit.
Please support the Poetry Café and refrain from bringing food and drinks from the outside.
See also
- The Poetry Society cookbook, Poetry on a Plate, which combines mouth-watering recipes by chefs and food writers including Tony Singh, Frances Bissell, Mary Berry and Anton Edelmann, with a delicious assortment of poems.
The Poetry Café
Menu
The Poetry Café serves vegetarian food cooked from fresh ingredients every day.
Each day at lunchtime we have the menu below. Snacks are available in the evening.
Food
| Soup of the day, served with bread and butter | £4.50 |
| Main meal (changes daily) | £6.50 |
| Stilton, Pousse and Pear Salad | £5.80 |
| Neal's Yard Dairy Bread and hard English cheese | £5.80 |
| Tomato, feta and black olive salad | £5.80 |
| Home made desserts: cakes, fruit tarts or crumble | £2.50 |
| Brownies / muffins | £2.00 |
| Kettle crisps | £1.00 |
Drinks
| Tea / coffee | £2.00 |
| Small pot of tea (choice of herbal, Indian or Chinese) | £2.20 |
| Large pot of tea | £4.00 |
| Cappuccino / Latté / Americano / Moccachino | £2.20 |
| Expresso | £2.00 |
| Double expresso | £2.20 |
| Hot chocolate | £2.40 |
| Sparkling or still water (bottle) | £1.50 |
| Coke / Diet Coke (bottle) | £1.80 |
| Fentimans Ginger Beer / Dandelion and Burdock / Victorian Lemonade / Seville Orange Jigger | £ 2.00 |
| Apple / Orange / Grapefruit / Cranberry juice | £1:80 |
| Tonic water / soda water / lemonade | £1.80 |
Alcoholic Drinks
| House wine (glass / bottle) | £4.00 / £16.00 |
| Boschendal Chenin Blanc 2008, South Africa (glass / bottle) | £4.50 / £19.00 |
| Sancerre "La Pierre Blanche" 2007, France (glass / bottle) | £4.50 / £19.00 |
| Durius Reserve Tempranillo 2005, Spain (glass / bottle) | £4.50 / £19.00 |
| Coldridge Shiraz Cabernet 2006, South Australia (glass / bottle) | £4.50 / £19.00 |
| Belleruche Cotes du Rhone 2007, France (glass / bottle) | £4.50 / £19.00 |
| Bottled beers: Tiger / Pilsner Urquell / Youngs / Leffe / Cider/ Hoegarden | £3.50 |
| Guinness | £4.00 |
| Spirits (single / double) plus mixer | £6.50 / £8.50 |
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