Photos of The Little Book Cafe

Welcome to The Little Book Cafe

Blooming beautiful hanging baskets

Window boxes bursting with colour

Used books to browse, borrow or buy

Enjoy a glass of wine or local beer with your meal

Olly the owl guarding some of our books, available to browse, borrow or buy (the books, not Olly)

Delighted to receive our 5 star Trip Advisor Certificate of Excellence for 2016

We're proud to support Halstead in Bloom, making our town look blooming beautiful

Used books to browse, borrow or buy and board games to play during your visit

Our courtyard garden
Peaceful and pretty, a pleasant place to spend a leisurely lunch...

Flowers grow in all sorts of places at The Little Book Cafe

A passion flower bloom

Our food and drink
We're proud of the food and drink we serve.  We focus on freshly prepared, homemade dishes which taste delicious.   Alongside our menu we offer specials which change every few days.  

Special: Tuna nicoise salad with asparagus

Special: Homemade roasted red pepper, goats cheese & black olive quiche

Special: Spicy sausage, sweetcorn fritters and slow roasted tomatoes

Special: Mexican black bean and wild rice soup with guacamole and sour cream

Special: Venison burger with stilton and homemade plum and liquorice chutney

Special: Carrot and cumin soup

Special: Homemade sausage roll and homemade picalilli

Special: Smoked mackerel pate with capers and beetroot

Special: Shakshuka

Special: Roast beef, bubble & squeak, gravy & fried egg

Special: Little Book Salad with garlic mushrooms, sunblush tomatoes and croutons

Special: Gravlax on rye bread with mustard and dill sauce

Special: Local asparagus from Wash Farm with Parma ham, hollandaise sauce on sourdough

Special: Moroccan pulled lamb shoulder with couscous & flatbread

A Little Book Favourite: Poached eggs, hollandaise and crispy streaky bacon

Special: Venison sausages with Scotch pearl barley risotto

Special: Homemade mushroom, leek and gruyere quiche

Special: Fig, proscuitto and cambozola salad

Special: Pulled pork with smoky chipotle beans and homemade chilli cheese cornbread

Special: Greek salad

Special: Homemade full English quiche with bacon, black pudding, mushrooms and tomatoes

Special: Bavette steak with french fries and bearnaise sauce

Special: Smoked mackerel, spinach & bacon potato salad with wholegrain mustard dressing

Special: Prawn cocktail - king prawns, north atlantic prawns, avaocado and homemade marie rose dressing

Special: Dill and poppyseed scone with smoked salmon, cucumber and cream cheese

Special: Baked camembert sharing platter...lovely with a glass of Cabernet Sauvignon

Special: Bacon Cheese Burger

Special: Christmas salad - Turkey, bacon, stuffing balls, chestnuts, baby spinach, dried apricots, parsnip crisps & mincemeat dressing

Little Book Salad - Bacon, avocado, sunblush tomatoes, mozzarella pearls and mixed leaves with a honey and mustard dressing, served with griddled sourdough

Special: Cod fillet, asparagus and crushed new potatoes with a chive white wine sauce

Sweet treats
Every day we offer a selection of sweet treats, all homemade by us!

Lemon & poppyseed cupcakes

Victoria Sponge with fresh local strawberries

Toffee crisp bar

Chocolate fudge cake

Homemade gooseberry & mint lemonade

Gooseberry & Coconut Cake with Clotted Cream Vanilla Ice Cream

Strawberry Shortbread Sundae

Doughnut Muffins

Apricot, Almond & Amaretto Puff Pastry Slice

Raspberry Friands

Florentines and Rocky Road

Vanilla Panna Cotta, Mixed Berries, Strawberry Coulis & Clotted Cream Shortbread

Christmas Spiced Panna Cotta with Crushed Amaretti Biscuits

Cherry Bakewell Cake

Valentines Jammy Dodger

Pistachio & Cardamom Cake with Rosewater Butter Icing

Easter Chocolate Nest

Coconut & Dark Chocolate Macaroon

Black Forest Chocolate Fudge Cake

Creme Egg Brownie

Pancake with Salted Caramel, Dark Chocolate Sauce, Clotted Cream Vanilla Ice Cream & Pretzels

Eggnog

Banana & Malteser Milkshake