The Little Book Cafe
Telephone: 01787 475647
Email: [email protected]
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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
     
The Little Book Cafe
13-15 Hedingham Road
Halstead
Essex
​CO9 2DA

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Telephone: 01787 475647
Email: [email protected]
Opening hours:
Monday: Closed
Tuesday: 09:00-15:00
Wednesday: 09:00-15:00
Thursday: 09:00-15:00
​Friday: 09:00-15:00
Saturday: 09:00-15:00
Sunday: Closed