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Scarthin Books
The Promenade
Cromford
Matlock
Derbyshire
DE4 3QF

01629 823272
nickscarthin@gmail.com

Opening Times

BOOKSHOP

9-6pm Mon-Sat

10-6pm Sun

Closed on XMAS Day & Boxing Day
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CAFE

10-5pm

(12-3pm hot food)

Parking

Don't be put off by the tucked-away location of the bookshop - there are places to park if you know where to find them:

- along the Prom (free)
- Market Place (free)
- Water Lane (free)
- Cromford Mill
- Cromford Canal

No Dogs Policy (new)

Following several unfortunate incidents and an ever-growing canine population in our corridors, we have decided, with some regret, that it is time to revert to the practice of only a few years ago of asking our customers not to bring dogs into the bookshop.

This policy change has been hard for our staff to
agree, but we think it is the right course of action.

Assistance Dogs are, of course, exempt.

RSS Dave Mitchell’s Tessellations

  • Putting Australia in the Shade; A Lattice Labyrinth employed to Spectacular Effect 13/10/2020
  • A Birthday Card for the 1 in 1500 of us born on 29th. February 03/01/2020
  • March Fools’ Day (Brexit Day) 29th. March 2019 18/01/2019
Scarthin Cafe

Monday-Saturday 10am – 5pm, Sundays 10am – 5pm.

PLEASE NOTE: Hot food and lunches served between 12pm-3pm

The cafe area used to be the Mitchell’s kitchen, before the bookshop took over.  It is homely and colourful with filled with interesting posters and artefacts that Dave has collected over the years, adding to its quirkiness and style.

Connected to the cafe is the vineyard where a vine grows under the glass roof. Here there are two more tables or a large table seating eight; a great space for meetings.

Lots going on in the cafe- a cafe philosophique, conversation cafe and book club.

The Food

It is a vegetarian cafe offering vegan and gluten free food. We serve organic drinks, teas and good coffee, simple meals with delicious salads and our own home-made soups.

The Cafe is in what used to be our living-kitchen – still homely, and only slightly less cluttered. Half-subterranean, light filters down from a small garden, where there are a couple of extra tables when it’s warm and dry enough. In between is the “vineyard” or “Ivanry” with a table for about eight. Alas, Ivan and Dave’s outrageous book-pricing decisions can no longer be observed here, and they have been pushed up another floor, or out onto the Prom. Nevertheless, this is still a cafe where lots and lots goes on! (Oh and the food is just amazing, see examples of the  menu below)

scarthin cafe shop cromford derbyshire peak district

The food is all vegetarian with organic produce when possible, with vegan and gluten-free options available. Home-cooked seasonal produce provides the basis for a continually evolving range of wholesome and hearty meals, thick tasty soups, interesting salads and tempting cakes.  Sometimes (and in season), eggs (foxes allowing), tomatoes, beans, spinach, beetroot, herbs and apples are from our own garden (occasional hazardous misguided tours).

The cafe compliments but also rivals the bookshop – spend too long in here and not enough on books and you can influence the future use of the building; an example of the Interactive Cafe!

The Scarthin Cafe Menu

Contents subject to fate, destiny, the winds of change and overdue website updating!

Coffees

Coffee, freshly ground in individual cafetieres:

Filter Cafetiere (Medium roast, Decaffeinated, French Roast and Columbian)

Espresso Coffee (Cappuccino, Latte, Americano, Mocha, Espresso)

Teas

Various: including Breakfast, Decaffeinated, Earl Grey, Decaffeinated Earl Grey, Darjeeling, Lapsang Souchong, Rooibos, China Keemun, Assam, Chamomile, Peppermint, Echinacea & Raspberry, Lemon & Ginger, Apple & Cinnamon, Wild Blackcurrant, Raspberry & Strawberry & Loganberry, Fennel, Liquorice, Keemun, Jasmine, Honeybush & Lemon, Yogi tea: sweet chai/sweet chilli; some Fair Trade and/or Organic

Hot Chocolate

Clipper fair trade and organic (vegan)

Soft Drinks

Cordials, still or sparkling:  Blackcurrant, Elderflower, Nettle, Ginger.

Sparkling Cold Drinks: Organic Lemonade, Organic Cola, Organic Apple & Raspberry, Spring Water, Diet Coke

Sparkling Bottled Drinks: Fentiman’s Ginger Beer, Dandelion & Burdock or Rose Lemonade

Savoury Food / Sweet Dishes – The Scarthin Cafe Menu

Magazines

The periodical rack, always untidy, houses a range rarely available outside mayor libraries. Coffee-stain these rather than the books! Stocked at present:

  • Nature
  • About Larkin
  • The Economist
  • The BBC Music Magazine
  • Scientific American
  • Songlines
  • The Cottage Gardener
  • Clean Slate (Alternative Technology)
  • Archaeology Today
  • Philosophy Now
  • Byron Review
  • Canoe Focus
  • (NFU) Countryside Magazine
  • New York Review of Books
  • Cook Vegetarian
  • Vegetarian Living
  • That Plant’s Odd
  • Mining History
  • Total Liberty (Anarchism)
  • And some more I’ve forgotten besides..

“Vineyard”

The table in the “vineyard” extension can be booked by groups at off-peak hours. Meetings there include the monthly Thursday morning Conversation Cafe open group, now supplemented by the monthly Tuesday morning Conversation Cafe Political open group. Meetings are from 10am for 10.15-12. See our main New Page for forthcoming meetings.

The Whole Cafe

(with use of hot water and loo upstairs), is available for hire in the evenings, a Buddhist group are present meeting on Thursdays and also The Bob Dylan Group meet at regular intervals.

For more information see: The Grapevine Great British Where to Eat Vegetarian Restaurant Guide www.grapevineguides.co.uk, or for international listings, www.happycow.net, and also the BMW Drive-by Food Guide. Information is also available on Facebook, Twitter, Veggie Places Website and the Vegetarian visitors Guide

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We are now open as usual…

FULL GUIDELINES —–> CLICK HERE

You can also order from us in the following ways:

1) via our own New Books Ordering Website (new releases & selected titles) – CLICK HERE

2) via the new Bookshop .org platform, from which we receive a commission – CLICK HERE

3) by contacting us directly to arrange ordering and posting out your books – nickscarthin@gmail.com – 01629 823272

Book Tokens

We sell and accept both NATIONAL BOOK TOKENS and our very own SCARTHIN VOUCHERS (of any denomination). We can even post them out to you, free of charge

Specialist Stock

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