wiskey
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I did wonder. It started off excellent, but it had some dire H&S ratings (or was rumored to have), and then it looked tattier and tattier.Atlas in Bedminster was shut down by pesky bailiffs on Tuesday
Cat Cafe in Bristol?
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fractionMan
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The oddbins is clifton has the subtitle: "the only shop in clifton that doesn't sell coffee"
stupid dogbot
Haughty and Superior
They do nice extracts in 194 Farenheit in Clifton, but I doubt I'll go in there much now my mate doesn't work there any more.
Baristas on Victoria Street remains the best in Bristol. Lovely coffee, great friendly staff, amazing bacon sandwiches and cake. Been my choice for nearly a decade now. Still try and get in there every Saturday. No cats, though.
Baristas on Victoria Street remains the best in Bristol. Lovely coffee, great friendly staff, amazing bacon sandwiches and cake. Been my choice for nearly a decade now. Still try and get in there every Saturday. No cats, though.
Orangesanlemons
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I think they'd been trying to sell the business for a while, with little success (reduced to £25k last I looked). Sad, of course, but it happens so much in this trade. I've been poking around looking for a premises for a while now, so I'm trying to sort out who's dealing with it and so on with a view to potentially starting something up there. Seems a decent size, location's obviously a bit between two worlds. Looks a bit bedraggled now, & may come to nothing, but still...
It seems like it was reasonably popular with the good folk of Urban. Any good? Not sure how the footfall was down there; judging by their old Facebook page they seem to have been open all day & night as a cafe, yet made most on pizza delivery, which is an odd set-up. And wtf with the zebra & crocodile burgers? And delivering full English breakfasts by bike?
Anyway, any input gratefully received.
Oh yeah, & I vote no to the cat cafe.
Shippou-Sensei
4:1:2.5
wow a neko kissa.... didn't imagine that would catch on.
Chairman Meow
Perth, WA
I would love to visit a cat cafe, its an ambition of mine to visit one in Japan.
I took this photo near the window of a Cat Café in Totnes Devon recently.
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Here is the Totnes Cat Café with the explanatory notice on the board outside. I was very lucky to get that shot. There had been a car parked right outside it but as I read the sign I heard the car drive off and I was there with my camera. I didn't go in the café. I am not very much a cat person although I don't mind them. I didn't know the place was there and I am fairly sure the last time I was in Totnes which was last summer, it didn't exist.
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wiskey
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Tbh I think they kept getting it wrong, like last Xmas they were rammed and selling mulled cider, we got into going quite often... Then they started running out of cider at 3pm.I think they'd been trying to sell the business for a while, with little success (reduced to £25k last I looked). Sad, of course, but it happens so much in this trade. I've been poking around looking for a premises for a while now, so I'm trying to sort out who's dealing with it and so on with a view to potentially starting something up there. Seems a decent size, location's obviously a bit between two worlds. Looks a bit bedraggled now, & may come to nothing, but still...
It seems like it was reasonably popular with the good folk of Urban. Any good? Not sure how the footfall was down there; judging by their old Facebook page they seem to have been open all day & night as a cafe, yet made most on pizza delivery, which is an odd set-up. And wtf with the zebra & crocodile burgers? And delivering full English breakfasts by bike?
Anyway, any input gratefully received.
Oh yeah, & I vote no to the cat cafe.
The food was OK, but their environmental health reports were sketchy (or so I was told - and the southville mum's don't like that). And then the place started looking tatty. And I was told that the pizzas were horrible
And then the bubbahub & now Caterpillar cafe opened up and they took the kids away and as I said earlier if you don't cater for/attract the mums you'll not make money IMO.
My absolute favourite coffee place is Hennesseys round the corner on North St.
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
It seems like it was reasonably popular with the good folk of Urban. Any good? Not sure how the footfall was down there; judging by their old Facebook page they seem to have been open all day & night as a cafe, yet made most on pizza delivery, which is an odd set-up. And wtf with the zebra & crocodile burgers? And delivering full English breakfasts by bike?
I liked the food - nice burgers and salads, and decently priced - but only ever got deliveries. Never got poisoned
Location-wise it's terrible, on a narrow strip as the flow of traffic bends round a corner, between a mini-roundabout and a busy light-controlled junction, with virtually no usable parking, and on the opposite side of the road to where most pedestrians seem to be. On that side of the road the pavement is narrow, so if you are walking by you can't really see it until you are walking past, and anyway, if you are walking past it's because you are heading somewhere specific.
So hardly optimum conditions for passing trade - it's not very good for showing off an enticing shop front (because you can only really get a good view of it from the other side of a busy road); not well-placed for, eg, your man-in-a-van stopping off for breakfast; too far away from the more pedestrian-friendly East Street, which is better suited to the browsing-for-a-nosh customer; and there are better placed yummy-mummy type cafes round the corner & on the other side of the road on the straight bit of North Street.
I can only see that location working for (a) a business offering a very specific niche product or service, which lends itself to being a destination that customers are willing to travel to no matter what, despite its location, because what it provides isn't available anywhere else; or (b) being a generic, general stores or newsagent type shop with a very high turnover of very low value everyday items, based on I-was-just-passing snap purchases.
Orangesanlemons
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Cheers wiskey & DaveC, all much appreciated. Heard from the vendor's agents & they still be trying to sell the business as a going concern, so I guess it's a complete mess & there's a lot of fallout to be tidied up before anything happens, if anything happens.
Agree with both points. There are dedicated kids places on north st. that will suck up that trade, but then that's not necessarily a *terrible* thing unless you're a coffee & cake-type cafe. Could even be a plus point.
Location does look ropey for a straight cafe (which is kind of reflected in the rent tbf), & I agree about it better-suiting an affordable destination place, which is more along the lines of what I'm thinking of. But certainly it's the kind of place you'd have to stand outside for a few days with a clicker-counter to see if you even stood a chance.
Anyway, sod it - I reckon Bedminster's more than ready for a dedicated French cheese & champagne outlet.
Maybe with knock-off cronuts too. And bike-delivered rental cats, if that doesn't work.
Agree with both points. There are dedicated kids places on north st. that will suck up that trade, but then that's not necessarily a *terrible* thing unless you're a coffee & cake-type cafe. Could even be a plus point.
Location does look ropey for a straight cafe (which is kind of reflected in the rent tbf), & I agree about it better-suiting an affordable destination place, which is more along the lines of what I'm thinking of. But certainly it's the kind of place you'd have to stand outside for a few days with a clicker-counter to see if you even stood a chance.
Anyway, sod it - I reckon Bedminster's more than ready for a dedicated French cheese & champagne outlet.
Maybe with knock-off cronuts too. And bike-delivered rental cats, if that doesn't work.
That was on Canon Street wasn't it? If it's the building I'm thinking of, used to be Sueys Chinese takeaway years ago, before that a Lebonese type pizza / kebab place. loads of businesses have come and gone there. It's awkward walking on that side yep. Narrow and often blocked by wheely bins.
There's a bloke selling your crocodile, zebra burgers etc in the Corronation pub now.
There's a bloke selling your crocodile, zebra burgers etc in the Corronation pub now.
Entirely irrelevantly, the 'destination location effect' works very well for us when we visit the Bag O'Nails and the cheap but tasty and veggie-friendly curryhouse next door ....
wiskey
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stupid dogbot
Haughty and Superior
Well, if anyone wants a furry coffee, they know where to go.
lazythursday
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Do people really choose a eat in a cafe based on the fact it has cats? There's a successful dog cafe in Hebden Bridge, but people go there with their dogs rather than to see/touch the dogs.
Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
The fact that such things exist prove there is some market for it. Quite a few people who like cats are not in a position to live with cats, e.g. renting, away for work a lot, another family member allergic, etc...
arguably it would make sense for those people to volunteer their services at cat rescue places...
frogwoman
No amount of cajolery...
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It was actually just like that yeah with the scarves and clothing styles but the lights didn't work properly and it was really dark.
Everyone else in the dream liked it but I was the only one who could see how creepy it was
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
theres plenty a village pub that allows well behaved dogs in (which rules out Tank) but its not touted as a USP and they frown on feeding the dogs guiness
Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
It was actually just like that yeah with the scarves and clothing styles but the lights didn't work properly and it was really dark.
Everyone else in the dream liked it but I was the only one who could see how creepy it was
but cats are better at seeing in the dark than you are
lazythursday
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Much as I love dogs the HB dog cafe is creepy and twee, with its pupcakes and hessian dog beds. I'd much prefer a people-focused cafe that is also dog friendly. I can't imagine a cat-themed cafe would be any less nauseating.
