Read your thirst away

30 September,2009 07:57 AM IST |   |  Michelle Wilfred and Swathi Narayan

Need a place where you can enjoy a cuppa and still pore over your favourite book? Check out some of these coffee shops at bookstores that let you unleash your soul


Need a place where you can enjoy a cuppa and still pore over your favourite book? Check out some of these coffee shops at bookstores that let you unleash your soul

If there's one thing all Bangaloreans enjoy, it is probably a dandy place where one can unwind. Club that together with a novel and you can have your me-time. Coffee bars are the hotspots, where people hangout the most. No one to hang out with? Shy to go out alone? Here are a few options where you can hangout with or without company, especially if you have your favourite book in hand; after all books are a man's best friend.

pic/Satish Badiger


Coffee N U
This is a regular coffee bar which serves a variety of coffees, teas and snacks. A comfortable place with bean bags and couches and a small book shelf, stacked with different genres of books like fiction along with some light reads like comic books. Just pick up a book of your choice, pull yourself a bean bag, find a comfortable corner and order for their in-house concoctions of cappucinos or latte if you please; the best way to spend a lazy afternoon and also a great way to beat boredom.
At: Coffee N U, Koramangala 5th block (above Lords and Kings Opticals)

The Collective
If your man is scouting around for hip clothes at this all-man's store which stocks hoards of international labels, then take a break and find yourself a cozy corner at their cafu00e9, which serves Illy's coffee and while you are sipping your coffee you can pick up a book and get lost within the pages of a novel or two. Their bookshelf has fiction, life science, biographies and also books on cars. We loved their coffee-table books collection.
At:u00a0The Collective, Vittal Mallya Road

Sanctuary
This cafu00e9 will allow you to recline on a Rajasthani couch and while away your time sipping on your coffee and cola, munch on their tid-bits and read. This coffee shop offers you books on science, fiction and gospel.
At: Sanctuary, ITC factory, Hudson's road

Besides these offbeat joints, you can also find a comely corner at your neighbourhood Crossword and The Oxford Bookstores, which have little cafu00e9's attached where one can sip on a cuppa and also indulge in some light reading. Since the options are more, it might take a little more time for you to decide what book you want to read.

Simmer down this weekend with a cup of hot coffee and a book to go with. Heaven!
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Bookstores coffee shops Coffee NU The Collective Sanctuary