I poked my head into the new Tonbridge coffee place, Finch House, this morning and have to say that I was quite impressed. It reminded me a little of Carluccio's in Tunbridge Wells, with it's very light, airey interior and spacious seating arrangement. Also it has a shop area selling, what it calls, fine foods which are mainly locally produced groceries. Some of the items do seem a tad on the expensive side, I must say, so let's hope that enough people support the enterprise. Here's a thought: you don't think that they might have got Tonbridge mixed up with Tunbridge Wells before they opened do you?! An easy enough mistake to make for an outsider. No surely not, that just wouldn't happen, would it? and there certainly seemed to be quite a few people sitting in there sipping their coffee for an average Thursday morning so good luck to them. I'll be back there when I have a bit more time for a latte or two. Think they should extend the deli area and start selling quality ground coffee as well. But then what do I know?!..
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Oh goody, another place in Tonbridge where I can pay a small fortune for a cup of coffee flavoured froth, sit by the window and pretend I'm in Paris.
Personally I prefer a decent cup of tea and a fry up.
Great to see a new shop on the High Street, especially one that's not a pawn shop or cash converters. Lovely place for a special lunch or a nice cup of tea. But you're right Mr B, it feels more like TW than Tonbridge. With this and the farmers market, we're very middle class all of a sudden.
Why shouldn't Tonbridge get a nice, independent cafe like Finch House? I applaud them for setting up and investing in our High Street at a time when we have more and more charity shops and less and less quality stores! (Nothing against charity shops, but the High Street was beginning to look a bit lacklustre!)
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