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Exchange Coffee Co. opens in Old Market
An acoustic folk punk band played in the Exchange’s new cafe-bar on its first official day of opening on Tuesday evening.
It’s the kind of melange of genres that this new opening revels in.
Beneath the coffees and teas on the blackboard menu is a piece of paper advertising vegan White Russians and boozy hot chocolate, as day turns into night and you fancy something a bit stronger.
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A cafe during the day, this space – very of the moment with scaffolding poles holding up wooden shelves and copper piping out of which appear taps holding exposed filament light bulbs – becomes a bar by night for not just Exchange gig goers.
On Wednesday morning, tempting brownies and flapjacks occupied the counter next to a healthy bowl of fruit.
Owners hope that a room upstairs can be used for arts events like book clubs, with newspapers currently available as reading material downstairs as well as a stash of your favourite free Bristol monthly magazine.
Floor to ceiling windows have replaced exterior walls that were once covered in gig posters – with the marvelous addition of the retention of handwritten signs for pork butchers and sandwiches and snacks, a reminder of businesses who once upon a time occupied this corner building between the Stag & Hounds and the Long Bar.
A trip to the Exchange during daylight hours will be a first for many people, with this new cafe and bar showing that Bristol’s music venues needn’t only be for night owls.
Exchange Coffee Co, 72-73 Old Market Street, Bristol, BS2 0EJ
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