Beijing Cafe recommends several places where people can drink coffee and read books.

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The boundary that the young literary and artistic youth of the old bookworm will love.

If you want to appreciate the cultural landscape of a city, the bookstore can be regarded as a specimen. The Old Bookworm Book Bar, located on the south street of Sanlitun in Beijing, has won praise from many media for "praising a city with a bookstore". It is also one of the "most beautiful bookstores in the world" in the words of Lonely Planet's guide books and media.

The bookstore is located on the second floor of the old building and has a plain appearance, but when you push the door in, it suddenly opens up: three rooms with a total area of several hundred square meters, the spacious rooms with a height of at least 8 meters are bright and transparent, and 15000 books are arranged from the ground to the roof that needs to be reached by a ladder.

The books here are mainly in the original foreign languages, and more than 16000 foreign language collections flow in Chinese, English, Russian, French, Spain, Italian and other languages, and the readers are mainly foreigners. Compared with other bookstores, the price of English books here is relatively high, but the form is also more flexible-you can buy books, borrow books with a membership card, or read them directly in the store.

There is no need to worry about what to do when you are hungry. In addition to "spiritual food", cheesecake and spaghetti sandwiches here can also be "replenished" at any time, and you can spend the whole day leisurely like the old bookworm on logo without "moving your nest".

However, if you want to find a seat in nearly 100 tables in three halls over the weekend, please come early, because most readers here will bring laptops and order a full-bodied coffee, mellow cheesecake or afternoon tea set meals. you can pass the lonely day of reading or writing. Although there are many readers, it is very quiet to make friends with books.

Book sales and catering services are not the exclusive features here. Every weekend, lectures, salons and puzzles, cocktail parties, classical music appreciation and other cultural activities are the loudest business cards here. Bookstores often invite writers from all over the world to visit the bookstore. American National Book Award winner Colum McCain, Israeli writer David Grossman, and Chinese writers Mo Yan, Yan Lianke, and Zhang Yueran have stopped here through the "Bookworm International Book Festival" held by old bookworms. Perhaps this is the greatest charm of the old bookworm: beyond the scope of simple books to become a cultural landmark of words and ideas, more should be done than a good bookstore.

Address: building 4, Sanlitun South Street, Chaoyang District (industrial sports intersection)

Time: 10:00 every day-2:00 the next day

Kubrick Coffee Bookstore to be a literary and artistic scholar

Another good place to read and drink coffee, in the contemporary MOMA, next to the contemporary MOMA Broadway cinema.

The bookstores invested by filmmakers are not without books related to movies. Even the screenwriter teacher Shi Hang recommended that this is "a good place for Beijing to buy new books, and it's worth lingering after buying them." Living in MOMA Art Park, the environment and atmosphere are full, and there are all kinds of books, but the store area is limited and the classification is not clear enough. Friends who want to buy books and magazines in Hong Kong can go there.

Coffee and light meals are served in the shop.

All kinds of art, literature and film exchange meetings are held here irregularly, and there is no shortage of masters like Wu Nianzhen to show up.

Address: first floor, Building 2, Contemporary MOMA, North District, 1 Xianghe Garden Road, Dongzhimen (opposite Broadway Cinema)

Time: 10:30-22:00 every day

There is a literary cafe next to the Wo Li Theatre.

In the space of the high ceiling, there are wooden tables and independently designed chairs, and the atmosphere is casual and natural. I don't know how to define this place when I look around. There are bookshelves at hand, coffee in front of me, repertoire in front of my ears, faint rhythm on the stage, with a concave literary youth and the books in his hand, like a real montage that makes you pull away from reality and completely forget that you were in a hurry to find a parking space five minutes ago.

In the introduction to the bookstore in Doubanshang, Wo Li, it begins with a passage of Borges, "Human beings-the only race-are destroying themselves, while the library will continue to exist: bright, lonely, infinite, motionless, full of precious books, both useless and immortal, keeping secrets." This seems to be the secret of a city. It seems to break up time and let you see the quiet but immortal side of life.

No. 6 Xiaobadaowan Hutong, Gulou West Street, Xicheng District (in Gulou West Theatre)

Time 14:00-22:00 every day

Watch the warm Sunshine House of the Book Club

A book club located in 798, watching the library, the onlookers are clear. The area of the bookstore is small, but there are many tables and chairs to rest, and the large glass windows keep the room warm. Books are stacked full, and some literature and art non-bestsellers do not have the restless feeling of street shops.

Provide some small handicrafts, mainly bookmarks, like a metal terrain such as rolling style, stainless steel color is very low-key, the line design is simple but exquisite, never seen in other places, the price is naturally more expensive.

The coffee is very good. I prefer the latte here. Be sure to occupy the position near the window facing the street, the sun shines on itself, it is extremely warm.

Address: corner of East Street, Dashanzi 798 Art Park, No. 2 Jiuxianqiao Road, Chaoyang District

Zebra Bookstore Drama Youth must go

There is an independent bookstore in the sunken square of the Chaoyang Nine Theater. You can come here to flip through books, drink coffee, or play with the two mascots cats in the store during the break from the play.

Passing by here at night, the orange light makes people feel warm, zebra bookstore space is not large, but the layout is very neat and exquisite. On the long wooden table in the middle are all kinds of books and magazines, such as New Horizon, Lens, and such literary and artistic minority magazines are sold on the road. The whole wall of the bookstore is made of pure white shelves, and every small square is full of books. In addition to literature, the most attractive books are drama, photography, documentary production and so on. If you are a drama lover, you should be able to find a lot of books here.

Besides good books, there are a lot of groceries on sale in the store. Postcards, small teacups, hand coffee grinders … These fine and exquisite objects make the bookstore full of life. There are two places for afternoon tea in the shop, where you can drink coffee and flip through the books at hand. If you feel lonely, you can hold a cat to accompany you, but you can see that both of them are very proud. There are parasols and wooden tables and chairs outside. Students who need to smoke can smoke outside.

Address: sunken courtyard on the left side of the Nine Theatre in Chaoyang District

Time 11:00-21:00 every day (transferred from KIWITOUR)