Mansfield. It doesn't exactly get your mind racing with thoughts of a co-working space-slash-cafe-slash-commercial kitchen, does it? Yet, in the industrial back streets of Mansfield, Book To Cook have managed to deliver just that.
Pouring coffee, tea and serving basic cafe eats like an egg and bacon slider from a front kiosk, the space upstairs is a boardroom with hot desks available to hire for remote workers. Downstairs is a commercial kitchen able to be rented by local food producers.
Having spent a few hours working from their hot desks I was able power out work on my laptop and be fuelled by coffee from downstairs. The space is peaceful, wi-fi solid and perfect to jolt yourself out of looking at the same four walls of home.
Book To Cook is family run and while it's early days it feels like there's promising things ahead for this multi-purpose venue.
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