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Café Poem is planned to become your new house in Brighton. It is designed to be an independent coffee house offering the best, authentic, healthy and regional coffee options supported with homemade and fresh prepared sandwiches and pastries and Mediterranean-Turkish breakfast plates. Café Poem will provide the following services to the customers: • Modern coffee selections like Latte, Americano, Cappuccino, Macchiato, Espresso and others produced at espresso machine. • Turkish, Greek, Armenian and Arab coffee selections cooked on fire. • Healthy coffee options from Turkey (menengic, kervansaray, dibek), Arab countries (mirrah, coffee with cordamom or cinnamon). • Sahlep drink in winter and specialty iced drinks like Biji Biji from Turkey for summer time. • Turkish tea and Arabic tea with fresh mint; Turkish lime-blossom tea and other herbal teas from all over the world. • Homemade cakes, cookies, fresh sandwiches. • Breakfast plates. • Menus for vegan and vegetarian customers.

Coffee is not only a drink; it is a statement, it is an art, it is a passion… It has to be prepared and served by passionate coffee connoisseurs, in an artistically loaded environment… That is precisely what Café Poem will be about.

The mission of Café Poem is to provide best standard coffee house services coupled with oriental, Mediterranean and Turkish food, coffee, tea and sweets while hosting poem reading events and other art evenings appealing to the university population of Brighton and Hove area. The vision of Café Poem is to become a renowned independent coffee house in Brighton and Hove area with a loyal customer base and strong brand awareness of being the gathering place of poets, artists, intellectuals and students of literature and art. Café Poem is planned to be a coffee house with a social responsibility element of hosting poets, artists and intellectuals of the city. Café Poem will provide standard coffee house services and will enrich those services with exotic, authentic, healthy, regional coffee and tea selections and with Mediterranean and Turkish-Greek-Armenian cuisines’ best-known plates. Café Poem will organize poetry reading evenings and invite established poets to read from their latest book at Café Poem. The coffee house will have a poetry board for poems written by the customers, from where a selection of poems will be published as a book. Café Poem will have a small library of travel book, writer and poet biographies, literature magazines and anthologies of world poetry, where customers will be able to read book. By time Café Poem Library will introduce a “book swapping service”.

Sahlep, a Turkish winter drink, is made from the dried powdered roots of a mountain orchid, milk, sugar and cinnamon to make a thick dairy beverage. Here is what we have in mind for your indulgence… The rest is your imagination… Just ask!

STANDARD COFFEE HOUSE PRODUCTS • Hot toasts • Cold sandwiches • Cakes, cupcakes, granola cakes • Five different salat selection • Espresso • Espresso Macchiato • Americano • Caffe Latte • Flat White • Cappuccino • Caffe Mocha • White Chocolate Mocha • Iced Latte • Iced Cappuccino • Caramel Latte • Hazelnut Latte • Chai Latte

TURKISH-GREEK-ARMENIAN CUISINE PLATES • Soup of the day • Three different breakfast plates (Turkish, Greek, Armenian) • Jacket potato • Traditional Turkish and Mediterranean pastries (Burekas) • Three different olive oil dishes • Turkish, Greek and Armenian sweets and cookies

TURKISH-GREEK-ARABIC COFFEE, TEA AND OTHER SOFT DRINKS • Homemade organic cold drinks • Menengic Coffee (Menengic is a coffee like Turkish specialty beverage that is made from the roasted Pistachio tree seeds (commonly known as terebinth and turpentine tree). • Adiyaman Caravanserai Coffee (This is a specially brewed coffee with chocolate, cream, menengic, sahlep, goat horn and gum mastic mixture.) • Arabic mirra coffee • Arabic coffee with cardamom • Tea with mint • Sahlep (Sahlep, a Turkish winter drink, is made from the dried powdered roots of a mountain orchid, milk, sugar and cinnamon to make a thick dairy beverage.) • Various healthy, spicy tea options • Lime Flowers Tea (Ihlamur)

ON DEMAND PRODUCTS FOR HOME DELIVERY OR SPECIAL OCCASIONS • A special Mediterranean dish every other week (ex: Manti (Turkish style ravioli), cigborek (deep fried water thin dough with raw minced meat filling), icli kofte (fist sized burghul balls filled with seasoned minced meat)) • Specially prepared dishes for home delivery according to demand • Specially designed menu for special occasions like birthday parties, university club meetings and art events.

GIFT PRODUCTS • Special gift products with Café Poem brand, like copper coffee mill, copper Turkish-Greek coffee-pot, special stone accessories with bio-energy relevance.

Café Poem will introduce “Pay it with a Poem” campaigns once a month, where coffee and tea bills will be payable with a unique poem that is put on the Instagram and Facebook accounts of Café Poem on condition that poems receive a certain number of likes. You don’t need to wait for Cafe Poem to be opened. Send us your poems, promote your poems at our Facebook and Instagram accounts and once the coffee house is open you will have bill already paid… By your artistic imagination info@cafepoem.co.uk. If you believe you are a trend setter, there is another way to have your bills paid. Become a Café Poem brand ambassador. It is quite like the Affiliate Programs of shopping sites. Write us and we shall explain more. info@cafepoem.co.uk.

Café Poem will give free of charge barista, coffee connoisseur (how to taste, how to drink, how to enjoy, how to serve coffee according to different cultures) and brewing courses once a week. Sip your coffee in the way the Ottoman Sultans did, or the way Arab and Barbar bedouins still do!

Café Poem is determined to give you what you want, the way you want. Don’t just wait for it to become, contribute to your future favourite destination. Share your ideas with us and if endorsed we will let you name the service you suggest.