A warm, welcoming and unusual café-bookshop…

The Cook Book

The bar at the Cook Book

.. home-made cakes; delicious cream teas; soups that vary with the season and the ingenuity of the cook; fresh local line-caught mackerel, smoked on the premises; baguettes, breakfasts and home-baked ham, “the best coffee in Cornwall”.

Our café-bookshop is children and dog friendly.

There are friendly staff, daily papers to read and books … about 5,000 second-hand books in three rooms upstairs, on the stairs and in the café as Bosorne Books spreads out. Please read more about our café on our Cook Book page.

Next to The Cook Book is Banjo Cottage, a delightful and beautifully restored cottage with a secluded and sunny garden. If you would like to book it for your Cornish holiday, please go to the Cornish Cocoons website.

The Cook Book was awarded the prestigious CHEFS Gold Award in February 2011
CHEFS Award

St. Just’s café-bookshop feeding the body and mind!

Bosorne Books

We love our bookshop which not only offers a large selection of second-hand books but also book binding and book repairs.

We have about 5000 second-hand books, sorted by genre, in three rooms upstairs, and an eclectic selection downstairs.

Books everywhere!

Read further about our book shop on our Bosorne Books page and then come and visit us.

Latest News

February & January 2012 Newsletter

The Cook Book’s 9th Anniversary
We opened The Cook Book 9 years old ago on 5th April 2003, never expecting to be here for the start of our 10th season.
A huge thank you to all our guests over the years for your wonderful support, and to all the fantastic staff who have made and keep making it happen.

December 2011 & January 2012 Newsletter

Open again!!!
The new roof looks fantastic.
In the three weeks that we were closed, inside, outside, upstairs and downstairs have been repainted or scrubbed, scraped and cleaned.
The Cook Book opened its doors to our tenth season on time, at 10.00 am on Monday 23rd January.
But first we had a party to thank everyone who had worked so hard – and our patient neighbours who had put up with the roof tent flogging in anything above a Force 3 zephyr. In a good gale it sounded like topsails being double reefed in a Spanish Galleon in the Channel Chops; at least, it did until it finally split, blew out and was cut away in a full gale of wind at the beginning of December.

November 2011 Newsletter

Cape Cornwall Street Christmas Fair
The brain child of our neighbours in the new and brilliant St Just Art and Crafts Gallery next door to the Cook Book, we look forward to welcoming you to our first Christmas Fair with a glass of mulled wine and a mince pie. In The Cook Book we’ll have a number of stalls offering beautiful work by Bosorne Leatherwork, Helen Jay Pottery, Evocative Cornwall and others, as well as genuine book bargains and Julie Chapple’s scrumptious mini Christmas cakes and rum truffles. Tea, coffee and cakes will also be on sale.