Here's some great, bittersweet news. The cafe where JK Rowling started writing the Harry Potter books - with baby daughter Jessica by her side - has reopened. The cafe had closed and turned into a chinese buffet a few years ago, but a new owner has changed it back:
Owner Moira McFarlane, 42, says she’s more than happy for customers to escape the cold and spend the whole day reading, writing or chatting with friends.
She said: “It’s a big space, so we need to make it cosy – we will welcome people to come along and sit all day – and write books if they like. ”The businesswoman, who already owns the Spoon Cafe in Old Town and runs the Storytelling Centre coffee bar on the Royal Mile, says the cafe is unlike any other.
Read more, including the owner's thoughts on the cafe's popularity thanks to JK Rowling, at this link. I want to visit! Don't you?
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11-02-2009
at 9:35 PM
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2009-11-02 21:45:16
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2009-11-02 21:49:58
Uncool. I thought they were talking about turnig it into a Potter musseum!!! Now that would be sweet!!
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2009-11-02 21:57:44
hells yeah id totally go!
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2009-11-02 22:32:20
I think its awesome that they are opening up the cafe again!
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2009-11-02 22:43:36
Thats awesome. It should never have been closed in the first place! A Chinese restaurant are you kidding me?! There are already a million of those. Im definitely going to go! Im so happy its re-opened!
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2009-11-02 22:46:22
She actually wrote it in a cafe called "The Elephant Cafe" in Edinburgh, which is open, and has been open, for quite a while. ; ] If you ever ask someone who lives in Edinburgh, which I made sure to when I went, theyll tell you just that. Jsyk. (:
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2009-11-02 23:07:56
Lmao. I love how they add the little I wanna visit, dont you!? bit at the end.
Site traffic low, much?
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2009-11-02 23:20:42
Yes, I do want to visit. I might actually be able to do that someday :) (like in 2 years probably :P)
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2009-11-03 02:14:32
I was there back in 2007, it was sort of lame that it wasnt a caf
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2009-11-03 06:02:20
Yeah, I thought she wrote it in the Elephant Cafe ... but maybe she went to more than one place :)
I visited the Elephant Cafe last summer - it overlooks Endinborough castle, which reminded me a bit of Hogwarts :)
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2009-11-03 08:54:21
and how exactly is this bittersweet?
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2009-11-03 09:36:37
Im totally going there if I can escape class tomorrow! :)
And, actually, the one she said she wrote in and "approved" as the official place where Harry Potter was written is this new one. She went to the Elephant House Later (By the way, they have amazing hot chocolate and the view of the castle is gorgeous!) When I first moved here I went on a literary tour of Edinburgh and we visited the chinese restaurant to see the plaque on the wall outside, and it was pretty funny - the tour guide told us they used to stand there holding signs trying to get tourists to go in for chinese food and it finally closed because no one went there. It would have been so much easier to get people to go if they had just said "JK Rowling wrote here!" >:)
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2009-11-03 10:54:44
Yay! I was there when it was a Chinese buffet (Buffet King, I think), and it was hideous. All I got to do was take a picture by the little plaque recognizing its where JKR started HP. I wish I could go there now... I hope she still names is Nicholson Caf
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2009-11-03 15:00:39
Wow, thats awesome! I would love to go to both places where she wrote! Some day....
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2009-11-03 15:17:43
That is fantastic news! I am so happy they turned it back.
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2009-11-03 16:01:04
Hhhmmm...I guess that would be cool but I thought she wrote at the Elephant House. I went there this summer and it is definitely still open. So I dont know what to think.
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2009-11-03 16:01:21
yea id totally go if i evr go bk 4 a weekend break or sumthin...datd b real nice!!! mayb u guys can cum up wid sum excuse or other n cud have another of ur brilliant live mugglecast shows der....idea?? jst sayin!!! 0=D
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2009-11-03 16:08:43
Dont worry thequibbler101 the Elephant House is still open (and amazing!), its just not the only place where she wrote! :)
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2009-11-03 17:37:05
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2009-11-03 19:58:20
Wow, its big! And look at those windows! I wish there was a nice cafe like that in my town~
Ill definitely go if I get the chance. Im glad its a cafe again!
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2009-11-04 06:32:11
Hmm Ill have to check that place out soon! Although Ive lived in Edinburgh for seven weeks now and still havent managed to stop by the Elephant House cafe! I need to step it up, apparently..
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2009-11-04 07:12:19
"Bittersweet" perhaps because of the memories the place holds, and the fact that the series has now come to an end? Just a guess...
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2009-11-05 19:01:10
it was a chinese buffet?? wtf?
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2009-11-06 23:21:15
That is so cool! Very glad that is happening. I live in California, but if I ever go to London, (which I hope I will) I will definately be there!
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