Lounging around?! What a concept! The owners (and workers) in the Blue Bird don't have much time,, I'm sorry to say, for sofa surfing. Wishful thinking however, has led us to convert the front window to what we hope is a comfy lounge. Customers can kick back and relax with a coffee in one hand and a book in the other.
As you will see from the pictures (or even better, from your last visit), we have recreated everyone's childhood living room with the black and white television the focus of the room, family photos hanging on the wall (my family that is), and handmade cushions. It is the next stage in turning back the clock on The Blue Bird and while the 'cafe lounge' is a more contemporary innovation, we wanted ours to reflect the past, your past, my past, the comfort of our collective family homes. We want the Blue Bird Cafe to be all about the comfort of tradition and the familiarity of home.
And just to let you all know, we have not given up on the booths. It is still the number one question we get asked. It's begins with the comment, "you've changed the place". Well yes, we are new people, with new ideas and things do change in life but we have great sympathy for this lovely building so we make our changes with that in the forefront of our minds. Your question then becomes, "what happened to the booths?" Let me reassure you that the booths were one of the things that endeared the forlorn cafe to us and inspired us to buy it. So the answer is...of course we love the booths and intend to put them back. It has been a long hard process to get the cafe this far and hopefully when the day arrives that we relaunch the lovely Blue Bird booths, it will have been worth the wait. In the background, unseen, we have spent a lot of time and effort working on them to be safe for people to sit on again. So please hang in there for as long as necessary because Rome wasn't built in a day but it is still one of the popular destinations in Europe.
