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Chocolate Factory Library Gouda

Public library

👍👍 I absolutely love this place. You can not only read great books but can have different sort of tasty coffee, home made cakes & really good food on a reasonable price. Here is my favourite: Tuna Melt 😋 People often mention library, nice, books, niet,


Address

Klein Amerika 20, 2806 CA Gouda, Netherlands

Website

www.chocoladefabriekgouda.nl

Contact

+31 182 590 101

Rating on Google Maps

4.40 (105 reviews)

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Working Hours

  • Saturday: 10 am to 8 pm
  • Sunday: 10 am to 8 pm
  • Monday: 9 am to 8 pm
  • Tuesday: 9 am to 8 pm
  • Wednesday: 9 am to 8 pm
  • Thursday: 9 am to 8 pm
  • Friday: 9 am to 8 pm

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  • 5/5 Csilla H. 9 months ago on Google • 52 reviews
    I absolutely love this place. You can not only read great books but can have different sort of tasty coffee, home made cakes & really good food on a reasonable price. Here is my favourite: Tuna Melt 😋
    2 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Roger L. 2 years ago on Google • 72 reviews
    This amazing place is buzzing with so much positive energy vibrating throughout. It is a welcome haven from the busy city centre and is very well located within a car park and a bus stop nearby. This place used to be a chocolate factory and has been rejuvenated into a library, restaurant and meeting place. I love this place ;-)
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Paulin L. 4 months ago on Google • 24 reviews
    I wish I had gone to this library sooner. It’s not just a library, they also have a small cafe inside. Such a nice place to study, read, drink coffee, practice new languages and you can also take the kids-they have a nice spot perfect for children who wants to play with books and small toys. Good selections of books too of course. This will definitely be my one of to-go-places for Me-time :)
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Flo A. 2 years ago on Google • 267 reviews
    An absolutely lovely library, great areas for kids as well as adults to get lost in books and more.

  • 4/5 Marlıes le G. 11 months ago on Google
    Prettige plek om even te zijn: nu even boeken geleend en een kopje koffie op het terras gedronken. Plus een beginnetje gemaakt in mijn verse boek🫠
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Miggen 1. 10 months ago on Google • 182 reviews
    Great place, borrow books, relax and, or drink coffee and eat pastries, would love to come back, nice staff and parking spaces around the corner.

  • 5/5 Kelsi D. 4 years ago on Google • 144 reviews
    We loved this library as soon as we walked in. Large cafe a really nice atmosphere. Lots of places to sit and great selection of books.

  • 5/5 Piotr S. 3 years ago on Google • 122 reviews
    Cool pleace for food & relax

  • 4/5 Babs M. 1 year ago on Google • 86 reviews
    Friendly staff, delicious coffee and coconut rhubarb tart. The restaurant is located in a library. Where many parents with children come. It's nice to have seen it. It is not a very quiet environment.

  • 5/5 Ve 4 years ago on Google • 18 reviews
    The atmosphere here is friendly and happy. The servers are friendly. The coffee, food, and chocolate are all tasty.

  • 5/5 -- 6 years ago on Google
    Top!

  • 1/5 Viviane van der K. 2 years ago on Google
    (Translated by Google) Overpriced, service falls short. Had lunch with a group of 6. Goat cheese salad Grand cru, normally you get about 80 gr, here at most 20 grams, a bit of mixed lettuce, 1 corn kernel, 1 the size of corn kernels piece of red pepper, hazelnut sauce was definitely gone, because a lot of sunflower oil. Not even a nice olive oil. Some croutons burned .. and the bread that should have come with it had to be asked for and in the end we got 2 thin, dried out slices of bread per Grand cru goat dalade. In any case, it was not worth the almost 12 euros, in ingredients no more than 1.5 to 2 euros! When taking drinks not everything was delivered, and never delivered again ... A plus was that it was said that the carpaccio that was ordered could not be served because it was spoiled. It was strange that the carpaccio was paid for at the table next to us, without anything being said about it. I hope that lady didn't get sick. The elderly lady who had invited us was able to pay at the counter, with her walker. We put a stop to that ...such a young girl: ...yes, but, we are very busy ... That's fine, because you don't see this company anymore! You will naturally calm down a bit! (Original) Overpriced, bediening schiet te kort. Met een groep van 6 geluncht. Salade geitenkaas Grand cru, normaal krijg je toch zo'n 80 gr, hier ten hoogste 20 gram, beetje gemengde sla, 1 maïskorrel, 1 ter grootte van maïskorrels stukje rode paprika, hazelnoot saus was zeker op, want veel zonnebloemolie. Niet eens een lekkere olijfolie. Sommige croutons verbrand .. en het brood wat er bij geleverd zou behoren te worden, moest om gevraagd worden en uiteindelijk kregen we per Grand cru geitendalade 2 dunne, uitgedroogde sneetjes brood. Ieder geval was het de bijna 12 euro niet waard, aan ingrediënten niet meer dan 1.5 a 2 euro! Bij het drankjes opnemen werd niet alles geleverd, en nooit meer geleverd ... Pluspunt was wel dat gezegd werd dat de carpaccio die besteld was, niet uitgeserveerd kon worden omdat het bedorven was. Wel raar dat aan het tafeltje naast ons carpaccio afgerekend werd, zonder dat daar iets over werd gezegd. Ik hoop dat die dame er niet ziek van is geworden. De oudere dame die ons had uitgenodigd kon aan de counter komen betalen, met haar rollator. Daar hebben we een stokje voor gestoken ...zo'n jong meisje: ...ja, maar, we hebben het erg druk ... Komt van zelf goed, want dit gezelschap zie je niet meer! Krijg je het vanzelf wat rustiger!

  • 4/5 Chardy K. 1 year ago on Google
    (Translated by Google) Good lunch was worth the wait. Super service at the municipal archive (Original) Goede lunch was het wachten waard. Super service bij het gemeente archief

  • 5/5 kees f. 1 year ago on Google
    (Translated by Google) Delicious food. Always surprisingly tasty. Great staff. (Original) Heerlijk gegeten.atijd verrassend lekker. Geweldig personeel.

  • 5/5 Eman h. 11 months ago on Google
    Bedankt voor het helpen en horen van mensen die je zien, hen helpen met de taal en alles wat mensen die van buiten het land komen nodig hebben, en hun bijdrage aan het vinden van werk en vaardigheid in de taal😍😍

  • 1/5 Inferior I. 8 months ago on Google • 5 reviews
    I would prefer to give them 0 stars after how I was treated in this library. I had to read a certain book for my studies, but I thought I would just read it in the library. Well, unfortunately I was born without a stomach valve and am a stomach & intestinal patient. Tried something new yesterday and it didn't go well. I have Threw up twice, but the book wasn't damaged or anything. The first time I was given a nice glass of water, the 2nd time a man came up to me before it had even subsided a bit and told me to leave in such a rude manner that my blood is still boiling in my veins . I was almost finished and I finished it in a corner of the library. More than ten minutes later and the vomit is still exactly where it was, apparently that is not a priority, but shooing sick people away is. I would have heard this snarling when the restaurant section was very full, I was sitting near it because climbing stairs is difficult with the muscle pain in my left foot, but it was fairly quiet. I would have understood if there were only one or two people walking around, that they didn't have time to serve the few people who were there and also clean up the puke twice and were therefore a bit grumpy, but there were at least five people and it wasn't busy. I would totally understand if I had damaged a book. But I don't have that. Really, that's not how you treat chronically ill people, is it? Like I get sick in public for fun. You can also tell me in a normal, more polite tone that it might not be so appetizing to the family down the road who saw me throw up. I'm human, please address me that way.


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