bookplate café
Innovative dining with exceptional views
Our licensed café, bookplate and outdoor dining
area, ex libris offer an exciting array of tempting foods to please all tastes from snack foods to light lunches,
affordable specials, delicious cakes, pastries and quality coffee.
bookplate is the ideal place to have your wedding, corporate function, convention or just come and relax over cake and coffee with friends. Our café is situated in the Library’s marble foyer, surrounded by the famous Leonard French stained glass windows.
Opening hours:
Monday to Thursday 8.30 am - 6 pm
Friday 8.30 am - 4 pm
Weekends and public holidays 11 am - 3 pm
Closed Good Friday, Christmas and Boxing Day
Phone: 02 6262 1154
Fax: 02 6273 0375
Email: bookplate@nla.gov.au
For more information visit the bookplate website.
Functions & bookings:
bookplate caters seven days per week for all functions and group sizes. In addition to bookplate café and the glass walled podium on the northern verandah, the National Library has a number of venues that are available for public hire.
These spaces are suited to seminars, conferences, meetings and presentation of varying sizes. For these bookings, contact Venue hire.
