Bluebells Cafe

A really good local tea shop, cafe, and restaurant of long standing in the town centre. Run by a local area Turkish Cypriot family who have together given many decades of dedicated service to the people and town center of East Grinstead with their various food, ice cream and other businesses. Helpful and friendly family run business service. In past years it is somewhere I liked to sit with friends and enjoy a coffee. Or enjoy a small meal in company here. Years ago I attended evening dinner meetings here too with the local church Alpha group dinner talks. (This is also notably apparently a business mentioned in the memoirs of an early noughties foreign service intelligence agent of the Zimbabwean government. At the time President Mugabe was still in power, around time our Prime Minister was Tony Blair, or around/just after perhaps that time period. Listed in his book of his life story as somewhere he had once met with a contact. Travelling down to East Grinstead by train from London specifically to collect information of intetest supplied to him by a source contact. I'm trying to remember the name of that chap's book that I read this in, at a second hand bookshop in my travels. It has slipped my mind. Kicking myself I didn’t buy that book now really! Wouldn't have to try then to go by memory alone. But it can only mean this cafe in that book and nowhere else. There is only one cafe on the corner of Railway Approach in East Grinstead in West Sussex, opposite the Railway pub. Bluebells Cafe. Has to be this one. )