NoteSpoke & Stringer is no longer a trading café brand. The cafés closed in 2024. This site is the operating lessons that came out of fifteen years running them. Read the story

Locations

City by city.

Running hospitality in Bristol is not the same as running it in Manchester or in London. Different councils, different inspectors, different quirks. Each page here is a local operator's guide to the patch.

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