Arket Cafe in Birmingham

Arket is a small chain of designer clothes and homeware owned by H&M. The clothes are high quality low brand profile clothes displayed with style. This review is of the cafe that sits discreetly within the store. We stumbled across the store and the cafe within it after losing patience with the tatty Starbucks and Costas that surround the Bullring shopping area. The cafe is very small but the coffee is carefully chosen and the pastries are refined and definately not scraped out of a Brake Brothers tin. This combination of high grade coffee, superb pastries, intelligent modern enlightened staff creatively dressed was extremely enchanting and I salute all those who created it. We wandered around the store and bought clothes too !