Madras Cafe Bookshop (MCB) is a full-service, quality bookshop together with a stylish cafe serving delicious home-made food, great coffee and plenty of other drinks!
We have a love of what we do, and aim to bring that to our customers and provide them with a pleasurable bookshop/cafe experience.

Hours of opening are:
Monday to Friday 7.30am to 6pm (Kitchen closes at 5.30pm)
Saturday 9am to 3pm (kitchen closes at 2.30pm)
We close on Public holidays, and between Christmas and New year.

The bookshop has a wide-range of stock, as you'll see in the web-site, with an emphasis on the literary end of fiction, and books of scholarship in many other areas - history, politics, religion, health, art & design,science, New Zealand books, business, and so on. Plus some humour, and poetry and...well, heaps more.
David and Wendy Ault have between them 50 years of bookselling experience, and a deep-seated love of books and the process of providing them for others to enjoy.
The bookshop offers an effective special order system - we can track down your book and quote on price and delivery times - and can even source out-of-print books through the second-hand part of the business.

The Cafe is open from 7.30am, and serves all-day bereakfast options and a wide range of dishes, including vegan and gluten-free options. Most of our food is made on the premises (our menu is on the web site) and is delicious!
 We use Hummingbird coffee, and pride ourselves on our quality presentation.
Simply Squeezed juices, Phoenix Organic juices (bottled), various teas are also available

Our aim is to develop our business in harnass with our customers, and to provide and pleasurable experience for our customers and ourselves!

Events & Catering
MCB is a venue for various events - book launches, poetry readings, talks, business presentations, music concerts....
If you would like to be informed of future public events either check our site or ask to be placed on our email mailings.

If you have an event and would like us to quote of hire and/or catering, please contact David or Wendy Ault with your requirements.

David & Wendy Ault
Madras Cafe Bookshop
165 Madras Street
Christchurch, Aotearoa.
Phone 03 365 8585 Fax 03 365 8584
email madrascafebooks@paradise.net.nz

Business Hours:Weekdays 7.30am to 6pm
               Saturdays 9am to 3pm