About Us

Madras Cafe Books (MCB) is a full-service, quality bookshop together with a relaxing cafe serving delicious home-made food, great coffee and plenty of other drinks, including wine & beer!

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 8 am to 5pm (Kitchen closes at 4 to 4.30pm)
We close on Public holidays, and from Christmas to 18th January, over Easter & some other days - February 5th for example.

The bookshop has a wide-range of stock, as you'll see by browsing the website, 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 68.221 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 sometimes source out-of-print books for you.

The Cafe is open from 8am weekdays, and serves all-day breakfast options and a wide range of dishes, including vegan and gluten-free options. Practically all of our food is made on the premises (some of our menu is on the web site) and is completely & utterly delicious!

We use Hummingbird organic, fair trade coffee (OOMPH!), and pride ourselves on our quality presentation & taste. Phoenix Organic juices (bottled), Charlies juice & various teas are also available, as are wines & beers.

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