Ivy Bookshop, Baltimore, Md., is partnering with Foodshed restaurant group to open a bookstore-café in Charles Village, the Baltimore Sun reported.
The as-yet-unnamed bookstore-café will be in a student housing development being built at St. Paul and 33rd streets and should open in August. The location is near Johns Hopkins University, about four miles south of Ivy Bookshop.
Ivy Bookshop co-owner Ed Berlin told the paper that the bookstore component of the new bookstore-café will have about a third of the titles in Ivy Bookshop, which carries about 26,000 titles. The café will offer sandwiches, pastries and coffee but not have a full kitchen. Foodshed owner Spike Gjerde said he would include some of his favorite books on farming, the environment and cooking.
Berlin added that the new location will become the primary site for Ivy's events because it can handle up to 100 people while the bookstore has a maximum capacity of 60. "It opens us up to a lot of opportunities that we haven't been able to take advantage of," he said.
