Welcome to The Lounge
The Lounge is a Craft Café bar in the heart of Bedford Place Southampton. We offer amazing coffee, naughty homemade cakes and mouth-watering snacks. We also serve a selection of alcoholic drinks to enjoy with your food.
We pride ourselves on our friendly, happy staff and good service and our aim is to make you feel as comfortable as if you were in your own Lounge! We want to make people happy so where we can, we source our food locally, cook as much as we can ourselves and stock Fairtrade where possible!
We also offer some extra’s for your enjoyment!...we don’t close till 8pm so you can enjoy an evening drink in a relaxed atmosphere and we host monthy events such as poetry, acoustic music and games nights.
And theres more!...behind our Café Bar hides our Workshop space ‘Stitch’. Here we provide all sorts of Craft workshops, an alterations service and we also have sewing machines that you can hire by the hour, along with free advice from our sewing expert!
Upcoming workshops at Stitch….(dates tbc)
• Revamp it!- Learn how to collect inspiration and resources and how to customise and revamp bored clothing items.
• Kitsch it!-Learn how to add kitsch to your home with hand-made interior products on a budget.
• Learn it!-Learn how to use your sewing machine.
• Learn it!-Learn basic but essential dressmaking skills
• Flash from Trash-Teenagers learn basic designing and sewing skills by making their own recycled outfit and accessories.
• Create a monster!- Kids learn basic sewing skills by making their own recycled monster.
• Fascinating Fascinators-For Hen parties to create accessories for weddings or hen-do’s.