Love Cafe, Margate

The building that houses this bar was built as two private houses around the mid 1850's. By 1909 one had become a tailors while the other was used as the Conservative Party's local office. They both survived as various retail outlets until 1935 when F Jarman combined the separate shops to form a ladies outfitters. After the war it became Jarman's Restaurant, owned by the Achilles family. It wasn't until 1975 that it became a public bar called the Achilles Heel. In 1999 the pub was converted into a Spanish tapa style bar/restaurant and its name was changed to reflect this. In recent times the bar has been closed while work on converting the first floor restaurant and rooms above into flats. August 2008 saw the bar reopen under new ownership with a new title, Purple and in 2010 another change of ownership saw another name. A ownership change in Summer 2013 saw another name change; a further ownership change saw it reopen as a restaurant. Another change in March 2017 saw it reopened as the Black Cat. In June 2021 it recieved a new premises licence to operate as the Love Cafe.