We have finished floors and lights! Less than one month until we are reopened
Read It & Eat Bookshop & Boxes
Book and Periodical Publishing
Buffalo, New York 95 followers
Read It and Eat is the foodie bookish subscription box and culinary bookstore in Buffalo, NY
About us
Read It & Eat Box In 2020, I launched Read It & Eat Box. Our boxes come bursting with culinary adventure Our boxes include: ✓ A great food-focused book to curl up with ✓ Delicious food treats (from a small business, never Amazon) ✓ A donation to fight hunger in Buffalo, NY Since our launch we have partnered with over fifteen different non-profits and be featured in outlets such as Book Riot, the New York Post, and Real Homes. The Read It & Eat Book Fair and Market In 2023, we launched the Read It & Eat Bok Fair and Market. The inaugural Read It & Eat Book Fair and Market event took place on Independent Bookstore Day on Saturday, April 29th Eleven hundred book and gourmet food lovers gathered at Seneca One Tower on Seneca Street to read books, eat snacks, and fight hunger. The Read It & Eat Book Fair and Market hosted 30 artisan food businesses and local book vendors at the event. Part proceeds of ticket sales will be donated to WEDI to help the West Side Bazaar chefs get back on their feet. The Read It & Eat Bookshop Opening in October 2023 Buffalo is full of unique cultures and communities coming together. The City of Good Neighbors is gaining a new culinary bookstore for everyone to learn about unique experiences others have to offer, housed inside the new West Side Bazaar. Buffalo is going to have a new culinary bookstore downtown, The Read It & Eat Bookshop. The bookshop is one of the 18 new small businesses housed inside the new West Side Bazaar, located at 1431 Niagara Street in Buffalo, NY.
- Website
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https://www.readitandeatbox.com
External link for Read It & Eat Bookshop & Boxes
- Industry
- Book and Periodical Publishing
- Company size
- 1 employee
- Headquarters
- Buffalo, New York
- Type
- Self-Owned
- Founded
- 2020
Locations
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Primary
1432 Niagara St
Buffalo, New York 14213, US
Updates
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Never thought we'd be so excited for old floors...new floors.... both! We're getting closer to moving in to our new space! There's still 3 weeks left on the Kickstarter and we would LOVE your support: https://lnkd.in/gAqyhSsb
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We hit our Kickstarter goal, but we're not done yet! We've added stretch goals to help capitalize on the last 30 days of our program! https://lnkd.in/gAqyhSsb
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Amazing news, everyone! Our Read It & Eat Box has made it through as a nomination for best Book Box of the year! You have between now and August 4th to vote for Read It & Eat!
2024 Subscription Box Awards: Voting Round - USA
https://ayearofboxes.com
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We are nine days in and already 64% to our goal of $3500! Can you spare $5 to help us get there.
Read It & Eat - Buffalo's Culinary Bookstore by Kimberly Behzadi — Kickstarter
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Eat Bookshop! We're relocating to the Valvaere Collective for Fall 2024. Our space is almost doubling in size and we are very excited to be right beside The Rail Apartments. https://lnkd.in/gAqyhSsb But we need YOUR help! Relocating is going to cost us some money and we won't have a lot of cash once the shop closes at the end of July! So we have launched a Kickstarter campaign! We're raising $3500 to cover: renting a box truck to move inventory, cost of materials to pack, our first month's rent, and some funds for new furniture and new inventory.
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Read It & Eat Bookshop will be exiting the West Side Bazaar at the end of July. This is not the end but a detour. I believe in this little culinary bookstore and it's time to stop being forgotten up on the second floor! 💔 There are a myriad of reasons we are exiting, some of which have been covered by Andrew Galarneau, which we encourage you to follow over at Four Bites . 👀👀 But we aren't stopping! We have a few more events still scheduled throughout the summer and those are still happening! We are very excited for our first cookbook author signing (more details will be live next week) and we hope you sign up! 👩🍳👋🏽🎉 You can still purchase in person through the end of July and our affiliate partnerships are still ongoing 📚 Sign up for a cookbook subscription box! I started my business now four years ago as a Book & Food Subscription box, two years ago I launched a book fair with a thousand annual guests, and last year I opened a bookstore. I'm nothing if not a slow grind. You'll still see us at pop up markets this summer too I still believe Buffalo is ready for a culinary bookstore and for culinary adventure! Much love, Kim #culinarybookstore #buffalobookstores #shopbuffalo
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Thank you M&T Bank for featuring the Read It & Eat Bookshop in their Instagram Spotlight Series. We continue to be floored by the press and support from the community! https://lnkd.in/g-hx_Pxz
M&T Spotlight Shop on Instagram: "Discover the perfect blend of culinary delight and literary charm at Read It & Eat Bookshop 📚🍽️ Located inside the West Side Bazaar in Buffalo, NY, this #SpotlightShop business offers a unique assortment of food-related reads, gifts and cookbooks. Join their book club or dive into their Books & Cooks event series, where you can learn new recipes alongside top ch
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Thank you everyone who joined us at Seneca One for Year 2 of the Read It & Eat Book Fair and Market. This is a long one, so buckle up .... .... I'm a small business owner, I've had my bookstore for six months, and I still work full time. Running this book fair is NOT easy and I start thinking about this event back around Thanksgiving in the midst of holiday shopping. How can I give you the best book fair possible? How can I make my vendors happy? What's going to make you come back each year ready to buy those books? 📚 It costs around 15k each year to run this event, a bill I'm footing throughout the process. Vendor registrations, ticket sales, and sponsorships help cover that. A good book fair for me is an event that pays for itself. Is cost fun to talk about? No, but I want to be honest on WHY this is not easy. 💀 But, I LOVE seeing the Buffalo community support small businesses, our independent bookstores and fight hunger. The smiles, the laughter, the bags full of books, oh it's so wonderful. 🥰 If you have the time, please leave a Google review for my bookshop and mention this book fair. Thanks! 🎉🎉 A few highlights this year 🎉🎉 ✔️ We raised $750 for FeedMore WNY and donated over 4 barrels of food! They're weighing the food Monday but rumor is it's at least 350lbs of food ✔️ We saw over 1k guests again this year! ✔️ We welcomed over 40 vendors, an increase of +10 vendors this year ✔️ Three different stations came out for live coverage! A first ever for me! 🥰Thank you so much: 🥰 ♥️ My amazing staff for handling the booth and crushing it ♥️ My family & friends ♥️ Twenty6 Productions helping again this year with logistics, vendor support, and everything in-between ♥️ Seneca One Buffalo for having us again ♥️ Our sponsors Ten Thousand Villages, Just Buffalo Literary Center, Silver Lining Edits, and the Better off Read Summer Book Festival Buffalo Spree Publishing, Inc., Good Neighbor Fund, ♥️ To FeedMoreWNy for buying in immediately to the charity basket raffle this year and diving head first into the fun #readitandeat #readitandeatbuf #culinarybookstore #indiebookstore #buffalobookstores #bookfair
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