The Harlequin Café

In the short story The Harlequin Tea Set, the Harlequin Café is a café located next to the post office in the village of Kingsbourne Ducis. Mr Satterthwaite arrived at the café when his car broke down on his way to Doverton Kingsbourne.

The establishment is divided into two parts, one half being a cafe and the other a shop selling modern chinaware. While passing, Satterthwaite had noticed something a Harlequin tea set which caught his attention. Thus when his car broke down, he decided to head back towards the cafe, even though the garage mechanic remarked that it was not much of a place. Satterthwaite had a feeling that something would happen there and sure enough, Harley Quin appears with his dog Hermes. Satterthwaite's in depth discussion with Quin and what he does thereafter forms the main plot of the story.

The cafe employs a server or cook named Ali from whom Quin orders two cups of turkish coffee. According to Quin, everything at the cafe is quite unpalatable but the turkish cafe is really good.