# @clevelandmagazine on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/C1t8HpesDBJ
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/10573736-clevelandmagazine-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2024-01-05T12:00:31.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Cleveland Magazine (@clevelandmagazine) — https://gondola.cc/clevelandmagazine

## Caption

Two sisters have brought a new bookstore to Downtown Cleveland’s Galleria at Erieview Tower, adding a small business to the retail center. Browsing Room Bookstore and Cafe opened on Dec. 9, offering a selection of international literature, small meals and coffee. ☕ 

📖 It was a labor of love from owners Catherine Kassouf and Jean Khoury, who renovated the space over the past year.

Originally, the shop — a former Williams Sonoma store, located next door to the Hungarian Museum — caught Kassouf’s eye while she was walking with her husband through the building. “I just stopped, looked at my husband, and said, ‘There’s my bookstore,’” Kassouf says. “He said ‘What? You have a bookstore?’”

Kassouf opened her wallet and pulled out an old piece of paper. On it, a dream, “The Browsing Room Bookstore," was written. She’d carried that paper, she says, for decades, since graduating from college.

Now, the 67-year-old retiree has finally seen her dream materialize in the form of the shop.

🔗 Read more at the link in bio.

🖊 nickoloffoff 
📸 Jean Khoury

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