24/7 Cafe and Takeaway Cafe

The ²⁴⁄₇ Café and Takeaway is a versatile place offering a range of teas, coffees, full English breakfasts, and other snack-​stuffs around the clock. Filled usually with workers and students, the ²⁴⁄₇ can look a bit intimidating from the exterior but is actually a really friendly café.
It’s really inexpensive here for a full-​English and the quality of the food is actually surprisingly good. I was expecting it to be grease-​galore but it was around the standard of your average caff. I didn’t think the atmosphere in here was particularly radiant but the staff were friendly enough.
Not a quaint café, but a functional one.

²⁴⁄₇ café is one of the best places in town for a real full English breakfast! Although it’s mainly occupied by the local black cab drivers, it’s very student friendly and it’s open all hours as a take out. In the daytime, you can go in there and relax and play table football or pool while you wait for your scran! They also have a quiz machine and two fruit machines which is a bit random for a greasy spoon café!
The prices are exceptional; they sell a range of coffees, traditional tea and a range of soft drinks in cans. The staff are great, very friendly and chatty. I think we may have been the first students that had been in there for a while judging by the looks we got off some of the cabbies, but the two girls behind the counter were made up and they chatted to us for ages!

The ²⁴⁄₇ Café does exactly what it says on the tin, it provides bog standard café food all around the clock and no matter what the day. It is a little intimidating to enter at first mainly because of the metalic décor which is almost prison like, but there is also a sense that the staff are suspicious of you or they have better things to do. This is not to criticise the staff they are friendly enough once they’ve ascertained that you are a reasonable paying customer. It is perhaps unsurprising that the staff are a tad suspicious at first given that most of their night time trade is from drunk students or revellers who stumble in and sometimes simply loiter. The food at the café is far from five star instead it is sometimes a little cold and the portions are far from generous. The two advantages the café has over its’ competitors is the availability at all hours and the fact that it is in such a central location close to the train station and next door to The Punch and Judy pub which provides the café with much drunken trade.
If you wish to eat a hearty café meal to fulfill your hunger and provide energy then this is not your place, however if you happen to stumble drunkenly from a club in the early hours and a kebab just wont cut it then head to Bolton street for an anytime breakfast.