Le Boulevard Cafe

Le Boulevard Café is located on the upper level of Clayton Square which is tucked away in a corner opposite Clas Ohlson.
Just by experience and looking at their menu prices, all their food is overpriced for a simple British café serving the most basic of food. Cheese on toast and a bowl of cereal for instance is going to set you back a fair several pounds plus a drink on top of that is obviously extra. The whole atmoshphere and food is mediocre as previous reviews have also suggested.
There is a good place to surf the internet with a small charge, so this is the only positive I can give. Otherwise, this is not the place to eat and get value for money.

Clayton Square was once filled with the sound of live piano music from the café upstairs, it sounded classy, sophisticated and totally alluring. The café itself was lovely, the glass ceiling which remains today brightening the area and lightening the atmosphere. It was busy, popular with ladies and gents partial to more tasteful things. Nowadays the café, like Clayton Square itself, is a little mediocre; you’ve got your basics: tea and coffee, cold drinks, light snacks but it’s nothing special. The place is clean but the customers have gone, replaced by somewhat less refined youngsters, the piano too has gone, in its place a few computer booths crammed implausibly close together, a sign of the times I suppose. Granted, internet access and IT facilities are more requisite these days, more so than a live pianist which would perhaps seem incongruous, old fashioned today. One must wonder however, if the customers would return were such a unique attribute reinstalled… Le Boulevard would certainly be distinctive and Clayton Square would resound with music once more.

Internet cafes in my view are generally rather peculiar strange places. I for one have never ever really felt entirely comfortable in them. I do majority of my shopping and banking online, and these places are never private enough for my liking. I am also alarmed by the stuff I have seen people looking at online at these cafes which needless to say I won’t go into.
This particular one whilst being a decent enough internet café suffers from the same fate. Sure I will check my emails and surf the net or something of that sort but I would be too much on alert to really relax enough to stay for very long at all. I would assign my visits to sheer acts of desperation. In todayts world where Laptops can be bought for under £200 or even free with some contract phones and free wifi services available in a lot of cafes. The internet café really is a slow dying breed. For those of you however without a laptop this place I suppose is more than useful. As I mentioned before however, for me I would only go here if my laptop battery packed up and I was in desperate need to use the net. Although as i’m sure most of you are aware with android smart phones these days, as soon as my iPhone4 arrives my web surfing will be at the fingertips anywho, so bye bye internet café!

If you don’t have internet at home (or if yours, like mine, acts up all the time!), you probably have cause to use an internet café from time to time. Some of them can be extremely high in price, and sometimes they aren’t the most safe-​feeling places to hang out either.
I’ve noticed, though, that le Boulevard internet café (upstairs in Clayton Square shopping centre) is a pretty good one. And I believe they only charge a pound for a half hour, which is usually enough time to check your emails and your Facebook.