2nd View Bar

Dived in here for a late afternoon cup of tea. My only experience of Waterstone’s cafes before have been much more «chainy» like a Costa, so I was curious to see what they had on offer here. We weren’t overly impressed though. I know it was late afternoon, but the whole place felt a bit dirty and messy — tables had been wiped but needed a proper clean, that kinda thing. Also, we had to wait for our drinks because they’d run out of clean cups.
TL;DR — Fine for a pick me up refreshment, but nothing special.

I wandered up to the top floor expecting to find a slightly grotty costa and was pleasantly surprised. Bright, light, tasteful design and serene atmosphere even on Friday lunch time. Complements the bookshop location perfectly!
I had a prawn and noodle salad which was fresh and tasty and a melon, strawberry and mango juice– delicious too. Altogether a comfortable, relaxing, healthful and tasty lunch :)

I’ve heard rumors that there was a café at the top of Waterstones on Deansgate road for sometime, but I was never in the area to pop in and have a look. I recently ventured up to the top, and fell upon this wondrous, relaxed and pretty beautiful café I had heard so many positive words about.
The colourful décor, and pretty attractive layout was insanely welcome, it’s such a great little café, and the icing on the cake… They also sell alcohol, which is always a winning trait. The prices are pretty competitive to other cafes in the area, but that comes at no surprise. But you get a very good quality coffee for the price, and it’s worth giving it at least a shot.
To sum up, all I can say is this is a nice, rather decent sized beautiful café, a large selection of food and drinks at decent values. If you’re in the area and fancy a sit down, I would definitely recommend this place.

Sunday was only the second time that I have plonked (Bookworm speak for sat) myself down in 2^nd View, the first time I just sat there for a few minutes before the urge to fondle more books took me…
This time though we had a decision to make, start at the bottom and make our way up to the top and have a Coffee, or start with the coffee and work our way down.
We started on the middle floor :) Lets face it the floor with the Horror section is always the best one anyway.
It’s difficult to talk about 2^nd View without mentioning Waterstones (remember Lee it’s not all about the books!!). Anyway after a couple of book filled hours we made our way over to 2^nd View for a much needed brew. And I have to say that the Caramel Latte that I opted for was very very nice indeed as was Mrs Zombi’s Mocha, and the seats are really comfy too, just perfect for flicking through the pages of your most recent purchases, which in my case was a cook book with contributions from the top people in the Heavy Metal world, called Mosh Potatoes… Bliss :)