Cafes and Coffee Shops in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire*

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• NADIAS PATTISSERIE - on burleigh street next to the grafton centre, has coffee, tea, cold drinks, food, and the best cookies in the world (no joke, they are amazing) try their whtie chocolate rabbit cookies :) divine <3
• michaelhouse cafe, on trinity street i think? has amazing gluten-free chocolate & chestnut cake and seriously good cappucinos, as well as being next to an awesome church and university
• Black Cat Cafe, 2 The Broadway, Mill Road. For serious cake and espresso.
• CB1, CB2 mill road and norfolk street, clowns kings street
• Gardiners - good post drinks chips, bit bright but aren't all cafes/takeaways!
• cafe nero, starbucks
• The buttery or the college bar
• Clowns cafe is cool and the staff a very friendly
• You might check out Mango smoothie bar in Cobble Yard behind the Grafton Centre/Druids Pub its really relaxed, wait for summer & you can sit outdoors with your organic juice ! Cobble Yard also has a Post Office !! I know, it`s amazing to find one still left open, v.friendly too.
• BB's Coffee and Muffins in Grafton Centre
• Clownz in Kings Street is a nice place to chill out, full of dodgy foreigners most of the time though...
• Clowns!!(kings street) serves THE best hot choc and cakes! also starbucks in winter with their special eggnog latte(heaven in a cup!)
• Starbucks is good- but too American style...and we're Brittish, and not yet in Cambridge have i seen a Brittish coffe shop. Not being prejudice...Honest!!!
• Well I paticularly like the Starbucks down market street, next to vodafone and orange. Thats always nice as my friend works in there and freebies is the order of the day. Sometimes i paticularly like a frappucino alongside the river cheaper than cafe uno and great views of girls in punts during the summer. However, when I'm feeling poor and shopping at the Grafton centre i sometimes might pop into starbucks and get myself a espresso to give me a nice little high and stinky breathe. Though, starbucks within Borders is paticularly nice get to read the books for free and rip out a few pages for personal reference. Hey, dont worry about getting stains on them just leave it on the table and the staff are more than willing to put them back for you.
• Madal Bal. (Check out their yummy bagels!) and CB1 on Mill road
• squeeze, the waffle shop is trendy if a little pricy.
• The Nicest place to go in Cambridge for the best Chocolate milkshakes, Hot Chocolates and Cappacinos is deffinatly Clowns which is down King Street, there is a really friendly atmosphere and you can smoke and have a drink at the same time!
• The new Netbar at the newly open Forum on Jesus lane is a funky place to hang out. They even have a scalectrix coffee table!
• Clowns Cafe (King Street) - Italian food, wines, other alcoholic beverages available, small roof garden, upstairs no-smoking area (where some computers have appeared recently), comfortable atmosphere.
• NOT STARBUCKS. evil company. much better is CLOWNS down Kings ST. or that mint green coloured one on Downing St.
• Le Gros Franck, 57 Hills Rd (Next door to the Q club). Coffee for 1.20 (that includes a chocolate), and the best lunches I've tasted in Cambridge. Also serves as a restaurant at night but I've never been. Real cafe atmosphere there, as opposed to the likes of starbucks where you just get tossers spending all day in the seats as they sip their milky burnt coffee.
• The cafe in the Arts Theatre looks scarily posh, but it's not too expensive, and really nice.
• Clowns - they recognise you after about two visits and say `the usual?' Lovely.
• CAFE CASIMIR FOR THE VERY BEST COFFEE IN CAMBRIDGE!!!
• Clowns (King St) wins, no contest. Cafe Rouge (Bridge St) is good for the open fire in winter, although their coffee is merely satisfactory.
• CB1 and 2 of course
• Indigos - round the corner from the Arts Theatre. Only place in Cambridge that does bagels. Gorgeous!! Pretty cheap really, nice and cosy on 2 floors. Opens pub hours most days.
• Naida's Patisserie, the best cakes and sarnies in Camrbidge, and I should know, I used to work there!
• Woohoo! Starbucks has come to town, and with a vengeance! After my uni years with nowhere to sit and veg "Central Perk" style, Starbucks have opened a coffee shop on Market Square! They are also currently in the process of building another one at the other end of town oppostie Magdalene College, by the river (near Henry's). Waterstones has always been fantastic with their Seattle Coffee Co upstairs, and their willingness for coffee and books to be mingled with noone yelling at you (I can recommend a large hto chocolate with a double espresso *ZING!*). Eaden Lilley (a 150year old Department Store) has been bought and is being relaced by a Borders bookshop (like we don't already have 7 or 8 in such a tiny town already? NOT that i'm complaing mind!) which will also have a coffee shop inside (rumours are that it's yet another Starbucks...) (There are LOTS more)
• Clowns cafe:Kings Street.Sit down in this great little spot for a coffe ,something to eat ie toast ,sandwiches,and take in the atmosphere.
• Plenty, but they're all filled with bloody American tourists in the summer and students the rest of the time.

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