Walker Art Gallery Cafe

The café at the Walker Art Gallery is the perfect place to sit and reflect on a particular exhibition or recharge your batteries before seeing another.
Located on the ground floor, it’s a spacious and welcoming café with occasional sculptures and prints dotted around. The tables and chairs are usually clean and comfy, the staff are friendly and the fact there’s lots of activities for children means its child-​friendly. As for the menu, there’s a good range of snacks and light meals including soups, salads, quiches, pies and sandwiches. These are all priced between £3-£4 and there’s usually a couple of children’s specials too.
My tip however, is to try the home-​made cakes and scones and the Mawsons dandelion and burdock.

You want to eat in a gallery café that still feels like it’s part of the gallery as opposed to a mere extension or extra room don’t you? So do I! And what Liverpool Cathedral and Manchester Town Hall do so well has been replicated here, because dotted around you are beautiful sculptures to gaze upon while you chew. Just don’t think they’re staring at you while you’re munching your sandwich, you might wind up throwing pickles at them. Not that… I’ve ever done that…
Wow, well, first of all let me just say this. Hot drinks, all under £2. I’m a happy bunny. And hot chocolate is always exempt from that because it’s special, and £2.20 is not bad at all especially considering you get cream and marshmallows which they don’t even charge you for. Hear THAT, department store cafés? Yeah, their marshmallows are FREE! They’re rebels, man. Meanwhile food wise you can grab a soup of the day with bread for a mere £3.50, sandwiches ranging from just £2.75 to £3.25, quiche and salad for under a fiver, a bunch of hot mail means on a varied rotation for only £5.50 and there are some lovely cakes from just £1.50 as well as a child-​friendly menu. Everyone’s well catered for, and cheaply too!
I’d thoroughly recommend coming here if you happen to be browsing round the gallery, it’s homemade fresh and tasty produce and the staff are very enthusiastic too.