Welc Cafe

They seem to never be open…

Welc Café is a fairly new little café on Smithdown Road. It’s a great little lunch and coffee type place, and interestingly enough they also do yoga classes in the same building. Hmm, yoga and a late? That sounds like fun!
The décor is really neat. It feels almost like a combination between a doctor’s office waiting room and a library. Lots of pictures on the walls, plants, greens and browns … Very warm and fun.
This is probably destined to become another student haunt as some of the other coffee shops on this street, but that’s not all bad. I think there’s something kind of comforting about a bunch of random people sitting in a coffee shop quietly reading and writing over a cup of coffee and a sandwich. Or maybe that’s just me, since I’m so bookish myself.
All in all, a cute little café.

Welc café, (i’m a little unsure of the name… welc-​ome, perhaps?), is like the blue-​boxed wonder that is the Tardis; small on the outside and impossibly big inside. I was so shocked when I crossed the garage-​esque front into a spacious well-​decorated café I thought I’d quite possibly crossed over into a parallel universe!
Very at one with nature and the natural, Welc (short for sea snails, maybe!?) has a spiritual wellbeing clinic upstairs, they also have yoga on wednesdays at 6.15pm and sell a range of detox teas… they should rename them though… I don’t know anyone who would be appetised by «lung tea» or «liver tea»… perhaps ‘hangover curing tea’ might be more appropriate!
And, they have a refreshing range of foods which isn’t your run of the mill café standard but a mainly fresh fish based specials menu, serving red snapper, sea bass and many more tantalising treats!
Serving wines and coffees as well as their abundant food menu, in a friendly, leafy surrounding with walls that are covered with quirky memorabilia and nic-​nacs, it’s no surprise that this is my new found favourite on Smithdown!

Even as I walked through the doors I was n’t too sure what I was getting here. The Welc seems to be a converted garage with some patio furniture set outside and as I drew closer to the huge piles of charcoal near the entrance I thought maybe this could be a garden wholesalers.
Inside however the feel of a makeshift coffee shop was very welcoming as the ladies there had big smiles and hellos for me as I entered. With the cobbled together interior of couches, office executive chairs and left overs from antique shops I wondered whether this place was a charity of sorts — at the very least it was put together as a space for the girls here to just have a good old natter.
Most surprisingly, however, amidst this jumble of furniture was the menu which had a choice of Red Snapper, Seabass and Pizzas along with the more conventional soups salads and baguettes.
Easing into the Smooth FM vibe I could take in the wall decoration of prints by local artists which as well as including the obligatory Beatles prints also had a collection of early seaside postcards in the dirty, British Benny Hill style humour. Eclectic, unusual, friendly and unique.