Creation Café

I visited the Creation Café for the first time today and it definitely won’t be the last as it’s a fantastic place. The café is part of the Angel Community Centre and is there to serve the locals offering classes and interesting events each week. The staff are really friendly and the place has such a cosy feel to it from the piano in the corner to the huge bookcase filled with books you know you’re in a place you could stay in all afternoon. I was there for a jewellery making class which was excellent. The food was incredibly cheap as well. A cheese toastie and a cup of tea set me back a very reasonable £3. It’s a good place to pop in for lunch or breakfast if you’re ever in the area as all the food is home cooked. I just hope more places like this pop up in Manchester.

Angel Café? Creation Café? This place has so many names I can’t keep up. But I’ll stick to what it says on the flyer I’ve posted as one of the photos (so you can all get a free hot drink) and not what it says on the wall, or the front for that matter. Come on, this is a community centre café, the kids who made the sign might have been dyslexic.
Unless you prefer to call it the ‘Angle Café’. No, I’m totally serious.
All silliness aside, this is a little gem, and I want you to think for a moment about how jealous you are of me for having this eatery attached to my apartment building. Yep, I go downstairs, open the car park gate, and there it is. Okay, maybe you shouldn’t be jealous. Side effects of having a cute little coffee n’ cake, brunch and lunch establishment within staggering distance of your front door include weight gain and a loss of cooking skills. Hey, when was the last time I bought teabags again? Oh God…
This diner is part of the Angel Community Centre, a place where friendliness and generosity are a requirement, not a state of mind. This transfers over to the café staff who are lovely and apologetic whenever the daily special sells out, which is every day. That daily special counts as a main meal, by the way. And it’s usually about £1.99. Here you’ll get soups and sarnies, toasties and pastries, from 9am until 3pm, and the food ranges from the wholesome to the greasy spoon stodgy. Delish. It’s a relaxing vibe inside with bare brick walls and a hard wooden floor, squishy sofas and community computers where you can surf the web while sipping some coffee.
Forget the multitude of names and spelling mistakes. If you’re ever walking by Chapel Street, make an effort to pop in here to read your newspaper and have a drink, a spot of lunch or even nip in for a takeaway. It’s a great little local and I’m very proud to have it on my doorstep.