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Café WDeansgate, Manchester

★EverydayThe everyday answer

91 Deansgate0.1 mi from Deansgate centrelast reviewed April 2026

A bookshop cafe where the coffee earns its place rather than coasting on the setting. Order the flat white and find a corner.

The flat white does better work than a bookshop cafe has any right to.

4.5★★★★½(132)
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What we love

  • •Flat white consistently praised; the order to default to
  • •Inside Waterstones on Deansgate, calmer than the street and built for staying
  • •Cakes and food if you're making an afternoon of it

Location

2BW, 91 Deansgate, Manchester M3 2QG, UK

0.1 mi from Deansgate centre

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From the Journal

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Richaro's Ramblings · 14 Aug

The wrong island

I am writing this from Ponta Delgada, where the coffee in front of me was roasted about four streets away. Normally that is the whole story.

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