Cafes on campus

Enjoy your break in one of our award-winning campus cafes

We offer sustainable, locally-sourced fresh food and drink in 11 cafes on the city-centre campus , and John Bull Cafe on the north campus. Students can also find a number of food and drink outlets in the .

We pride ourselves on offering a variety of affordable delicious food and drink options, whether you fancy a hearty breakfast, a healthy salad, a pizza with the finest toppings, the choice is yours as we have a variety of themed food options in each cafe.

We are committed to providing a sustainable food culture at the University. We have held a three star rating from the Sustainable Restaurant Association for multiple years which reflects our company achievements to sustainable sourcing, reducing disposable packaging, reducing meat intake and much more. Explore our sustainable food culture that supports local, sustainable and Fairtrade produce and suppliers.

The University is also dedicated to achieving Fairtrade Accreditation . This commitment involves advocating for fair prices, improving working conditions, promoting local sustainability, and ensuring fairtrade terms for farmers and workers in our procurement processes and supplier partnerships.

Summer opening times

Babbage Bytes Cafe: closed from 23 May, reopens 15 September 2025

The Container: 08:30–17:00, from 23 June 08:30–16:00

Enjoy breakfast, lunch and sweet treats all day long!

Drake's Kitchen: 08:00–17:00

Breakfast: 08:00–11:30 | Lunch: 12:00–14:30
Afternoon classics and salad pots are served until 16:00. Sandwiches are available all day, while supplies last.

InterCity Plates Cafe: closed from 30 May, reopens 15 September 2025

John Bull Cafe: 08:00–15:00

Breakfast: 08:00–11:30 | Lunch: 12:00–14:30
Paninis are subject to availability and snacks are available all day.

Library Cafe: 09:30–16:30, closed from 20 June, reopens 15 September 2025

Loafers Deli: 08:00–16:00

Our goal is to have all sandwiches prepared by 10:00. After 14:30, sandwiches are prepared upon request.

Portland's Pizzeria: 09:00–17:00, closed from 27 June, reopens 8 September 2025.

RLB Cafe: 08:00–15:00, closed from 20 June, reopens 15 September

Reservoir Cafe : 08:00–15:30

Breakfast: 08:00–11:00 | Lunch: 12:00–14:00
Our bagels and wraps are available all day until we run out!

The Toast Office: Monday to Thursday: 08:30–15:30, Friday: 08:30–15:00

Breakfast: 08:30–11:30 | Lunch: 12:00–14:30
Paninis, filled croissants, pasties and snacks are available all day or until sold out.

Babbage Bytes Cafe

Serving an extensive variety of sub rolls packed with premium ingredients, plus jacket potatoes, soup, hot pasties and breakfast baps, pastries and waffles

The Container, Roland Levinsky Building

Serving food boxes and other food supplies: picnic boxes, sweet treats, bakes and breakfast croissants, English muffins, bagels as well as hot and cold drinks

Drake's Kitchen, Rolle Plaza

Serving all your favourite dishes from traditional English breakfasts to hot daily lunch specials

Breakfast bap containing sausage, bacon and hash brown at a campus cafe

InterCity Plates Cafe

Serving a variety of hot and cold beverages, breakfast rolls, daily soup specials, handmade paninis, filled croissants and an assortment of cakes

John Bull Cafe, John Bull Building

Serving cooked breakfast and a 3-week rolling menu featuring internationally-inspired dishes

Library Cafe, Charles Seale-Hayne Library

Serving a wide selection of hot and cold drinks, handmade paninis, pasties, sausage rolls, sandwiches, wraps and snacks

Loafers Deli, next to the Students' Union Shop

Serving handmade, artisan sandwiches crammed with scrumptious local produce

Portland Square cafe on our city centre campus

Portland's Pizzeria, Portland Square Building

Serving a wide variety of deliciously cooked-to-order 10-inch pizzas with a large selection of premium toppings

Reservoir Cafe, Nancy Astor Building

Serving an exclusively vegetarian and vegan food

Bowl of food displayed on a table in the RLB Cafe

RLB Cafe, Roland Levinsky Building

Serving our pan-Asian inspired menu as well as breakfast, sandwich meal deals, cakes, and hot and cold drinks

The Toast Office, Emdeck Building

Serving The Container's favourites, including handmade brownies, toasties, filled croissants, artisan bagels and more

Loyalty points information

We have installed a new till system in all our units across campus.

We are working hard in the background to bring you a brand-new app-based loyalty programme with new offers and deals!

Just a reminder that the hot drink loyalty points offer utilising your staff and student card is no longer valid, payment via these methods is no longer accepted.

Cafe offers

The �鶹��ý cafes offer various deals as a great way to motivated you throughout the day. Whether you are studying with friends, holding a meeting or simply feeling something sweet – these deals are for you.

Find out more about our cafe offers

Carbon emission labelling on menus

We have added the carbon impact of our dishes on many of our menus to enable customers to make choices that are better for the planet. We understand that what we eat can have a big impact on the environment, with food production estimated to account for a quarter of global greenhouse gas emissions.

The carbon footprint figure was created using TUCO's innovative greenhouse gas footprint calculator. The calculator allows us to select ingredients, insert the relevant quantities and select where the product is sourced from. It looks at forms of transportation, energy consumption and direct emission factors to calculate the total greenhouse gases and the emissions per serving in kilograms.

We display the amount of greenhouse gases next to each item on the menu in kilograms per serving.

You can find the carbon emission labels next to certain items on our menus in the following cafes on campus:

We are working hard behind the scenes to update more items on our menus.