Ate Days A Week

fantastic breakfast, great value for money

Great café. I went to uni in Liverpool and lived just two streets away, perfect for hungover Friday/​Saturday/​Sunday bacon sandwiches and fry ups.
Pretty reasonable prices and a good selection of very tasty dishes. They have daily specials as well as the usual café food (sandwiches, breakfasts etc), the day I went in it was a steak sandwich, for £6, great value. They also have soups, scones, burgers, so it’s kind of different from your usual greasy spoon, but just as good.
The atmosphere is cool, with a nice décor and great comfortable booths to sit in. The guy that runs it is excellent and is always playing Bob Dylan or the Smiths in the background.
It’s always pretty busy at the weekends, with most of the seats taken but the staff are great and the food never takes too long to get to your table and every time I’ve been there everything has tasted delicious.
There are only two things which stop me giving it five stars
1) Opening Hours — when I lived there I remember the opening hours being pretty erratic and my friend who is still living around the Smithdown road area told me this is still a problem. It’s pretty disappointing to plan meeting someone there for lunch then arriving to find it closed.
2) The Ketchup — this might sound a bit picky but when I used to come here they would have heinz ketchup, perfect for a bacon sandwich. This time the one they had out reminded me of the disgusting, cheap, vinegary stuff you find in kebab shops. My friend said the same thing and since she’d already put it all of her sandwich she ended up not wanting to finish it. Obviously this could have just been a one off with the dispenser at our table, but still it really kind of ruined the food for us.
Overall it’s by bar the best café in the Smithdown area and I’d highly recommend it to everyone.

‘Hold Me
Love Me
I ain’t got nothin’ but love girl
Eight Days a Week’
If you can forgive the terrible Beatles pun, Ate Days A Week is a homely café on Smithdown Road. Popular with students and locals, it’s a shabby chic place with brightly painted walls, wooden booths and old rock and roll portraits. The staff walk the line between cheeky and good humoured and the food ranges from all day veggie and meat breakfasts to burgers and chips. Portions are filling and they serve coffee, tea and cans of pop to wash it all down.
As their name implies, Ate Days A Week is also cheap, cheap, cheap.

Ate Days A Week, no this isn’t my awful pun this time, it’s really the name of a great little café based on Smithdown Road. As if Liverpool needed anymore awful Beatles puns, this place has got a lot to live up to in order to pull that name off. But it does!
They are open from 9am to 9pm every day and their prices are some of the best in Liverpool considering the value for money! Their coffees start at £1.20 and their soft drinks from just 80p. They call themselves a bistro, but it’s more like a café atmosphere, however their food is excellent and the prices are great.
Their side orders such as chips, curly fries and wedges range from £1.50 to £2.50. They serve a range of gourmet homemade burgers with fries and salad all at £5.95. Their burger range includes hamburgers, cheeseburgers, chilli burgers, vegetable burgers, bbq burgers, chicken burgers and cheese and bacon burgers!
They serve a whopping full English with toast for just £3.50. Bargain!

This is a fresh feeling café which serves up delicious food.
The food and the beverages are above the usual café standard and it is definitely one of the best cafes to eat at along the vast Smithdown road.
Like many places on Smithdown this place has a young and studenty feel to it and it is the kind of place in which you can really relax rather than feel in a rush to eat your meal. Many times before a lecture I have got up early and headed down here to get a good hearty meal inside me whillst having the time to take it easy and really enjoy myself.
The place describes itself as a bistro also which I think is apt as it seems to be in all ways a cut above your traditional greasy spoon establishment. The décor is modern and refreshing and the staff are great. Your food arrives piping hot and in o time at all meaning that good quality and good service are all part of the experience and at a good price also.
This place has student haven written all over it so get down there eat a breakfast enjoy a coffee chat with friends and soak up the excellent atmosphere, I guarantee you will leave feeling satisified.

Seemingly run by Liverpool’s soundest man, Ate Days a Week doesn’t exactly stand in an ideal location, being situated on an awkward bend at the end of a zebra crossing, but nevertheless is perfect for a spot of lunch or a weekday beer.
Considering it sits on the dusty high street cavalcade of mobile phone shops and tanning salons that is Smithdown Road, the café has a unusually reputable interior. Cool red walls, wooden booths and funky paintings of rock gods and fifties actors give the place a great atmosphere. Hopefully it won’t be long until the rest of Smithdown catches up.

It’s definitely a challenge to find a café that offers delicious food (I’m talking non-​greasy breakfasts) and isn’t full of perverse builders.
Ate Days A Week, although cheesily named, is a mile away from those cliché, stereotypes of café. It’s a great place to go and sit, to write or read a newspaper, or to catch up with old friends.
The cooked breakfast should be labelled a medicinal cure, and the English tea is excellent. They also offer great fresh cups of coffee, and healthier beverages like smoothies for health addicts.
The café is without doubt a great spot for people-​watching, and the comfortable and quaint tables and chairs add a real homely feel.
Not only that, the staff are amazingly friendly, and informed me that all their breakfast materials are locally sourced.

If you can get past the pretty cringey Beatles pun and into the café, this is one of the best non-​greasy spoons on Smithdown Road and a place that if I feasibly could, would recommend as a winner 8 days a week. It’s a welcoming and friendly little place with comfy booths and the best full breakfast I’ve had in a long, long, long time!
There’s no messing about here, I fully recommend the Ate Days breakfast as a sure-​fire hangover cure and it’s exceptionally good. It comes with all the trimmings, tea or coffee and it’s all locally sourced produce so it’s top quality grub for a fiver!
They also serve a range of burgers and specials which look amazing, but I’ve never been able to resist the lure of the Ate Days Brekkie! Definitely worth a try, and if you’re feeling extra delicate they have hangover smoothies to make the day that little bit easier!

Nice café — diner. Good breakfasts and coffee.