Unicafe

September term opening hours

Please find below our opening hours for cafes and retail outlets around campus. During the Summer a number of outlets close but will reopen at the start of term in September.

• Alan Gilbert Cafe at The Learning Commons 8am-5.30pm
• The Place, University Place 8.30am-3.30pm Monday-Friday
• Collaborate, ground floor Engineering Building A (Booth St East entrance) Monday-Friday 8am-5.30pm*
• Lime Cafe, Samuel Alexander, 9am-4pm Monday-Friday
• Smith's Cafe, Michael Smith Building 8.30am-3.30pm Monday-Friday
• Cafe 65, ground floor AMBS 8am-4pm Monday-Friday (run by HospitalityOnCampus)
• Connect Cafe, 8.30am-5pm Monday-Friday
• Greenhouse Cafe, ground floor George Kenyon Building Closed for refurbishment until 2027
• The Library Lounge, Main Library, 10am-3pm Monday-Friday
  
• Cafe 204, Chemistry Building 9am-3.30pm Monday-Friday
• The Market (including The Market Coffee Cart), 11am-2pm Monday-Friday
• The Hive, First Floor AMBS, 9am-4pm Monday-Friday
• Code Cafe, 8.30am-3.30pm Monday-Friday
• Stopford Coffee Cart, 9am - 4pm Monday - Friday (3.30pm close on Friday's)

*When conferences are using the event space in Engineering Building A on the ground floor, Collaborate will close.

Please note that all of our cafes are now cashless. You can pay by card or use your staff/student ID card to save 10% (staff) 20% (students) on all food and drink purchases.

Please remember if you Keep It On Campus, you are helping reinvest in the University whilst keeping our cafes and outlets open on campus. Where your building café is concerned please ‘use it or lose it’

Please use our map showing all of our University of Manchester campus outlets to find your closest cafe.

Delivered Catering on Campus

If you're looking to order refreshments for a meeting or an event on campus, please contact our colleagues in Hospitality.

Unicafe Discount

If you have a query about Unicafe Discount (how to set it up, register your existing/new ID card, do balance transfers, etc), please contact our colleagues at unicafe@manchester.ac.uk.

About Unicafe

Here at Unicafe we pride ourselves on being honest, customer focused and affordable, providing you - our students, staff and external guests - with a variety of delicious, high quality food and drink options across campus to keep you fed and watered.

In addition, we are proud of our sustainable ethos and the fact that we take responsibility for the impact our business has on the environment. Where we can we use local suppliers, only source meat and fish from sustainable sources where animal welfare is assured, and are committed to making Greater Manchester single use plastic free.

Finally, we are quite chatty on social media, and post lots of information about our offers, events and other exciting things you might want to know about. Be sure to stay in the loop and follow us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. We also love feedback – good or bad – just drop us an email at Unicafe@manchester.ac.uk and we will get back to you sharpish!