Chi

Chi is located on the bottom floor of the Charles Wilson Building on the University of Leicester’s campus, alongside Café Piazza and Delic! ous. It serves a range of food, with all day breakfasts and burgers permanent fixtures and a rotating range of food like bolognaise, chilli con carne, chicken curry and other such delights. It’s not the widest range of food you’ll ever have seen, but the reason I visit is for the aforementioned breakfasts.
For a hair over £4, you can purchase an eight-​item breakfast. What counts as an item? 1 sausage. 2 rashers of bacon. 1 egg. 2 hash browns. 1 portion of tomatoes or beans. 1 piece of toast. (I should note that you can only have three meat items, so you can’t just do 16 bacon rashers.) If you have one of the university’s ‘le cards’, then you get a free coffee or tea with the eight-​item breakfast; if not, then a mug will set you back roughly £1 extra. This is breakfast like they make it in the halls of residence and it’s damn fine. My preference is usually to go for four hash browns and tomatoes, but anything’s possible. And you can pay more for extra items, naturally.
I’ve never had anything that wasn’t the breakfast, and I’m usually very satisfied. It is worth noting that the food available tends to sit under the heating lamps for longer during the vacations, because the number of undergraduate customers drops: as a result, during term-​time you should mentally subtract a star from the rating I’m giving here. But most of the time this place does a filling meal for about the same price as lunch would cost at Delic! ous.