Whirley’s Cafe

OK, this is the perfect location for a greasy spoon café! it’s next door to Liverpool John Moore’s University Student Union, and it’s opposite one of the busiest Uni library buildings in the city centre. So I don’t understand why the owners don’t take full advantage of this and market it to death with student offers!
I’ve eaten here on several occasions in a half empty café, watching literally hundreds of students walk past. Why not employ someone to hand out free coffee with your full English vouchers, or 20% off breakfasts on showing a student card. Word of mouth would make this place burst at the seams!
It’s a good, honest, cheap café that serves great food! I just wish they’d try a bit harder and make a success of a perfect location for a business such as theirs!

Whirleys is a nice little café situated next to the Liverpool JMU student union on Maryland Street. It provides good quality food at all times and a standard sized breakfast is £2.80. The fried breakfasts are never overly greasey, infact they are just right. Inside Whirleys is light and simple the staff are always happy to chat to you and always have a smile ready for the customers. There is an odd set of music being played through the speakers but in a strange way it is quite relaxing to listen to whilst filling up on a hearty meal. There is a selection of salad available also, and there are olives feta cheese and other similar products one would not neccessarily associate with a café. This gives the place a slight twist and offers an alternative option for those not keen on fried food. Whirleys is a simple and friendly little place where the prices are good, the people are nice and if you visit I guarantee you will leave satisified.

An unusual marketing technique for this café is to have no name like something out of a spaghetti western but rather than cause any stir of intrigue or mystery the place was proper dead.
I was informed by the staff that it’s called Whirley’s but is about to change its name to The A Star Café Bar — I’d stick with no name love.
That will be a clever play on words due to the café’s proximity to the university and maybe I caught them at the wrong time of the year but when you can hear the scraping of the only other patron’s fork on their plate as they eat a floor above you, you don’t really feel any urge to remember this place and come back in September. Mind you they do close for 5 weeks — but by the look of things it wont be to come up with an exciting new menu.
I went in for food and there was nothing on the menu — I lie there was a choice of three dishes, lasagne, a kebab and another hot dish that I had given up remembering as it was clearly not a day for hot dishes.
If there’s one thing that will guarantee to annoy me however is putting milk in me coffee when I didn’t ask. I can understand if it was tea, 90% of the time people have milk in tea, coffee though is a different animal — nevermind I wont hold it against them, I don’t think they’ve had much practice recently.