Global Cafe - RISC - Reading
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Cafe and bar
- Venue hire
- Entertainment
- Caterers
- Restaurant
- Shop
- Good for kids
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BunnyGo Score: 5.3
Contact details
- Tel: 0118 9586 692
- Web: http://www.risc.org.uk/globalcafe/
- Opening times: n/a
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Description
The Global Cafe is relaxed and welcoming. You can order a good veggie or vegan meal here for lunch or dinner, as well as a lovely selection of international drinks all day, with many of the beers being vegan. It has a relaxed atmosphere and a youthful international feel.
Tutu's Ethiopian Kitchen holds the catering contract, and she's a great cook. There are a mix of Ethiopian and Mediterranean options, with the Ethiopian vegetarian options all being vegan too, which we particularly recommend. You can also have baguettes and jacket potatoes with a wide choice of fillings, such as garlic mushrooms or hummus and roast vegetables.
Thursday night is the popular Ethiopian Buffet Night. Arrive early or book a table if there are several of you.
The bar in the cafe pretty much always has soya milk, and they can do a soyaccino or soya chai.
All meals are freshly prepared using fair trade, local and GM free produce.
It turns into a nice bar in the evening. Good atmosphere and facilities for kids in the daytime, with baby changing available upstairs. There is a disabled toilet.
RISC has exhibition space inside, and meeting rooms that can be rented. There are useful community noticeboards and leaflets in the foyer outside the shop and cafe.
Tutu's Ethiopian Kitchen holds the catering contract, and she's a great cook. There are a mix of Ethiopian and Mediterranean options, with the Ethiopian vegetarian options all being vegan too, which we particularly recommend. You can also have baguettes and jacket potatoes with a wide choice of fillings, such as garlic mushrooms or hummus and roast vegetables.
Thursday night is the popular Ethiopian Buffet Night. Arrive early or book a table if there are several of you.
The bar in the cafe pretty much always has soya milk, and they can do a soyaccino or soya chai.
All meals are freshly prepared using fair trade, local and GM free produce.
It turns into a nice bar in the evening. Good atmosphere and facilities for kids in the daytime, with baby changing available upstairs. There is a disabled toilet.
RISC has exhibition space inside, and meeting rooms that can be rented. There are useful community noticeboards and leaflets in the foyer outside the shop and cafe.
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Review score
3.9/5 from 4 reviews.
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Stephen Fenwick-Paul
on 30th Mar 2011 20:55
Sophie Fenwick-Paul
on 28th Feb 2011 17:14
"The food here is so reliably tasty, and Tutu who cooks it is a lovely character. Look out for all the amazing fund-raising she does too. Service is often slow (except on buffet night - Thursdays), though always friendly. The games and comfy sofas really ease that. I enjoy the relaxed friendly unpretentious atmosphere. It's a great place to meet friends and have group outings. Various groups meet here regularly such as Reading Skeptics in the Pub. For me and the family the dungeon basement passage to the loos is exciting and exotic - and there is a little sofa in the basement snug that I would sneak to for a tete at tete if I could be a teenager again."
"I'm not keen on the shabby decor and particularly that the toilets (apart from the one disabled loo) are down in the basement - down a long lonely corridor. I've had the vegan Ethiopian food once - it was okay, but I've never been in a hurry to have it again!"
"Great food! They have board games and toys to play with while you wait for food! Next door they have a shop full of interesting things!"
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