Cafe Insomnia - Menu

This used to be one of our favorite coffee spots when it was Insomnia. After a rebranding and redecoration, the cafe now has a great atmosphere and a wide selection of snacks. However, we were disappointed to find that the new coffee blend is much more bitter than before. We are unsure if we will return in the future.

Tasty cakes and lovely cup of tea. Small but nice atmosphere tastefully decorated with outdoor seating, there is traffic noise as its on a crossroads. The service sadly was slow actually took the cakes away to cut them, I thought they were baking new the time it took, but it was the tastiest lemon cake I've had in a while.

They serve great coffee and in general the staff are really friendly and overall fantastic. However a recent addition to the team, a dark haired eastern european girl with glasses who served us on Sunday is just about as unfriendly as I have ever encountered in a service industry environment. Wow, she is off the scale hostile! If she's there when we next visit I think we'll wait until she's otherwise occupied before we approach the counter to order!

I had a bad experience with customer service at the Spar shop next to the cafe. I tried to buy a loaf of bread that was priced at 99p on the shelf, but when I went to pay, it was £1.19. I asked the lady serving me if this was the correct price, and she rudely replied that it's whatever price it says. I checked the label and found that I was right, so I reluctantly paid the extra 20p. The lady opened the till without saying a word and gave me my 20p back. It's not about the money, it's about the fact that she was so rude. Additionally, the post office located there is never open, even though online it says it should be. This is not acceptable service at Calver Spar.

Decided to give Café19 another try, hoping they'd got their act together by now. At least we got a saucer this time and the cups were bigger. They didn't put a spoon in the saucer so we used the wooden ones from a shelf. The wooden taste was revolting so we asked if they had a metal spoon which they did so why not give them out in the first place? We ordered Americanos with hot milk and they were awful the coffee wasn't nice, bitter but otherwise oddly tasteless and we added a lot of milk including an extra jug each just to make it possible to drink. I'm surprised they no longer do the tasty sandwiches or others similar, just a load of greasy pastry items or paninis. Won't be back.

We arrived on the 19th July at 10am and asked for 2 coffees to drink literally 2 ft from the inside seating as it was a beautiful day . On outdoor seating provided by the cafe)The rude lady on duty said we had to have paper cups! When I asked if we could have at least one in a pot cup she rudely said' No -you are not having pot outside!If you come in I will pot into a pot but you aren't having them outside! Not a good start to a day out and not a place we will come back to.I really think the member of staff needs customer care training and to understand that customers are the purpose of her Jun and not be to so rude! I wonder if meals eaten on the outdoor seating is out on paper plates???......

This was Insomnia but has been taken over by Whites shop and is now Café 19 we've tried it three times since. Loved the flat whites when it was Insomnia but they're even smaller now and the ones we had mid morning yesterday 4th April were nothing like hot enough a queue so no point wasting time asking for new ones....the member of staff was one we hadn't seen before and we've been regular customers. Pleased that some staff are the same because they'd always been so friendly. Add to that the over loud local radio and the annoying posters inside the windows so you can't see out.....the delicious vegan sandwiches have gone too. We'll try it again when the weather's good enough to sit outside an...

I was passing through and decided to stop at this cafe having visited several times before. It was full of customers patiently waiting for drinks and enjoying the delicious treats on offer. I found one free table and decided to help the staff out by clearing the table. When I asked where I could leave the dirty dishes, I got a rather loud and terse reply from a barista to take them back to the table and wait. Several people around me raised their eyebrows at this. I was only trying to help them. The same person then announced, which was heard by all, that she 'wasn 't enjoying this '. At no point were any of the customers giving her grief or being impatient. I would have thought that this ca...

While traveling from Stockport to Lincoln through the Peak District, we stopped at a café for a cup of tea and a bacon roll to fuel us for the journey ahead. The café appeared cozy and inviting, but we were shocked to find that the tea cost £2.50 each. We ordered two bacon sandwiches at £4.95 each, but the service was disappointingly slow. Despite ordering two teas, only one pot was brought to our table. After 35 minutes of waiting, we found out that our order had not even been placed with the kitchen. Frustrated and pressed for time, we requested a refund and left the café, feeling hangry. Thankfully, we found a much more pleasant experience at the Spire View Cafe just 5 miles down the road...