Radar: Central Perk comes to Liverpool

Yeah. if you’re under 21 that’ll mean nothing to you. But there was a time, in the mid nineties, that everyone wanted a neighbourhood coffee shop with a big squishy sofa, a stoney-faced barista and a gaggle of 20 something friends so wrapped up in their own romantic machinations you’d think they owned the place (and how come they ALWAYS got that sofa?).

And now Liverpool is set to get its own branch of the fictional coffee shop, promising “Great coffee, fantastic cakes, American style deli sandwiches, sodas and chocolate from the States, homemade fudge, chocolate and pastries, and regular events like open mic nights, film nights and English tea parties.

We’ll have student deals and meal deals. Business lunches and student brunches. American coffees and English toffees. Great cakes and tray bakes. Sarnies without the barnies. Yankee beers and music for English ears.”

Sadly, it’s not in a cool Greenwich Village street, but opposite Merseytravel’s Headquarters on Hatton Gardens. Handy for all the student halls of residences around that part of town, though.

Hmmm. Will we be there for them? Throw in Smelly Cat and you got yourself a deal.

Central Perk, opens April
The Old Firestation,
Hatton Gardens