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Monday 9:30am - 3:30pm Tuesday 9:30am - 3:30pm Wednesday 9:30am - 3:30pm Thursday 9:30am - 4pm Friday 9:30am - 4pm Saturday 9am - 4:30pm

Cafe-Ambience

A beautiful family run independent, shabby chic Cafe & Deli by day, A relaxing Wine Bar & Restaurant
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14/09/2026

☕🥓 SURVIVAL MONDAY — WE’VE CHECKED, AND APPARENTLY HIDING UNDER THE DUVET ISN’T A VIABLE LONG-TERM STRATEGY.

Morning, Loughborough. ❤️
It’s Monday. Again. Nobody voted for it, nobody particularly wanted it, but nevertheless here we all are. 😂

Fortunately, Café-Ambience has a tried-and-tested Monday recovery programme:
☕ Stage 1: Coffee. Immediately.
🥓 Stage 2: Add bacon, sausage or a proper breakfast.
☕ Stage 3: Consider another coffee.
🍰 Stage 4: By lunchtime, accept that cake may now be necessary.

And today actually looks pretty decent — a little cloudy with the odd shower possible, but warm and hopefully brightening up. Basically September hasn’t quite decided it’s autumn yet, and we’re perfectly happy not to remind it. 😎

We also checked today’s collection of “special days” and decided against pretending you’ve all been eagerly awaiting Cream-Filled Donut Day. We know our limits. 😂

So forget the gimmicks. Proper coffee. Proper breakfast. Lovely lunches. Homemade cake. Friendly faces. Sometimes Monday just needs Café-Ambience. ❤️

10/09/2026

🛍️☕ MARKET DAY THURSDAY — AND TODAY YOU MAY NEED A BIGGER SHOPPING BAG.

It’s Thursday, Loughborough Market is on AND Tyler’s has its big closing-down sale.
So town could be rather busy with people saying:
“I’m only going in for a quick look.”
Of course you are. 😂

Forty-five minutes later you’ll emerge carrying three bags, something you didn’t know you needed and explaining that “at that price it would’ve been rude not to.”
We understand. ❤️

And after all that bargain hunting, there’s only one sensible next move…
Café-Ambience.
☕ Coffee while you admire your purchases.
🥓 Breakfast if you’re getting in early.
🥪 Paninis, jacket potatoes and lunch when shopping becomes hungry work.
🍰 Cake when you realise how much money you’ve “saved”. 😂

It’s looking reasonably decent around Loughborough this morning too, so get yourself into town, have a wander around the market, take advantage of the Tyler’s sale, support the independents — and come and refuel with us.

Just remember the golden rule of closing-down sales:
You haven’t spent £80.
You’ve SAVED £120. 😏😂
See? Practically financial planning.

09/09/2026

🎈🥂 PARTY HERE WEDNESDAY — YOUR HOUSE HAS DONE NOTHING TO DESERVE 40 PARTY GUESTS.

Birthdays, baby showers, anniversaries, family get-togethers, work celebrations… they all start with the same innocent sentence:

“Shall we just have everyone round ours?” And approximately four seconds later you’re calculating chairs, fridge space and whether anybody will notice if you hide the ironing upstairs. 😂

There is another way.... Have it at Café-Ambience. ❤️

Get everyone together, let us look after the food and drinks, enjoy yourselves properly — then, at the end of the party, simply go home.

No mountain of glasses, No mysterious sausage roll ground into the carpet, No discovering someone’s coat three days later. 😏

We had the absolute pleasure of hosting a 90th birthday celebration last Saturday, and we love seeing our little café transformed for somebody’s special occasion. 🎂🥂

The sun is making an appearance in Loughborough this morning too, so if you’ve got a celebration coming up, today seems a rather good day to start plotting it. ☀️

📩 Drop us a message and have a chat about your next celebration.
You provide the occasion.
We’ll provide the Ambience. ❤️

08/09/2026

🍰🥂 AFTERNOON TEA TUESDAY — because some Tuesdays require more than a sandwich at your desk.

It’s a bit wet and miserable in Loughborough this morning, which feels like the weather equivalent of saying:

“Go somewhere cosy and eat cake.” 😂☔
Who are we to argue? So today we’re championing one of the finest British inventions ever created — Afternoon Tea. ❤️

Sandwiches. Scones. Homemade treats. Cake. Tea.

Essentially, it’s lunch that’s dressed itself up nicely and expects to be photographed. 😂📸 It’s perfect for birthdays, celebrations, catching up with friends… or simply reaching Tuesday and deciding you’ve already done enough adulting for one week.
And if tea alone seems a little too responsible…

🥂 Upgrade to our Bottomless Prosecco Afternoon Tea and enjoy 90 minutes of bubbles with your treats.

Because there are two types of people in this world:
Those who say “Shall we have another cup of tea?” …and those who say “Is that Prosecco bottle empty already?” 😂🥂

We know which table usually has more fun. So get your next Afternoon Tea in the diary and give yourself something considerably more exciting to look forward to than another Tuesday. ❤️

07/09/2026

☕🍳 SURVIVAL MONDAY — WE’VE SEEN YOU. YOU NEED COFFEE.

Monday has arrived again with all the subtlety of an alarm clock being thrown at your head. 😂

It’s looking a bit grey around Loughborough this morning, but it should brighten up later — which is encouraging, although coffee remains the more reliable option. ☕

So if you’re staring at your computer wondering how it can possibly be Monday again, we prescribe: Proper coffee. Something involving bacon. And approximately 20 minutes where nobody asks you anything. ❤️

Breakfast first.
Problems later.

And because today is apparently National B**r Lovers Day, we should probably acknowledge it. 🍺

Not necessarily with breakfast.
We do have standards.

They’re just considerably lower by Friday. 😂

Come and let Café-Ambience make Monday a little more civilised.

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05/09/2026

☀️🍳 BIG SATURDAY IS HERE… BUT TODAY THERE’S A PLOT TWIST.

The sun is shining in Loughborough, it’s Saturday morning and frankly there are far worse ways to begin the weekend than having somebody else cook your breakfast. 😂
So come hungry.

🍳 Proper breakfast
🥓 Plenty of bacon
☕ Coffee strong enough to formulate weekend plans
🥪 Brunch and lunch for the sensible late starters
🍰 And cake for people who understand that Saturday has no rules

BUT… today you need to get in a little earlier than usual.

🎂❤️ WE’LL BE CLOSING AT 3PM TODAY because Café-Ambience is being taken over for a private 90th Birthday Party!

90!! 🥂🎈

At 90, we reckon you've earned the right to have an entire café to yourself.
In fact, you've probably earned the right to do pretty much whatever you like. 😂❤️

So we’ll be serving all your Saturday favourites until 3pm, then it’s balloons up, bubbles out and time to help somebody celebrate a very special milestone.
And if that gets you thinking about your own birthday, anniversary or family celebration…

Yes, you can have Café-Ambience to yourself too. 😏🥂

Have a brilliant Saturday, Loughborough — and a huge Happy 90th Birthday to our guest of honour! 🎂❤️

04/09/2026

🍷🍺 FRIDAY FEELING HAS OFFICIALLY ARRIVED.

Friday is basically Thursday with better PR and permission to have a drink. 😂

The early rain is clearing and it’s brightening up in Loughborough, so we’re taking that as official confirmation that the weekend may begin. ☀️

Whether you’re popping in for lunch, grabbing a coffee and cake, or reaching that glorious point in the week where coffee gets replaced by something colder, we’ve got you covered. ❤️
🥪 Something tasty to eat.
☕ A proper coffee.
🍺 A cold l***r.
🍷 A cheeky glass of w**e
🥂 Or bubbles, because sometimes Friday deserves bubbles.

And apparently today is Eat an Extra Dessert Day. 🍰

We don’t normally take instructions from made-up-sounding food days…
but this one appears extremely well researched and we see absolutely no reason to question it. 😂

So come and start your weekend properly at your independent, family-run Café-Ambience.

Calories consumed on a Friday afternoon are technically weekend calories anyway.
We’re fairly sure that’s science. 😏❤️

03/09/2026

🛍️☕ MARKET DAY THURSDAY — SHOPPING BURNS CALORIES. THAT’S BASIC SCIENCE.

It’s Thursday, which means Loughborough Market is in full swing — hundreds of years of proud market tradition, and hundreds of years of people buying something they absolutely did not leave the house intending to buy. 😂

So have a wander, grab yourself a bargain, then come and see us for the important part of the trip…

FOOD. ❤️
Breakfast, lunch, a panini, jacket potato, coffee, cake — or simply somewhere to sit down afterwards and admire your completely essential new purchase. 😏

It’s looking bright but a little cloudy in Loughborough today, so a perfectly respectable day for a mooch around town. ☀️

And remember the correct Thursday order:
Browse market. Buy things. Café-Ambience. Eat things.

Simple. 😂❤️
See you soon!

31/08/2026

☕🚨 SURVIVAL MONDAY: BANK HOLIDAY EDITION

Normally Monday morning at Café-Ambience involves rescuing people with coffee, bacon and sympathetic looks.

Today?

You’re on your own. 😂

It’s Bank Holiday Monday and WE’RE CLOSED TODAY. ❤️

Which unfortunately means some of you are going to have to attempt the unthinkable…

Making your own breakfast. 😳

Our emergency advice:

☕ Make the coffee strong.
🥓 Bacon hides many culinary mistakes.
🍳 If the eggs go wrong, call them “rustic.”
🍰 Cake is an acceptable breakfast on a Bank Holiday.
🥂 And if all else fails… open the Prosecco.

The weather’s looking a bit mixed today too, because obviously British Bank Holiday. 😂☔☀️

We’ll be back TOMORROW, refreshed, re-caffeinated and ready to restore professionally made coffee to Loughborough.

Until then…

Good luck in the kitchen. We believe in you. Sort of. 😂❤️

30/08/2026

☕🚨 PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT: CAFÉ-AMBIENCE IS CLOSED TODAY… AND TOMORROW.

We appreciate this is troubling news.

Please remain calm. 😂

Today is Sunday, our normal day off, and tomorrow is Bank Holiday Monday — so for the next 48 hours you are going to have to make your own coffee.

We can only apologise.

Some helpful survival advice:

☕ Instant coffee technically counts.
🍳 Yes, apparently you can cook breakfast at home.
🍰 Supermarket cake is better than no cake.
🥂 Prosecco remains fully operational without us.

Obviously none of these are ideal solutions, but we believe in you. 😂

We’ll be back on TUESDAY, refreshed and ready to hear all about how difficult it was.

Until then, enjoy the Bank Holiday, try not to burn the bacon and remember…

If your home-cooked breakfast is terrible, Café-Ambience opens again Tuesday. Nobody needs to know. 😏❤️

Address

39A Market Street
Loughborough
LE113ER

Opening Hours

Monday	9:30am - 3:30pm
Tuesday	9:30am - 3:30pm
Wednesday	9:30am - 3:30pm
Thursday	9:30am - 4pm
Friday	9:30am - 4pm
Saturday	9am - 4:30pm

Website

http://www.cafe-ambience.com/

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