Muffin Break in Colchester

If you love coffee and muffins, this is the place to go! Excellent coffee, prompt and friendly service - highly recommended 👌

Amazing food cakes and coffee. Staff friendly and polite. Highly recommended, whether getting a coffee to go or eat in for a tasty treat!

Located at the heart of Trinity Square, beside The Octagon (Local Studies Gallery) within the Central Public Library. The Muffin Break Bakery Cafe is perfectly positioned to soak up the views of the oldest architectural landmark in Colchester - the 1000 AD Saxon Tower and the birthplace and residence of two major Colcestrians 📔Author of De Magnete - 1/Dr William Gilberd and 🎼Madrigal Composer - 2/John Wilbye. The ecclesiastical relics can be enjoyed from the generous outdoor seating (the only ones in Trinity Square). The café is designed tastefully and simply. Opposite we have 🏫Tymperleys Tudor Mansion, birthplace of Dr William Gilberd, Physician to Queen Elizabeth I and James I. The coffee offer is on par with it neighbours (☕Costa, 🥐Pret, 🧜🏽‍♀️Starbucks, 🏛️Nero) and at a similar price point but the food offer is more substantial - from full English breakfast, to filled crossaints, hot club sandwiches, red velvet, coffee and walnut cakes to various vegan delights. Muffin Break has a really good energy - it's spacious, warm, generous and has lovely lighting - it's always very very busy. The baristas are professional, organised and friendly, working well as a small team. My only critique would be to add new washrooms, and increase the number of WCs. Perhaps introduce more robust, larger tables (for co-working/reading) with comfortable lounge chairs in reading nooks (now that the Public Library next door will close for 366 days), it's ideally located to receive avid Readers. Having arrived in Trinity Square in 2019-20 it has weathered well, but a refresh of the interior architecture would always be warmly welcomed by residents and visitors. Overall 10/10

Appalling over priced inedible good. £10.90 for a breakfast. Requested no beans or tomato. Asked for extra mushrooms. I got 2 small single mushrooms. The bacon was like leather shoe bottoms. The sausage was solid. The eggs over cooked and the toast so burnt and tough the knife could not cut through it. Such a shame when it is in a lovely location in the centre of town

Staff lovely! Muffins I’ve tried on several occasions pretty bland was very disappointed . Considering the name of the shop you would think that muffins would be special!

What has put me off coming again is not the over price, weak coffee, and also the sandwiches that are supposed to be hot are Luke warm as best is that I saw serveal staff members trying to fix the disabled toilet with a spoon. I don't know now they dispose of the spoon, but I saw them walk through the cafe towards the kitchen area.

Staff are awfully rude and continuously get everyone’s orders wrong. Ever since new people have taken over it has gone down hill. I wouldn’t recommend at all! won’t be returning

Staff are terrible. Particularly the two blokes I presumed are something to do with the franchise. Waited 20 minutes for a latte which was more expensive than Starbucks, half the size and was essentially a cup of warm milk. First and last visit.

It is expensive for stale bagels with hardly any filling. Coffee is very average. Will not bother again. Mentioned to the staff about our food (4 bagles) being stale and the reply we received was "oh okay" we will not return