Slice in Colchester

Unbelievable service and fantastic food.

Been here a few times and usally have really nice food although recently after having lunch it was a rather poor experience. Waited over an hour for a panini, bagel and chips: After 50mins of waiting someone came up to ask what we were having as they lost the ticket then 10mins later food came but the panini was incorrect and had to wait a further 10mins. Was going to give 2 or 3 stars but there was no apology or acknowledgement of the mistake or amount of time it took. Use to be a good place to go a few years ago but not anymore.

Lovely food. Eggs cooked perfectly. This is my go to place for breakfast

Lovely breakfast. Nice and Friendly staff. I left full and happy

Just popped in for a Full English was really really nice! The vanilla milkshakes and the Blended Ice Mocha was lovely too. Very friendly staff

Iev been coming here for years and it’s always delivered amazing food with even better customer service and a great atmosphere. BY FAR my favourite cafe in Colchester - highly recommend if I could leave 6 stars I would ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Very traditional friendly english cafe . Serves well priced delicious food.

Delicious and always clean & tidy, quick & freshly made food, nice atmosphere

This cafe is exceptional, the staff are all lovely and the food is really nice, highly recommended x

Good food, too sweet chai latte 😋

Friendly staff and my bacon sandwich is excellent. I will keep going back for the food, staff and relaxed atmosphere.

It is a nice little place for a workmanlike breakfast. I can recommend it.

Nice food nice friendly restaurant

Brilliant service and food The prices are very reasonable as well ☺️

Wonderful little place, really affordable and great food. Perfect selection of food and drinks. Staff very freindly. The place is always immaculate as well.

An excellent cup of coffee and well priced. The staff are very welcoming and it has a lovely friendly atmosphere.

Our favourite spot for breakfast, brunch and lunch in Colchester. Food is always spot on!

Awful food quality. You can taste how cheap the bread is, not to mention the bacon. All food is far overpriced for the quality. A bacon sandwich will set you back £6. I think the only reason this cafe is still in business is because of pensioners who are afraid to find a different place to eat.

Always good food and friendly service 😋

Lovely little caf in Colchester. Their full English is excellent. Service and pricing are also great.

Very friendly and polite staff. Good choice of food and reasonably priced.

Really good full English breakfast, Includes tea or coffee,

Perfectly cooked and delivered on time! Only 30 mins! Amazing!

Great breakfast, hot and tasty always and a cheap price!. Nice one!

Was visiting friends in Colchester and they recommended Slice for a quality breakfast, I was not disappointed, great value for money and spot on brekkie. While you're there check out the independent coffee House next-door.

As a regular, slice is the best value for money in town, even have a loyalty card.

Lovely clean premises. Food was hot and reasonable price. Coffee was amazing. Will definitely eat in here again.

Very friendly staff. Nice clean place. Plenty of prawns in my baguette:)

Really enjoyed my delicious prawn baguette and lovely coffee upstairs in this nice cafe. Quick, pleasant service, clean and reasonable prices. Recommended!

Oh my, the best full English! Fantastic. Clean, friendly service, great food and good prices! What more do you need?

Slice is a very friendly cafe with delicious food at reasonable prices ,Can't wait t

Excellent place lovely food pleasent staff , covid friendly super

Quite small but good service and nice food

Always have lunch here when in town. Great family run business. Always friendly and helpful. Nothing too much trouble for them. Great menu and cater for gluten free. Good value pricing and prompt service every time.

Fresh tasty food. Very clean. Friendly.

Excellent breakfast and really friendly staff, always a warm welcome.

Loveliest HOT hot chocolate which is a rare thing these days. Amazing caramel shortbread too. Absolute must here!

Excellent cafe for a coffee and a bite. The upstairs tables by the big glass window are my favourite.

Very good food for its price. I paid 6.5 quid for a double english breakfast and i got a large plate of everything double in an english breakfast. Will come here again

Very clean and tidy pleasant staff and good value for money

A quality yet old fashioned cafe. Miles better than the cardboard chain companies.

Good coffee good breakfasts Well run freindly staff

We had baked patato with tuna and mayo with salad. It looked very nice but the patato was fluffy when you used the fork the patato did not look right I have never seen a baked patato look so miserables, and the salad was not fresh. The only saving grace was the tea was very good.

been going to slices for a while now and always had a great sandwich from there staff are very friendly and helpful. Just love the place.

Very pleasant staff. Very welcoming!

Homemade soup with Mexican meat balls special first class service

Family run, nothing too much bother, great value and loads of space, especially for families that need a rest and food. All cooked fresh from scratch.

Everything cooked to perfection, great value, and the loveliest staff. I’d eat here everyday if I could

Great prices, lovely service, delicious breakfast

Great English brekky. Lovely family run place.

Very nice breakfast, a little small in my opinion but then again the price was fairly reasonable anyway

Lovely friendly service. Yummy breakfast

Friendly, efficient, good value

Best value and quality breakfast in Colchester. Go for the double breakfast, you won't want anything else all day. Quality produce at a very competitive price and it includes a coffee.Try it and see, you won't regret it. A word of warning you need a big appetite for the double breakfast

Quick, clean, nice staff, nice blend of easy lunch ideas and reasonably priced to boot.

If Carlsberg did breakfast it would be at Slice. It's probably the best in Colchester for value and taste. Fried eggs just perfect with lovely runny yolks and no burnt edges.

Good basic menu in comfortable surroundings with friendly efficient staff

Simply the best breakfast in town and so reasonably priced! I love having breakfast here, always cooked to perfection and using good quality ingredients. Go for the double English breakfast, you’ll be glad that you did!

Nice soup! Very reasonably priced

Slice looked, to me, like a very homely and cosy place for me and my friends to congregate, during our lunchtime break from Colchester Sixth Form. However, we were greeted with a hatful of horror while we dined. Me and my group of friends have come here multiple times, seeking an area for us to feel welcome and complete some college work whilst we ate. Unfortunately, the staff had an uninviting edge and were very keen to treat us with disrespect. Each of our visits have ended in upset and disappointment with the Slice staff. Earlier on today, I decided to write a review to voice my concerns on the staff’s exuberance. Our visit began with a passive aggressive atmosphere, but only towards us. We are a very respectful, friendly group of individuals and were not causing any havoc. We went to order our food and when it came, we felt very rushed to leave the premises. One of the arrogant staff even approached us, saying they were watching us on CCTV and accused us of eating outside food - this was not the case. She proceeded to be very rude to us throughout the rest of our dining experience and has previously said that we were turning away customers by being present. This is very frustrating and upsetting, as we are all paying customers. I will not be returning again until this discrimination towards our age group ends.

Lovely cuppa tea. Food is good and staff are friendly. Everything is clean and tidy. Worth a visit.

always a friendly welcome and good food .

Fun and friendly place, food is great as well 👌

Boring menu,and my panini was burnt and served burnt side down like they were trying to hide it! Tried to get a refund as the wait was really long and I didn't have time for them to make a fresh one but the manager seemed reluctant to refund my money. Very unprofessional!

Lovely cafe and lovely staff lovely food

Always enjoy everything i eat there very tasty

The food was awful, but what really bugged me was the way the middle aged blond woman was very rude and also was bullying and belittling the younger girls working there, who were very polite and professional. I think the manager ought to step in on this as if this obnoxious woman is the face of the company, you need better representation. The one thing I can't stand is a bully and this woman certainly was one.

Friendly staff clean place clean toilets lovely food recommended

My husband loves The Slice, he says the breakfast is perfect, the bacon just right, the sausages tasty, the egg perfectly fried and tomatoes grilled to perfection, the waiting staff delightful, the owner very friendly......plus newspapers...we just cannot fault it. Fantastic value for money.

Went for breakfast today as usual in this normally friendly cafe, we ordered our food and asked if the air con could be turned down as was blowing out very cold air not just our table but the table behind also commented on how cold it was, the owner was so rude ! was not expecting that ! After all not nice when you’ve paid for a meal and it’s so cold normally leave a good tip so apologies to the staff . . . Will not be returning!

Called in at lunchtime, got served quickly and the chick wrap I had tasted really good. Its only a small place, however it seems to be really busy which speaks for itself!

Great modern breakfast and lunch place with tasty food at excellent prices and fast service. Order at the counter then take a seat and your drinks and food arrives fast! Get a full English breakfast special choosing white or granary toast and including an Americano or tea. The breakfast was high quality and tasted fresh, even the mushrooms! Afterwards enjoy a fruit smoothie the Big 5 was excellent. Enjoy the free Wi-Fi and be free to leave whenever you like cause you already paid at the counter. So good we’ll be back for lunch!

I don’t know how but they get my order spot on every single time. Amazing food and perfect service!!

I have just had a jacket potato from this establishment, it was first off all tiny , I was given one tiny piece of butter and it was also dry. Not something I would be eating again.

Called in for a light lunch, we both chose panini, which were hot, crispy and very tasty, and served with a small side salad. Staff were friendly and the food was brought to our table within about five minutes. Lovely little cafe, great food at a good price.

Staff were rude and unwelcoming, It seems as if teenagers are not wanted. Trying to choose my food was difficult as the staff kept pressuring me to order. the food ended up being mediocre, bit mean on the salad. Whilst I was eating my mediocre sandwich one of the staff members was crying so as it seems that the slice of Colchester is a poor working environment too. I was very underwhelmed of the ‘art’ I saw considering it’s an ‘art gallery’ and the decor was a bit distracting and not in a good way. Very anticlimactic.

It's nice to go for lunch like a panini, soap or a salad or a hot or cold drink it's reasonably priced and good service but when I ordered today I said I was cold and a waitress named Debbie said she is cold because she is skinny which is totally out of order and not professional!

Good priced tasty food and friendly staff

Meet here every Wednesday for Breakfast well cooked and great value especially before 11.30am. Staff are very pleasant and offer very good service with a smile and a laugh. We love it give it a try you won't be dissapointed.

To us popping into town for a quick cup of coffee toast or egg on toast you can not do any better than this. Good consistent Quality on the normal basic menu. I think it cannot be bettered in the area.

Saw this place amongst 4 or 5 others and decided to give it a try. Glad we did. Everything was well cooked, service was good and really good value for money. Try the Cumberland sausage baguette and the homemade coleslaw is amazing.

A great place to eat made all the better by the staff! I’ve been eating here for many years and can highly recommend.

Tasty food. Wonderful people. Great setting. Would thoroughly recommend.

Went in for breakfast one day, mainly out of curiosity as I had never been before. Turns out it was worth it. Very good breakfast, good coffee and great service. Will be back.

Great breakfast. Great value for money. Recommended.

Particularly below average breakfast. Sub par to British standards. Would not recommend. However, in my experience I found the chairs in the upstairs gallery exquisite.

Nine of us went for breakfast. Excellent service. Polite and courteous and extremely helpful. Great food and value.

A great place to eat ! X Love it x

I had the misfortune to order a jacket potato with Chilli con carne. My advice to anyone out there thinking about it is DON'T! What should have been an enjoyable lunch was devastated by the worst lump of mince I have ever tasted. It was dry, it was hard, it was unseasoned and the long spaghetti strands told me it had not been browned and was probably chucked in a pot frozen in the same shape it came out of it's polystyrene pack. The orange stuff holding it together was supposedly the chilli sauce - still not sure. To make matter worse despite moving the lumps to the side of the plate and very meaningfully moving the plate to a suitable pick up point by the servers our table was ignored, not once or twice but 4 times. When I got up to complain [and make an offer to send them in some of my chilli c c] the staff miraculously disappeared. 10 minutes later the plate was still there, almost like they knew. My solution, take it off the menu. My husband really enjoyed his breakfast so perhaps that's where your forte lies so stick with what you do well and forget what you can't and I can guarantee you this item will not be missed.

Always good for a nice breakfast or lunch

Popped in for a breakfast. What a gem!! Delightful service, tasty and good value. Partner liked the tea too, which is good testament as she is fussy! Will be back for sure

Consistently decent food and good prices from one of Colchester's finest independent food outlets. Excellent selection of breakfasts and paninis, and hot and cold drinks. Staff very friendly. Nice art gallery area upstairs plus nice view of Culver Street.

Lovely food friendly staff. Good prices. Always ready to help you

I've been to this cafe a few times now and the standard of service and food have always been great. This was finally exemplified when me and my partner were going to go there one cold and windy day and as we approached the entrance the owner was just turning the sign from open to closed. We joked and said " ah well, better luck next time !" at which point he said, " oh don't worry, come on in!". We had the place to ourselves, there was no restriction on what we could order and the staff were still as nice as they would normally be even though I'm sure they were wishing us out of the building :-) Thank you so much for your hospitality and I hope this review makes a bit of difference in bringing a few more people your way.

I was in town early for an appointment and wanted a cafe that was open early to while the time away. Ordered a pot of tea and toasted tea cake for less then £4.00p. Don’t know what brand they use but the tea had a lovely flavour and the toasted tea cake was crisp on the outside and fluffy in the middle... very scrummy

I often go there for coffee and breakfast. It's a nice, friendly coffee place where you can spend some quiet time. I always order the cream cheese and smoked salmon toasted brown bread sandwich and it is always incredibly tasty. It comes with a small side of salad as well which is nice. This, together with a small orange Tropicana comes to just under £5 which is very good value for money. Staff are always friendly and they make you feel welcomed.

Excellent Breakfast, location cleaning, food double English breakfast fantastic,waitress gently.I recommend Slice .

Visitamos un par de veces y nunca me ha defraudado. El desayuno caliente es fresco y tiene una gran calidad salchichas, beicon, etc. Un desayuno doble viene con dos salchichas, 2, 2 huevos, bacon, champiñones, judías verdes con tostadas y una bebida caliente por £5. 95, excelente relación calidad-precio, así como de calidad. El personal siempre es amable y el servicio es eficiente.

Visited Slice for first time to try out their English Breakfast and wasn't disappointed. Staff very helpful and service was very good. A very good selection of breakfasts and lunches. Good value and offer a loyalty card scheme too.

Friendly staff, very fair prices, nice sitting area upstairs and art gallery.