Koffee Pot

Koffee Pot is in an incredibly popular greasy spoon café that makes you feel a bit like you're in Brooklyn or somewhere devastatingly cool like that. In short, it's a perfect Northern Quarter business.

There's even a signed picture of the band Elbow eating there behind the counter. Just in case you weren't sure how cool it is.

£5 for a cooked breakfast is a tiny bit over the odds comparatively to other greasy spoons in the area, but then here you're paying for the added cool of feeling like you're eating breakfast with other cool indie, quirky types instead of burly builders.

The breakfast itself is perfectly good. They don't tend to laden your plate with food, so make sure you come expecting something reasonably sized and well cooked rather than a massive pile of cheap meat and grease.

A final note. They gave me my tea in a ridiculously slim, tall, girly cup. See the photos section to have a look at it. I am a man. I didn't really appreciate it.

I'm gonna give Koffee Pot the benefit of the doubt and assume that the misspelled title was necessary in order to avoid being sued by the Coffee Pot in Vancouver and not because the owners are trying to be all 'down with the nippers and sheet'. I'm gonna do that because:
1. I like the funky wall art.
2. I like the 'proper caff' feel to it- greasy spoons are a rare commodity since the whole 'Starbucks taking over the world incident.
3. I like the cooked breakfast- it's big. Big is good.
4. It's Thursday afternoon, which is virtually Friday, which is pretty much the weekend.
Count you lucky koffee beans it isn't Monday!

This place is a really quirky little place with great food at great prices. Really what more do you want from a cafe.

Walls are decorated in funky graffiti, a flat screen television and coffee that would satisfy every coffe loving one of us..........

PS. This place does the most amazing breakfasts ever!

THE best full English breakfast I've had at this point in my life. For about 4 quid, you get heaping quantities of food, plus a cup of tea (or coffee). They even have a vegetarian option of the full English, plus loads of other breakfast and lunch options.

I stopped here with a friend during a brief trip to Manchester, having heard about the Koffee Pot from our hostel's web site. The dining area is quirky and comfortable, the staff friendly and helpful, and the food delicious. I got the vegetarian full English, and my friend got the regular. The regular came with sausage, bacon, egg, fried tomato, hash brown, black pudding, and loads of beans (and toast, I think), and the veg had the egg, beans, hash brown, and tomato, plus veggie sausages and a pile of mushrooms. It was a glorious breakfast.

If I'm ever in Manchester again, I will definitely return to the Koffee Pot!

Ask any self-respecting Northern Quarter resident the best cure for a hang-over and chances are they'll point you in the direction of the Koffee Pot.

A colourful cafe decorated with graffiti, street art and formica tables, it's probably the best greasy spoon in the city. Open early morning til late afternoon seven days a week, they serve breakfast, brunch, snacks and hot drinks. We're not talking eggs benedict or smoked salmon bagels either, more cheap and cheerful plates piled high with sausages, bacon, fried egg, tomatoes, mushrooms, hash browns, black pudding and baked beans.

The only question is, how big's your appetite?

This is a nice cafe with that unique Northern Quarter feel. There are lots of interesting things on the wall and ceiling to look at and talk about and there is a pretty lively atmosphere for a cafe. I went on a saturday morning and it was rammed.

So why only three stars? Well I think waiting an hour for breakfast is not something I can ignore. Yes it was busy, yes they were a man down and yes when it finally did arrive the breakfast was very tasty and good value. Problem is I was at death's door by the time it came and there are plenty of other places you could go in the area which we probably wouldn't have waited as long for.

Looking at the other reviews it looks like I caught them at a bad time but until I get a chance to visit again (i almost certainly will) then it's a bit of a meh from me

Koffee pot. Even more Sunday morning than the velvet underground. Been coming here since the 1980s . Way before the Ben pepper and hammo art ( which is ace) and the montgolifer brothers recorded koffee pot in 2005 . Great coffee and food. Always worth waiting for a booth. Who needs toilets . Friendly staff and good background music. Always the right way to start a mooch around town.

Post script
Moving up the road on to Oldham street in the new year. The move will mean an increased size in seating, card payment and toilets but will keep the well-loved aspects like the menu and the hammo artwork that was done in the original cafe in 2006. I'll miss the red pleatherette benches and tables and the steamy windows and the og Ben pepper artwork. Hopefully the elbow photo with go with them in the move to the building next to V Revolution . Been coming here since the mid 1980s so it will be sad to say goodbye to the old place. Onwards and upwards.

Everyone in the Northern Quarter swears by this gaff when it comes to the ultimate hangover breakfast as Sarah-Jane also pointed out. Now that I'm in the neighbourhood, and that Stevenson Square's the closest bit of NQ to me after Lever Street, it was only fair that I should try out Koffee Pot, and the hubs-to-be agreed. One must. But this Queen's English speak (hey, I wonder what her Maj eats when she's had a bit too much port or sherry) is pretty inappropriate right now, because the Koffee Pot has very cleverly managed to combine that greasy spoon feel which evokes images of construction workers inhaling sausages and women in tabards who bring over tea with cigarettes hanging out of their mouths, and an urban quirky cool that can be found... oh, where else. That Northern Quarter of ours.

Talking about Queenie is equally appropriate because we took ourselves here on Jubilee morn, un-hungover. I was uber-pleased to discover that it's open from 7.30am on weekdays, which means that there's always somewhere I can pop into when I'm being an earlybird and need a little something more than a bowl of Fruit 'n' Fibre to get me going for the day. We snuck into a booth and chose a full English and a Cali. (In another life, I am San Franciscan.) The Full had back bacon, leek and pork sausage, hash brown, beans, Bury black pud, griddled tomato and poached egg as requested with two rounds of simple buttered white toast. Cali came on sourdough toast with smushed up avocado (herbs and tomatoes in there too), streaky bacon (YES! I'm as un-patriotic as they come when it comes to bacon) and a poached egg too. I ate Chris's black pudding as he's not a fan, and I know to always go for Bury as that's the nicest I've had, and his tomato. Yum. Not all gross and leaky like most fried breakfast tomatoes. The combination was lovely, and since the Full comes with a tea or coffee free as standard I had a great filter coffee to boot.

Me: What radio station is this? It's good!
Chris: BBC 6 Music. It's not.

Bah, humbug.

So yes, radio, and the atmosphere's great, especially since we were watching the construction of the Stevenson Square Jubilee street party outside. The sprayed graffiti artwork on the walls is a great little juxtaposition against the almost retro old-skool feel of the orangey brown motif outside. The 'Koffee Pot' font looks like it could have come straight out of the 60s. What you'll find here is a great cuppa, a friendly atmosphere, and comfort food. Things you never even think of having until you see them on the menu and remember how much you enjoyed them as a kid, like jam sponge and cornflake tart with Ambrosia custard. Mmm. I'm actually thinking about that now.

You can get pasties (home-made) with herby mash, peas, beans and gravy, like a warm edible hug, haddock rarebit with poached egg, kippers on toast, smoked salmon with scrambled egg... it's all fab stuff. There's a certain sentimentality we have about British food and its accompanying stodgy puddings, and the Koffee Pot has tapped into this splendidly. Come on, cure your bank holiday hangover here. The detoxing can start at a later date.

Love this place.

Not posh, fairly basic. Quality, cooked breakfast. Greasy spoon with relaxed atmosphere.

Will return again and again...:)

Two things must ye know about Koffee Pot:
1- The koffee, or rather, coffee, is goooooooooooooooooooooooooooood. Like. really really good.
2- Booths! Like a dinerrr! Yeahhh!

This is a great caff that serves up delicious food all day long. My personal fave is the meaty treaty full English brekkie, though it was a little too big, even for my appetite. Still, jolly tasty, and more than enogh reason to keep going back.

So, if you're hung over and you need a hot grease injection, you've come to the right place. Just take it easy on the coffee, it might defibrillate your poor wee head.