Golden Square Coffee

This is a mildly strange place, but I liked it. You enter via a small doorway into a large open space. The first impression is that it’s empty and too large for a ‘mere’ coffee shop. This amount of floor space costs money in the ‘up and coming’ Bold Street area and so you need to turn over a massive chunk of coffee to achieve that every day and seven days a week. There seem to be two very nice, customer focused guys running it. The coffee is class … very enjoyable, but no better than other top line ‘third wave’ places. I prefer it to the two cups I had at nearby Bold Street Coffee.
So back to the space: there seems to be five areas. One faces you as you enter, a second to your left occupied by a huge and very cool industrial style table, a third just through and past is smaller and occupies by a small group of people meeting about whatever. Then there’s a little through room I didn’t venture into. Finally the bar area is large and well equipped. There’s some work on presentation needed. Some cakes are at the back so you can’t see them and what you don’t see you don’t buy (but I do anyway — a delicious vanilla cheesecake!)
It feels more like a work hub, but doesn’t seem to sell itself as that. For example, essential plug sockets are around the wall but away from tables and hence trip hazards. This kind of detail needs addressing. It’s the kind of space that Bold St Coffee and Leaf don’t seem to fill as well, but both are packed!
Throughout, I had friendly service I enjoyed the space. WIFI was fine. It felt more like an evening venue and lacked some intimacy during the mid day time I was there. I’m not sure if they do food, but if they do I didn’t notice. They need to as it drives profit more than cakes and drinks. They have the space. They may not have the money. I wish them well. It was the best coffee I had in the city.

Best coffee I’ve had in Liverpool!
Great little speciality coffee shop relatively close to the main shopping area. We’re only visiting Liverpool for a couple of days and really glad we found it.
They only serve Casino Mocca coffee from Budapest so it is on the pricey side but definetly worth it as there isn’t much competition in that area.
Only two coffes on the menu which is a but slim for your usual speciality but we had both as a filter — They only had one chemex so had to wait for the second one but we were sharing so it was fine. Really nice, well sourced coffee very flavourful and skillfully brewed.
It’s definetly worth a visit but I reakon it might be a bit slow at busy periods. Perfect for a lazy coffee and ideal for our holiday. Definetly recommend!