Maggie Mays

Thank you for my first proper (vegetarian) English brunch, Maggie Mays! The sausages were fabulous — Real shredded vegetable mix as opposed to the soy mock sausages I was expecting and a pleasant surprise it was! Would definitely recommend.

This is a local hang-​out. The service is super nice. But the food is not very good. The prawn cocktail has tiny salad shrimp swimming in some kind of orange dressing. The scouse is what people go there for. But it’s only really so-​so. I kind of wish I would have just gotten tea and a pastry.

Hungover + Breakfast = Perfect cure. Quick simple food at a reasonable price. Hash browns are the best, so crispy and chunky. (Visit — 02/​05/​2015 Breakfast)

It’s great every time we eat here. Had the kippers and toast for breakfast this time and it was delicious. £4.50 makes it great value too.

Best home made food and excellent staff. Always a great place to have a meal at reasonable prices.

Upon asking a friend, a native Liverpoolian, where I should try some scouse, she immediately recommended Maggie Mays.
Upon entry I was tempted to order several items at such inexpensive rates; however, I simply ordered the scouse with red cabbage. The beef stew was hearty and filling; the red cabbage offered a complimentary flavor which certainly enhanced the dish. You can also order the scouse with beets which seems like a suitable alternative to red cabbage for as a comliment in this dish.

Pretty much what you’d expect from an inner city café. Good prices, good, basic food with reasonable portions. Nice, clean environment. Service is ok. Efficient but could do with being a bit friendlier. I would, and probably will, go back.

Continuing the theme of eateries named after classic rock and pop songs, Maggie Mays is a homely café on Bold Street.
There’s no rare photos or gold discs of Rod Stewart on display but the menu is packed with classic British dishes. There’s full english and veggie breakfasts, stews, steak pies, fish cakes, chicken and classic scouse with red cabbage and bread. They also have a decent range of cakes, scones and pies for pudding. Portions are generous and the staff are friendly — making Maggie Mays popular with locals, students and pensioners.
My only grumble is the décor and ambience. In a word: chintzy.

May I? Maggie? May I please visit you and relish your delightful café charms?
Maggie Mays is a charming little spot on Bold street. This place is cheap as chips and continues the tradition of the café or coffee shop equivalent in the U of S. A place where you can mingle with your friends and share a breakfast /​brunch /​coffee. In fact I did just that not long ago catching up with a friend who lives in town. A pleasent experience indeed. I love places like this on a busy street, you can sit inside and mute the noise yet still enjoy the world go by, absolute bliss.
Right across the road from Tea house as well, so lots of healthy competition for its affections. They don’t really compete with each other though, sharing is caring and they definitely share my love and cutom.

Wake up Maggie, I think I’ve got something to say to you. It’s late September and you really should be back at school. But if you’re not quite ready to reignite your scholarly aptitude just yet, perhaps stopping in here for a veritable bin lid of a teacake might be an option. Anything that remotely reminds me of the fifties, which this café does in massive amounts, is fine in my book, and even though it’s a decade I never knew my mother was born in it — and Maggie May is one of her all time favourite songs. See, I can create linkage!
Bold Street is dotted with quirky little places to eat and drink so you’re spoilt for choice, but this is certainly one you should consider. It’s got such a cosy vibe and takes us back to simpler times, where chatty women in tabards would serve steaming hot mugs of tea. The food is as down to earth as an earthworm… sorry, I expected that comparison to be far more endearing, far less gross… ahem, as you can get toast, buns (or are they barmcakes? DISCUSS!), eggs, bacon, all the usual trimmings and sauces and greasy spoon delights.
It’s well cooked too, and the banter is lovely, but there’s a quiet dignity about the place to boot. Definitely one for if you fancy some home comforts.

Maggie May’s is open seven days serving some of the classic ingredients sourced from around Scotland. In some ways, it reminds me of a seaside café from the Scottish Highlands with the type of dishes they sell: scampi, salmon fishcakes and sea bass for instance. If I ought to recommend anything, then it shall be Haggis with bashed Neeps and Tatties which is something of a Scottish speciality — that is Haggis with turnips and mashed potatoes (for those of you who are unfamiliar) and a traditional dish you have to try!
If you fancy something different, you might want to opt for a Ploughman’s sandwich or try some Liverpudlian Scouse, plus keep an eye out for daily specials written on their blackboard.
You’ll find that the prices are reasonable and service is efficient (always busy though, but a good sign). Maggie May’s is a simple café, making it a great place to spend a casual lunch with family and friends.

Maggie Mays is simple, honest and really hits the spot if your after a good old English Breakfast.
The place is simple within and feels light and comfortable with some potted plants dotted around all of which make you feel very much at ease when settling down for a tasty treat.
They provide all sorts of traditional treats within even such things as an English tea cake which is not something as widely available as you would think. Thats the beauty of Maggie Mays there is no sense of this place trying to be anything other than a simple English Café which you can visit for a hearty meal and relaxing cuppa.
To summarise I have only compliments for Maggie Mays I just hope that they continue to keep it simple and do not bow to the pressure of chain establishments to become something they are not.

Yet another of these traditional cafes along the same stretch of road. You lucky, lucky people — you really are spoilt for choice.
There are a number of great things about Maggie Mays; the low price, the honest auntie’s-dining-room furnishings, the service with a cackle — the best thing about Maggie Mays though is the scouse. The dish of our namesake has rarely been better done (except by my own mum) — the hearty, tasty stew served with a hunk of delicious crusty bread is a must.
Good for breakfast too — a sausage sandwich will set you back less than £3 and fill you up for a good while. Watch of a lunchtime as the place begins to teem with locals and students alike after some home-​cooked fare that won’t cost the earth.

If you’re looking to escape from branded, sometimes pretentious cafes on your trip to Liverpool, Maggy May’s is the place to head. Situated halfway up Bold Street, Maggy’s is a proper ‘scouse’ café, from its own brand tinned ‘Scouse’ to full English breakfast at great prices!
When living in Liverpool as a student, Maggy’s was a frequent haunt for me and my housemates to get some good solid food to soak up our hangovers. Their take on the famous Liverpool stew known as ‘Scouse’ is delicious, as are their old favourites such as ‘sausage butty’s’ and ‘scrambled egg on toast’.
This Café is very popular with the locals and is always filled to the rafters over lunchtimes, being this busy constantly bodes well, and reflects the quality of their food and service. Whenever we ate here, the food was great and the service was always quick and efficient.

Bold Street just seems to be full of oldy worldy, upmarket greasy spoon type places and I just love it. Although I must say that I do partake in a little latte drinking from Costa time to time — and I do have a latte machine with Costa’s coffee at home!- I do miss just your typical friendly local caff.
The menu is great with good ol’ cooked English breakfasts and Scouse — what more could you want? It also seems a bit like it’s been cooked by your nan. Very quaint. The prices are really cheap and the service is second to none.

This is another quaint, oldy worldy café on Bold St, Liverpool, that has a great menu. Service is at a great standard as does the quality of food. You feel relaxed in this place as there is rarely any screaming children about;)
Great hot chocolate here aswell! Oh and my freind from ickle primary school works there too, which was nice for me;)

A charming café, which what you see is what you get. Big breakfasts and hearty meals, which are at a resonalble price. With it being on Bold Street it is perfectly located for a refreshment after shopping.