Cafes
Indigo Coffee House
8 st. edward's passage central. a tiny cheerful place with excellent coffee and bagels!
CB1
Mill road, (http://www.cb1.com/). a bohemian cafã© with book-lined walls, good affordable coffee, half-price refills, free wifi and friendly staff. this place is open everyday from 10a.m. until 8p.m. and tends to get crowded in the afternoon.
Savinos
Italian coffee bar in emmanuel street. the best place in town where you can relax drinking a true and delicious italian coffee or if you are hungry you can try a tasty italian baguette with ingredients imported from italy. while you are chilling out with your drink you can read italian newspapers or listening to italian music.
You'll also find all the usual chains: Nero's in three central locations on King's Parade, Market Street, and inside Heffers, Starbucks on Market Street, inside the Grand Arcade and on Christs Lane.
The Cafe Project
A colourful volunteer-run community cafe serving cheap hot drinks and homemade cakes with a growing selection of books for swapping. Open mon-wed 7.30PM-11PM and from 10AM-10PM every Friday for a LGBTS friendly day run by the charity Naarii.
Pubs
The Cambridge Blue
Gwydir street. a friendly pub with a large garden and good range of real ale.
The Pickerel Inn
Magdelene street. claims to be the oldest pub in cambridge.
The Granta
Newnham road. a large terrace looks out on the river and surrounding nature. popular during the summer, this pub serves excellent food, and rents out punts and canoes.
The Live and Let Live
Mawson road. a small and very friendly place with an excellent selection of real ales.
The Champion of the Thames
King street. old style pub in the centre of town with a blazing fireplace in the winter. one of the few pubs to sell a local cider rather than the mass-produced stuff.
The Free Press
7 prospect row. mobile phone use is not allowed, making this a pleasant quiet pub. garden.
The Eagle
Benet street. watson and crick were regulars here whilst in the process of unravelling the secrets of dna.
The Castle Inn,
Castle hill. one of the best and busiest, traditional pubs in cambridge. with an eclectic mix of locals and visitors, it can get impossibly busy of friday and saturday nights, however, the beer is excellent the wine less so and the food is home cooked and good value - the "castle burger" is a popular choice.
The Fort St George
Midsummer common. been there for hundreds of years, overlooks the cam and midsummer common. also one of the best places in town for a pub lunch! think sunday roast.
The Mill
Mill lane. cosy in the winter, bustling in the summer, this pub offers a refined selection of real ale.
The Wrestlers
Newmarket road. a bit of a walk from the city centre, but great real ales and some of the best thai food in town.
Clubs
Fez
Market passage nr sidney street. the only one of cambridge's larger clubs to not change its name every couple of years. main student night is monday with 'fat poppdaddy's'.
Ballare
Lion yard. the biggest club in cambridge, known to students as cindy's. international night on thursday, cheesey student nights on tuesday and wednesday during cambridge term.
The Place
Off sidney street. affectionately known as 'life' its previous name to students, or as 'twenty-two' which it was called until a refurbishment in march 2008.
Lola Lo
Fisher square, off corn exchange street. three separate areas over four floors.