Liverpool cafe supporting homeless launches new breakfast menu with a retro childhood favourite

A city centre cafe which supports homeless people in Liverpool has revamped its breakfast menu to include a big retro childhood favourite.

Paper Cup Coffee in Queen Square has decided smashed avo on toast has had its day, and it’s time to go back to a comfort classic … dippy boiled eggs and toast!

From December, it will feature on a new breakfast menu that will also include an all-day everything breakfast on toast, with sausage, bacon, egg and hash brown, and an American staple of pancakes with crispy bacon and maple syrup.

Michelle Langan, who launched the coffee shop in 2022, said they felt it was time for a change and to give customers a treat they loved.

“We’ve been doing avocado on toast with poached egg since we opened and we feel like it’s over now, people are getting a bit tired of it, so we’re moving on to try something different.

“I like the idea of a retro breakfast with dippy boiled eggs and toast that can be cut into soldiers, so we’re doing that on a board with some cheese and marmalade, so a mixed Scandi-style picky bits breakfast for one person.

“It’s going back to what people like, and boiled eggs remind everyone of being a kid but when you’re an adult you don’t really have it anymore. We wanted to bring the fun back into breakfast and hopefully it’s something that will appeal to adults and also to kids as well.”

In addition to a new-look breakfast, Paper Cup Coffee is introducing new lunch dishes and there’s a dippy theme there too.

Getting on the trend for dipping toasties, they’ll be changing up the menu to add really thick cheese toasties with a side of tomato soup to dip into and doing pastrami and cheese toasties with a mustard mayo dip.

“Again, it’s all about comfort feelgood food because I think that’s what people want now,” adds Michelle.

Customers tucking in to the new menus from next month will be able to do their bit to support people who are homeless or rough sleeping in the city.

Paper Cup Coffee is continuing, and planning to extend, its pay it forward scheme which lets people to gift a coffee or toast to a homeless person.

“Pay it forward allows customers to come in and buy food and a drink for themselves and then if they donate £3 that covers a hot drink and something to eat for our homeless people. 

“Most of our homeless people come in first thing in the morning, we open at 8.30am on weekdays and we’ve normally got a queue of people waiting outside at 8.15am. For them it’s their first hot drink and especially coming into winter having a place where they can come to get a drink and warm up is really important. 

“We’re going to carry on doing that but from December, when we relaunch our menus in the coffee shop, we’re going to be extending it so if people want to give a bit more they can and they can buy someone some soup or maybe a bacon butty.”

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