City Canteen

Forget plastic trays with grumpy dinner ladies dishing out congealed rice pudding, and there's no ducking from flying burgers in this grade II listed building. The kitchen's open till 7pm, before the bell rings and the jazz starts. Test your GCSE French on the foreign beers and make sure you've saved your pocket money for the house wine. The swot in you will be impressed by the bookshelf housing an 80-year-old novel and the techies will love the sound studio upstairs. It's where the cool kids hang out, so get yourself to detention on the double.

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