Lakeside Theatre Café

Lakeside Theatre Café is Square 5’s catering outlet, offering wonderful parkland views of our Colchester Campus.

Lakeside Theatre Café is a great place to pick up a coffee and pastry en route to campus. Through the day, this stylish cafe situated in the Lakeside Theatre foyer, offers hot and cold drinks, paninis, pastries, sandwiches, cakes and snacks.

From 6.00pm on show nights, the Lakeside Café becomes a bar run by the theatre, serving alcoholic drinks, soft drinks and bar snacks.

Opening times

Lakeside Theatre Café is currently closed.

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Find this outlet

Lakeside Theatre Café is situated in Square 5 at the front of the Lakeside Theatre next to the Library.

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