Forum Cafe Bar

I only gave it one star because I really liked the atmosphere and the outdoor seating. The food was horrible. The items left on the table for customers were disgustingly dirty. This is a great place for college students but not at all what my husband and I were looking for.

Located in the heart of Sheffield's Devonshire Quarter, the Forum is a cool,bohemian place to shop,eat and drink.


The Forum includes numerous boutique stores, a 'common room' and the Forum Bar. The summer bar is an ideal place to spend your evenings. In the summer, sit outside on the deck chairs patio that runs on to Devonshire Green. Or, in the winter sit inside cool and laid back bar and enjoy the independant beers that are on offer!

Forum is a mecca for Sheffield students but a real mix of people gravitate towards the shops, food and bar located in this vast building.

We popped in for lunch due to our favourite Tamper Coffee being fit to burst. Sitting ourselves outside in the sun, it didn't take us long to realise something was amiss; the buckets with menus/napkins/cutlery were on the tables over there...not here. Turns out we'd plonked ourselves right in the middle of the drinks only section. Making the most of the situation, we stayed and had our drinks here, then sadly had to move inside. Due to the additional seating, they could only handle so many food orders, so had to put some restrictions in. Forgiven.

Inside there are large windows and it feels very airy, meaning we weren't too shut off from the outside world. We had to flag down servers throughout lunch, but it's such a relaxed place that it felt like the norm. There's a great range of sandwiches, burgers and bigger meals - they've even introduced a fasting menu for those so inclined to go on the 5:2 diet but tease themselves with eating out. I went for the mozzarella, chicken and pesto pannini, a current love affair I'm having, but everyone's meals looked great; the onion rings were battered and crunchy, plenty for everyone, and the fish finger sandwich looked like the bee's knees, with proper battered fish rather than breadcrumbed.

I can't comment on pricing but everything seemed to be fair, Northern prices - no complaints here.

The forum is located on Devonshire street, the trendy side of Sheffield city centre. The loyal customer base is varied. It consists of Students, Yuppies and older people.


It can get a bit Pretenious and snobby at times at night which is a big turn off, but it's still a friendly place to hang around most times. Could do worse than come here!


Does look like a swimming pool, but i'll let 'em off! Really nice in the summer though!


I forgot to mention that there's loads of nice little boutique shops as well, which are worth a visit!

This is at the top end of Divison Street, its a mixture of shops, boutiques, bar, restuarant and the common room/pool room.


With the recent redevelopment of Devonshire Green they now have a larger outdoor seating area lookingover the new green.


There's a good selection of beers and drinks available and the food is very good. It does have a good mixture of people that go in here students as well as professionals and a few older people (+50).

I used to work on the door with tricky trev for about 3.5yrs and probably left in 2003. It was brill back then and the customers were great.


Yeh the outside seating does look like a swimming pool, just missing the water. Use to drink leffe on draft when i used to go out to the forum and the weekends they used to have anthony playing funky house all night.


Those were the days.

This is one of the main student pubs in town, last time I went it cost £14.95 for four drinks, one was water. Took ages to get served, but they do have outdoor seating and it's always busy when it's sunny! Girlfriend wanted a Mojito Cocktail but they didn't have any ice. Not one of my favorite bars in Sheff, but it's OK. Can't really remember the music, don't think they have a DJ just some funky house type stuff playing. Never had anything to eat here, always just been on a busy night out.

The Forum is a curious place. It's kinda 5 things in one. During the day you can get food and drinks in the bar/cafe, but out back there is a maze of shops and boutiques selling all sorts of weird and wonderful things. It also doubles up as a cool place to hang out in the evenings, where they often have small gigs.

Not nearly as pretentious as it once was. A good place for a relaxed drink in the afternoon. A nice enough seating set up outside in the summer, giving you a good place to watch the world go by. The drinks range is adequate, the customers varied. The fact that it does look like a swimming pool is a bit of a downside but not that much to stop anyone going. The food they do is slightly above average.

Great spot in the summer in particular. Good selection of beers on tap but a bit pricey. Close to the Devonshire Cat, which is a better pub, but it's a good place for a quick beer or as part of a pub crawl with a few other good bars on Division Street. It has a small outdoor seating area but many chose to sit on the grass on Deveonshire Green next to it.


The shops aren't really my thing but it's ok if there's something you're into in there or if you're after a speciality or a unique gift.