Coffee was delicious just the right strength and flavour. Friendly staff made us feel very welcome…read moreand not rushed at all. We were allowed to linger over the menu at the start and again over our plates at the end. Food was really tasty with quite a good selection.

Service is very good Food is excellent and if you want egg…read moreyolky they'll do it with no problem or cut fat off bacon.... Just ask Nice vibe

Well they do say every day's a school day…read more We learned something we didn't know here; we both simultaneously thought that the milk in our coffees had turned (flat white & cappuccino £3 each) but the manager advises it's the complex quality of the exceptional coffee used, so next time it'll be espressos as milk doesn't add sweetness here and I avoid sugar. The manager offered to make fresh coffees and kindly explained about the quality of their coffee, supplied by Dark Woods Coffee and suggested this coffee ain't Costa - I do agree. My new coffee tasted identical to the original but my wife thought hers less 'sour'. Dark Woods provide the coffee and hand roast their beans on a 1950's Probat drum roaster. They are top notch on the environmental and social impact and certified B Corp - 5 green stars here. When tasting think terroir, varietals and process. I had the chestnut & wild mushrooms with garlic & herbs on organic sourdough supplied by an artisan maker. This dish was well balanced, delicious and a decent portion. My wife had the salmon bagel with cream cheese and scallions. She declared it delicious too (salmon delicately smoked by the Manchester Smoke House and bagel baked perfectly by the Bread Factory, Manchester). The sparkling water came well chilled and in a recyclable bottle. We were seated out back at a wobbly table that only required me putting my shoe on the base, the service was attentive, we were suitably distanced from other diners and they genuinely cared that we thought the milk in coffees was off. The place was spic & span clean and with their focus and transparency on quality organic food, preserving the environment (remember folks the earth is our only home) and relying on artisans for produce it's 5 green stars for them too. Really worth supporting.

Great breakfast and brunch, the interior is really nice and located right in front of the market…read more The quality of food was good, staff were friendly and prices are very reasonable.

Brownie a a bit too sweet for my taste but it pretty good…read moreThe vegan banana chocolate cake was amazing Art of tea signature is Pretty good Service was fast and the people who works there are really nice Ambiance is relaxing even if it next to the road

My favourite hides hole! Lovely food, although the lunch menu tends to have a lot more to it than…read morethe evening menu. I strongly recommend the hot beef sandwich! There's a book shop to the back, but don't expect it to be in any kind of order, more of a horders den really. The books aren't especially cheap, but there's a decent selection if you're prepared to hunt about a bit. Free wifi, and a pretty good place to get some work done during the day, gets a bit livelier at night and has more of a bar vibe Friday/Saturday nights :)

I popped into Folk having gone down to Didsbury for a meeting and a change of scene and thinking it…read morewas time to actually do this on all fronts, I plumped for Folk having never actually been before (I know - it's been there forever!) First off I really liked the bar as it's a good, chilled out and welcoming sort of cafe bar. It's a bit like the Odd bars in that it's got random shizzle everywhere but it doesn't seem too over the top which is nice. There's a great selection of beers on tap and as well as all the usual standard crafts and lagers that you get nowadays, there's also a pretty sweet selection of local beers like Ticketybrew on tap. Alas I was driving and had a meeting so beer wasn't my thing on this occasion but I did plump for a tasty Moroccan lamb wrap with salad and flatbread (£9) to keep me going. It was quite nice but 3 days on I'm still unsure whether I enjoyed the taste of the lamb - it was a strange mix and I'm not certain the spice mix was quite right but I saw enough of the fresh ingredients on offer to go back and try more menu items another day - and of course stop for a pint!

Cafe bar with great interior and good food…read more Let's start this review with me saying I'm pretty biased about Folk - it was the location of my first 'date' with Dan. They were amazingly kind and on our first anniversary let me have a menu to put in with his present. It's one of my seriously happy places. They have booths at the back, a fair few tables round the bar and then a good sized outside space with seating too. The menu is good classic with a range of breakfast options served until 4pm. They also have sandwiches, a burger option, soup and a specials board. The food is freshly cooked and really good. Their bar is well stocked with great beers and spirits plus some excellent non alcoholic options their coffee is also fantastic. They also have a selection of cakes which is always changing, check out the blackboard for the options. Today they have sticky toffee, chai, honey & cinnamon, cookies & cream and berry crumble! Great relaxed atmosphere in the day and nice and lively in the evening this is a great place to try if you are in the area.

This is a great little spot in Timperley village to pick up a coffee or something to eat. We…read moreactually had a full English breakfast at 1:00 in the afternoon! It was really delicious and a nice way to spend our first day in England. I recommend!

This is as good as it get's for your local bakery and cafe in the UK. Friendly staff, lovely…read moreenvironment and the best cakes you will taste this side of the channel. When you enter, you'll probably struggle to find seating as this local Cafe has become the hang out place for Mum'n'Kids, Pensioners and the odd student who likes a good coffee. The cakes and sandwiches which are made fresh on site are to die for! A must for any cake lover!

I absolutely ADORE Mama Bears Cakes & Bakes!!! I live in the US, and my boyfriend lives in the UK,…read moreand I wanted to send him something super special for our anniversary. After searching endlessly and fruitlessly for weeks online for someone who could make exactly what I wanted, accept payment internationally, and deliver it to my BF, I messaged Mama Bear's, and the owner is an absolute ANGEL. She worked with me to decide on exactly what to create. Even though the things I asked for aren't typically items that she makes, she told me that she was a "romantic" and would be happy to make a special order for me. She even ended up adding decorations on her own because she wanted to make it extra special! Such a lovely person to work with!!! Her husband hand-delivered the cake & chocolate-covered strawberries to my boyfriend on our anniversary and even passed along a special message. My boyfriend was totally surprised and absolutely impressed with the presentation of the gift itself. He also said that the cake and strawberries were incredibly DELICIOUS!!! He really tried to ration them out to last longer, but they were so good he couldn't help eating them within about a week and a half haha. Mama Bear is the greatest, and if you live in the area, you should DEFINITELY choose her shop! I'd be there for coffee and baked goods daily if I didn't live across the pond! haha.

Great coffee, great food and great owners. Every time I visit California coffee the owners are…read morethere to greet us with an enthusiastic smile and a warm welcome.

Best coffee shop in the north of England. Everyone working here is a laugh and whether you're there…read morefor a sandwich, a quick espresso, or one too many pints, I promise youll have a good time Paisano

Small coffee shop run by Bill and Rosie. Lovely couple that cook everything fresh and deliver some…read morekiller coffees. There are various specials each day such as Shepard's pie, fish pie, spaghetti bolognese. Never too busy and offers a big drink and food selection for all times of the day

Had a breakfast out off bills coffee shop, I sat in. When arriving the shop was clean, tidy and had…read morea nice atmosphere. The staff where polite. The food was nice, the sausages, bacon and eggs where cooked well the beans where warm, only two things let the shop down cold mushrooms and there seemed to be an issue with brown sauce, I was asked by member of staff if I wanted sauce, which I replied yes! I was handed an empty bottle, another Coustomer also asked and was told it was on the table, which it also an empty bottle. Breakfast would have been nice with the brown sauce. Also they do not take card payments.

Right I am on a one women mission to stop everyone going to these…read more a- unimaginative b- costly c- typical coffeeshops. Just don't do it guys stay at home and drink a cup of freeze dried coffee if you cant be bothered to find a good local coffee shop that really cares. Oh my little face is red.......feel my thunder !

Right. What is it about coffee shops that makes people moan about global capitalism? Eh? Why does…read moreeveryone do it? I know that multinationals and giant corporations dominating the market are bad for everyone. Its bad economically, its boring, its ruining livelihoods. I know all this. It's the dreadful world we live in and I'm well up for doing something about it, such as boycotting such places. But... Why does everyone make coffee shops the locus of their concern for the condition of the capitalist world? Its ridiculous. No one is standing outside KFC saying that they're ruining the livelihood and originality of all the independent fried chicken shops such as Kansas Fried Chicken and Krispy Fried Chicken are they? So why are people always on about coffee shops? Middle class people, drinking lots of coffee (instead of working) in an independent business and feeling good about it, then going next door to Boots without realising it's the same thing, and trotting of home feeling high and mighty. Woooooooooooooooooooo! Costa sells nice coffee, Boots sells nice plasters, KFC sells nice chicken.

The Gay Village is one of my favorite Manchester neighborhoods and one of my favorite places to…read morevisit there is this tea room. Each time I visit I am taken back to a time when high tea was not only expected but proper. The scones are absolutely to die for! Freshly made, onsite. The sandwiches, teas, and bubbly are always spot on. Service is just what you would expect. Proper and welcoming. They've got drag tea hours that never seem to match up with my schedule when I am in Man. One of these days... Nonetheless, I am eager for my next visit to this proper English tea house.

Yae not really a fan. And I really wanted to be…read more First the positive. - nice location inside the gay village (yes that the official name of the neighborhood ) - very nice and friendly staff and waiter. - good selection of teas and the teas have been tasty. But now to the rest a teatime should be sacred time with loved once an hour to relax calm down and enjoy good tea and food. We had the queens tea and it comes as a full high tea with scones, sandwiches and sweets. While the service - as already mentioned was great (they switched one set to vegetarian sandwiches) - the sandwiches have not been. The toast was a bit try on the edges and the actual spread and creations have been lackluster to be friendly. The chickpea vegetarian was the best by far. The scones clearly made in house fresh and really good tasting. But they have been more like a bead bun in consistency- but together with the clotted cream very very good. Just not really scones. This tea room also did disappointed me with just serving a tiny glass of industrial made strawberry preserves. They also only serve one "scone" per person and did not offered any more sandwiches or scones. And then finally the "sweets" the Richmond tea room takes that word very very literal. Besides a macaron and a little passionfruit tartlet they served two pieces of cake that have both been tasting like sugar only. While looking ok they just had no taste whatsoever other than just being overly sweet. No fruit flavor or distinctive taste. Since I left mine untouched since they were just not good maybe that why they don't offered more sandwiches or scones. All in all it was just not the teatime I was looking for spending with my husband as quality time we slowed down drinking the tea but we did not really enjoyed the food and that messed up the experience. Sadly. Starting with five stars I'll take one of for the stall sandwiches, another one for uninspired sweets and a third for the jam and overall price / quality relations. Since I would have lived with it when it would have been a cheap teatime in a restaurant, but it's a location that ha w tea room even in the name.