Independent places for breakfast and brunch in Leeds

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Restaurant · Horsforth

Big Scoffs Diner is a family-run, fully plant-based diner on New Road Side in Horsforth, Leeds. It serves homemade vegan breakfasts, brunches, lunches and Sunday roasts, and runs on a bring-your-own-drinks basis. It forms part of the local Scoffs group, which also runs the nearby Little Scoffs on the same street.

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Restaurant · Kirkstall

Butlers At Number One is a cafe and bar on the ground floor of the Number One building at Kirkstall Forge in Leeds. It serves home-made hot food, fresh salads and drinks, with breakfast and lunch available through the day. The name is a tribute to the Butler family, who ran the forge on the site for six generations.

Restaurant · Headingley

Chai Walay is a restaurant at 148 Cardigan Road in Headingley. Its Uber Eats menu runs from breakfast dishes such as halwa puri, desi breakfast, aloo paratha and a full English to chicken tandoori panini, wraps, jacket potatoes and strawberry and Nutella French toast. The same menu lists milkshakes, smoothies and iced matcha. It was rated 4, good, at its last food hygiene inspection in July 2025.

Restaurant · Harehills

Chai Walay is a restaurant at Unit 5, Clock Buildings, Roundhay Road in Harehills. Its website says it serves chai, breakfast and lunch, has a second branch at 148 Cardigan Road in Burley, and delivers through Uber Eats, Just Eat and Deliveroo. The Uber Eats menu for the Cardigan Road branch lists halwa puri, desi breakfast, chicken and aloo paratha, strawberry and Nutella French toast and chicken tandoori wraps. The Roundhay Road branch was rated 4, good, at its last food hygiene inspection in August 2025.

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Café · Otley

Coast to Country Cafe is a small family-run café at Bay Horse Court, off Manor Square in Otley. It serves hot and cold food, cakes and milkshakes made with ice cream, with breakfast and brunch the main trade, and it takes collection orders from local businesses. The café describes itself as autism friendly and has set the room up accordingly: low lighting, a sensory corner for children, wobble boards for restless children and divided plates for selective eaters. Dogs are welcome and the space can be hired for private events. It carries a 4.9-star Google rating.

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Restaurant · Bar · Headingley

Heaney & Mill is an independent restaurant and cocktail bar at 50 Otley Road in Headingley, Leeds, open for breakfast, lunch and dinner seven days a week. Trading since 2017, it serves modern dishes made with locally sourced produce, and runs a weekend bottomless brunch and a Sunday roast.

Café · Beeston

Honey Coffee Bike is a café at 456 Dewsbury Road in Beeston, LS11 8AJ. Its Just Eat menu runs from a full English breakfast, with toast, eggs, sausages, bacon, hash browns, mushroom, tomato and beans, to eggs Royal, eggs Benedict, omelettes and bacon, egg or sausage sandwiches, plus a cream tea for two. Companies House lists Honey Coffee Bike Ltd, incorporated on 27 April 2021, at the same address. It was rated 4, good, at its last food hygiene inspection in June 2024.

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Café · Chapel Allerton

House Of Koko is an independent brunch and lunch house on Harrogate Road in north Leeds, serving coffee, breakfast and daytime dishes. The Harrogate Road cafe was the business's first site, and it has since opened further branches in Oakwood and Leeds city centre. Brunch bookings are not taken, and orders are also available through Deliveroo.

Restaurant · Yeadon

Just My Cuppa' is a café at 15 High Street in Yeadon, LS19. Its website describes it as a "family-run" café serving homemade cakes, brunch, lunch, cream teas and afternoon teas, with vegan, gluten-free, dairy-free and vegetarian options. The business started as a home-based cake delivery service in Yeadon before moving into event catering and afternoon teas, and its site names Lynn and Emma as the people who operate it. It was rated 5, very good, at its last food hygiene inspection in February 2026.

Restaurant · Oakwood

La Petite Roundhay is a restaurant at 39 Street Lane in Oakwood, LS8. Its Uber Eats menu lists an English breakfast and eggs with halloumi and vegetables, alongside sandwiches, pizza, pasta, burgers, steak and salads, with coffee and tea. It was rated 3, generally satisfactory, at its last food hygiene inspection in January 2026.

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Café · Bar · Headingley

Lento Cafe & Bar is an independent cafe and bar at 21A North Lane in Headingley, Leeds. It serves espresso-based coffee, all-day brunch and light lunches, along with a selection of natural wine and craft beer.

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Café · Kirkstall

Mog's Cafe is an independent, licensed coffee shop at 55 Kirkstall Lane in Kirkstall, Leeds. It serves breakfast, brunch and lunch, including Turkish and English breakfasts, bagels, burgers and jacket potatoes, along with coffee and other drinks. There is outdoor seating, and food is available to dine in, take away or by delivery.

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Café · Chapel Allerton

An independent speciality coffee shop on Stainbeck Lane, trading in Chapel Allerton since 2013 and owner-operated by Lou Henry, who opened the first Opposite — opposite Leeds University — back in 2006. The coffee is roasted in collaboration with Leeds roaster North Star, alongside loose-leaf teas, a brunch menu and homemade cakes, with vegan and gluten-free options. It is a daytime place — coffee, brunch and cake rather than a full restaurant. Lou Henry opened a second Opposite in Meanwood in April 2024.

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Café · Bar · Headingley

Residence Bar Cafe Kitchen is an all-day cafe and bar on North Lane in Headingley, Leeds, opened in 2023 by the team behind Residence 74 in Ireland Wood. It works as a daytime brunch and coffee spot that becomes a cocktail bar in the evening, and also runs bottomless brunch and dinner service. It is part of a small independent group of Residence venues in the Leeds area.

Café · Yeadon

Somewhere Different is a café at 22 Kirk Lane in Yeadon, LS19. Its Just Eat menu covers hot sandwiches, breakfast baguettes and wraps, burgers and pies, paninis, jacket potatoes and cakes, with vegan sausage sandwiches among the vegetarian choices. It was rated 4, good, at its last food hygiene inspection in October 2025.

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Café · Takeaway · Kirkstall

Sound Bites is a daytime cafe and sandwich takeaway on Kirkstall Hill in Burley, Leeds. It serves hot and cold sandwiches, paninis, breakfasts and make-your-own waffles, along with burgers, pasta and a range of hot and cold drinks, with halal and gluten-free options noted on its menu. The shop trades for breakfast and lunch, opening from early morning until early afternoon and closing on Tuesdays.

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Takeaway · Chapel Allerton

Stacked House of Food is a smash burger, loaded fries and coffee spot at 60 Harrogate Road, describing itself as 'Chapel Allerton's bold new food joint', open for dine-in and takeaway. The menu centres on smash burgers such as the Smoke Stack, loaded fries, thick shakes and barista coffee, plus weekend brunch; the kitchen says its beef is locally sourced and halal-certified. It is a new arrival: Companies House shows Stacked House of Food Ltd was incorporated in September 2025 by sole director Kautar Salah Fisher, registered at the same Harrogate Road address — an independent, owner-run single site rather than a chain.

Café · Kirkstall

Station Diner is a café at 137 Kirkstall Lane in Kirkstall, LS5. Its Uber Eats menu is built around hot and cold sandwiches, with egg, bacon, sausage, spam, ham, tuna mayo, chicken and cheese fillings, plus breakfast, brunch and lunch sections. It was rated 3, generally satisfactory, at its last food hygiene inspection in March 2026.

Café · Pudsey

The Loft Coffee Shop is a café at 13A Springfield Mills, Bagley Lane, in Farsley. Its website lists barista coffee, teas, hot chocolates and smoothies, with a breakfast menu of full English, breakfast sandwiches and eggs on toast, and lunches of sandwiches, paninis, toasties and jacket potatoes, plus homemade cakes. It says Katie has owned it since June 2024, after a 16-year career in corporate consulting. It was rated 5, very good, at its last food hygiene inspection in March 2025.