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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.