The Idle Bakery & Cafe — Restaurant in Bradford

The Idle Bakery is a wonderful eatery serving absolutely top notch food at reasonable prices. It's arguably the best place to get something to eat mid day in Idle and I would fully recommend anyone try it.

Food: The food is amazing. All fresh ingredients and a massive standout is the BLT which is described by my fiancé as the best she has evert had. An even bigger shout out goes to the pies and pasties which are 100% their selling point, with a separate small shop next door seeking pies and cakes to go. It's worth noting that even their breakfast sandwiches are served with coleslaw and side salad which is a nice touch and they don't need to do that!

Location: The Idle Bakery is located very central to idle. There is easy parking just outside the coop about 2 minutes walk away or at the parking centrally in Idle which is around 3 minutes walk away.

Service: The staff are lovely and quite attentive. They are very very busy however. You can expect to wait 20-30 minutes for breakfast sandwiches at peak periods. And easily 15-20 even when not busy. Toast and tea cane easily be 15-20 at all times. This is not for the want for staff biebg inattentive or lazy, infact the massive draw back for this eatery is the fact it is so small as thus, small staffed but is running a Just Eat service also. This means in the addition to the 5 tables internally, you can expect to be waiting for 3-5 just eat deliveries to be serviced at the same time you are waiting.

Atmosphere: The cafe has a very 1940s aesthetic with a window mural, panel walling and warm white lighting. Roof beams and nice couches and chairs. However it's then clashed by the music choice, bringing your period meal to a crashing halt with club land anthems and dance tracks. It's unfortunate as you wouldn't get that with a similar style cafe in the the dales, lakes or other topical settings. This is further compounded by the aforementioned Just Eat and UberEats drivers hovering in cafe waiting for their collections. I may be prudish but I don't like non customers hovering over my shoulder which on the phone to friends on loud speaker. All in all it's a massive clash of 2 types of eatery and a bit...

We had been going to this cafe every couple of weeks for around 6 months. Firstly the breakfast it self is fantastic the ingredients are quality and the taste is really good. Eggs cooked well, quality bacon, black pudding and sausage. The toast is a little dry but for the breakfast itself I would give it a 9.5/10. We went as usual excited to get the large breakfast which included a tea (which was normally around the £10 mark odd) and we get there and it has gone up around £3. Now I am willing to pay as it was a really nice breakfast but others on the table aren’t and already put off by large increase. I know things have gone up but I don’t get how you can do such a sudden increase of 30% on it. Anyhow like I said I wouldn’t be put off as it is a nice breakfast, we decided to get the small b fast to save money. We came to order, one of us doesn’t like sausages on the table, as normal we ask if we can swap this but the waitress says no. Now I am bit taken back so we say oh, well we won’t swap it for a bit of bacon just a hash brown thinking we’ll that be more acceptable even though really swapping a sausage for a bit of bacon in my opinion is perfectly fair. ( I can understand not swapping a hash brown or something like that for bacon or sausage)The answer was no, we can’t swap items you would have to buy them extra! We proceeded without buying extra items and we just ended up swapping items between us to accommodate ourselves.

What a shame is all I can say I think I personally could cope with the price rises even though a large amount suddenly but not to be an able to swap like for like too. I would go back but I can’t really take anyone else I know back to the place as sure they swap and item.Tried to give a fair star rating as like I said twice above it is a...

Went for breakfast this morning and what a shambles. I really hope it was a one off for them as its our local for a breakfast treat. Ordered quickly, one coffee, one frappe and 2 breakfasts. Coffee came quick enough, no frappe for another 20 minutes when coffee was nearly 3/4 drunk. Told after ordering food would take longer than normal due to a lot of online orders, no problem, we weren't in a rush. Table of 4 came in after us who had reserved, told food would be about a 30 minute wait, they got up and left. While we were waiting 3 separate people waited over 30 minutes for simple breakfast sandwich orders. I asked for 3 things taken off my breakfast and asked if i could replace with an extra hash brown instead but if not its fine as I know some places don't do substitutes, got told it was fine. Bill comes and extra hash brown was added. When I questioned it they told me they don't do substitutes and I said thats why I asked if it was okay and they said yes. Nothing but a simple “sorry” whispered from the server. I wasn't going to argue over 60p and could tell the servers were having a terrible time. Proper training needs giving to the 2 girls up front especially the younger looking one of them, both running round like headless chickens not knowing how to handle...