Mill Kitchen & Bakery — Restaurant in Leeds

While there are now many coffee shops in Farsley the Mill Kitchen is still my preferred café of choice and I have visited this outlet since it opened some years ago. Even though the change of ownership the offer has been consistent.

A recent upgrade of the extraction system has had a dramatic positive effect: I no longer come out smelling of grease! The air quality inside this café is now so much better.

There is a great range of food and beverages and some really good bread to take out. I believe most of the baked goods are created on-site. A real favourite of mine is the home-baked Pain au chocolat. They are often still warm from the oven and are utterly delicious. Though it they are not still warm staff are happy to bob them in the oven to warm them.

A good free wi-fi connection means there are usually a few people "working from home!" in there.

There are a couple of negatives for me. Sometimes the place can be dominated by overly indulgent and overly entitled young mothers and their mewling babies. Depending on how many there are depends on whether or not I stay! But the space is large so it is normally possible to get out of the immediate vicinity of the local chapter of Mumsnet!

They do allow dogs, which for me are much more endearing than whining babies and much less noisy.

The other negative is the meanness of their tea offer. Tea is served in a mug with the teabag still in. But they only use "ships measures" of hot water [short of the top so it does not spill]. This means that when the tea bag is taken out the mug is only just over half full of tea! The cost of a few more ml of boiling water is so small as to be hard to measure. Why they do not fill the mug to the top with boiling water is not clear. Better still would be to sever the tea in a small pot, which would provide a cup and a half of tea at minuscule extra cost but the perceived value to the customer would be far greater.

All that said, The Mill Kitchen is still my preferred...

I recently visited for the second time on Sunday Morning. My first impressions of this visit were good, staff were friendly enough to begin with. However, this progressively got worse through my time spent there. My friend and I ordered our food/drinks at the bar as advised. I ordered the Mexican breakfast on sourdough with an orange juice. The lady told me I should make my way over to the table and she would bring everything over, I was not once told I should take my orange juice from the fridge that I had just ordered. When I had received my food, I was made out to be silly that I hadn’t just taken the orange juice out of the fridge myself, even though I was never informed this was the case. Additionally to this, we had spent around 1 hour on this table. I could see that the queue was building up around me for a seat. The waitresses began to clear our plates and dirty glasses. However when my friend went to the bathroom, a waitress came over and took our water jug and glasses. Shortly after my friend returned from the bathroom, a very rude lady came over and proceeded to say “Are you two going to buy anything else?”. Thus implying she wants us to get off the table, even though we had just paid for our brunch and drinks expecting at least a 1.5 hour duration on the table to enjoy ourselves. I understand that it was busy and they had people waiting, however this is not how you speak to customers. I won’t be returning due to rude staff, however everything...

I'm going to start with the negative even though I've gone with 5 stars! Although the food is lovely, different and the mill is vegetarian and vegan friendly, the kids menu also uses the same quirky food. My child is super fussy now, hoping its just a phase, but this has stopped us for going for some time as there's nothing really for her. This seems to be my issue in most places like this though. So on for the pros. Their food is always fresh, home-made and supply fresh baked bread, the staff are also really friendly and helpful. They provide dining in, out and takeaways and supply some of the local businesses pieces. They also help out with charities, we know our very own Chef Imogen from Farsley Farfield sets up her cupcake stall there raising money to buy cooking and baking books for schools. The place itself is calm and relaxing bit of a boho contemporary vibe. Can seat larger amounts for meetings and can be hired out later on from what I've heard. The last time we went there was nappies and wipes in the toilet where they have the baby changing area, I thought that was a really nice touch considering a lot of new mums seem to like it. There's a lot of space for maneuvering prams and wheelchairs etc and is on ground level with no steps so easily accessible. Hard not give it 5 stars considering all of the above so we can let the kids thing go..... unless it's not a phase, then we need some Warburtons and red...