Brilliant food and atmosphere, friendly staffs. The food menu is extensive and covers all…read morevarieties.

Fairly new and upcoming cafe/restuarant in West Didsbury, this place is constantly busy, so clearly…read morethey must be doing something right. I took my parents here one Saturday afternoon for a little sit down and a hot drink after exploring the local shops. My Dad and I ordered a latte each and my Mum ordered a pot of peppermint tea. Both lattes came out at the perfect temperature and with a good amount of frothy milk on the top. Sadly, the pot of tea my Mum had ordered was a used pot of tea and was therefore half full and stone cold. It seems that one waitress had cleaned off another table and placed the finished with tea pot next to the freshly brewed one, so the wrong one was accidentally bought over. The staff were so apologetic and immediately bought over the actual freshly made pot of tea as soon as we noticed. After that minor mishap, everything ran smoothly and everything tasted just right. I really enjoyed the simplistic style with a few pieces of quirky artwork dotted on the walls. I'd say there's a kind of nautical theme running throughout the café, as there's ropes hanging from the ceiling and a few other seaside/fishing type items dotted around. All very cute and trendy. I'd recommend Rustik to anyone in the area, it's the perfect place (not at all like a standard high street coffee shop) to stop and have a quick drink. Also, the tables are spaced out, so you can enjoy a nice chat or catch up with friends or family without feeling like you're being listened in on.

Another update for Fuel? Another five star rating? Am I boring you, yelpers? I do apologise. If you…read morewish to snooze through the following transmission I fully understand, but should you choose to, then know that you will miss out on OMG SPLAWSOME FTW. For the very first time I was having a main meal at Fuel. A proper dinner. Not a snack, not a smoothie. Why? Everyone I know is a cow-hide biting carnivore and refuses to come to a vegetarian restaurant with me. I know, the sods. Should I come into a windfall, I may well buy new friends, then pay for their plastic surgery so they'll look just like my old friends. I digress. My mother eats meat, but she appreciates a veggie meal just as much as she enjoys some roast chicken. So she was the perfect Fuel guest. On a lazy Saturday noon, we stopped off here before she was due to get her train back to Liverpool, ordered some of their fine coffee (which I have decided is the best coffee in all of Manchester - and they gave us a pot of hot steamed milk with our Americanos which just makes them even brillianter) and perused the menu. After much deliberation and peering over at other diners' breakfasts with a mixture of intrigue and trepidation (those things are HUGE, people), I went for the blackboard special - stuffed peppers with cous cous and a Mexican side salad. My interest was piqued as to what the salad would contain. My mum opted for the 'fish' finger sandwich, and we had their mixed sweet and normal potato wedges between us. So, the 'fish' finger sandwich, huh? You're curious, I can tell. Well, in the immortal words of one Charles Sheen, WINNING! They use breadcrumbed halloumi, served with homemade tartare sauce on a wholemeal granary bun with a delicious side salad. I of course tasted this. Seriously, if you have any doubts, even really big ones, you've got to order it. It works. It works like a dream. My baked stuffed peppers with fruity cous cous and a salad below containing kidney beans, red peppers, spring and red onion was an absolute treat too. Nobody wanted to kiss me afterwards, but that was fine. I didn't need human contact. I had epic salad. Fuel just keeps getting better every time I try something new, and I'm insanely lucky to have it a mere short stroll down the road. I promise I'll never take it for granted.

Genuinely the best food I've had during my stay in England so far. I ordered the falafel wrap and…read morewas pleasantly surprised by the flavor combination. Delicious food and great service. I love being able to pay before the meal came so once I was finished I could leave right away without waiting for a bill.

Absolute horrible service please my vegan vegetarian and religious brothers sisters & friends…read moreplease avoid they vegan and vegetarian but they don't have any concept or precisely they know people sentiments So went for breakfast with my partner for special occasion and ordered vegan breakfast with vegan sausage instead gave us meat pork sausage on asking they said they don't do vegan sausage....we have to send all breakfast back and had to leave but ride and Racist manager made us pay full price we didn't want to spoil our day we paid and left but in future all other customers be aware....

Best cafe & bakery in Levenshulme. All of the bread, croissants etc are amazing, the crube is…read moresomething you need to get as well. Eating in is just as good with all the brunch options that are available, well worth it.

I really really really like this place - in fact it was that much of a pleasurable cake and tea…read moreexperience that I'm gonna give it 5 stars! Having a rare afternoon off recently and having our oldest child in nursery, my wife and myself had a quick trip down here and treated ourselves to 3 cakes and tea between us - the salted caramel cake was amazing and the tea tasted lovely in proper china cups. You can eat in or out with just a small number of tables for the even smaller number of days of sunny weather. I hear the afternoon tea is excellent (my wife goes regularly) - I really need to get here again soon and check it out. Tea and cake FTW!

Amist the hustle and bustle of Burton Road stands a tiny cake shop, with possibly the greatest…read morename! I absolutely love this place, I keep telling everyone I know to go and try it, so they best keep making their fabulous cakes so everyone can try them. There's only about seven or eight tables, so when I say tiny, I certainly mean it. This isn't a bad thing at all (well unless it's so busy you can't grab a table), because it means the atmosphere is great. When I visted on Saturday there was a baby shower in progress, a few friends having cake and a catch up and an adorable elderly couple having cream tea and scones. It's great, certainly a place for anyone and everyone. There's a cake counter - that's right! A whole two tiered counter displaying all the homemade goodness for the day. This is great because you actually get to see what you're ordering. I've never seen any less than six different types of cake on offer!! I booked a table for my best friend and I for afternoon tea. When we arrived the table was laid out ready and we were given our afternoon tea menu. There were four sandwich choices, multiple drinks choices (you don't have to have tea) and the best bit is that you can pick two cakes! All for the amazing price of £14.50. I had their cheese and chutney sandwich, which was full of flavour, followed by a big juicy strawberry covered in dark chocolate. Next came the freshly baked scone, with clotted cream and jam of course, then finally my cake selection, a red velvet cupcake and a chunk of cookie and cream cake. So moist, yet fluffy with a side of a sugar overdose. Ha. I was so stuffed that I couldn't manage all my cake, but that's okay because they offered me a box so i could take it away with me!

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.

I have just moved to Middleton and the staff certaimly capusilated the general narrative of the…read morepeople in Middleton and that is racists. I came into their takeout today as i was fasinatied to try rheir salt and pepper wings. I waa completely ingored whilst white customers who came aftet me. It was one male server kn particular who displayed hos ingorance. I had to make myself firmly known before i was served. I would not recommend this place to anyone of coiour

I've been here a few times now for a late weekend breakfast and every time I've enjoyed it…read morethoroughly. The staff are extremely friendly, I've seen the same young guy on shift every time I've been in and he makes you feel welcome every time, although I bit sorry for him having to be at work, early doors on the weekends. They have a good staple selection of traditional breakfasts, no fancy bagels or Benedict's of any sort to be found, which is not a bad thing when they use quality local sourced ingredients. As Raam pointed out in his review they use meat from Axons of Didsbury which is only a few doors further down the road. The coffee is very good and warrants a second cup with your breakfast and they've even served my friend an ultra big size each time he's asked even though it's technically not on the menu to provide him with his caffeine fix. Although I'm not a tea drinker I have it on good authority the tea selection top notch and they provide you with all the sundries which appear necessary, a separate milk pot and extra hot water provided with your loose leaf tea. There are newspapers provided and free wi-fi for those more technological media addicts. They promote local artists work on the walls as well which is a nice touch and most of the work is for sale if anythnig takes your fancy. It's something I've seen more and more in independent cafes and it's a practice of which I thoroughly approve. The only criticism which is more about the location. The tables are on the small side and wouldn't really accommodate a large group of people, this however adds to cosy cafe feel, as long as you a friendly enough with those you are eating with. It can however be a bit of a squeeze past if people are ordering or paying at the counter as you are trying to enter or leave. All in all a solid independent cafe just of the Didsbury high street, with great staff and a pleasant community feel.

Withington is quite a student kind of area, right? From the outside, this place looked like it…read morewould be full of students eating fried eggs to get over their hangover. I was very wrong. I was in the area waiting for my car to get its MOT done at a nearby garage, and chose this café to get some breakfast. Weirdly, it was like stepping into a pub where everyone else is a local and you're very clearly not. Which was quite strange, really. Obviously they still wanted my custom nonetheless and now that I was in the café and at the counter ready to order I couldn't really turn around and leave. I was too far in. So I ordered a full English breakfast for £4.50, which isn't the cheapest ever but is a farily standard price. The ladies behind the counter were really stern, in a not smiling at me and to be honest barely even talking to me way. I didn't like this too much. Anyway, I sat down at a table and my breakfast was with me in less than five minutes. It was a really good spread, and even included black pudding which you don't get too often. Everything was hot and tasty, apart from the baked beans which were lukewarm. Aside from this, I was satisfied with my breakfast, gulped down my tea and went back to see if my car was done.

So many places offer a breakfast menu these days, that when my friend and I arrange to catch up…read moreover breakfast one morning, I thought we would be spoiled for choice. However it turns out that serving breakfast food, and actually being open at breakfast hours are two very separate issues. It transpires that many of these places don't actually open until 11am. Well that's just silly, 11am is practically lunch time. So after scouring Fallowfield for suitable breakfasts (we were trying to avoid Wetherspoons which seemed to be the only place open) we hopped on a bus down to Withington. That is where Coffee House Café rescued me from my breakfasting dilemma. Set just aside from the main high street, this place offers both outdoor and indoor seating, as well as a ridiculously cheap menu. Two crumpets will set you back a measly £1 as will a cup of tea, and a single toasted teacake is 50p. It was wonderful I tell thee, wonderful. What I also like, is that you do the spreading yourself. My teacakes arrived with butter on them, and I got to do the jam part myself, which I like, because I'm very fussy about my jam spreading (it MUST reach the edges)! The menu has pretty much everything you'd expect from a breakfast café, as well as a vegetarian option, the only thing I thought it lacked were some lighter options, such as yoghurts/fruit/muesli, that kind of thing. The atmosphere is very friendly, very animated, lots of people chattering away. There are actually two cafés on this strip, and we chose this one because it was by far the busiest, and it must have been busy for a reason. But all in all, I'm just happy that I managed to find somewhere to actually have breakfast AT breakfast-time, what a relief, I never knew it would be such hard work!

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

This place is a little further out of the centre, in Didsbury, but is well worth a mention…read more Designed much like a cosy cottage, it's a real home from home where you'll feel welcome to spend hours and hours. During the day you can lounge around here, work on your computer (as there's free internet access) or just sit back and read the paper or browse the bookshop. They offer a full range of teas and cakes as well as a homely food menu and in the evening there's wonderful music, world beers served and special events including art exhibitions. One thing I would say is the choice of teas are quite limiting. In fact i find their coffee much better. I'd still be in here every day though if I lived locally.

I love this small and simple cafe which is a sister to the same name cafe in West Didsbury. What…read morestands out about the place is the quality of the ingredients compared to any other local cafe. Everything is freshly prepared and home-made down to the burgers. The chips are delicous golden, crisp, logs cooked to perfection, apparently cooked using fresh oil very day. The breakfasts are also very good. They serve very good coffee. The prices are very cheap. And the feel is friendly, cosy and comfortable.