Appleby's Hearty English Refreshment

This is Didsbury's best coffee. A strong extra shot americano. Smooth and essential to start my day. The cakes are excellent and home made, and the music is unobtrustive and intelligent. Sometimes service can be a bit slow, but with the provision of daily papers (the only place in Didsbury to provide these), unless you are really hurrying, this is a great choice. lovely Eccles cakes, chocolate cake, excellent fruit cake and the sausage butties are the best with sausages from Axons of Didsbury.

What a great cafe. I've lived in didsbury village for 4 years and sadly hadn't realise this place was just around the corner. The food, the service and the vibe of the place are all spot on. The prices are excellent and I can't believe how good the quality was. I'd suggest you try: The full English, homemade lemonade and their cookies.

Surprised at the rather unforgiving negative reviews here as we had a great experience at this cafe. The food was high quality and fresh, the cakes were home made and very good. The loose leaf tea blend was great, which isn't always the case - I can't comment on the coffee, but nothing to worry about if you're a tea drinker. Staff were attentive and jazzy music played in the background at a pleasant level. We came here as the (busier) place next door seemed to have an attitude problem (staff greeted us then ignored us), place had a slightly up its own backside feel. We were glad we moved as we had a much better experience here at Appleby's and even bought some yummy fruit cake to take away.