Cafe Barthez

Café Barthez is a super lil’ café set back off the main road on a little side street in Pudsey, that leads to a Children’s playground, a perfect location for mums and their children to have lunch in a fairly safe area (no busy roads outside the café).
The food is not cordon bleu, but delicious everyday food that doesn’t require a mortgage to enjoy, I have eaten here on several occasions and have always been totally satisfied with the meal served up.
Staff are fabulous and very willing to help make your visit a special one, do not be afraid to ask for specific items/​ingredients or your food cooked in a certain way they are so helpful it wouldn’t be too much trouble.
If you find yourself in Pudsey for the day or just on a shopping trip to your local shops give this lil’ café a visit its a diamond in the rough.
Thank you all

This is usually the kind of place that I’d be tempted to ignore for a more quaint experience, but in all honesty I was desperate for something to eat and so couldn’t be too choosy. I must say, I’m glad I went for it. Inside the décor is a little confusing, it’s loosely dressed up as a kind of Mediterranean style café, where really all we’re talking about here is a glorified greasy spoon.
The staff are pretty friendly, they seemed bemused by my huge Sony Alpha camera and made a few jokes about my taking their picture. Service was quick and efficient, I ordered a large bacon sandwich, which arrived in 5 minutes, and it was humungous! The bread was essentially a gigantic teacake shaped bun and I had three healthy bits of bacon inside. Yum. It was awesome. The cup of tea was a little more of a sorry state of affairs, clearly a tescos own tea-​bag or some other non-​Yorkshire-​non-​Twinnings effort, which wasn’t quite so pleasing. But then, I am a *total* tea snob.
Amongst other breakfast style greasy offerings this place also does breakfast cereals, those mini children’s sized kelloggs packets in fact, little cakes, spam sandwiches (totally needed to mention those — eugh!) and a special children’s choice of chicken nuggets/​fish fingers/​sausages with chips, beans and a mini juice! I might suggest this as a ‘treat’ rather than a staple, but then any decent adult would surely think the same. You can even grab a roast here on Sunday for £4.50.
Honest, decent and definitely the cheap cheerful option, I really enjoyed my little visit here. Can’t say it’ll be here every time I visit Pudsey, but not a bad place at all.