Laynes Espresso

Laynes is a coffee house on New Station Street, immediately outside Leeds railway station, and it opened in 2011 into a city that had almost nothing of the kind. Fifteen years later it is the address people give when asked where the coffee is, and the restaurant is direct about what it set out to do: give Leeds a place that paid absolute attention to the quality of two ingredients, coffee and possibly milk, in a room where somebody would explain them.

It has grown past that. There is a kitchen now, and the house claims some of the best breakfast and lunch in the city centre — a claim it can make because most of its competition is a chain. There is a Laynes bakery, and beans are sold through an online shop for anyone who wants to take the coffee home.

Opening is early and long: half past seven in the morning to seven at night on weekdays, from eight on Saturday, and a shorter Sunday from nine to four. Tables can be booked, which for a coffee shop is unusual and says something about how busy it gets.

New Station Street runs from the station entrance into the city, so this is the first door you pass arriving in Leeds by train and the last one leaving.

You will find Laynes at 16 New Station Street, Leeds LS1 5DL.

• Cafe
• Vegetarian
• Breakfast
• Lunch
• Takeout
• Wi-Fi

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New Station Street 16, Leeds, LS1 5DL, United Kingdom

Mon 07:30–19:00; Tue 07:30–19:00; Wed 07:30–19:00; Thu 07:30–19:00; Fri 07:30–19:00; Sat 08:00–19:00; Sun 09:00–16:00

+447828823189 · www.laynesespresso.co.uk

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