September 2024 by Martin Jones
Great food at great value. Couldn't recommend highly enough.
August 2024 by Alison Earnshaw
Have to say, such a lovely cafe and the best cheese scones I have ever tasted. So much so, I bought some to take home.
If visiting Ripon I would recommend this cafe ?
July 2024 by 213winifredd
Went to Ripon on a day trip. Found this lovely & friendly cafe.\nPlenty of choice & good value. We had a good chat with all the staff and because there was five of us put a chair at the end of a table for us all to sit together. Would definitely recommend another visit.
April 2024 by juliagA7971MS
Looking for a quick light lunch we headed into this little cafe - what a find. My husband had a beautifully light Victoria sponge, plenty of jam and butter cream filling, and a good portion. I ordered a ham sandwich and couldn't help but burst out laughing when it arrived; it was enormous, generous to a fault, lovely bread and beautiful ham with no stinting on the quantity of ham, or the quality. Really good value, but do not expect delicate little sandwiches with the crusts cut off - this isn't that sort of venue!! Sadly my photo doesn't do justice to the sandwich...
April 2024 by herbofgrace
On a rainy day in the Easter week we found this lovely cafe, right on the market square near Ripon?s fabulous cathedral. There?s a bit of choice in this location but we had good advice from locals while paying for parking just outside in the Square. Very friendly staff, excellent coffee, and a surprisingly fresh choice of food at very reasonable prices. For lunch my husband enjoyed a BLT sandwich, and I had a brilliant smoked salmon and mozzarella quiche made by the chef. Beautifully presented! Highly recommended.
March 2024 by paulbL2215YG
We were in Ripon whilst caravanning in the area and wanted some lunch. There are loads of places in the square but we like to support the local businesses where we can, and the Cafe on the Square had a good rating from the local council. \nWe were in about 12:15 and managed to get seated in the window. A pleasant young lady came to clean the table and brought us menus. We both had Paninis and a pot of tea, ordering and paying at the counter.\nWhen the food came, it was well presented, and tasted as good as it looked. The pot of tea was spectacular ??.. a proper pot of decent tea, we must have had 6 cups from it, and we were asked if we wanted more hot water.\nAll in all a great local Cafe with good service, tasty food and a cracking cup of tea.
March 2024 by rachism
We came because the lady who used to run Cafe tempo now works here. \nI thought the interior was nice, roomy and light. Good view of the market square. There weren't that many tables so we could hear other conversations.\n\nWe were asked to go to the counter to order and pay. We assumed this must be the normal process. I prefer it when people come and take your order - There weren't that many tables.\n\nReceived our drinks. My can of Sprite was dirty and so was my glass which made me feel icky about the rest of the utensils.\n\nFood was nice apart from the coleslaw which seemed bought in cheap. I don't think there was a children's menu - we weren't offered one.\n\nThen as we left we were accused of not paying by the person we had paid! When we said we had paid, she gave the lady who worked at cafe Tempo a funny look as though we were lying. I believe they were related. Ruined it for me. Eventually they said it was fine and we left.\n\nThey certainly need to be more organised. It was so embarrassing and offensive. It's the first time that's ever happened to me! Not even an apology.
February 2024 by Mary Gilmore
A lovely warm welcome, only popped in for coffee what a warm cosy place havnt been before made to feel welcome will be back again ?
February 2024 by Jack Morgan
We went to have breakfast here today. We have been to this cafe a few times over the 2 years as we are visiting Ripon and it has been pleasing everytime.Our cappuccinos were brilliant, as they should be with enough foam to milk ratio and they were, we were also asked how strong we liked our coffee which is a huge plus so thank you.My partner was really craving a cheese toastie from here as that's what he had last year at breakfast in our last visit to Ripon. Now I know menus change over time and that is understandable and instead settled on a bacon sandwich.This was no problem, but I just thought the response he received was a tad abrupt. We aren't overly sensitive to knock down a star for this but I just thought we'd mention as we were customers in the past and that the rest of the service today was brilliant.I had poached eggs on avocado toast, and I really enjoyed it. I think the chef came out and asked me if I enjoyed it, and I did tell him yes. However I'm quite shy so I couldn't say exactly how much I loved it so instead I am going to leave a good review for you here and for making our visit to Ripon lovely.We will continue to visit for good when we visit Ripon as it always makes our day.Thank you so much.
December 2023 by Paul Watson
Great coffee and staff. Good teacakes but menu is expensive and no lesser options.
December 2023 by tony grantham
Really nice cafe.Cosy with good food.Congratulations to the new owner on making it so nice.
October 2023 by K9499VTmariab
I will always try and support small businesses and that's why my friends and me chose to go here. You get what you pay for. Nothing wrong with the food, though not impressed with the service.
October 2023 by darryl counsell
Arrived 2.06pm, 4 of us in our party, looking for a good eaterie for a bit of late lunch. Checked before entering to make sure we weren't late for food service. Got settled down with menu's ready to order with anticipation of someting tasty, a waiteress approached with pen and pad in hand, only to be told 'Sorry NOT serving food as we are closing early today'. Thats fine and dandy understandable circumstances beyond their control etc.... It was the fact that the waitresses face could have cracked stone on the spot when our group stated we didn't want to stay and order any drinks....then marched she off. Bad customer service, a smile costs nothing.
October 2023 by sarahjpinkerton1970
Gorgeous little cafe Beautiful coffee lovely attentive service Young man serving singing while working Great value and really good food I had a goats cheese toasties and hubby had cheese and onion on toast We will be back
September 2023 by Barry Foster
Lovely little cafe, scones could be a bit bigger.