Haxby Bakehouse in York

Just popped in for coffee and a soft drink with my daughter. Then got chatting to others. Coffee was lovely, and we felt welcome, even after we finished our drinks.

Little cafe with bakery. The almond frangipane tart was made with lard which is not my taste for a sweet cake. The coffee was served with cold milk in thick cups, unfortunately it was almost cold. The seating is a bit hippy style and rustic. Bit on the expensive side for what is is.

Prompt and efficient staff. Impeccable place. Amazing products. Bread is the best you can get in Haxby, and somewhere top 3 in York. A generous cheese toast, it was wonderful. Chocolate au pain brought me flashbacks from France, it was perfect. Cinnamon rolls-too much sugar sprinkled but other than that delicious.

Lovely food and bakes but pricey.

This is a great little shop in our village

The Bakehouse is the highlight of Haxby, I am lucky enough to live in the village so I buy all my bread and treats here and it's a great deli too. They deliver every time, I have never been disappointed. We are incredibly lucky to have them, thanks to Tina and the team!

Coffee and croissant really nice. However have been here twice now and felt uncomfortable on both occasions. Staff abrupt and rude, seems to have this ‘high class’ opinion of itself and if your face doesn’t fit they make it known. Despite advertising themselves as a dog friendly establishment I was quite rudely told to get my dog off the outside bench “because people need to sit there”

Fantastic bakehouse great staff

Really lovely bakery. Everything made local. Food was really tasty. It's not fast food/service, but staff all lovely and atmosphere really chilled out you don't mind waiting.

What a gem of a place. Food is absolutely fab and the deli has so much choice of unusual finds

We disposed of the inedible sandwich bought at the Haxby baker (in Haxby) today for fear of returning, after being served by dithering unhappy staff. The coffee and cake was ok. It appears the shop is run for the benefit of the staff not the customers. Never again.

I got my fix of wonderful sourdough bread and pastries

Great as always love the coffee always ready for a chat would highly recommend xx

Cosy little tables perfect for a quick coffee with my sister.

I LOVE Haxby! Is that kind of place where you are immediately charged with good energy. If you visit Haxby Bakehouse make sure you try Tina's sandwiches 🥪 (You'll thank me later😁).

Delicious food and pleasant staff. Their bread is also served in Theatre Royal York.

Oh it's been way too long since I last visited but then I'm not living in the area! There's been a bit of a change as they've gained a lovely seating area and sell some fabulous coffee... You can still buy all the great bread pastry too! Living down south I'm discovering how many bakers have been inspired by this place 😁👍

Visit here every week and always a warm welcome. They always have a lovely selection of cakes and their bread is excellent, really recommend a visit.

Discovered a little gem here. Lovely bakery and deli. Had coffee and cake in-house. Service friendly and very good. Left with an armful of goodies. Convenient wine shop a few doors down too.😃

Always make time for a stop over at Haxby Bakehouse. Their bread is amazing whether it’s pain de levian sourdough or focaccia, their sandwiches are to die for and their freshly baked pastries cannot be beaten. They also stock a large variety of independent and top quality pastas, oils, pantry staples and beautiful Spanish crockery. Plus, their cafe is dog friendly. Every woofer I have come across there is very well behaved, and so are their humans. All of their staff make everyone feel very welcome, humans and hounds in equal measure. It’s great actually to see that many places now in Haxby are dog friendly; a stop over at Haxby Bakehouse for a coffee and pastry, bread for home plus a treat for the woofer…we’ll be back.

Just visitor lunch and whilst the food is great will not return. Unsure why dogs are permitted off the lead to roam around, on an extended lead to approach other customers, allowed to sit up on the benches on the rugs. Don’t want to sit and eat where a dogs backside has been….and allowed to be carried around the shop and in close contact with uncovered cakes on the top of the counter. Young staff member just shrugged her shoulders when asked about it. Management - wash your rugs and stop selfish idiots doing this in your establishment it’s disgusting :(

Tried the bread before and today bought the seasonal Bakewell tart and oh my word, it’s to die for! The crust was crumbly and and buttery, the jam wasn’t overfilled, the almonds toasted evenly, the main tart part very moist and airy light kinda like a sponge!!! Even better that it wasn’t too sweet either - about the same sweetness as a Victoria sponge with crème and jam that you get from fridge supermarket ones. Could’ve had another slice but watching my calories. The best Bakewell tart I’ve ever had! Will be back again to try the other items!! Staff very friendly and welcoming.

Bakery, it bakes stuff you like

Love this shop..best bread we ever tasted…staff brilliant, helpful & always smiling..pastries delicious..cakes fabulous…coffee best in Haxby…love the little cafe…wish it was bigger outside…cheese & meats vast choice…great little shop with big ideas 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

Extremely rude woman behind the counter. Didn’t even acknowledge us or say hello. Asked a question and got a filthy look and a rude response. Ended up not buying anything and walking out. How people think they can run a business with that attitude is beyond me! Won’t be spending my money in there.

Nice coffee,beautiful sarnies shame we haven't been before now but will definitely be back! It's a real treat!!

Best bread in town/ pastries also excellent

love this bakery! the rhubarb pastry is 🔝

My experience with Haxby Bakehouse is rather complicated. If you want good sourdough bread, then you cannot go wrong here. If you want a limited selection of deli items, you cannot go wrong. If you want good bread, go no father. However, there are a few things I don't like. Their pain au chocolat are always burnt. If you ask them about it, they will tell you that this is how they do it in Paris, that Pain Au Chocolat should be a deep brown colour. But their pain au chocolat are burned. I have been a pastry chef for 6 years. I attended Cordon Bleu's Patisserie course and know a lot about pastries and desserts. The French, as Haxby Bakery say, always bake their bread and pastries darker than we do in the UK, and this is 100% amazing. They have more flavour and better texture. However, the pain au Chocolat herr are regularly black, and therefore burned. I LOVE Haxby Bakehouse, but they need to understand when to take the PaC out of the oven. Apart from that, their bread is PHENOMENAL- 5 STARS WITHOUT A DOUBT. But their pastries leave me wanting. Please do not take this review as a warning not to go there. If you're reading this and are wondering whether or not you should go there and give them your money, I 100% recommend going there and buying some sourdough and some amazing-quality deli-products, including their figs. But just get on the eye out for baked goods that have not been baked in the correct way (i.e pain au chocolates that are burned). Otherwise, I LOVE this place. Some of the best sourdough in the area BY FAR. ALSO, IF YOU EVER GO INTO HAXBY BAKEHOUSE, ASK THEM TO RE-INTRPDUCE AND MAKE SWEDISH FRIENDSHIP BREAD AGAIN. Their Sweidsh Friendship Bread is the best bread I've ever had in my entire life of exploring different quisines, including HAUTE CUISINE. it is the best bread in the world. PLEASE PESTER THEM UNTIL THEY DO JT AGAIN

Nice place to sit and have a coffee. Baker of some repute.

Went to the counter to order, the staff didn't even acknowledge us, we had to ask if they're serving, after starting to order they said we don't know if they have what we want, rather than ask the other staff there he tried to charge us for everything except the food, the attitude of the staff here is terrible. It's not my fault you don't know if you have something on the menu, so don't roll your eyes at me, go and ask. After around 5 minutes of trying to order and getting attitude from both members of staff we decided to go elsewhere. The entire time it felt like we were bothering them by coming in to get a food. Good to see the other reviews saying the staff are miserable, not just a bad day!

Had bread from here before, which always loved - but found shop by accident. Bought three gorgeous cheeses - really reasonable compared to other deli’s- could have easily got more! Incredibly friendly and helpful staff - wished there was more places like this!

Food is really really lovely and a nice range of local foods! Shame about the impolite customer service. Really off putting being rudely shouted at across a full store of people.

Just updating this review as HB has blown my mind this morning. Just had a chocolate and black cherry cruffin. Think of a muffin shaped croissant filled with chocolate and cherries. Gorgeous. The cheese and ham croissants and seeded sourdough bread are the usual awesome quality but I love trying their new creations! Keep on experimenting!

Consistently great range of bread and pastries.

A great selection inside and some delicious pies. The curried mango and pork pies are incredible.

These guys are true bread warriors. They know good bread, appreciate good bread and dont compromise on how its made or the ingredients . They also do a fantastic morning bun and stock an excellent selection of artisan cheeses (they buy in). This place supplies 5 star restaurants with bread. You will not find better.

Your bread is awesome your pastry delightful but I'm now so fed up of rude service from female I won't be coming again. Smiling is not obligatory, interaction not obligatory but not a thank you in sight, didn't give me chance to complete order before totalling up. There was only me in the shop so no need to rush me. She was sending staff home as 'nothing doing' so hardly busy. One less customer to worry about

Amazing range of sourdough and other tasty breads. Great coffee and good service

They were very friendly and helpful to me

Excellent quality sourdough and cheeses. Trying to figure out how to make a weekly visit.

Awesomely delicious food. My favourite bakery in the world.

Awesome local bakery. Lots of delicious breads and baked goods, different cheeses and other deli goods. You're lucky to have this in the centre of the village.

Amazing food, lovely people. Worth a detour if you’re in York but try and get there early, in the afternoon often sold out… not a bad thing they’re just that good.

We visited after tasting their lovely bread for so long when visiting our local cafés in York. Unfortunately the worker was really rude, understandably it’s only 2 at a time but she kept insisting one of us go in alone when someone else was in the shop, even though we repeatedly said we wanted to go in and look together. Very weird and rude energy. Bread’s fire though ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Well over priced and served by cruella de vil. Made people fell not welcome at all. And my cheese toasty was stone cold in the middle.

Brownies - absolutely delicious! 😍

An amazing place that I got to visit on Tuesday when walking the Ebor Way. Very friendly staff and a wide selection of temptations. Would highly recommend the sausage roll, the rhubarb and stem ginger bun, and the foccacia. A place to definitely seek out.

The sourdough bread is truly amazing and they sell a good range of deli typed products. Not quite as keen on some of the other baked goods, that said the morning buns are delicious.

Expensive but worth it! You pay for what you get in life. Top quality food

We have been coming to Haxby Bakehouse for a few years. We first heard about Phil (owner) when we went to the Cake & Bake show a number of years ago and he was presenting a session on sourdough. The bread and cakes/pastries are always fresh and tasty. There is such a fab choice that it’s hard to choose each time we visit!! With the addition of Bakehouse Barn, it’s taken the bakery to another level! It’s not often that we come as we live on the other side of York but when we do, it’s such a treat! We ordered this beautiful box of treats via the Bakehouse Barn to celebrate Mother’s Day! Can’t wait to try them!! Also stopped off for a quick brunch of Rhubarb & Custard danish (for me) and a pepperoni pizza toastie (for the hubby). All washed down with a lovely cup of coffee!!

Great bread and cakes!!! always a favourite in our house

People who care about their products, always a pleasure to find, excellent bread good cheeses

Best bakery in York! Excellent sausage roll and some great Scandi cream cakes. We went back the next day for more!

Best bread in Yorkshire 😁 Very tasty and always fresh 👍 It reminds me of the flavors of my childhood when my dad had his bakery in Poland. Thank you 😊

Simply the best. Nothing more to be said!

Went on a one day bread making course and made about 20 different loaves, from bloomers to foccacia, fantastic day and great fun, would recommend if you can get on it....

Excellent bread ruined by the most miserable rude women serving in the shop.

One star too many; read on to find out why ... On 11.03.20 at 17:00 I was reversing out of a parking bay; there was no other vehicle was to my left, right or behind me. I was in an established reverse manoeuvre and so I had right of way, yet a van man appeared and did not stop to allow me to continue the manoeuvre; I had to stop abruptly causing me to lurch forward, even though I was reversing slowly. I emailed Haxby Bakehouse, for it was their van man who failed to stop. Lockdown occurred on 23.03.20, ie 13 days after this incident. Prior to Lockdown, I did not receive a reply, which is a poor reflection upon Haxby Bakehouse. On 08.07, I emailed Haxby Bakehouse for a second occasion, which did prompt a reply. Email exchange with Haxby Bakehouse was quite dreadful, particularly, as the woman with whom I was emailing alleged that “I would however like to inform you that I have spent many years in HR dealing with CUSTOMER complaints!”. If Haxby Bakehouse woman did indeed work within HR, then she ought to know that the first thing you do is to issue an email acknowledging receipt and that the matter would be investigated; she did not do so. Why I persisted with my emails is twofold as Haxby Bakehouse woman failed: (i) To acknowledge my email, choosing to resort to passive aggressive behaviour. (ii) To accept that her driver could have caused an accident, for which she would have been liable Oh so many drivers have increasingly poor driving skills. They might choose to tailgate, jump red lights, or fail to stop when another driver has right of way as they are reversing. Last year, I reversed parked in Haxby Co-Op car park. When I returned to the car a very kind lady came over saying that a female driver had driven into the bay next to my car, yet had scratched the passenger panel, reversed and simply driven off! This very kind lady had made a note of the vehicle registration and had reported the incident with the police. I had no alternative other than to record the incident with my insurance company. When renewing my car insurance there was an increase, despite my car being correctly positioned in the parking bay, stationary and that I was nowhere near the car when the other woman driver scratched my car! I contacted the other driver, a GP!, who said “oh, I didn’t think you’d notice a little scratch”; her attitude was appalling for she simply did not care. This “little scratch” cost the GP £500, at which point she said “that’ll teach me” You see Haxby Bakehouse woman, the reason why your driver (who clearly demonstrated his own impatience and poor driving skills), who deliberately failed to stop and allow me to complete my reverse manoeuvre is of concern. However, of equal concern is your attitude, which was quite dreadful, bearing in mind you had (allegedly), “that I have spent many years in HR” … mmm

Staff are friendly and very helpful The food is tasty and worth a visit

What a surprise, there I was, busy high power hosing my driveway to the garage, when, in my consentration, I hear a voice calling my name, thinking it was only in my head, what with my wife being in isolation after a flight from America etc, but the call came again and there was Phil from the Haxby Bakehouse, what a surprise. Here he was with goodies for us, thank you, thank you once again for your generosity Phil lad. Brian Robinson.

Excellent bread and cakes, thank you for our delivery during lockdown.

Placed my order over email, they have manually confirmed it and looking forward to some really tasty bread on Saturday morning! Keep up the good work :)

Awesome bread, best I've ever had and loads of different ones to choose from.

Amazing bread, absolutely love this place

Everything about this Bakehouse is fabulous. Local produce, homemade, bread is vegan, staff lovely and helpful, everything tastes fabulous. Support local business

The bread is lovely 5 star. But that miserable lady put me off coming here for years. I have to shop here now as the other good bread shop near me just do markets now. Would be good to get some welcoming staff though. I know a lot of people who are put off by her. Its quite simple however good your baking is people will be put off coming and look elsewhere to buy if your staff are awful, rude and ratty... so expect to not just come away with bread but a bad mood too.

The bread is just amazing here. What more can I say!

A good shop also friendly staff

Perfect,l enjoy what ever I get there.

The best bread ever. Great cakes & other goodies.

Great food and coffee but agree with the other comments.. The lady behind the counter needs to do a course in customer service. I've been many times and she's always unwelcoming.

Fab bread, need more bakers dedicated to great quality home made bread!

Lovely establishment, excellent products and really helpful and kind staff, well worth a visit you won't be disappointed!

Excellent place, with the best fresh produce, good service and very friendly staff.

Delicious fresh bread wrapped in paper, nice selection of other bakes goods and friendly staff.

Food is very nice but I've been in this bakery twice and on both occasions I have felt unwelcome by the miserable woman serving behind the counter which leaves a bad taste in my mouth. It costs nothing to greet customers with a genuine smile and hello at the very least. I even tried to engage her in a light hearted conversation and she just blanked me. The shop has been empty on both occasions so it's not been because she's been rushed off her feet. Not impressed.

Absolutely amazing rustic sourdough

Haxby Bakehouse is rightly very highly regarded in the local community. The deli section is good, the food is great, the bakes are fantastic and the customer service is second to none. One of Haxbys little gems.

Brilliant staff bread coffee and sandwich

The best bread and baked goods for miles around (I can't name a better one in N Yorks). Friendly staff, great coffee and other, locally sourced produce. Croissants and pain au choc as good as they come. Worth a mini pilgrimage.

Yummy sarny. Delicious bread...

Probably the best sourdough in North Yorkshire, fantastic pastries, a great collection of deli products & staff who make every visit a joy. Truly a local gem

Sandwiches, bread and food always excellent, staff really friendly and attentive. Also try the smoked garlic, it's life changing!

Excellent bakery with good choice of bread baked onsite. Even has Swedish vänskaps bröd (but written with a instead of ä, but we can forgive that!). Excellent!

Excellent Bakery at end of village.Always a good choice of bread available.

Wonderful artisan sourdough bread

Amazing bread and hot cross buns!! Plus a whole host of baked products. A artisan baker of the highest order.

Great local business, offering the best bread you will find possibly in the 🇬🇧. And the cakes are just as good! Friendly staff members too.

This is an artisan bakery and delicatessen specialising in real bread, does not supply gluten free products.

Fabulous food - especially the bread and cakes BUT very rude lady serving- condescending back chat on a number of occasions (to me and to others) which is unnecessary. I have been a regular customer for years but as a result of an unnecessary discussion about a piece of cheese that was 60% over the weight I asked for i will unfortunately no longer be going there. All she had to say was ok sir I'll cut you a smaller piece- not grunt and argue that it is difficult to get the accurate weight etc. Customer service is so important in that type of business- she has totally wrong attitude for front facing. A real shame as I my partner and I loved the food from there.

Friendly staff and a wide selection of delicious bread and deli items, quickly became a Saturday morning staple for us!

Good luck if you can actually get a sarnie from this place! What a joke! No bread, no fillings... no point!