Independent businesses in Otley

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Restaurant · Otley

A Casa di Alessia is an Italian café and restaurant at Unit 5, Orchard Gate, Otley. Its own description sets out what it makes: Roman pizza by the square slice, calzoni, salads and Italian cakes, to eat in or take away, with the dough given 24 hours of natural rising and built on Italian ingredients and fresh local vegetables. Fresh pasta is made traditionally on Fridays and Saturdays, and Italian store-cupboard products are sold alongside the food. It is listed as serving breakfast, brunch, lunch and dinner, with outdoor seating in the courtyard, and it carries a 4.9-star Tripadvisor rating from around 143 reviews.

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Café · Otley

Blackmoor Dining and Events is a catering and events company based at Westbourne House on Westbourne Close, Otley, which it operates as a venue for hire. Companies House records Blackmoor Dining and Events Limited, incorporated in April 2024, with Danny Collins and Solos Psarias as its directors. The work is weddings, celebrations — birthdays, anniversaries, engagements, baby showers, retirements, naming ceremonies — funeral catering and corporate events. Buffet menus are priced per head, from a gourmet tier at £9.50 to an executive tier at £17.50, and tasting menus are built around Indian, Asian, Italian and Greek dishes. It also runs a cookery school and a takeaway service, and marks vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free options throughout its menus.

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Grocer · Otley

Chevin Service Station is a petrol station and convenience shop on Gay Lane, Otley. The forecourt carries BP fuel branding and the shop trades under the SPAR symbol group. It is run by Chevin Service Station Ltd, a company registered at the site itself, whose sole active director, Tariq Nazir, has held the appointment since August 2013. The SPAR store listing shows a fresh meat counter and fresh fruit and vegetables alongside the usual convenience range, plus Costa Coffee and a National Lottery terminal. It is listed as opening seven days a week from 6am.

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Off-licence · Otley

Chez Vin is an independent off-licence and wine and spirit merchant at 24 New Market, Otley. It stocks wine, gin, rum and other spirits for taking away rather than drinking on the premises, and runs its own site at chezvin.co.uk. It carries a 4.9-star Google rating.

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Café · Otley

Coast to Country Cafe is a small family-run café at Bay Horse Court, off Manor Square in Otley. It serves hot and cold food, cakes and milkshakes made with ice cream, with breakfast and brunch the main trade, and it takes collection orders from local businesses. The café describes itself as autism friendly and has set the room up accordingly: low lighting, a sensory corner for children, wobble boards for restless children and divided plates for selective eaters. Dogs are welcome and the space can be hired for private events. It carries a 4.9-star Google rating.

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Pottery & craft studio · Otley

House of Pottery is a paint-your-own pottery and wellbeing studio at 65 Bondgate, Otley. Companies House records House of Pottery Limited at that address, with Michelle Marie Jones as its director, appointed in January 2025. Alongside the main ground-floor studio there is a sensory room upstairs for neurodivergent children and adults, a club for teenagers with SEND, and term-time classes for home-educated children. It also runs Beyond 19, a programme with Green Meadows Academy — part of the Wellspring Academy Trust — giving post-16 students with SEND work experience and life-skills training. Those students staff the Beyond 19 Cafe, which serves pizza, toasties and cakes on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday lunchtimes. The studio additionally hosts parties and corporate sessions and supplies Technology Pause boxes to workplaces.

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Restaurant · Otley

Il Vicoletto is an Italian café and restaurant at 9 Mercury Row, Otley. The Visit Otley listing describes it as serving Roman cuisine with a chef from Rome, working to menus that change with the season and covering both traditional and contemporary dishes, with food served through the day as well as in the evening. It cooks from scratch rather than buying in, opens for lunch at weekends and for dinner on a handful of evenings a week, and carries a 4.7-star Google rating from around 95 reviews.

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Takeaway · Otley

Jewel of Mumbai is an Indian takeaway and restaurant at 42 Bondgate, Otley. Two companies are registered at that address: Jewel of Mumbai Otley Ltd, incorporated in August 2024, and Jewel of Mumbai Cuisine Ltd, incorporated in June 2026. Its own description covers biryanis, tandoori dishes, curries and freshly made naan, with charcoal-grilled and clay-oven items among the starters and separate vegetarian, non-vegetarian and seafood starter sections. It opens late afternoon and evening only, takes orders through its own website as well as the main delivery platforms, and works on a bring-your-own-alcohol basis. It carries a 4.8-star Google rating from around 264 reviews.

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Grocer · Otley

Like Nana Did is a zero-waste refill grocery at 14 Orchard Gate, Otley. It works on a weigh-and-pay basis: customers bring their own containers, have them weighed empty, fill them from the dispensers and pay for the contents. The range covers dried goods — pulses, pasta, rice, flour, sugar, nuts, dried fruit, cereals, herbs and spices — household refills including washing-up liquid, laundry liquid, fabric softener, shampoo and body wash, and plastic-free items such as bamboo toothbrushes and glass containers. The shop''s own account traces the idea to a grandmother''s refill shop in Urmston, and says its founder gave up work as a university maths tutor to open it. The Otley Chamber listing names Jo Lyons as the owner and records the shop winning Best Newcomer 2020 at the Otley Business Awards.

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Takeaway · Otley

Maypole Fisheries is a fish and chip shop and restaurant at 28 Cross Green, Otley, with around 34 covers for eating in alongside the takeaway counter. Companies House records Maypole Fisheries Limited, incorporated in January 2010, with Eleanor Joan Hodnett and Lee Duncan Hodnett as directors from that date. The shop fries in beef dripping and makes its own batter. It says its fish comes from sustainably managed grounds and is frozen at sea, and its potatoes from local suppliers, with the variety changing through the season; mushy peas are soaked overnight and cooked fresh each day. Gluten-free frying and homemade puddings are on the menu, and the shop is a member of the National Federation of Fish Fryers.

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Café · Otley

Mr Blinok Pancake House is a café at Unit 12, Orchard Gate, Otley. Pancakes are the core of what it does, sweet and savoury — golden syrup and Lotus Biscoff among the sweet ones, a full English version among the savoury — served alongside paninis and coffee. It opens seven days a week and carries a 4.9-star Google rating from around 102 reviews.

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Café · Otley

O''Deli is a café and delicatessen at 4 New Market, Otley, part of the family-run O''Deli Group, which its own site says was started in 2015 by Tony and Kay. Kay has coeliac disease, and the kitchen is built around that: all the cakes are naturally gluten-free, soups, stews, quiches and Yorkshire pudding wraps are made gluten-free as standard, and bread and wraps come in both versions. Baking is done off-site at the group''s separate Bagels & Bakery on Market Street, which is entirely gluten-free, and non-gluten-free bread is toasted on a dedicated grill in the café to keep the two apart. The room is small — one table and five stools indoors, with six tables outside in good weather — and it opens Monday to Saturday. The same group runs O''Fresh greengrocers and the Otley Tap House.

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Restaurant · Otley

An independent coffee shop and kitchen in Westgate Arcade, off Westgate in Otley. It trades as Olive & Fig Coffee Shop & Kitchen Ltd, a company incorporated in October 2023 and registered at the arcade address, with Erin May listed at Companies House as its director. The kitchen cooks breakfast and brunch dishes, French toast among them, along with flatbreads, afternoon teas and cakes.

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Pottery & craft studio · Otley

A paint-your-own pottery studio at 2b Boroughgate in Otley, run by Laura Turner with Jade Brabiner as manager. Visitors choose from hundreds of blank ceramic pieces, paint them in the studio and leave them to be glazed and fired in the on-site kiln. Sessions start at £10 and there is no separate studio fee. Alongside pottery painting it takes baby hand and foot imprints and 3D castings, pet paw prints, birthday parties and craft workshops, and it sells paint-at-home kits. It closes on Mondays and keeps Sundays for parties and private bookings. The studio describes itself as having more than ten years'' experience and reports winning the Otley Business Award three times. It was among the nominees for best place for children and young people at the 2024 Child Friendly Leeds Awards.

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Grocer · Otley

An independent delicatessen and grocer at 14 Boroughgate in Otley, which describes itself as an authentic Italian deli. Simon and Becky started in November 2007 with a fruit and vegetable stall on Otley market, trading there and at Yeadon, opened the shop in July 2021 and gave up the market stalls in February 2023 to concentrate on it. Stock runs to fresh produce, store-cupboard goods and speciality items from abroad, with a deli counter making food to order and hampers made up through the year. The shop is owned by Simon and Becky, who also run it day to day and are, in its own words, at the premises "hands on". It opens seven days a week, from 6am on weekdays.

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Pub · Otley

A craft beer bar at 9 Orchard Gate in Otley, in premises previously occupied by Groove Pad & Vinyl. It opened on 3 November 2022 as a joint venture between the Curious Hop off-licence on New Market, since closed, and Major Tom''s Social of Harrogate. CAMRA''s survey records three handpumps of changing cask beer, mostly from northern brewers, and ten keg lines running to sours, double IPAs and stouts from British and European breweries, with gluten-free and vegan options among them. Bottles and cans are sold to drink in or take away, and growlers are filled. Food is limited to toasties and sausage rolls. There is a pavement seating area outside, an upstairs room with board games and a dartboard, step-free access and an accessible toilet.

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Newsagent · Grocer · Otley

The Gills News is an independent newsagent at 10 The Gills, Otley, north-west of Leeds. It occupies the only retail unit on its street: address records for the postcode otherwise list houses, flats and maisonettes, home to around 90 residents at the 2021 census, which places the shop among homes rather than in Otley''s shopping streets. Trade directory listings place it under newspapers and magazines, newspaper deliveries and magazine deliveries, and the business describes itself as offering "the best newspaper and magazines deliveries". It therefore runs delivery rounds as well as selling over the counter.

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Pub · Otley

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Pub · Otley

An independent bar at 12 Kirkgate in Otley, trading as The Rookery Bar Ltd, a company incorporated in June 2018 and registered at that address. Gregory Silverwood is listed at Companies House as its director. It occupies two floors with a beer garden behind, and the upstairs room is used for live music. CAMRA''s survey records two cask ales, two lagers and a cider on draught alongside a selection of cocktails and spirits. The bar takes function bookings, admits children until 9pm and welcomes dogs.

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Clothing · Otley

A clothes shop in New Inn Court, Otley. The business was incorporated as Thesauri Clothing Limited in February 2026, registered at 7 New Inn Court and listed at Companies House for the retail sale of clothing in specialised stores, with Riley Vickers as its sole director. It stocks a mix of vintage clothing and current styles — polo shirts, jumpers and jackets, along with hats, bags and shoes — and says each piece is chosen for "quality, comfort, and everyday style".

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Butcher · Otley

A butcher on Market Place in Otley, trading as Earnest Weegmanns. Its own account dates the shop to 1869, when it was opened by W Weegmann, a German immigrant, and says it passed to the Smithson family in 1969, who hold it still. Pies, sausage rolls and pork pies are made in the shop''s own bakery, alongside black pudding, sausages, burgers and locally sourced cuts. The counter runs from raw meat through to a hot section selling warm pork pies, hot roast sandwiches and prepared dishes such as lasagne, and the pie range extends to a ploughman''s pie of ham, cheese and pickle and a Laird pie of chicken, pork and cranberry. It reports winning Best Burger in Yorkshire and, in earlier years, Best Black Pudding in Yorkshire from the Confederation of Yorkshire Butchers Councils.