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Independent restaurants in Leeds
There are 123 independence-checked Restaurant businesses in Leeds, across 16 areas we cover: Armley, Bramley, Chapel Allerton, Cross Gates, Guiseley, Harehills, Headingley, Horsforth, Kirkstall, Meanwood, Morley, Oakwood, Otley, Pudsey, Wetherby and Yeadon. Each has a recorded independence decision; none is part of a chain or franchise.
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13 Noodles
Restaurant · Morley
13 Noodles trades from Morley Market, the indoor market hall on Queen Street in Morley, south-west of Leeds. The business behind it is 13NOODLES LTD, incorporated in August 2024 and registered with Companies House under the classification for unlicensed restaurants and cafes. A market unit is a different proposition from a shopfront, and other traders registered at the same LS27 8DS postcode give their addresses as Queen Street Market and Morley Market Hall. Wan Cheung is the company's sole director and its only person with significant control, holding 75 per cent or more of the shares and voting rights and the right to appoint or remove directors. The registered office is a separate address in Morley, and no corporate owner appears on the register.
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A Casa Di Alessia
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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AGORA
Restaurant · Horsforth
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AJ's Jerkhouse
Restaurant · Morley
AJ's Jerkhouse operates from 12 South Queen Street in Morley, south-west of Leeds. The business is registered at Companies House as AJ'S JERKHOUSE LTD, incorporated on 5 January 2026 under the classification for unlicensed restaurants and cafes, with the shop's own address as its registered office. James Paul David Smith is the company's sole director and its only person with significant control, holding 75 per cent or more of the shares and voting rights and the right to appoint or remove directors. No corporate owner is recorded. The company is new, and Companies House shows no filings beyond its incorporation.
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Ameen's Restaurant
Restaurant · Horsforth
Ameen's Restaurant is an independent restaurant set in Horsforth Hall Park on Hall Lane, Horsforth, Leeds, serving contemporary Kashmiri and South Asian cooking. It opened during the 2020 pandemic, and its dining room looks out over the surrounding park. Ameen's is open for evening service through the week, with additional afternoon opening on Sundays.
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Annapurna / Pizzapatty
Restaurant · Kirkstall
Annapurna and Pizzapatty are two food brands run from the same premises at 408 Burley Road in the Burley area of Leeds. Annapurna is a vegetarian Indian kitchen serving street food such as dabeli and pani puri alongside Indo-Chinese dishes, while Pizzapatty offers burgers, wraps, wings, doners and other fast food. Both trade mainly for takeaway and delivery.
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Arusuvai Restaurant
Restaurant · Kirkstall
Arusuvai is a South Indian restaurant at 41-43 Commercial Road in Kirkstall, Leeds, specialising in Tamil cuisine. It opened in January 2025 in the former Gallery FortyOne premises and is run by chef Raj Chinnadurai, who is originally from Chennai. Its name is a Tamil word meaning 'six tastes', a reference to the six flavours of Tamil cooking.
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Bavette
Restaurant · Horsforth
Bavette is an independent bistro at 4-6 Town Street in Horsforth, Leeds, run by Sandy and Clément, who met while working at a London wine bar. It serves seasonal, French-influenced bistro cooking. Bavette holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand for 2025, was named the Good Food Guide's Best Local Restaurant for 2024, and appears in the National Restaurant Awards Top 100.
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Big Scoffs Diner
Restaurant · Horsforth
Big Scoffs Diner is a family-run, fully plant-based diner on New Road Side in Horsforth, Leeds. It serves homemade vegan breakfasts, brunches, lunches and Sunday roasts, and runs on a bring-your-own-drinks basis. It forms part of the local Scoffs group, which also runs the nearby Little Scoffs on the same street.
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Boba & Bao
Restaurant · Horsforth
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Boomerang Deli
Restaurant · Morley
Boomerang Deli is a licensed deli and cafe on Albion Street in Morley, south-west of Leeds. It trades as BOOMERANG DELI LIMITED, incorporated in June 2019 and registered at Companies House under both the licensed restaurant and the unlicensed restaurant and cafe classifications, with the Albion Street premises as its registered office. Companies House filings show it is run by the Mallinson family. Megan Mallinson has been a director since incorporation and is the company's only person with significant control, holding 75 per cent or more of the shares. Lorraine Mallinson joined the board in July 2019 and Thomas Mallinson in February 2023; all three give the Albion Street address as their correspondence address. No corporate owner appears on the register.
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Box Kitchen
Restaurant · Pudsey
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Buga Place Restaurant
Restaurant · Harehills
Buga Place Restaurant is a Nigerian restaurant at 43 Compton Road, Harehills, LS9. Companies House shows Buga Place Restaurant Limited incorporated on 22 August 2022 and registered at the restaurant address, under the classification for licensed restaurants. Blessing Hayble has been the sole director since incorporation and is the only person with significant control, holding 75 per cent or more of the shares. The menu is organised around soups, pepper soups, yam dishes and rice: egusi, okro, oha and banga soups, nkwobi and fish pepper soup, yam porridge, grilled fish with plantain, garden egg sauce with yam, pounded yam, and jollof rice. Starters include meat pie, peppered ponmo and peppered snail. Uber Eats shows 4.2 stars from more than 230 reviews, and the hygiene rating is 4 out of 5.
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Butlers At Number One
Restaurant · Kirkstall
Butlers At Number One is a cafe and bar on the ground floor of the Number One building at Kirkstall Forge in Leeds. It serves home-made hot food, fresh salads and drinks, with breakfast and lunch available through the day. The name is a tribute to the Butler family, who ran the forge on the site for six generations.
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Cakelin
Restaurant · Headingley
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Casa Gyros Grill
Restaurant · Takeaway · Horsforth
Casa Gyros Grill is a Greek gyros grill and takeaway at 77 New Road Side in Horsforth, Leeds. It serves Greek-style gyros, doner and grilled kebabs alongside items such as pizzas, burgers, salads and rice boxes, for collection and delivery. The Horsforth shop trades as Horsforth Casa Gyros Grill Limited.
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Cena Bistro
Restaurant · Guiseley
An independent Italian restaurant at 2A Oxford Road in Guiseley. It trades as Cena Bistro (Leeds) Ltd, incorporated in January 2019, with Elaine Cutler as sole director and controlling shareholder; Companies House records its activity as a licensed restaurant. It describes itself as offering fresh, authentic Italian food in a cosy setting. The kitchen sends out pizzas, pastas and risottos alongside seafood specials and meat dishes, and a Kiev calzone appears on local listings as a house signature. It opens in the evening only — Tuesday to Saturday from 5pm and Sunday from 4pm, closed Mondays. A Yorkshire Evening Post review noted that the premises had been home to several different restaurants before Cena took it on.
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Chimaek Oppa
Restaurant · Headingley
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Chopan
Restaurant · Harehills
Chopan is an Afghan restaurant and takeaway at 219 Roundhay Road, Harehills, LS8. Companies House shows Chopan Limited incorporated on 9 October 2018, with Abdul Karim Merzai as sole director and the only person with significant control since that date, holding 75 per cent or more of the shares and voting rights. The restaurant serves Afghan food alongside a wider menu and says of itself that it aims to offer "the best value for money, services and food around". It opens daily from 13:00 to 23:00 and takes orders by telephone on 0113 240 7666 as well as online for delivery across Leeds. The Food Standards Agency records it as a restaurant or café and inspected it on 11 November 2024, awarding a hygiene rating of 3 out of 5.
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Chunk
Restaurant · Kirkstall
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Compassionate Kitchen
Restaurant · Morley
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Cotto
Restaurant · Kirkstall
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Country Crust
Restaurant · Chapel Allerton
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Cracovia
Restaurant · Chapel Allerton
An independent Polish restaurant on Newton Hill Road, opened in April 2018 by Kraków-born chef Maciej Bujakowski. It serves traditional Polish cooking given a fine-dining presentation, with duck and goose a particular strength — a signature duck with apples and grilled mountain cheese. It also runs a small online shop of Polish products and offers catering, opening Friday to Sunday.
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Cub Headingley
Restaurant · Headingley
Cub Headingley, on Shire Oak Road, is a day nursery that also runs a family-friendly cafe open to the public on weekdays. The cafe serves speciality coffee, pastries and homemade brunch and lunch, and has a dedicated children's play area. It is operated by Cub (KME Nurseries Ltd), which also runs a nursery and cafe in Wetherby.
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Cucina
Restaurant · Morley
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De Baga
Restaurant · Headingley
De Baga is an independent modern Indian restaurant at 9 Otley Road in Headingley, Leeds. It serves Goan and regional Indian dishes with a contemporary approach, including small plates, sharing bowls, biryanis, breads and desserts, and has an open kitchen. The business also runs a second restaurant in Chapel Allerton.
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De Baga Mehfil
Restaurant · Chapel Allerton
De Baga Mehfil is an Indian restaurant and cocktail bar on Stainbeck Lane in Chapel Allerton, owned by Mandeep Singh. It opened in 2022 as the second De Baga site — the original opened in Headingley in 2019 — and took the name De Baga Mehfil in June 2024 to give the Chapel Allerton branch its own identity. It remains a two-site, one-owner local operation rather than a chain. Executive chef Clive Silveira, who trained in Goa, leads a menu of modern Indian and Goan-influenced dishes alongside a cocktail list, with a resident DJ at weekends. The Headingley original won Taste of the Year (North of England) at the 2022 Asian Food & Restaurant Awards, and the Chapel Allerton site holds a 4.5-star rating from more than 240 OpenTable reviews.
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Delightful Desserts
Restaurant · Armley
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Drakes Fish And Chips
Takeaway · Restaurant · Chapel Allerton
Drakes Fish and Chips is a fish and chip takeaway at 128 Potternewton Lane in the Chapel Allerton area of Leeds (LS7 2EG). It serves fish and chips and other fried takeaway items for collection and delivery.
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Ecco
Restaurant · Headingley
Ecco Pizzeria is an independent Italian restaurant at 93 Otley Road in Headingley, Leeds, serving Neapolitan-style pizza, pasta and freshly made gelato, with gluten-free and vegan choices. It offers eat-in, collection and delivery, and also operates a second site in Rusholme, Manchester.
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Escape Restaurant And Bar
Restaurant · Bar · Horsforth
Escape Restaurant and Bar is an independent restaurant and bar at 194D-194E New Road Side in Horsforth, Leeds. It serves a menu combining British and Mediterranean dishes made with locally sourced ingredients, alongside a bar with wines and cocktails. The venue has a refurbished dining room, outdoor seating in summer and private function rooms.
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Fifty-Eight Giardino
Restaurant · Pudsey
Fifty-Eight Giardino is an Italian restaurant and bar at 10 Town Street, Farsley. It trades as Fifty Eight Giardino Ltd, incorporated on 18 April 2025 and registered at the same Town Street address, with Ezgi Yalcinkaya as its current director. The kitchen works to hand-rolled pasta and wood-fired pizza, and the restaurant says its head chef trained in traditional trattorias and osterias in Tuscany and Rome. It runs a bottomless Italian brunch from Thursday to Saturday. It opens from noon Tuesday to Sunday and closes on Mondays.
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Fusion Spice
Restaurant · Chapel Allerton
Fusion Spice is an independent Indian restaurant and takeaway at 219 Stainbeck Road, Leeds. It trades as Fusion Spice Leeds Ltd, incorporated in August 2022 and registered to the same address, and is classified at Companies House as an unlicensed restaurant and café. In its own listing description it says it was founded in 2021 and takes pride in finding flavours from around the world to share with the Leeds area. The menu runs through the familiar curry-house range — korma, madras, vindaloo, bhuna, chicken tikka masala, dhansak, pasanda, pathia and makhani — and orders can be placed through the restaurant''s own website for collection. Listings give its hours as from 4.30pm Monday to Saturday and from 3.30pm on Sunday, and record a food hygiene rating of 4 out of 5.
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Go Thai Bistro
Restaurant · Horsforth
Go Thai Bistro is an independent, licensed Thai restaurant at 86 New Road Side in Horsforth, Leeds. It is run by Supapon, a chef from Northern Thailand with more than two decades' experience, and serves traditional Thai dishes such as pad Thai and green, red, yellow and massaman curries. The bistro opens Tuesday to Sunday for lunch and dinner.
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Gourmet Hut
Restaurant · Horsforth
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Grameen
Restaurant · Horsforth
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Haley And Clifford
Delicatessen · Restaurant · Oakwood
A delicatessen and café at 43 Street Lane in Roundhay. The company now behind it, Haley & Clifford Ltd, was registered in July 2026 with Araz Imani Veghaslou as sole director and shareholder, and is classed at Companies House for specialist food retail, café and takeaway trade. The shop is considerably older than the company: its own website records a Deli of the Year award in 2012 and appearances on BBC Look North the following year. The counters carry Yorkshire and European cheeses, bread baked fresh each day, smoked fish from Yorkshire producers, and jams and chutneys from Raydale Preserves in North Yorkshire, alongside oils, condiments, pasta and grains, cakes, biscuits and chocolates. The café serves breakfast, lunch and coffee, and the business makes sandwiches, takeaway suppers and hampers and takes catering bookings.
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Hana Matsuri
Restaurant · Meanwood
Hana Matsuri is a Japanese restaurant at 580 Meanwood Road, Meanwood, owned by chef Kaoru Nakamura. It is very small: reviewers count six counter seats at the front and a couple more in a back room, with diners watching each dish being made in front of them. It began as a closed-blinds omakase room with a £150 set menu, and now runs as an izakaya, with onigiri rice balls alongside nigiri sushi, hosomaki and special rolls, soft-shell crab, chicken karaage, pumpkin croquettes and grilled yellowtail jaw. The Yorkshire Post has reported that the cooking has passed to a chef from Hong Kong with twenty years in the trade.
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Heaney And Mill
Restaurant · Bar · Headingley
Heaney & Mill is an independent restaurant and cocktail bar at 50 Otley Road in Headingley, Leeds, open for breakfast, lunch and dinner seven days a week. Trading since 2017, it serves modern dishes made with locally sourced produce, and runs a weekend bottomless brunch and a Sunday roast.
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Hern
Restaurant · Chapel Allerton
A small independent restaurant at Stainbeck Corner, run by chef-owner Rab Adams — a physics graduate turned Le Cordon Bleu-trained cook who has worked at Restaurant Gordon Ramsay, Hedone and York's Le Cochon Aveugle. Hern serves a daily-changing set menu built around seasonal, local produce, in a dining room of around eighteen seats. The kitchen works whole animals and close to zero waste — vegetable trimmings become stock, fruit by-products become cordials and ice cream. It has been a finalist at the Yorkshire Evening Post's Oliver Awards and is rated 'Very Good' in The Good Food Guide. The name comes from 'herne', an old word for a corner — a nod to its spot at Stainbeck Corner.
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Hooleos
Restaurant · Horsforth
Hooleos is an independent Mexican café-bar on Town Street in Horsforth, Leeds. It serves Mexican dishes and cocktails such as margaritas, with café-style dining and evening service. It operates as an independent venue in the Horsforth town centre.
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Ida's Kitchen
Restaurant · Harehills
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Il Vicoletto
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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Jackaboos
Restaurant · Pudsey
Jackaboos is an indoor soft play centre at Sunny Bank Mills on Town Street, Farsley — the former woollen mill, founded in 1829, where production of fine worsted cloth ended in 2008 and which the Gaunt family has since regenerated as space for independent businesses, artist studios and galleries. Angelisa Walker has been its director since the company was incorporated on 1 July 2005, and the centre says it was set up in June 2006 and named after her son Jack. It runs pre-bookable play sessions on weekdays and private birthday parties at weekends, and says it holds a five-star food hygiene rating. Companies House files the company under child day-care activities.
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Jigsaw Gyms Ltd
Restaurant · Pudsey
Jigsaw Gyms is a children's play and party venue at 546 Broad Lane, Stanningley, catering for children from birth to eleven years. It trades as Jigsaw Gyms Limited, incorporated on 27 July 2009, with Martyn Timothy Holmes as director since November 2009. The venue is divided by age: a multi-sensory play zone for infants under one, a separate toddler area for one- to three-year-olds, and a large multi-level play structure for children of four and over. It hosts private birthday parties with exclusive use of the whole building, and has an on-site café and limited parking. Companies House files the company under other amusement and recreation activities.
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Jungle Catz
Restaurant · Morley
Jungle Catz is an indoor soft play centre and cafe at Unit 2, Little Lane in Morley, south-west of Leeds. Its installer's case study describes a 5,000 square foot jungle-themed play area for children aged nought to eight, with a multi-level adventure frame for the older group and a separate enclosed zone for babies and toddlers, including slides, swings, climbing challenges and ball pools. The business trades as JUNGLECATZ (LEEDS) LTD, incorporated in November 2021. Jodie Leigh Furniss is its sole director and its only remaining person with significant control; a second controlling person ceased in July 2025. The cafe holds a Good food hygiene rating from Leeds City Council, inspected in December 2025.
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Kasa Rosa
Restaurant · Morley
Kasa Rosa is a licensed restaurant at Town End on Fountain Street in Morley, south-west of Leeds. It trades as KASA ROSA LIMITED, incorporated in March 2013 and registered under licensed restaurants, with the restaurant itself as the company's registered office — one of the longer-established independent kitchens on this list. Companies House records two directors appointed at incorporation and still in post: Alan Frazer Hickman, who is also company secretary and the company's only person with significant control, and Geoffrey Berry. No corporate owner appears on the register. The restaurant holds a Good food hygiene rating from Leeds City Council, inspected in January 2026, with Good marks across all three assessed areas.
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Khoi Kitchen
Restaurant · Chapel Allerton
Khoi Kitchen is an independent Vietnamese restaurant at 116a Harrogate Road in Chapel Allerton, serving dishes such as phở, bún chả and bánh mì alongside Vietnamese coffees, including egg coffee and salted coffee. It occupies the site of Pinche Pinche, the long-standing Mexican restaurant that closed in November 2025 after 18 years in the neighbourhood. The restaurant was registered by a single director in February 2025 and opened in 2026 as a standalone, single-site business. It trades Tuesday to Sunday, closed Mondays, with vegetarian dishes on the menu, several adaptable to vegan on request; an early reviewer describes the food as fresh and authentic.
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Kids About Tarn
Restaurant · Yeadon
A soft play and role play centre for children in Yeadon, at Unit 4 on Cliffe Court off the High Street. It is aimed at children from birth to around eight, and alongside the soft play frame it runs a role play village with a vets, a café and a police station, and keeps more than 50 fancy dress costumes. A mini disco and party games run on weekday mornings at 10.30 and are included with entry, and the centre also hosts parties and weekday classes and courses. Its own café serves a breakfast and lunch menu and homemade cakes, and the centre states a 5-star food hygiene certificate and a recently installed air circulation system. The company behind it, Kids About Tarn Ltd, was incorporated in November 2016 as Pudsey Playmill Limited and is directed by Charlotte Gray.
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King's Wok
Restaurant · Armley
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Kings And Queens Desserts
Dessert shop · Restaurant · Harehills
Kings and Queens Desserts is a dessert shop at Unit 2, 164 Harehills Lane, LS8. Companies House shows Kings & Queens Desserts Ltd incorporated in April 2022 and registered at the shop address. Cristal Senior has been a director and person with significant control since incorporation; Carlos Isaac Kassimo Dos Santos was appointed a second director in August 2025 and is also recorded on the register of persons with significant control. The shop's own site describes its range as running "from waffles and creamy milkshakes to decadent cakes, sundaes, and signature creations", with doughnuts and cheesecake also shown, and it offers both collection and delivery. The Food Standards Agency records it as a restaurant or café and inspected it on 12 March 2026, awarding a hygiene rating of 5 out of 5.
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Kofi & Co Ltd
Restaurant · Oakwood
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Kofi & Co Ltd
Restaurant · Wetherby
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Konak Meze Turkish Restaurant
Restaurant · Horsforth
Konak Meze Turkish Restaurant is an independent Turkish restaurant at 9-11 Town Street in Horsforth, Leeds. It serves Ottoman-inspired Turkish and Mediterranean food, including meze, charcoal-grilled meats, seafood and vegetarian dishes, along with Turkish wines. It is part of a small independent group that opened its original restaurant in Harrogate before expanding to the Horsforth site.
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La Bistro Mediterranean Kitchen
Restaurant · Horsforth
La Bistro Mediterranean Kitchen is a Mediterranean restaurant at 124 Long Row in Horsforth, Leeds. It offers Mediterranean cooking in a sit-down setting and trades from Tuesday to Sunday. It is an independently run local restaurant.
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La Fonda Spanish Tapas Restaurant And Bar
Restaurant · Horsforth
La Fonda Spanish Tapas Restaurant and Bar is an independent Spanish restaurant at 194a New Road Side in Horsforth, Leeds. It serves Spanish tapas and dishes such as chorizo in wine, serrano ham croquettes, patatas with mojo sauce and paella, and offers an all-you-can-eat set tapas menu. It trades in the evenings during the week and from the afternoon at weekends.
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La Katangaise Cuisine Ltd
Restaurant · Harehills
La Katangaise Cuisine is a Congolese restaurant and takeaway at 144 Roundhay Road, LS8, named for the Katanga region. Companies House shows La Katangaise Cuisine Limited incorporated in April 2021, with Gracia Tshibwabwa as sole director and the only person with significant control, holding 75 per cent or more of the shares and voting rights. A second director served between June 2022 and March 2024. The menu is grouped into small bites, sides, stews, grills and vegetable dishes, and includes beef brochettes, smoked turkey, chicken legs, beef spring rolls, king prawns cooked in garlic and butter, and mikate, the puff puffs sold ten to a portion. The Food Standards Agency inspected the restaurant on 29 November 2024 and awarded a hygiene rating of 5 out of 5.
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La Palmera Restaurant
Restaurant · Oakwood
A family-run Mediterranean restaurant on Park Lane in Roundhay, beside the golf course in Roundhay Park, with tables looking over the greens. It trades as La Palmera Restaurant Limited, registered to the site in December 2020; Redouan Bennani and Monica Benito Polo are its directors and shareholders. The Yorkshire Evening Post reported that it opened in May 2021. The menu draws on Italian, Greek and Spanish cooking with a few Moroccan dishes and some French classics — pizzas and pastas, boeuf bourguignon and steak bordelaise, fish and vegetarian plates — served à la carte and as a set lunch. Bennani runs the kitchen and family members work front of house. There is seating indoors and outside, and the Food Standards Agency marked its food handling "very good" in August 2025.
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Lam's Kitchen
Restaurant · Headingley
Lam's Kitchen is an independent Vietnamese restaurant at 39 Otley Road in Headingley, Leeds. It specialises in pho, offering beef, chicken and vegan versions, alongside stir-fried noodles, rice bowls, summer rolls, bao buns and Vietnamese iced coffee, for eat-in and delivery.
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Lighthouse Pizza Company
Restaurant · Wetherby
A pizza business on the Sandbeck Park estate on the edge of Wetherby, registered at Companies House as Lighthouse Pizza Co Ltd. The company was incorporated in September 2023 under the classification for take-away food shops and mobile food stands, with its registered office at the same unit; Steven Paul Cree is the sole remaining director, his co-director having resigned in June 2025. Leeds City Council's food hygiene inspectors visited in March 2024 and rated the premises Very Good across hygienic food handling, cleanliness of facilities and management of food safety, recording the business type as restaurant, café or canteen.
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Little Indian Kitchen
Restaurant · Armley
Little Indian Kitchen is an Indian restaurant and takeaway at 67 Tong Road, Farnley, in Leeds LS12. Its Uber Eats listing gives its cuisines as Indian, vegetarian and Asian, opening hours of 4pm to 10.30pm and a 3.9-star rating from 92 reviews. The menu is arranged in sections including a curry meal deal, classic curries, biryani, sides and sundries, with dishes such as royale butter chicken and lamb biryani. The Little Indian Kitchen Ltd was incorporated on 3 January 2024, with a single director, Sameerah Anwar Mitha, and a registered nature of business of SIC code 56290, "other food services". Its registered office is in Bolton rather than at the Leeds shop. Leeds City Council inspected the premises on 2 July 2025, rating hygienic food handling "Very good" and both cleanliness and management of food safety "Good".
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Maemes Leeds
Restaurant · Takeaway · Headingley
Maeme's Leeds is a takeaway on Otley Road in Headingley, Leeds, also trading as Maeme's Peri Peri. It specialises in chicken dishes, including peri-peri chicken, wings and wraps, alongside rice bowls, and is available for collection and delivery through platforms such as Uber Eats and Just Eat. It keeps late opening hours, serving into the early hours of the morning at weekends.
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MAN ZEN
Restaurant · Bar · Headingley
MAN ZEN is an Asian-fusion restaurant on Otley Road in Headingley, Leeds, run by Thomas Chiang. It opened in early December 2025 in the former premises of its sister restaurant TADA, and serves a modern take on Chinese cooking, including dishes such as salt and pepper chicken wings and sweet and sour prawns, as well as Japanese-style bento boxes. It opens daily in the evenings, with additional lunch service at weekends.
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Mango Vegetarian
Restaurant · Wetherby
A vegetarian Indian restaurant on Bank Street in Wetherby, trading through Mango Vegetarian Limited, which was incorporated in January 2008 and is registered under the classification for unlicensed restaurants and cafés. Rekha Harish Sonigra has been the sole director since incorporation. The kitchen leans South Indian: dosas sit alongside curries, wraps and Indian desserts including kulfi and shrikhand, with vegan options marked and dishes cooked to order from an open kitchen. Sugarvine's listing describes it as family-run, with the chef's daughters working front of house, and notes that heat levels and dietary requests are adjusted dish by dish.
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Maybe Later Restaurant
Restaurant · Wetherby
A small restaurant on The Shambles in the centre of Wetherby, run by its owners Lorenzo Ciarrocca and Jane Lavocah. The two incorporated Maybe Later Restaurant Ltd in March 2024 and are its only directors; the company is registered under the classification for licensed restaurants. The restaurant describes itself as small and works from a short dinner menu that changes every month, built on seasonal local produce and drawing on a range of cuisines and cultures. The wine list is chosen by Ciarrocca. It serves lunch and dinner from Wednesday to Sunday and closes on Mondays and Tuesdays.
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MeatUp
Restaurant · Pudsey
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Mini Streets
Restaurant · Cross Gates
Mini Streets is a children's role-play centre in units 62-63 of Crossgates Shopping Centre, on Station Road in Cross Gates, east Leeds. It took over a vacant retail unit and opened on 1 August 2026 under the name Little Streets. The company behind it was incorporated in January 2026 as Little Streets at Crossgates Ltd and changed its name to Mini Streets Ltd on 1 September 2026. Leigh Summer Ellis and Alex Mia Ellis are its two directors and its two registered persons with significant control. The centre is aimed at children aged 0 to 10 and is laid out as a miniature town, with a supermarket and café, a veterinary clinic, police and fire stations, a beauty boutique, a construction zone and a sensory room. It also takes bookings for birthday parties and exclusive hire.
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Moghul Restaurant And Takeaway
Restaurant · Takeaway · Horsforth
Moghul Restaurant and Takeaway is an Indian restaurant at 8-9 The Green in Horsforth, Leeds. It serves a menu of traditional and contemporary Indian dishes, cooked to order using fresh herbs and spices, and offers dine-in alongside collection and delivery. The restaurant opens for evening service seven days a week.
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Monster Kidz
Restaurant · Bramley
Monster Kidz is an indoor adventure play centre at Unit B, St Catherines Mill, Broad Lane, Bramley, in west Leeds. It trades through Monster Kidz Ltd, incorporated in March 2014 and registered under the SIC code for other amusement and recreation activities. Companies House records Gary Keith Barker as holding 75% or more of the shares and voting rights, with Margaret Barker also registered as a person with significant control; both are directors. The company runs a second site in Beeston. A North Leeds Mumbler listing describes it as a multi-tiered play environment for children aged 0 to 12, with dedicated zones for babies, toddlers and juniors, plus weekly crafts and themed sessions. A café on site serves home-cooked food and drinks. The Food Standards Agency inspected the premises as a restaurant, café and canteen in March 2026 and rated its hygienic food handling very good.
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Murgatroyds
Restaurant · Yeadon
A fish and chip restaurant and takeaway in Yeadon, opened in summer 1994 and run by the Chadwick family: brothers Andrew and James Chadwick are managing directors, with their daughters involved in day-to-day management. It takes its name from Billy Murgatroyd, the nineteenth-century mill owner whose Moorfield Mills stood on the site. It operates as both a sit-down restaurant and a takeaway counter, the takeaway keeping longer hours. The business says its fish comes from renewable Icelandic waters and is delivered fresh to the kitchen, and puts its throughput at around 1,275 fish a day and 363 tonnes of potatoes a year. Some of its staff have worked there since opening. The Yorkshire Evening Post, in a guide to eating in LS19, called it "the undisputed, world-renowned titan of the area's culinary scene".
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Napoli Nel Cuore
Restaurant · Horsforth
Napoli Nel Cuore is a family-run Italian restaurant and pizzeria at 30 Town Street in Horsforth, Leeds. Run by a Neapolitan family, it specialises in Neapolitan cuisine, serving pizza, pasta and desserts with vegetarian and vegan options, and offers dine-in as well as delivery through Just Eat and Deliveroo.
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No 14 Restaurant
Restaurant · Bar · Headingley
No 14 is a restaurant and bar at 12-14 North Lane in Headingley, Leeds. It is run by restaurateur Shaun Davies, who opened it in 2018 in a stone terrace that had previously been Brett's fish and chip shop. The kitchen serves modern British food, described as classic British cooking with a twist, using ingredients from local suppliers including Yorkshire seafood merchants and butchers.
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North Studio
Gym & fitness studio · Restaurant · Oakwood
A boutique fitness studio at Phoenix House on Roman Terrace, off Street Lane in Roundhay. It was founded by Rachel Woolford and opened in 2020, and now has a second site in Harrogate. The timetable covers barre, indoor cycling, vinyasa yoga, HIIT and reformer pilates, with personal training, massage and holistic therapies alongside. Attached to the studio is the Refuel Kitchen, a counter serving coffee, juices, smoothies and shakes; the premises are registered with the Food Standards Agency and hold a hygiene rating of 5. Woolford won BBC's The Apprentice in 2024, and the Yorkshire Evening Post reported that the resulting £250,000 investment from Lord Sugar is funding a dedicated reformer pilates studio in the commercial unit next door.
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Oceans
Restaurant · Cross Gates
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Olive & Fig Coffee Shop And Kitchen
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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Olympus Grill
Restaurant · Takeaway · Headingley
Olympus is a Greek street food restaurant on Otley Road in Headingley, Leeds, trading as Olympus Greek Street Food. It is a small venue with an open grill line and around 20 covers plus pavement seating, serving dishes such as gyros, souvlaki, fresh salads and other traditional Greek food for eating in, collection and delivery.
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Ozziez
Restaurant · Café · Kirkstall
Ozziez, also trading as Ozziez Coffee & Bakery, is an independent coffee shop and bakery at 406 Burley Road in Leeds. It focuses on speciality coffee and on pastries and bread baked on the premises, and has a regular local following in the Burley and Kirkstall area.
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Palmer Plants
Garden centre & nursery · Restaurant · Pudsey
Palmer Plants is a plant nursery on Calverley Lane, Farsley, growing and selling trees, shrubs and other plants to the public and to trade customers. It began in 1982 as Palmer Nurseries, supplying Palmer Landscapes and other trade buyers; John and Margaret Palmer later bought land and put up the glasshouses, tunnels and potting shed still in use, and the site opened to the public as Palmer Plants in 1995. The company was incorporated in October 2020 and its directors are Samantha Hall and Margaret Palmer. It says it was set up on the belief that it would not follow other garden centres, keeping the focus on plants, and it runs the Little Leaf Cafe on site. In 2021 it won planning permission for a two-storey building with retail space, a café, a children's play area and a 66-space car park.
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Panorama Garden
Restaurant · Chapel Allerton
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Papa Dans Pizza
Restaurant · Pudsey
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Pet Lodge Superstore
Pet shop · Restaurant · Armley
Pet Lodge Superstore is a pet shop with a café at 98 Oldfield Lane, Upper Wortley, in Leeds LS12. Its own website describes it as "a fully stocked pet store with all the best foods, treats & accessories" alongside "a pet café with a unique Leeds United twist", where customers can have a hot or cold drink in the company of the shop's animals, among them a bearded dragon named Marcelo Spikey. Yorkshire.com gives opening hours of 8.30am to 6pm Monday to Friday, 8.30am to 5pm on Saturday and 10am to 3pm on Sunday, lists wheelchair-accessible parking and entrance, and records a 4.6-star Google rating from 71 reviews. Pet Lodge Superstore Ltd was incorporated on 22 July 2026, registered at the shop's address, with Arron James Philip Lambert as its sole director and only person with significant control.
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Piassa Bar And Restaurant
Restaurant · Harehills
Piassa Bar and Restaurant is an Ethiopian restaurant and bar at 81-83 Roundhay Road, LS8. Companies House records the company as incorporated in April 2017 and controlled by Yakob Tadese, its sole serving director, who holds 75 per cent or more of the shares and voting rights. It says it is named after Piassa, a neighbourhood at the heart of Ethiopia's capital. The menu is built around shared platters — a veggie combo, a meat combo and the house Piassa Special — alongside tibs, doro wot, kitfo and shiro, with vegetarian and vegan dishes throughout, and the kitchen also runs a traditional Ethiopian coffee ceremony. It opens at 2pm daily, closing at 10pm from Monday to Thursday and 11.30pm from Friday to Sunday. Tripadvisor lists it at 4.9 out of 5 from 153 reviews.
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Pinks Burgers And Desserts
Restaurant · Kirkstall
Pinks Burgers And Desserts is a burger and dessert takeaway on Burley Road in Burley, Leeds. Its menu runs from classic, gourmet and smashed burgers to wings, tenders, loaded fries, nachos and munch boxes, alongside a dessert range that includes Belgian waffles, brownies, cookie dough, sundaes, donuts and cakes. It also serves milkshakes, mocktails and smoothies, with collection and delivery available.
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Pure Veg Box Ltd
Restaurant · Morley
Pure Veg Box trades from Morley Market, the indoor market hall on Queen Street in Morley, south-west of Leeds — a market unit rather than a shopfront. It is registered at Companies House as PURE VEG BOX LIMITED, incorporated on 1 March 2025 and classified under take-away food shops and mobile food stands. Ami Hardik Dave is the company's sole director and its only person with significant control, holding 75 per cent or more of the shares and voting rights and the right to appoint or remove directors. No corporate owner is recorded. The company's registered office is elsewhere in Leeds rather than at the market.
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Rasoi Stories
Restaurant · Chapel Allerton
Rasoi Stories is a family-run independent Indian restaurant on Harrogate Road in Chapel Allerton, housed in the area's former police station — a Grade II-listed building whose original features are still on show. Head chef Azad Singh trained in Delhi hotels including The Oberoi before moving to the UK in 2011, and his menu draws on regional Indian cooking, from Delhi street food to Rajasthani, Mumbai and Goan dishes. It holds a 4.5-star rating from more than 200 TripAdvisor reviews and a Travellers' Choice award, and the Yorkshire Evening Post rated the food 9 out of 10, calling it a 'local gem'. Open Tuesday to Sunday evenings, it offers vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free options alongside a full bar and private dining.
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Raza Catering
Restaurant · Harehills
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Roti Junction
Restaurant · Harehills
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Saint Jude
Restaurant · Pudsey
Saint Jude is a bar and kitchen at 69 Town Street, Farsley. It was opened in September 2021 by sisters Alex and Cassie Rogerson, who are from Farsley and who had already opened Grumpy's pizzeria at Sunny Bank Mills four years earlier; the two businesses are named after their father and their mother. It serves beer, wine, cocktails and coffee alongside homemade burgers, bagels and doughnuts, with the burger patties, condiments and jams made in the kitchen and the bagels baked each morning in Grumpy's wood-fired oven. There are 36 covers inside and 52 outside across a terrace and side garden. It opens from 9am every day, and describes itself as dog friendly and kid friendly.
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Salvo's Restaurant
Restaurant · Headingley
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Sancerre
Restaurant · Guiseley
A restaurant and bar in the former Guiseley Library on Otley Road, run by Sancerre (Yorkshire) Ltd, which was registered to the building in February 2023 with Klaudia Forward as director and majority shareholder. The library served the town from 1956 until it moved to Aireborough Leisure Centre in 2019. The Yorkshire Evening Post reported a £2 million conversion and an opening on 26 May 2023. The kitchen serves contemporary European food built on British produce, including hand-stretched pizzas, tapas and Sunday lunch, with a wine, spirits and cocktail list; the name is taken from the French wine region known for Sauvignon Blanc. There are 90 covers inside and a 28-cover south-facing terrace. It opens Wednesday to Sunday.
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Scotchie's Caribbean Cuisine
Restaurant · Harehills
Scotchie's Caribbean Cuisine is a Caribbean restaurant and takeaway at Unit 1, Embassy Court, 333 Roundhay Road, LS8. Companies House records the company as incorporated in June 2019. Claudette Miller is its sole serving director, and she and Andre Miller, who stepped down from the board at the end of 2024, are both registered as people with significant control. The menu is organised by chicken, meat and seafood: jerk chicken, curry goat, lamb chops and fried fish, served with rice and peas or plain rice, with macaroni cheese offered both as a side and as part of a jerk chicken plate. Leeds City Council inspected it in December 2024 and gave it a food hygiene rating of 5 out of 5. It also takes orders through Deliveroo.
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Semolino
Restaurant · Chapel Allerton
Semolino is a small, independent Italian takeaway and café at 3 Newton Parade, on the Chapel Allerton–Potternewton border close to Chapel Allerton Hospital. It is run by chef Fabio, who trained in Italy and cooked in Australia, France, Switzerland, Spain and England before settling in Leeds, and his menu spans northern and southern Italian traditions. Expect panini, pizza by the slice, pasta dishes such as carbonara, antipasti and Italian pastries including cannoli, alongside espresso. Mainly a takeaway with a few bar stools, it holds a 5-star food hygiene rating and strong reviews on Tripadvisor and the delivery platforms, where customers mention the warm welcome and good value.
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Seven Arts Centre
Restaurant · Chapel Allerton
Seven Arts is an independent arts venue at 31a Harrogate Road, Chapel Allerton. It opened in July 2007 as what it calls "the culmination of ten years of effort by a group of local residents" who wanted to strengthen community involvement in the arts, and the building''s construction was part-financed by the European Regional Development Fund. It operates as a not-for-profit community interest company — registered as Seven Arts Leeds C.I.C., incorporated in 2003 under the earlier name Chapel Allerton Arts Festival — and takes no core funding from Arts Council England or other public sources. The main space seats around 100 and programmes film, theatre, dance, music, spoken word and comedy, with a gallery showing work by local artists and a café bar open Wednesday to Sunday from 11am. Many shows are offered on a pay-as-you-feel basis, and the venue is available for hire.
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Siam Corner
Restaurant · Guiseley
A Thai restaurant and café at 1 Station Road in Guiseley, registered as Siam Corner Ltd in December 2025 with Tiyakon Riabbuapa as sole director. Companies House classes it as an unlicensed restaurant and café; the Food Standards Agency has it registered at the Station Road address and awaiting its first inspection. The menu is Thai and runs across the standard range: satay, fish cakes and spring rolls to start, tom yum and tom kha soups, som tum and laab salads, stir-fries such as pad grapow and pad priew wan, pad thai and egg fried rice, and green, red and massaman curries. There is a children's menu. It also takes orders for delivery through Deliveroo.
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Side Street Express
Restaurant · Chapel Allerton
Side Street Express is a restaurant listed at 12 Blake Grove, Potternewton, in the Chapel Allerton area of Leeds.
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Soca Village
Restaurant · Chapel Allerton
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Sulaimani Restaurant
Restaurant · Harehills
Sulaimani Restaurant is a restaurant at 123 Harehills Road, LS8. Companies House records Sulaimani Restaurant Ltd as incorporated on 27 August 2025, with Farhad Kamal as its sole director; he gives the restaurant itself as his correspondence address, and no other person is registered on the company. Its filed SIC code is unlicensed restaurants and cafes, the classification used for premises that do not hold an alcohol licence, and the Food Standards Agency lists it as a restaurant, cafe or canteen. Leeds City Council inspected it in October 2025, two months after the company was formed, and gave it a food hygiene rating of 5 out of 5 — the top score on the scale.
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TADA
Restaurant · Bar · Headingley
TADA is an independent Japanese restaurant and bar on Otley Road in Headingley, Leeds, opened in 2023 by Thomas Chiang. Set over two floors with a sushi bar downstairs, it serves dishes such as sushi, ramen, yakitori skewers and katsu, alongside Japanese beers, whiskies, sake and cocktails. It has been described as Headingley's first Japanese restaurant.
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Taylors Sport Bar And Grill
Restaurant · Headingley
Taylor's Sports Bar and Grill is a sports bar and grill on Otley Road in Headingley, Leeds, opened in March 2023 by the Leeds-based Taylor's Group. It celebrates the city's sporting figures with a hall-of-fame wall and an upstairs Local Heroes Lounge, shows live sport across multiple screens, and serves American-style food such as burgers, hot dogs and nachos. It stands on the Otley Run pub route.
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TDH Kitchen
Restaurant · Morley
TDH Kitchen operates from 96A Queen Street in Morley, south-west of Leeds. It is registered at Companies House as TDH KITCHEN LTD, incorporated on 23 January 2025 under the classification for other food services. Companies House filings show it is owned and controlled by Kirsty Ann Soper and Jamie John Soper, the company's two directors, appointed together at incorporation and each holding between 25 and 50 per cent of the shares and voting rights. Both give the same Morley address for correspondence. No corporate owner appears on the register, and no franchise or symbol-group company is registered against the business.
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The Cat's Pyjamas Chapel Allerton
Restaurant · Chapel Allerton
An Indian and Pakistani street-food restaurant and bar on Stainbeck Lane — the second Leeds site for The Cat's Pyjamas after its Headingley original. It opened in October 2022 in the former Black Market premises, part of the Grade II-listed Stratford House. The menu spans regional street food — pani puri, chaat, saag paneer, butter chicken, a Keralan seafood curry — with vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free dishes labelled, served alongside bottled beers, cocktails and lassi. It holds a 4-out-of-5 food hygiene rating.
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The Cats Pyjamas
Restaurant · Headingley
The Cat's Pyjamas is an independent Indian street food restaurant on Otley Road in Headingley, Leeds. Inspired by India's roadside food vendors, it serves small plates and street bites with dishes drawn from Delhi, Goa and Kerala, tandoori starters and curries, plus vegetarian and vegan options. Food is available to collect or for delivery.
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The Funky Indian
Restaurant · Pudsey
The Funky Indian is a family-run bar and restaurant at 116–118 Richardshaw Lane, Stanningley, with two rooms and an outdoor area. It trades as Funky Indian Ltd, incorporated on 22 September 2021, with Syed Shelim Hayder Ali as its sole director. CAMRA records it as serving food with a Panjabi twist. The menu runs from tikka and samosa starters and thali sharing boxes to Panjabi gyros and smash burgers, alongside what it calls Naan'izza — naan pizzas built on a base of masala chips — and desserts including gulab jamun and cheesecakes. It stocks imported Indian beers and does not serve cask ale. It opens on Wednesday to Sunday evenings and closes on Mondays and Tuesdays.
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The Indian Feast
Restaurant · Headingley
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The Leeds Deli
Delicatessen · Restaurant · Oakwood
A neighbourhood delicatessen at 27 Chelwood Drive in Moor Allerton, just off Street Lane. It trades as The Leeds Deli Ltd, registered in September 2020 with Nicholas Colley as sole director and controlling shareholder, and is classed at Companies House as a specialist food retailer. Local coverage describes it as family-run, started by husband and wife Nick and Tory and opened in 2021. It sells artisan pizzas made with flour from Naples, focaccia sandwiches, bread and pastries baked fresh, coffee, and French and Italian wines, alongside deli goods to take home. The site opens from 8am, until 4pm Sunday to Thursday and until 8pm on Friday and Saturday, with the kitchen closing earlier on the weekday evenings. It also runs supper clubs and pop-up events, and reports being shortlisted for Best New Business in the Deliciously Yorkshire Awards.
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The Little Biscuit Pottery Painting Studio
Restaurant · Morley
The Little Biscuit Pottery Painting Studio occupies Unit 4 of Queens House on High Street in Morley, south-west of Leeds. It is registered at Companies House as THE LITTLE BISCUIT POTTERY PAINTING STUDIO LIMITED, incorporated on 5 July 2021 and classified under artistic creation, the operation of arts facilities, and other amusement and recreation activities — not under any food or retail code. Allison Wendy Ward is the company's sole director and its only person with significant control, holding 75 per cent or more of the shares and voting rights and the right to appoint or remove directors. A second director and controlling person, appointed at incorporation, resigned and ceased in early 2024. No corporate owner appears on the register.
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The Olive Restaurant
Restaurant · Takeaway · Chapel Allerton
An independent Mediterranean bar and grill at 188–190 Harrogate Road, leaning Greek, with reviewers picking out the seafood — sardines and sea bass. Two-course deals, a Sunday roast and early-diner offers sit alongside the à la carte. The site was previously The Olive Tree, the Psarias family's Greek restaurant, which traded here until 2017; The Olive is a separate single-site business, open daily.
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The Swine Bistro
Restaurant · Headingley
The Swine Bistro is an independent restaurant on Otley Road in Headingley, Leeds, run by Jo and Stu Myers, the team behind The Swine That Dines. It opened in Headingley in April 2025 following a 2024 crowdfunding campaign, and serves a seasonal, changing menu of modern British food using Yorkshire suppliers, alongside natural wines and local beers. Dishes have included pork and pistachio sausage and a twice-baked Comte souffle.
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The Wing Savant @ The Old Kings Arms
Restaurant · Horsforth
The Wing Savant is a kitchen operating from The Old Kings Arms, a pub at 5 The Green in Horsforth, Leeds. It specialises in fried chicken, with a menu of wings in a range of sauces, tenders, chicken buns, loaded fries and sides, available to eat in or for delivery.
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The Yorkshire Roast
Restaurant · Kirkstall
The Yorkshire Roast is a takeaway based off Wyther Drive in the Wyther area of Bramley, Leeds, serving food for delivery and collection. Its menu features comfort-food dishes such as steak and chips, roast potatoes, loaded and cheesy chips with gravy, and a Caribbean-style 'Rasta Pasta', with cakes among the desserts. Orders are taken online through Deliveroo.
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Top Tasty Bites
Restaurant · Harehills
Top Tasty Bites is a cafe and takeaway at 243 Harehills Lane, LS8. Companies House records Top Tasty Bites Ltd as incorporated in November 2024, with Chia Deedar Rasool Kakoo as its sole serving director, and the Food Standards Agency classifies the premises as a restaurant, cafe or canteen. The menu is built around breakfasts and hot sandwiches: an English breakfast, a "Royal" breakfast, an Arabic breakfast, shakshuka and mekhlama sit alongside grilled paninis and toasties, sandwiches, rice boxes, pasta, tortilla wraps, jacket potatoes, salads and lentil soup, with smoothies and milkshakes in 500ml cups. It carries a 4.1-star rating from 43 reviews on Uber Eats, and takes both collection and delivery orders. Leeds City Council gave it a food hygiene rating of 3 out of 5 at its June 2025 inspection.
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Trattoria Il Forno
Restaurant · Horsforth
Trattoria Il Forno is an Italian restaurant, pizzeria and gelateria at 85 Town Street in Horsforth, Leeds. It is known for wood-fired pizzas, and its menu also features Italian starters, pasta and desserts such as tiramisu. The restaurant is closed on Mondays.
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Truman Books
Bookshop · Restaurant · Pudsey
Truman Books is an independent bookshop and café at 95 Town Street, Farsley, opened in spring 2021 by Amanda Truman, who left a twenty-year career in the travel industry to start it. The company was incorporated in September 2020 and she is its sole director. It stocks new releases, older titles and children's books alongside gifts, cards and wrapping paper, orders in books for next-day collection, and serves coffee and homemade cake. Beyond the shelves it runs a storytime session, a book club and a Young Readers' Review Panel. In 2026 the Booksellers Association named it one of twenty Bookshop Champions for Independent Bookshop Week, which that year marked twenty years of the campaign.
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Umee Sushi
Restaurant · Takeaway · Chapel Allerton
Umee Sushi is an independent Japanese restaurant on Harrogate Road in the Chapel Allerton area of Leeds, opened in 2024 by Furun Zhen in a converted former pharmacy. The 36-seat restaurant serves sushi and other Japanese dishes, with reported menu items including bluefin tuna sushi and wagyu burgers, and has a bar alongside the kitchen. Its name is said to mean 'delicious sushi' in Japanese.
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V-Burgers
Restaurant · Kirkstall
V-Burgers is a burger takeaway on Burley Road in Burley, Leeds. Its menu covers burgers, wraps and sandwiches with sides such as loaded chips, nachos and halloumi fries, finished with milkshakes and desserts. A number of vegetarian and vegan choices are listed, including falafel, bean and paneer wraps and vegan chips. Orders are available for delivery and collection through Uber Eats.
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Vatra Bunicii
Restaurant · Harehills
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Via Verde
Restaurant · Meanwood
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Vicky Eateries
Restaurant · Headingley
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Vinoteca
Restaurant · Morley
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Wingdom
Restaurant · Morley
Wingdom is a chicken shop at Unit 1C, 54 Albion Street in Morley, south-west of Leeds, selling wings, boneless bites and burgers for collection and delivery. On its own site the business says its signature sauces are made fresh in house rather than bought in, and it takes orders through its website and its own iOS and Android app. It trades as WINGDOM LTD, which was incorporated in April 2021 as My Indian Chef Ltd and took the Wingdom name in February 2022. Companies House records Ubaid Ahmed and Zaineb Khan Ahmed as the company's two directors and its only people with significant control, both giving the Albion Street shop as their correspondence address. No corporate owner appears on the register.
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Zaap Thai Street Food
Restaurant · Headingley
Zaap Thai Street Food''s Headingley restaurant is at 4 St Anne''s Road. It is one of eight Zaap sites — the others in Leeds city centre, Nottingham, Newcastle, Sheffield, York, Durham and Manchester — rather than a single independent venue. The group was founded by Ban Kaewkraikhot, who grew up in Sukhothai in Thailand, ran a street food stall in Bangkok from the age of 18, and moved to the UK to work as a chef before opening her first Leeds restaurant, Sukhothai in Chapel Allerton, in 2002. The first Zaap followed in 2015; Headingley opened in 2020. The menu runs to more than 80 Thai street food dishes, and the rooms are fitted out to recall a Bangkok night market, with neon signage and tuk-tuks. The restaurants are walk-in only and take no bookings. The Headingley branch carries a 4.6-star Google rating from around 936 reviews.
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Zucco
Restaurant · Meanwood
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