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Independent restaurants in Chapel Allerton
There are 16 independence-checked restaurants in Chapel Allerton, Leeds. Each has a recorded independence decision; none is part of a chain or franchise.
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- Regenerated 23 September 2026
- Oldest fact still standing · next reviewed by February 2027
All 16, alphabetically
Listed alphabetically. The order is not a ranking: commerce fields are structurally excluded from the candidate set and from the ordering, and there is no field money could move. How this order is produced
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Panorama Garden
Restaurant · Chapel Allerton
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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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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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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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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 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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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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