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Leeds · 15 independence-checked
Independent businesses in Meanwood
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Beck And Call
Pub · Meanwood
Beck and Call is a pub on Stainbeck Road in Meanwood, Leeds. It opened in 2019 in the former True Briton and is operated by the Leeds independent group behind Belgrave Music Hall. The pub serves cask ales and home-cooked food, including Sunday lunches, and has front and rear outdoor areas and a car park.
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Brioche Burgers
Takeaway · Meanwood
Brioche Burgers is a burger and fried chicken takeaway at 17a Stonegate Road, Meanwood. The menu runs to chicken burgers built on seeded brioche buns, smashed beef burgers, wraps, pizzas and calzones, homemade kebabs, wings, fried chicken and peri peri chicken, family chicken buckets, kids'' meals, shakes and desserts. It sells for collection and through the main delivery platforms. Its own listings describe burgers made with fresh chicken breast, topped with salad and sauce on a seeded brioche bun, and peri peri chicken marinated for 24 hours before flame-grilling.
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Culture Coffee Shop
Café · Meanwood
Culture Coffee Shop is a cafe at The Leather Works on Meanwood Road in Meanwood, Leeds (LS7 2DZ). At its most recent Food Standards Agency inspection, in August 2025, the cafe was awarded a food hygiene rating of Very Good.
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Free to Learn Childminding
Childminder · Meanwood
Free to Learn Childminding is an Ofsted-registered childminding setting run by David Cahn and Jennifer Fletcher, caring for families across Meanwood and Headingley (LS6). The pair bring over fifteen years' experience, including work with children with SEND. Their approach draws on current early years research, centring on outdoor, self-directed play, caring relationships and plenty of reading for pleasure. They describe their practice as neurodiversity-affirming, with professional references and family reviews available on request.
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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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Kirbys Of Meanwood
Takeaway · Meanwood
Kirby''s of Meanwood is a fish and chip shop at 24 Stonegate Road that has traded since 1922. It was founded by the Kirby family and stayed with them until Robert Kirby, the founder''s great-grandson; Andy Crombleholme bought the business in 2020, weeks before the first lockdown, and also runs a second Kirby''s on Long Row in Horsforth. Fish and chips are cooked to order, with haddock the shop states is MSC-certified and sustainably sourced, and food packed in biodegradable boxes. Alongside the fryer there are pies and rotating specials such as seafood baskets and Irish spice bags. It reports being named in the top 50 fish and chip takeaways in the UK for four years running, most recently for 2026. It closes on Sundays.
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M T Catering Leeds Limited
Takeaway · Meanwood
MT Catering Leeds is a bespoke event caterer based in Meanwood. The limited company was incorporated in November 2023 and its directors are Christopher and Catherine Jackson; the business describes itself as family run. Functions are catered on site at the Myrtle Tavern — either in a garden marquee holding 80 or in the Lodge, which holds 40 — or the food is delivered to a home or another venue. Menus cover grazing tables, cold and hot buffets, barbecue and pizza, with plant-based, gluten-free, halal and kosher options available. Private functions at the venue carry a minimum catering spend of £300, below which a venue hire fee is charged instead.
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Paul Hartley Painters and Decorators
Painter & decorator · Meanwood
Paul Hartley Painters and Decorators is a family-run painting and decorating business based in Meanwood. It covers interior and exterior decorating, wallpapering, coving and cornice work, floor painting, spraying and paint stripping for residential and commercial customers. Established in 1974, the firm has decades of experience in the trade, serving Meanwood, Headingley and the rest of Leeds as well as further afield across Yorkshire.
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Spice Guyz
Takeaway · Meanwood
Spice Guyz is a takeaway at 62 Stainbeck Road in north Leeds. It trades through Spice Guyz Ltd, which was incorporated on 27 March 2026 and is registered at that address under the SIC code for take-away food shops and mobile food stands. Companies House records Md Samad Miah as its sole director and only person with significant control, holding 75% or more of the shares and voting rights and the right to appoint and remove directors.
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Stainbeck Stores
Grocer · Meanwood
Stainbeck Stores is an independent corner shop, off-licence and tobacconist at 152 Stainbeck Lane, on the street that runs through the centre of Chapel Allerton to meet Harrogate Road and Town Street at Stainbeck Corner. Local listings describe a classic neighbourhood convenience shop selling groceries, drinks and tobacco, with no Premier, Nisa, Londis or other symbol-group fascia attached to the name — consistent with independent local ownership. It keeps a modest online footprint: a Facebook page and directory listings, but no website of its own.
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Stonegate Wines
Grocer · Meanwood
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The Spice Delight
Takeaway · Meanwood
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Three Cottages Cafe
Café · Meanwood
Three Cottages Cafe is a licensed café and bar inside Meanwood Park, on Green Road in Leeds, on the route of the Meanwood Valley Trail. Discover Leeds describes the building as a converted stable and dates the cafe''s opening to 2018 — the year Three Cottages Cafe Ltd was incorporated at the same address. Companies House lists Robbie Vallance as its sole current director. It serves breakfast until 11.45am and lunch from noon to 4pm, then opens the bar in the early evening, with cakes and pastries, afternoon tea, a children''s menu and Sunday roasts alongside local coffee and draught lager. There is indoor seating, a heated and open-air terrace and garden space. The cafe says it welcomes dogs, takes private bookings for 20 to 100 people, and runs events including live music nights and barbecues. It holds a food hygiene rating of 5, awarded in November 2024.
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Via Verde
Restaurant · Meanwood
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Zucco
Restaurant · Meanwood
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