Hardens Guide to the Best Restaurants in Leeds
Hardens guides have spent 15 years compiling reviews of the best Leeds restaurants. On Hardens.com you'll find details and reviews of 144 restaurants in Leeds and our unique survey based approach to rating and reviewing Leeds restaurants gives you the best insight into the top restaurants in every area and of every type of cuisine.
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1. Sukhothai
Thai restaurant in Leeds
8 Regent St - LS7
Since its launch in 2002, Ban Kaewkraikhot’s lavishly decorated Thai venture in Chapel Allerton has become one of the best known destinations in the city, and spawned a number of offshoots. Ratings remain high here for its high quality all-round performance.
2. Prashad
Vegetarian restaurant in Leeds
137 Whitehall Rd - BD11
“Still ahead of the game” – this stalwart Gujarati achieves very consistent acclaim for its “wonderful, innovative Indian vegetarian food” (that’s “not just for veggies”).
3. Aagrah
Indian restaurant in Leeds
St Peter’s Sq - LS9
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4. Kendells Bistro
French restaurant in Leeds
St Peters Square - LS9
“Well known on the Leeds dining circuit” – this “brilliant bustling and always busy” favourite is “top notch for romance” and serves “well-prepared, classic dishes all sensibly priced (as is the wine list)”.
5. Issho
Japanese restaurant in Leeds
Victoria Gate, George St - LS2
“I must confess I thought it was going to be a classic style-over-substance place – actually it has style AND substance!” – D&D London’s sexy looking yearling on the rooftop of the Trinity shopping centre with terrace and sleek Kori Bar for cocktails wins nothing but praise for its “great Japanese small-plate dining possibilities” which encompass tempura, sushi, robatayaki, and so on.
6. Salvo’s
Italian restaurant in Leeds
115 & 107 Otley Road - LS6
The Dammone family’s Headingley stalwart, founded by Salvatore in 1976, is by many accounts “still the best Italian in Leeds”. Known for its “delicious” pasta and pizza, it has developed under sons Gip & John to incorporate a café/salumeria and offer ambitious ‘alter ego’ tasting menus. “They never rest on their laurels, the tastes and flavours are always developing”.
7. The Reliance
British, Modern restaurant in Leeds
76-78 North St - LS2
This sprawling bar and dining venue – a favourite of critic Marina O’Loughlin, apparently – serves “exceptional food” from a “varied specials menu”, including “home-cured bacon and black pudding” from the on-site charcuterie curing room. It also has its own small cinema, where you might eat ramen while watching ‘Tampopo’!
8. Tharavadu
Indian restaurant in Leeds
7- 8 Mill Hill - LS1
“If you judged it just from the outside, you might not go in” but you’d miss out on this very popular South Indian near the railway station. “Exceptional”, “fresh and different” Keralan dishes (“the fish curries are outstanding”) are served in a “very friendly” manner. “It’s incredibly busy so book”.
9. Iberica
Spanish restaurant in Leeds
Hepper House, 17a East Parade - LS1
Limited but upbeat feedback on the London-born and mostly -based tapas chain’s seventh outpost. Its main draw: the ultra-glam converted auction house setting, replete with lightwell, cocktail bar and wine bar/deli.
10. Art’s
British, Modern restaurant in Leeds
42 Call Lane - LS1
Proudly billing itself as Leeds’s original café/bar (it dates from the 1990s), this “relaxed” and “friendly” hangout, close to the Corn Exchange, “hits all the right spots”; the Med- and Asian-accented small or large plates are “as good as ever” and “service has improved” of late.
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