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Independent bars in Leeds
There are 15 independence-checked Bar businesses in Leeds, across 6 areas we cover: Chapel Allerton, Headingley, Horsforth, Kirkstall, Morley and Pudsey. Each has a recorded independence decision; none is part of a chain or franchise.
The rest of Leeds is not covered, and this page says nothing about it.
Open any of them to see its address, how to reach it, and where every fact about it came from and when it is next due a check.
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All 15, 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
Every entry names the area it is in. The area is where trust lives: a vouch in one area counts for that area, and nothing on this page mixes how up to date one area is into another's.
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Assembly Bar And Kitchen
Bar · Headingley
Assembly Bar and Kitchen is a café and bar within HEART, the community and arts centre on Bennett Road in Headingley, Leeds. It serves coffee, home-baked cakes and café food alongside local cask ales, and doubles as a cultural venue with live music, film screenings and other events. The venue has step-free access and free parking.
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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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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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Heist Bar & Grill
Bar · Morley
Heist Bar And Grill is a bar and restaurant at 44 Queen Street in Morley, south-west of Leeds. It trades as HEIST BAR & GRILL LIMITED, incorporated in September 2023 and registered under public houses and bars, with the premises as its registered office. Companies House filings show it is owned and controlled by Paul Andrew Sharman and Michelle Louise Sharman, the company's two directors, each holding between 25 and 50 per cent of the shares and voting rights. The kitchen lists steaks, burgers, pizzas and tapas, with separate children's, Sunday roast and bottomless brunch menus. It opens Wednesday to Sunday and is closed Mondays and Tuesdays. The bar programmes quiz nights, DJs, karaoke, drag and live music, and shows sport across eight screens. It holds a Good food hygiene rating from Leeds City Council, inspected in June 2025.
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Lento Cafe And Bar
Café · Bar · Headingley
Lento Cafe & Bar is an independent cafe and bar at 21A North Lane in Headingley, Leeds. It serves espresso-based coffee, all-day brunch and light lunches, along with a selection of natural wine and craft beer.
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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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Melodie 71
Bar · Kirkstall
Melodie 71 is a bar on Commercial Road in Kirkstall, Leeds, which opened in July 2023 in a former furniture shop. It is run by four co-owners, brothers Ricky and Shaun Read together with Marco and Tony, and serves cocktails and a rotating selection of beers. The bar hosts DJs and has an outdoor beer garden, and introduced an Asian-inspired food menu through a partnership with Kirkstall street-food company Hoi Polloi.
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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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Once Upon A Vine
Bar · Off-licence · Horsforth
Once Upon a Vine is an independent wine shop and bar at 21 Town Street in Horsforth, Leeds, opened in 2018 by Simon Cocks, formerly a manager at Majestic Wines. It offers wine by the glass and bottle, including natural wines, alongside cheese and charcuterie boards, and hosts regular wine tasting events. The venue seats around twenty.
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Pardon Me
Bar · Pudsey
Pardon Me is a record bar at Sunny Bank Mills on Town Street, Farsley — the former woollen mill, founded in 1829, where worsted production ended in 2008 and which is now let to independent businesses, studios and galleries. It was opened in 2026 by Scott Rapson and Laurie Sealeaf, who spent three years visiting listening bars in Athens, Paris, Berlin and Lisbon before starting it. It serves cocktails, natural wines, organic beers and coffee, and is built around a high-fidelity sound system using Danley speakers, with a vinyl collection on the walls and playlists running through hip hop, soul, jazz, funk, deep house and disco. Rapson, who has been DJing for 36 years, describes the model as the Japanese jazz kissa, and the name as a joke about how often he swears.
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Residence Bar Cafe Kitchen
Café · Bar · Headingley
Residence Bar Cafe Kitchen is an all-day cafe and bar on North Lane in Headingley, Leeds, opened in 2023 by the team behind Residence 74 in Ireland Wood. It works as a daytime brunch and coffee spot that becomes a cocktail bar in the evening, and also runs bottomless brunch and dinner service. It is part of a small independent group of Residence venues in the Leeds area.
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Seven Hills
Bar · Morley
Seven Hills is a micro bar at 1 Brunswick Street in Morley, south-west of Leeds, near Morley Bottoms. CAMRA describes it as a small one-roomed bar with wooden flooring, bar front and furniture and portraits on the walls. Three handpumps serve Saltaire Blonde as the regular alongside changing beers from Daleside, Theakston, Titanic and Rudgate, and its cask beer holds a five-star Cask Marque rating. Keg lines include Northern Monk Faith and Veltins Pilsner. It opens Wednesday to Sunday and is closed Mondays and Tuesdays. CAMRA records a garden, step-free access, Wi-Fi, live music and a fortnightly Wednesday quiz, and lists it as family- and dog-friendly. The company registered at the address, U32 Properties Ltd, is classified under public houses and bars and is controlled by three named individuals.
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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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Thomas Hardy's Irish Bar
Pub · Bar · Horsforth
Thomas Hardy's Irish Bar is a pub at 8-10 Town Street in Horsforth, Leeds. It opened in January 2025 as an Irish-style bar serving food, with live music several nights a week. Its name honours the Hardy family, whose local roots are traced to an Irishman, Thomas Hardy, who settled in Horsforth in the 1640s.
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Wayward Wines
Off-licence · Bar · Chapel Allerton
An independent natural-wine shop and bar on Regent Street, opened by Becs Winlow, Joss Ainsworth and Steve Nuttall — three friends who had worked together at the Leeds bar The Reliance. It focuses on natural, low-intervention, organic and biodynamic wines, mostly from France, Italy and across Europe, sold by the bottle to take away or drink in, and by the glass. It describes itself as the first venue in Leeds to focus on natural wine when it opened in 2017, and serves locally sourced cheese, charcuterie and sourdough alongside the list.
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Each of these is a list of at least 3 independence-checked places across Leeds, grouped by what their own pages say. Alphabetical, like this one.
By area
- Independent bars in Headingley — 7 checked.
- Independent bars in Horsforth — 3 checked.
An area appears here only where we hold 3 or more. The others are counted in the 15 above and have no page of their own yet.
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