Independent places to eat and drink in Chapel Allerton

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Takeaway · Chapel Allerton

Cabin Caribbean Cuisine is a Caribbean takeaway at 7 Reginald Row in Chapeltown, Leeds. Its menu includes dishes such as jerk chicken, curried mutton, oxtail, and ackee and saltfish, with sides including rice and peas, fried plantain, callaloo and hard food. Food is available for collection and delivery.

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Captain Thornton's is an independent fish and chip takeaway at 102 Harrogate Road, Chapel Allerton, founded in 2014 by James and Emma Thornton. The couple remain its directors, and also run a second Captain Thornton's shop on Dib Lane in east Leeds — a small family operation rather than a chain. Fish is cooked to order using sustainably caught stock and British potatoes, with vegetarian and monthly gluten-free options. The shop holds the Food Standards Agency's top hygiene rating of 5, last inspected in July 2024, and a 4.2-star Google rating, with reviewers praising the friendly staff and consistent portions. It trades Tuesday to Saturday for walk-in collection, with delivery via Uber Eats, and closes on Sundays and Mondays.

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Takeaway · Chapel Allerton

Chicago Pizza and Balti Bazaar is a takeaway at 54 Harrogate Road in Moortown, Leeds. It serves stone-baked pizzas alongside Indian dishes including baltis and curries, as well as burgers, kebabs and fried chicken, with food available for collection and delivery.

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Bakery · Café · Chapel Allerton

Cinnammmm is an independent bakery-café on Harrogate Road in Chapel Allerton, specialising in American-style cinnamon bons. Founder Mina Kashmir began baking from home in July 2020 after being furloughed from her events-industry job, then spent five years running Cinnammmm as a home bakery and wholesale supplier to around a dozen independent Leeds cafés before opening this first permanent café in December 2025. The menu centres on cinnamon bons in flavours such as vanilla cream cheese, Nutella, Biscoff, and caramel and pecan, alongside savoury versions, vegan options, cupcakes, brownies and coffee. It holds a 4.9-star Google rating, with customers praising the freshness of the bakes and the welcoming, personal atmosphere.

Restaurant · Chapel Allerton

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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.

Café · Chapel Allerton

Crust & Crumb is a takeaway deli and bakery at 110B Harrogate Road, Chapel Allerton. It was founded in 2010 by Nicola Newlove, who grew up on a North Yorkshire farm; Companies House records her as the company''s director since it was incorporated that September at the same address. What began as a bakery now runs a daily counter of homemade brownies, sausage rolls, sandwiches, salads and soups, alongside breakfasts, lunch boxes, pastries, pies, wraps, cakes, coffee and jams. Much of the stock is named to its supplier: meat from Sykes House Farm, bread from Bondgate Bakery, eggs from Ian Taylor''s, oil from Yorkshire Rapeseed Oil, jams from Bracken Hill and pork pies from Andrew Voakes of Wixley. It opens Tuesday to Saturday, 8am to 3pm, with hot food served until 2pm.

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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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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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Further North is a neighbourhood bar on Harrogate Road in the Chapel Allerton area of Leeds. It is part of North Bar, an independent Leeds-based bar operator established in 1997, and serves craft beer, wine and cocktails. An upstairs room is available for private hire.

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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Takeaway · Chapel Allerton

Harbour City Chinese Take-Away is a Chinese takeaway at 544 Scott Hall Road in the Scott Hall area of Leeds (LS7 3RA), serving a menu of Chinese dishes for collection. At its most recent Food Standards Agency inspection, in October 2024, its hygienic food handling was rated Very Good.

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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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Café · Chapel Allerton

House Of Koko is an independent brunch and lunch house on Harrogate Road in north Leeds, serving coffee, breakfast and daytime dishes. The Harrogate Road cafe was the business's first site, and it has since opened further branches in Oakwood and Leeds city centre. Brunch bookings are not taken, and orders are also available through Deliveroo.

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Takeaway · Chapel Allerton

Ichi Sushi is a Japanese takeaway on Scott Hall Road in the Chapel Allerton area of Leeds, specialising in sushi. The Scott Hall Road shop is one of several Ichi Sushi branches in the wider area, alongside sites in Rawdon, Hunslet and Harrogate. It trades mainly as an evening takeaway and delivery service, and is also listed on Uber Eats.

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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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Café · Chapel Allerton

Leeds Cakes is a cake maker at 44 Scott Wood Lane in the Chapeltown area of Leeds, listed in the national food hygiene register as catering premises. Cake and wedding directories list it as producing hand-decorated celebration and wedding cakes to order for the north Leeds area.

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An independent speciality coffee shop on Stainbeck Lane, trading in Chapel Allerton since 2013 and owner-operated by Lou Henry, who opened the first Opposite — opposite Leeds University — back in 2006. The coffee is roasted in collaboration with Leeds roaster North Star, alongside loose-leaf teas, a brunch menu and homemade cakes, with vegan and gluten-free options. It is a daytime place — coffee, brunch and cake rather than a full restaurant. Lou Henry opened a second Opposite in Meanwood in April 2024.

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Pizza Top & Karahi House is a takeaway at 542 Scott Hall Road in the Chapel Allerton area of Leeds. It serves pizzas alongside karahi curries and burgers, and offers both collection and delivery through its own website as well as Uber Eats and Deliveroo.

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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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An independent, pure-vegetarian Indian takeaway on Newton Parade, at the Chapeltown Road end of the Chapel Allerton ward. It is a single-site collection-and-delivery kitchen serving Punjabi and North Indian street food — samosa and aloo tikki chaats, kulchas, parathas and vada pav — with vegan-friendly wraps and a paneer tikka pizza. It opens Tuesday to Sunday, afternoon into the evening.

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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.

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 is a restaurant listed at 12 Blake Grove, Potternewton, in the Chapel Allerton area of Leeds.

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Takeaway · Chapel Allerton

Silver Vase is an independent Cantonese takeaway at 2 Stainbeck Lane in Chapel Allerton, open in the evenings and closed on Tuesdays. A single, locally run shop with no group or chain affiliation found, it cooks classic British-Chinese dishes to order — chicken balls, spring rolls, beef chow mein, salt and pepper chicken wings and special fried rice among them. It is rated around 4.5 out of 5 from more than 230 Google reviews, and just under 4 out of 5 on Tripadvisor, with customers describing the food as fresh, generously portioned and quick to turn around.

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Takeaway · Chapel Allerton

Square About Pizza is an independent takeaway on Potternewton Lane in Chapel Allerton, serving pizza alongside burgers, kebabs, wraps and sides for collection and delivery. It has traded from the same address since at least 2022, taking orders through its own online ordering site as well as Just Eat, Uber Eats and Deliveroo. Reviews across the platforms are generally positive, with ratings between 4.2 and 4.5 out of 5 from several hundred customers, who often praise the fast delivery and generous portions.

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Takeaway · Chapel Allerton

Stacked House of Food is a smash burger, loaded fries and coffee spot at 60 Harrogate Road, describing itself as 'Chapel Allerton's bold new food joint', open for dine-in and takeaway. The menu centres on smash burgers such as the Smoke Stack, loaded fries, thick shakes and barista coffee, plus weekend brunch; the kitchen says its beef is locally sourced and halal-certified. It is a new arrival: Companies House shows Stacked House of Food Ltd was incorporated in September 2025 by sole director Kautar Salah Fisher, registered at the same Harrogate Road address — an independent, owner-run single site rather than a chain.

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Bakery · Chapel Allerton

Stacy's Bakehouse is a bakery on Harrogate Road in the Chapel Allerton area of Leeds.

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Bakery · Chapel Allerton

An independent bakery-café at 182 Harrogate Road, run by baker David Bennett, a former Marco Pierre White chef. It is best known for cupcakes — its Mango and Banana cupcake was named Britain's Best Cupcake in 2010 — alongside homemade bread, cakes, warm cheese scones and brownies. The small, vintage-styled café also serves sandwiches and afternoon tea, and has run evening supper clubs. It trades from this single Chapel Allerton site.

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Talk of the Town Fisheries is an independent fish and chip shop on Stainbeck Road in Meanwood, north Leeds. Its fish is fried in beef dripping, and the menu runs from battered fish, scampi and fish cakes to pies and fritters, with sides such as mushy peas, curry sauce and gravy. It trades on a walk-in and collection basis and holds a five-star food hygiene rating.

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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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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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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.