Leeds / Chapel Allerton / Indian food
Independent Indian restaurants and takeaways in Chapel Allerton
5 independence-checked businesses. Each has a recorded independence decision; none is part of a chain or franchise, and none paid to be listed.
Grouped by what each place's own page says it is or offers: its About paragraph, its name, and the services or products its page lists. It is a grouping of those words, not a category we assigned, and we would rather leave a place out than list it wrongly.
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All 5, alphabetically
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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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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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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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Sardar Jee
Takeaway · Chapel Allerton
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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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 same, elsewhere
- Independent Indian restaurants and takeaways in Leeds — 14 checked.
- Independent Indian restaurants and takeaways in Headingley — 3 checked.
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