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Independent businesses in Cross Gates
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Al Talia
Takeaway · Cross Gates
Altalia is a pizza takeaway at 92 Cross Gates Road in Cross Gates, east Leeds. It trades through Altalia Ltd, incorporated in July 2024 and registered under the SIC code for unlicensed restaurants and cafés. Companies House records Zikr Hussain as its sole director and only person with significant control, holding 75% or more of the shares and voting rights. Its own ordering site describes the business as an authentic pizza takeaway and also lists burgers, with orders taken online for delivery. The Food Standards Agency registers the premises as a restaurant, café or canteen, and at its inspection in August 2025 rated all three assessed areas — hygienic food handling, the cleanliness and condition of the building, and management of food safety — as good.
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Gelato Dreams
Takeaway · Cross Gates
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Livorno
Takeaway · Cross Gates
Livorno is a takeaway at 52 Austhorpe Road in Cross Gates, east Leeds. Its own ordering site lists pizza, burgers and kebabs, taken online for delivery. The Food Standards Agency registers the premises as a takeaway and sandwich shop. The business trades through Livorno Ltd, incorporated in April 2024 and registered under the SIC code for take-away food shops and mobile food stands. Khatija Begum is its sole director and company secretary and its only registered person with significant control. At the most recent inspection on record, in February 2025, the Food Standards Agency rated hygienic food handling and management of food safety generally satisfactory, and found improvement necessary in the cleanliness and condition of the building.
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Malcolm Michaels Quality Butcher's
Butcher · Cross Gates
Malcolm Michaels Quality Butcher's is a butcher and delicatessen at unit 39 of Crossgates Shopping Centre, on Station Road in Cross Gates, east Leeds. The shop is the registered office of Malcolm Michaels Quality Butchers Limited, incorporated in November 2015 under the SIC code for the retail sale of meat and meat products in specialised stores. Companies House records Malcolm John Leary as holding 75% or more of the shares and voting rights; a second person with significant control, Michael Lawrence Saynor, ceased in November 2021. The Yorkshire Post reported that the business traded on Butcher's Row in Leeds Kirkgate Market for around 30 years before leaving the market in 2022 over rents and running costs, and planned shops at Crossgates, Penny Hill in Hunslet and Bramley. The shopping centre lists the shop as opening 8am to 6pm Monday to Saturday and 10am to 4pm on Sundays and bank holidays.
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Mini Streets
Restaurant · Cross Gates
Mini Streets is a children's role-play centre in units 62-63 of Crossgates Shopping Centre, on Station Road in Cross Gates, east Leeds. It took over a vacant retail unit and opened on 1 August 2026 under the name Little Streets. The company behind it was incorporated in January 2026 as Little Streets at Crossgates Ltd and changed its name to Mini Streets Ltd on 1 September 2026. Leigh Summer Ellis and Alex Mia Ellis are its two directors and its two registered persons with significant control. The centre is aimed at children aged 0 to 10 and is laid out as a miniature town, with a supermarket and café, a veterinary clinic, police and fire stations, a beauty boutique, a construction zone and a sensory room. It also takes bookings for birthday parties and exclusive hire.
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Oceans
Restaurant · Cross Gates
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Shuang Hsi
Takeaway · Cross Gates
Shuang Hsi is a Chinese takeaway at 10-10A Barwick Road in Stanks, east Leeds. It trades through Shuang Hsi Limited, incorporated in October 2019 and registered under the SIC code for take-away food shops and mobile food stands. Companies House records Xiuping Huang as its sole director and only person with significant control, holding 75% or more of the shares and voting rights, with a correspondence address at the shop. The business takes orders through its own website for collection and home delivery. The Food Standards Agency registers the premises as a takeaway and sandwich shop, and at its inspection in September 2024 rated all three assessed areas — hygienic food handling, the cleanliness and condition of the building, and management of food safety — as good.
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Smash Official
Takeaway · Cross Gates
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Spence Deli
Delicatessen · Cross Gates
Spence Deli is a sandwich shop and delicatessen at 8 Barwick Road in Stanks, east Leeds. The shop address is also the registered office of Spence Deli Limited, incorporated in January 2022 and registered under the SIC code for take-away food shops and mobile food stands. Companies House records Carol Munro as its sole director and only person with significant control, holding 75% or more of the shares and voting rights. Menu listings for the shop, which also trades as M.R. Spence Deli, cover breakfast sandwiches and wraps, made-to-order hot and cold sandwiches, jacket potatoes, cakes and pastries, and hot drinks, with morning-to-early-afternoon opening. The Food Standards Agency classifies the premises as a retailer and awarded it a food hygiene rating of 5 at its inspection in July 2025.
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The Leodis
Pub · Cross Gates
The Leodis is a pub on Green Lane in Whitkirk, east Leeds. The Food Standards Agency registers it as a pub, bar or nightclub and gave it a food hygiene rating of 5 at its inspection in October 2018. A pub directory listing describes it as a two-roomed, brick-built local with Sky Sports and a pool table, and sets out a weekly pattern of free pool on Tuesdays, a quiz on Wednesdays and discos on Fridays and Sundays.
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