Independent African restaurants and takeaways in Leeds

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Restaurant · Harehills

Buga Place Restaurant is a Nigerian restaurant at 43 Compton Road, Harehills, LS9. Companies House shows Buga Place Restaurant Limited incorporated on 22 August 2022 and registered at the restaurant address, under the classification for licensed restaurants. Blessing Hayble has been the sole director since incorporation and is the only person with significant control, holding 75 per cent or more of the shares. The menu is organised around soups, pepper soups, yam dishes and rice: egusi, okro, oha and banga soups, nkwobi and fish pepper soup, yam porridge, grilled fish with plantain, garden egg sauce with yam, pounded yam, and jollof rice. Starters include meat pie, peppered ponmo and peppered snail. Uber Eats shows 4.2 stars from more than 230 reviews, and the hygiene rating is 4 out of 5.

Restaurant · Morley

Juicy African Kitchen is a restaurant at 51D Commercial Street in Morley, LS27 8AG. Its website describes Nigerian and wider African cooking, with jollof rice, suya and soups. Its Just Eat menu adds puff puff, meat pie, beef suya, assorted meat pepper soup and gizdodo. Companies House lists Juicy African Kitchen Limited, incorporated on 17 February 2020. It was rated 5, very good, at its last food hygiene inspection in June 2026.

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Restaurant · Harehills

La Katangaise Cuisine is a Congolese restaurant and takeaway at 144 Roundhay Road, LS8, named for the Katanga region. Companies House shows La Katangaise Cuisine Limited incorporated in April 2021, with Gracia Tshibwabwa as sole director and the only person with significant control, holding 75 per cent or more of the shares and voting rights. A second director served between June 2022 and March 2024. The menu is grouped into small bites, sides, stews, grills and vegetable dishes, and includes beef brochettes, smoked turkey, chicken legs, beef spring rolls, king prawns cooked in garlic and butter, and mikate, the puff puffs sold ten to a portion. The Food Standards Agency inspected the restaurant on 29 November 2024 and awarded a hygiene rating of 5 out of 5.

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Restaurant · Harehills

Piassa Bar and Restaurant is an Ethiopian restaurant and bar at 81-83 Roundhay Road, LS8. Companies House records the company as incorporated in April 2017 and controlled by Yakob Tadese, its sole serving director, who holds 75 per cent or more of the shares and voting rights. It says it is named after Piassa, a neighbourhood at the heart of Ethiopia's capital. The menu is built around shared platters — a veggie combo, a meat combo and the house Piassa Special — alongside tibs, doro wot, kitfo and shiro, with vegetarian and vegan dishes throughout, and the kitchen also runs a traditional Ethiopian coffee ceremony. It opens at 2pm daily, closing at 10pm from Monday to Thursday and 11.30pm from Friday to Sunday. Tripadvisor lists it at 4.9 out of 5 from 153 reviews.