Independent places for kebabs and shawarma in Leeds
29 independent businesses we've checked. None is part of a chain or franchise, and none paid to be listed.
This list follows what each place's own page says it is or offers, not a category we chose. If we're not sure a place fits, we leave it out.
- Updated 8 November 2026
- Next check due March 2027
All 29, alphabetically
The order is not a ranking: nobody can pay to be on this list, or to be higher up it. How we check
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A K Shawarma
Takeaway · Grocer · Harehills
A K Shawarma is a Middle Eastern takeaway at 317 Harehills Lane, LS9. Companies House shows AK Shawarma Ltd incorporated on 29 October 2025 and registered under the classification for take-away food shops and mobile food stands. Shadan Mahdi Ahmed is the sole director and the only person with significant control, holding 75 per cent or more of the shares and voting rights. The delivery menu is built around lamb and chicken shawarma, with falafel and halloumi grill boxes, rice boxes, pizzas, fatayer and calzones. Uber Eats lists the shop under Turkish, Middle Eastern and Mediterranean. The Food Standards Agency holds it on the register as a retailer rather than a takeaway, and its inspection of 21 January 2026 produced a hygiene rating of 3 out of 5.
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Ali's Shawarma & Pizzas
Takeaway · Harehills
Ali's Shawarma & Pizzas is a takeaway at 140 Roundhay Road, LS8. Companies House shows Ali's Shawarma and Pizza's Ltd incorporated on 5 September 2025 and registered at the shop address, with Ayesha Rani as sole director and the only person with significant control, holding 75 per cent or more of the shares and voting rights. The menu is split between shawarma and doner kebab, pizzas, burgers and wrap meals, with starters, sides, milkshakes and desserts alongside. The Food Standards Agency records the business as a takeaway and sandwich shop and inspected it on 5 January 2026, awarding a hygiene rating of 3 out of 5. Just Eat currently lists the shop as collection only, with delivery suspended for want of couriers.
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Baghdad Shawarma
Restaurant · Harehills
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Brioche Burgers
Takeaway · Meanwood
Brioche Burgers is a burger and fried chicken takeaway at 17a Stonegate Road, Meanwood. The menu runs to chicken burgers built on seeded brioche buns, smashed beef burgers, wraps, pizzas and calzones, homemade kebabs, wings, fried chicken and peri peri chicken, family chicken buckets, kids'' meals, shakes and desserts. It sells for collection and through the main delivery platforms. Its own listings describe burgers made with fresh chicken breast, topped with salad and sauce on a seeded brioche bun, and peri peri chicken marinated for 24 hours before flame-grilling.
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Casa Gyros Grill
Restaurant · Takeaway · Horsforth
Casa Gyros Grill is a Greek gyros grill and takeaway at 77 New Road Side in Horsforth, Leeds. It serves Greek-style gyros, doner and grilled kebabs alongside items such as pizzas, burgers, salads and rice boxes, for collection and delivery. The Horsforth shop trades as Horsforth Casa Gyros Grill Limited.
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Chicago Pizza And Balti Bazaar
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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Faheems Biryanis
Takeaway · Harehills
Faheems Biryanis is a takeaway at 307 Roundhay Road in Harehills. Its Uber Eats menu centres on Hyderabadi dum biryanis, with chicken, lamb, vegetable and egg versions, and also lists chicken mandi, lamb nihari, tikka and kebab starters, Hyderabadi desserts and a kids' meal. It was rated 4, good, at its last food hygiene inspection in February 2025.
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Guiseley Pizza And Kebabs/ Waffle Deluxe
Takeaway · Guiseley
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I Am Doner
Takeaway · Headingley
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Istanbul Kebab/Torino
Takeaway · Otley
Istanbul Kebab/Torino is a takeaway at 52-54 Westgate in Otley, LS21 3AS. Its Just Eat menu covers home-made kebabs, pizza, parmesans, jumbo wraps, chicken burgers and loaded fries, with a kids' menu. The kebabs include donner cooked on a spit and lamb cubes cooked in a charcoal oven. It was rated 4, good, at its last food hygiene inspection in February 2026.
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Jahans Fusion
Takeaway · Armley
Jahan's Fusion is a South Asian takeaway at 22-24 Whingate Road, Armley, in Leeds LS12. Its Just Eat menu is arranged in sections including appetisers, tandoori specials, biryani, classic dishes, vegetarian dishes, kebabs, wraps, burgers, loaded fries and munch boxes, and describes its fish masala as Bangladeshi fish pan-fried with onions. Tripadvisor lists the business at 22 Whingate Road and gives its cuisine as Indian. Jahan's Fusion Ltd was incorporated on 24 October 2025, with its registered office at 24 Whingate Road and a single director, Ahmaan Ahad Miah. Its registered nature of business is SIC code 56103, "take-away food shops and mobile food stands".
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Kebab Wala
Takeaway · Pudsey
Kebab Wala is a takeaway at 793 Leeds and Bradford Road, on the Bramley side of Stanningley. It trades as Kebabwala Ltd, incorporated on 20 August 2019; Adeel Ibrahim Dar has been its director since December 2025. The menu covers kebabs and South Asian dishes — samosas, pakora and spring rolls to start, chicken, lamb, keema and vegetable curries, and doner, seekh and chicken tikka kebabs — alongside twelve-inch pizzas, burgers, wraps, sandwiches, children's meals and sides. Orders are taken through its own website and mobile app as well as through delivery platforms.
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Kings Pizzas And Curries
Takeaway · Cross Gates
Kings Pizzas And Curries is a takeaway at 77 Pendas Way in Cross Gates, LS15. Its Uber Eats menu is split into curries and rice dishes, kebabs including donner kebab on naan, pizzas and calzones, burgers and wraps, and desserts such as gelato scoops and milkshakes. It was rated 3, generally satisfactory, at its last food hygiene inspection in August 2025.
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Leeds Shawarma
Restaurant · Harehills
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Leeds Top Pizza
Takeaway · Harehills
Leeds Top Pizza is a pizza and kebab takeaway at 244 Roundhay Road, LS8. Companies House shows Leeds Top Pizza Ltd incorporated on 27 November 2025 and registered at the shop address, under the classification for take-away food shops. Tareq Latifi is the sole director and the only person with significant control, recorded as holding between 50 and 75 per cent of the voting rights. The menu covers pizzas and nine-inch calzones, burgers, kebabs, wraps, fish meals, chips, salads and rice dishes, with kids' meals, desserts, ice cream and milkshakes alongside, and a run of meal deals and combo boxes. Listed items include a Roundhay Special pizza, a tandoori chicken calzone and lamb shish kebab with rice.
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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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Low Lane Cafe
Café · Horsforth
Low Lane Cafe is an independent café at 256A Low Lane in Horsforth, Leeds. It serves Persian street food alongside café fare, with dishes including falafel wraps, Persian-style sausage gyros and freshly made samosas. It is open daily and registered as Low Lane Cafe Limited.
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Mammy's
Takeaway · Armley
Mammy's is a takeaway at The Desert Bar And Grills, 55 Town Street in Armley, LS12. Its website lists Greek gyros, souvlaki and halloumi, slow-roasted meats, homemade dips, salads and Greek pastries. The site says it draws on over 25 years of experience from the original Mammy's in Thessaloniki. Companies House lists Mammy's Food Services Ltd, incorporated on 2 April 2026.
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Morley Kebab House
Takeaway · Morley
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Morris Pizza
Takeaway · Bramley
Morris Pizza is a takeaway at 11 Broadlea Hill in Bramley, LS13. Its Just Eat menu runs from meal deals, pizzas and calzones to burgers, kebabs, wraps, fried chicken, pastas, kids meals and desserts. The set menus there offer any two, or any three, thin base pizzas, and the sides include garlic bread and onion rings. It was rated 5, very good, at its last food hygiene inspection in August 2025.
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Olympus Grill
Restaurant · Takeaway · Headingley
Olympus is a Greek street food restaurant on Otley Road in Headingley, Leeds, trading as Olympus Greek Street Food. It is a small venue with an open grill line and around 20 covers plus pavement seating, serving dishes such as gyros, souvlaki, fresh salads and other traditional Greek food for eating in, collection and delivery.
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Pitta Fan
Café · Horsforth
Pitta Fan is a Greek street food outlet serving dishes such as souvlaki and gyros. It is listed at 75B New Road Side in Horsforth, Leeds, while the business's confirmed premises trades at 641 Roundhay Road in Oakwood, Leeds.
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Pizza Crust
Takeaway · Headingley
Pizza Crust is a takeaway at 52B North Lane in Headingley, Leeds. It serves pizzas along with burgers, kebabs and chips, and offers collection and delivery, including through platforms such as Deliveroo. It opens daily from late morning until late at night.
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Rajas Pizza
Takeaway · Harehills
Rajas Pizza is a takeaway at 248 Roundhay Road in Harehills, LS8. Its website lists pizzas, kebabs, burgers and samosas, along with paninis, wrap meals, chicken parmesans, rolls, dips, desserts and garlic bread. It was rated 3, generally satisfactory, at its last food hygiene inspection in September 2025.
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Santorini Bar And Grill
Café · Headingley
Santorini Bar and Grill is an independent, family-run restaurant on Otley Road in Headingley, Leeds, serving Greek and Turkish Mediterranean food. The menu includes meze platters and kebabs as well as dishes such as lamb kleftiko and moussaka, with vegetarian and vegan options, available to eat in, collect or for delivery.
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Shai Nan Kebab
Takeaway · Harehills
Shai Nan Kebab is a takeaway at 234-236 Roundhay Road, LS8, serving Pakistani food and kebabs. The name has been trading at the address for well over a decade — reviews of it were being published in 2013 — while the current company, Shai Nan Kebab Ltd, was incorporated in August 2024. Diwan Ali is its sole serving director and gives the shop as his correspondence address. The halal directory Zabihah records that a halal sign is displayed on the premises and that the food served is certified halal. Leeds City Council inspected the shop in February 2025 and gave it a food hygiene rating of 5 out of 5, the top score, with "Good" marks across hygienic food handling, cleanliness of facilities and management of food safety.
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Square About
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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Sultan Kebab House
Restaurant · Harehills
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Zm Zm Bakery
Bakery · Grocer · Harehills
Zm Zm Bakery is a bakery and hot-food counter at 50 Harehills Road, LS8. It sells bread, pastries and baklava alongside shawarma and falafel sandwiches, samosas, bhajis, savoury pastries and naan, and reviewers report most items priced between £1 and £4 and the shop taking cash only. Listings give its hours as 9am to 8pm from Monday to Saturday and 9am to 7.30pm on Sunday. The name has been trading at the address since at least 2024, when Leeds City Council inspected it and gave it a food hygiene rating of 4 out of 5; the present company, Zm Zm Bakery Ltd, was incorporated in January 2026, with Nawzad Talib Ali as its sole director and holder of 75 per cent or more of the shares. It holds 4.4 out of 5 from 641 reviews on Sluurpy and 4.1 out of 5 from 14 on Tripadvisor.
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