Independent places to eat and drink in Harehills

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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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Café · Harehills

Aisha's Cafe is a café and takeaway at 159 Roundhay Road, Harehills, LS8. Companies House shows Aisha's Cafe Limited incorporated in September 2020 and registered at the shop address. Rehana Awan has been a director since November 2022 and, since June 2023, the sole person with significant control. The café describes itself as serving "a variety of Indian, Pakistani, and English cuisine" with "a wide selection of vegetarian dishes", and advertises all-day breakfast, fresh coffee and homemade cakes. Its delivery menu runs from parathas, samosa chaat and pakora through karahi and rice dishes to an Afghani section of lamb and chicken pilau, full English breakfasts and burgers. It opens 09:00 to 19:00 Wednesday to Monday and 09:00 to 16:00 on Tuesday. Uber Eats shows 4.1 stars from more than 800 reviews.

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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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Takeaway · Harehills

Bitez is a fast-food takeaway at 301 Harehills Lane, LS9. Companies House shows Bitez (Yorkshire) Limited incorporated on 22 September 2025 and registered at the shop address, under the classification for take-away food shops. Tanuja Srinivasa has been a director since incorporation and is the only active person with significant control on the register, recorded as holding between 25 and 50 per cent of the shares. The menu covers pizzas, calzones and parmesans, gourmet and standard burgers, kebabs, wraps and baguettes, southern fried chicken, loaded fries and baked potatoes, with waffles, cookie dough, sundaes and milkshakes on the dessert side. Uber Eats tags the shop as halal and shows a 3.3-star rating from 54 reviews.

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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.

Takeaway · Harehills

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Restaurant · Harehills

Chopan is an Afghan restaurant and takeaway at 219 Roundhay Road, Harehills, LS8. Companies House shows Chopan Limited incorporated on 9 October 2018, with Abdul Karim Merzai as sole director and the only person with significant control since that date, holding 75 per cent or more of the shares and voting rights. The restaurant serves Afghan food alongside a wider menu and says of itself that it aims to offer "the best value for money, services and food around". It opens daily from 13:00 to 23:00 and takes orders by telephone on 0113 240 7666 as well as online for delivery across Leeds. The Food Standards Agency records it as a restaurant or café and inspected it on 11 November 2024, awarding a hygiene rating of 3 out of 5.

Takeaway · Harehills

Restaurant · Harehills

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Dessert shop · Restaurant · Harehills

Kings and Queens Desserts is a dessert shop at Unit 2, 164 Harehills Lane, LS8. Companies House shows Kings & Queens Desserts Ltd incorporated in April 2022 and registered at the shop address. Cristal Senior has been a director and person with significant control since incorporation; Carlos Isaac Kassimo Dos Santos was appointed a second director in August 2025 and is also recorded on the register of persons with significant control. The shop's own site describes its range as running "from waffles and creamy milkshakes to decadent cakes, sundaes, and signature creations", with doughnuts and cheesecake also shown, and it offers both collection and delivery. The Food Standards Agency records it as a restaurant or café and inspected it on 12 March 2026, awarding a hygiene rating of 5 out of 5.

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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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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.

Takeaway · Harehills

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Café · Harehills

Multaqa Cafe is a café at 93 Harehills Road, LS8. Companies House shows Multaqa Cafe Ltd incorporated on 10 December 2024 and registered at that address, under the classification for unlicensed restaurants and cafés — the category used for places serving food and drink without a licence for alcohol. Majzob Ali Taher has been a director and person with significant control since the company was formed, holding 75 per cent or more of the voting rights and the right to appoint and remove directors. Abdoulahi Jabir Hamid was appointed a second director in April 2026 and is also recorded on the register of persons with significant control. Both are recorded as resident in England.

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Takeaway · Harehills

My's Oriental Cuisine is an independent Chinese takeaway at 45 Roseville Road in Sheepscar, at the LS8 end of the road. Companies House records My's Oriental Cuisine Ltd as incorporated in August 2022, with My Lan Hoang as its sole director and the holder of 75 per cent or more of the shares and voting rights; no other party is registered as controlling it. The menu covers the standard sections of a British Chinese takeaway — appetisers, soups, chow mein, fried rice, curries and sauce dishes including sweet and sour, black bean, kung po, satay, and ginger and spring onion — with salt and pepper chicken, prawn toast and aromatic duck with pancakes among the starters. Listed ordering hours are 5pm to 10pm. Leeds City Council gave it a food hygiene rating of 5 out of 5 at its December 2022 inspection.

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Bakery · Harehills

Nardos Kitchen & Bakery is a food business at 314 Harehills Lane, Leeds LS9. Companies House records Nardos Kitchen & Bakery Ltd as incorporated on 27 March 2025, with Nardos Mulugeta as its sole director and the holder of 75 per cent or more of the shares and voting rights. The company registered two SIC codes: take-away food shops and mobile food stands, and other food services. It has been listed for delivery on Uber Eats at the same address, though that listing showed as closed from November 2025. Companies House currently shows an active proposal to strike the company off the register, so it is worth confirming the shop is trading before making a journey.

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Bakery · Harehills

Papa Knafeh is a shop at 11 Harehills Road, LS8, registered with Companies House under the classification for specialist retail of bread, cakes, flour confectionery and sugar confectionery — the code used for bakeries and sweet shops rather than for restaurants. Papa Knafeh Limited was incorporated on 4 November 2025. Hamzeh Mohammed is its sole director and its only person with significant control, holding 75 per cent or more of the shares and voting rights and the right to appoint or remove directors. The business is recent enough that its opening hours and the range it carries are not yet recorded in any published listing, so both are best confirmed directly with the shop.

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Takeaway · Harehills

Peshawari Abaseen is a takeaway at 215 Harehills Lane, LS8. It appears on mapping listings as Peshawari Abaseen Roti House, and the Food Standards Agency classifies the premises as a takeaway/sandwich shop. Leeds City Council inspected it in April 2025 and gave it a food hygiene rating of 3 out of 5. The trading name is older than the current company. Peshawari Abaseen Ltd was incorporated on 15 April 2026, a year after that inspection, with Arsalan Ullah as its sole director; its registered SIC code is take-away food shops and mobile food stands, and its registered office is the shop itself.

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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.

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Takeaway · Harehills

Raj Pizza and Tandoori is a takeaway at 305 Harehills Lane, LS9, which trades on delivery platforms as Raj Pizza Bar. Companies House records Raj Pizza And Tandoori Ltd as incorporated in October 2024, with Robina Kouser as its sole director; she gives the shop itself as her correspondence address, and the company's registered SIC code is take-away food shops and mobile food stands. The menu covers pizzas, gourmet pizzas and calzones, kebabs, burgers and southern fried chicken alongside an Indian section of curries and tandoori dishes, with crossover items such as a chicken tikka masala pizza and a mixed starter of seekh kebab and chicken tikka. Leeds City Council inspected it in January 2025 and gave it a food hygiene rating of 3 out of 5.

Takeaway · Harehills

Restaurant · Harehills

Restaurant · Harehills

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Restaurant · Harehills

Scotchie's Caribbean Cuisine is a Caribbean restaurant and takeaway at Unit 1, Embassy Court, 333 Roundhay Road, LS8. Companies House records the company as incorporated in June 2019. Claudette Miller is its sole serving director, and she and Andre Miller, who stepped down from the board at the end of 2024, are both registered as people with significant control. The menu is organised by chicken, meat and seafood: jerk chicken, curry goat, lamb chops and fried fish, served with rice and peas or plain rice, with macaroni cheese offered both as a side and as part of a jerk chicken plate. Leeds City Council inspected it in December 2024 and gave it a food hygiene rating of 5 out of 5. It also takes orders through Deliveroo.

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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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Restaurant · Harehills

Sulaimani Restaurant is a restaurant at 123 Harehills Road, LS8. Companies House records Sulaimani Restaurant Ltd as incorporated on 27 August 2025, with Farhad Kamal as its sole director; he gives the restaurant itself as his correspondence address, and no other person is registered on the company. Its filed SIC code is unlicensed restaurants and cafes, the classification used for premises that do not hold an alcohol licence, and the Food Standards Agency lists it as a restaurant, cafe or canteen. Leeds City Council inspected it in October 2025, two months after the company was formed, and gave it a food hygiene rating of 5 out of 5 — the top score on the scale.

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Bakery · Grocer · Harehills

The Biskery is a biscuit bakery at 107 Harehills Lane, LS8. It makes hand-iced branded and personalised biscuits, largely for corporate gifting, and posts them across the UK; it describes itself as "an award-winning biscuit bakery specialising in handmade branded & personalised biscuits" and says its biscuits are "handmade in Yorkshire". Companies House records the company as incorporated in January 2021, classified under the manufacture of biscuits and cakes, with Saskia Marianne Roskam and Lisa Shepherd as its two directors and joint controlling shareholders. It is a production bakery rather than a shop. Its own contact page gives hours of 9am to 5pm on Monday and Tuesday and 9am to 2.30pm from Wednesday to Friday, but states that these are by appointment only; collection of orders from Harehills Lane is free of charge. It also runs biscuit decorating workshops in Leeds.

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Restaurant · Harehills

Top Tasty Bites is a cafe and takeaway at 243 Harehills Lane, LS8. Companies House records Top Tasty Bites Ltd as incorporated in November 2024, with Chia Deedar Rasool Kakoo as its sole serving director, and the Food Standards Agency classifies the premises as a restaurant, cafe or canteen. The menu is built around breakfasts and hot sandwiches: an English breakfast, a "Royal" breakfast, an Arabic breakfast, shakshuka and mekhlama sit alongside grilled paninis and toasties, sandwiches, rice boxes, pasta, tortilla wraps, jacket potatoes, salads and lentil soup, with smoothies and milkshakes in 500ml cups. It carries a 4.1-star rating from 43 reviews on Uber Eats, and takes both collection and delivery orders. Leeds City Council gave it a food hygiene rating of 3 out of 5 at its June 2025 inspection.

Restaurant · Harehills

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Guest house · Harehills

The White Rose Hotel and Restaurant is a 15-room hotel with a restaurant at 83-89 Harehills Avenue, Chapeltown, LS8. Companies House records the company as incorporated in January 2022 and controlled by Nasseh Aalli, its sole serving director, who holds 75 per cent or more of the shares and the right to appoint or remove directors. It is registered under two classifications: hotels and similar accommodation, and licensed restaurants. Tripadvisor lists it as a budget bed and breakfast with free parking, meeting rooms, baggage storage, room service and free WiFi, and describes the restaurant as serving Mediterranean, Middle Eastern and Asian dishes at lunch and dinner. It holds 2.5 out of 5 from six Tripadvisor reviews. The Food Standards Agency has the premises on its register as awaiting inspection, so no food hygiene rating has been issued.

Takeaway · Harehills

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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.