My Personal Guide to the Best Restaurants in Leeds

Due to the amount of competition betweenfan base though, and for good reason. The thin
businesses in a city like Leeds you are likely tocrispy bases of the pizzas are unlike any other
find it harder to find a bad restaurant than a goodpizzas I have tasted outside of Italy, and the
one. This is a little self penned guide on some ofbeautifully stringy and inexplicably tasty mozzarella
my favourite dinner destinations in Leeds.is to DIE for. They do an excellent steak and if
Chaophraya (pronounced Chow-pie-a) When Iit's your birthday expect to be launched into
came back from a holiday in Thailand a friendstanding position on your chair while the whole
introduced me to Chaophraya for the first time inroom is encouraged to sing Happy Birthday in
an attempt to cure my post traveling blues. Itypical exuberant Italian style.
loved the restaurant so much that I have beenAnthony's is Located in the centre of Leeds in
back countless times since. Chaophraya is anTrevelyan Square off Boar Lane. I admit that I
award winning (yes you guessed it) Thaihave never actually been there but after hearing
restaurant that has been voted by none otheramazing things from family and friends and then
than The Times as the best vegetarianreading this review by the badly tempered Giles
restaurant in the UK and best restaurant in townCoren:
by Harden's Good Food Guide. Located in Leeds"If you only eat at one restaurant this year, for
City centre it is a great location to eat if you areChrist's sake don't make it Anthony's. It'll scare
planning on going out to a bar afterwards, thusthe living crap out of you."
saving the money you would spend on a cab toI thought that if it could scare the living crap out
sample as many dishes as possible! The ridiculouslyof Giles Coren then I definitely wanted to go. Of
reasonably priced restaurant also offers temptingcourse all the reviews of Anthony's are good. The
lunch specials in the daytime which I alsochef is purported to be a genius and the food
thoroughly recommend.served is the kind that is offered up to delighted
Flying Pizza on Street Lane in Leeds used to bebemusement in The Fat Duck, which surely
one of the only places to 'see and be seen' in.everyone must have heard of by now so if you
You will still frequently find polished Ferraris andhaven't, look it up. The restaurant looks fabulous
Lamborghinis outside the glass front of thefrom the outside with its thick gleaming glass and
restaurant and might even be 'lucky' enough toclassy signature sign and with deserts like pink
spot a famous footballer or two. Well, that waspepper cinder toffee with apricot mouse.......you can
when Leeds United was ...good, now things maycount me in.
be a little different. Flying Pizza still has a die hard