| Due to the amount of competition between | | | | fan base though, and for good reason. The thin |
| businesses in a city like Leeds you are likely to | | | | crispy bases of the pizzas are unlike any other |
| find it harder to find a bad restaurant than a good | | | | pizzas I have tasted outside of Italy, and the |
| one. This is a little self penned guide on some of | | | | beautifully 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 I | | | | it's your birthday expect to be launched into |
| came back from a holiday in Thailand a friend | | | | standing position on your chair while the whole |
| introduced me to Chaophraya for the first time in | | | | room is encouraged to sing Happy Birthday in |
| an attempt to cure my post traveling blues. I | | | | typical exuberant Italian style. |
| loved the restaurant so much that I have been | | | | Anthony's is Located in the centre of Leeds in |
| back countless times since. Chaophraya is an | | | | Trevelyan Square off Boar Lane. I admit that I |
| award winning (yes you guessed it) Thai | | | | have never actually been there but after hearing |
| restaurant that has been voted by none other | | | | amazing things from family and friends and then |
| than The Times as the best vegetarian | | | | reading this review by the badly tempered Giles |
| restaurant in the UK and best restaurant in town | | | | Coren: |
| 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 are | | | | Christ's sake don't make it Anthony's. It'll scare |
| planning on going out to a bar afterwards, thus | | | | the living crap out of you." |
| saving the money you would spend on a cab to | | | | I thought that if it could scare the living crap out |
| sample as many dishes as possible! The ridiculously | | | | of Giles Coren then I definitely wanted to go. Of |
| reasonably priced restaurant also offers tempting | | | | course all the reviews of Anthony's are good. The |
| lunch specials in the daytime which I also | | | | chef 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 be | | | | bemusement 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 and | | | | haven't, look it up. The restaurant looks fabulous |
| Lamborghinis outside the glass front of the | | | | from the outside with its thick gleaming glass and |
| restaurant and might even be 'lucky' enough to | | | | classy signature sign and with deserts like pink |
| spot a famous footballer or two. Well, that was | | | | pepper cinder toffee with apricot mouse.......you can |
| when Leeds United was ...good, now things may | | | | count me in. |
| be a little different. Flying Pizza still has a die hard | | | | |