Yorkshire is home to some of the most diverse cuisines in the UK, and we are fortunate enough to have some fine examples of world cooking in Leeds and its surrounding areas. Food from regions as far apart as Africa, the Far East and Eastern Europe is available on our doorstep.
It means we can experience the very heart of other cultures in the best way possible - with food that is vibrant, imaginative and cooked with love and care by those who have travelled to Yorkshire bringing their family recipes with them.
Viva Cuba
June 2010
It’s been over two years since Oliver
ventured into the Latino hotspot on Kirkstall
Road and we weren’t disappointed.
Not much has changed but it’s still a winner
with us.
There seems to have been lick of paint, an
extension of the menu and a set of smarter
waiting staff since last time – not to
mention an Oliver award under its belt.
MORENO’S
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Azucar
THE first really good sign hits
you not just as you reach the
door, but before you get
near the door. There, plonked
outside on the terrace, is a rather
large, slightly tatty leather sofa.
Instantly there’s a sense of the bohemian
about Azucar. Said sofa is totally at odds
with the rest of the ad hoc furniture that
lines the edge of this polished corner of
riverside developments. No generic silver
tables lined up in unison, but something
which (however staged) feels authentic.
You half expect to have to brush a
chicken and a few stray strands of straw
off your seat before you get to sit down.
This is just how a restaurant serving
tapas should be. Why not bring some of
that laidback, easy living vibe from South
America to Leeds?
Dos Amigos
GOING to dinner at Dos Amigos is a very intimate, informal affair. So much so, you could mistake it for sitting in someone's front room.
A garden gate leads you through a yard before you arrive at what looks like the front door of a house.
Las Iguanas
Las Iguanas may be famed for its extensive evening menu but diners on a budget or short of time, fear not - you can still indulge in a little Latin luxury.
The lively Latin American restaurant, known for its spicy fajitas, enchiladas and curries, also offers a smaller lunch and early evening menu, available between 12pm and 6.30pm every day.
Gourmet Burger Kitchen
THIS ever-expanding chain started life in London a few years ago, the brainchild of a trio of New Zealanders. The story goes that they were missing the burgers back home so much that they decided to start selling their own. With 35 outlets now dotted around the country, this burgeoning burger empire is sweeping northwards with restaurants in Manchester, York and now Leeds.
Pera
I’ve passed Pera a few times recently and on each occasion been intrigued to find out if it’s as good on the inside as it looks on
the outside. Having kept promising myself a visit, I decided it was high time I stuck to my word. Pera is one of the newer arrivals on Roundhay’s dining scene but already seems to have won quite a number of admirers.
I suspect many diners have been drawn in by its rather classy exterior, one that reminds me of an upmarket French bistro.
However, its stock in trade is tapas that has its origins in cultures lying a lot
closer to the eastern reaches of Europe and beyond.
River Plate
THE heat is on for the South American cattle farmers as the campaign to promote British meat steps up a gear. TV chef Jamie Oliver wants to save British pork; his friend Hugh Fearnley- Whittingstall wants to save British chickens - and according to those Morrisons adverts, Top Gear's Richard Hammond wants "100 per cent British beef, 100 per cent of the time".
Kasa Rosa
WHEN it comes to choosing between a small, family-run restaurant that's a bit out on a limb or a chrome-plated effort amid a city centre's in-vogue zone, it's never too difficult a choice for me. I admit I'm more than a little biased in such instances, but I've more often than not been proved right.
La Cantina 44
There are some things that really never should have worked. History is littered with them – ideas that ought to have fallen at the very first hurdle but then defied all the odds to bask in unlikely success. Added to that list could be Cross Gates’s tenacious little rebel against the conventions of the restaurant industry, La Cantina 44.
