It looks like we're in for a very tasty month ahead, Leeds.
Safe to say 2025 begins with us counting the pennies left over from one-too-many Christmas nights out – and with that long stretch til payday, we’re open to as many ways to continue eating out across the city as possible.
And if you’re the same, we’ve got you covered with an offer a day for the entire month of January!
From half price pizzas and burgers to winning gift cards and karaoke rooms for less, if it’s in Leeds and it’s cheaper than usual throughout January – we’ve got it covered.
Keep reading to find out all the best food and drink offers in Leeds for January 2025...
Cut and Craft
23 King Edward Street | Monday - Friday
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The offer: Enjoy two Courses for £22 or three Courses £27 when you dine from The Cut & Craft’s lunch menu.
T&Cs: Available Monday - Friday, 11am - 4pm. Walk-ins welcome but booking is recommended. Book your table here.
The Alchemist
Greek Street and Trinity Shopping Centre | Available Sunday – Friday
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The offer: 25% off the food bill and 20% off cocktails when booking
T&Cs: Available Sunday – Friday until 5pm, 5 – 31 January 2024.
Almost Famous
Great George Street, Leeds city centre | Available Monday – Friday
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The restaurant:The northern burger bar is serving its original ‘dirty burgers’ piled high with bacon bits and sauces as well as loaded fries and wings – it’s a true American diner style treat.
The offer: 50% off all burgers
T&Cs: Available 2 – 31 January 2024, available every day except Saturday
Banyan
City Square, Leeds City Centre | Available from 3 January 2025
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The offer: 10 dishes for £10
T&Cs: Available all day, Sunday – Friday
Belgrave Music Hall & Canteen
Cross Belgrave Street | Available throughout January
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The offer: Half price slice, 2-for-£10 cocktails, £3.50 Amstel and a £5 saver menu at Patty's
T&Cs: Available all day, every day
Brasserie Blanc
Soverign Street, Leeds City Centre | Available until 8 February 2025
The offer: Sign up for 50% off main courses
T&Cs: Available Monday to Thursday all day and Saturday until 5pm
Bundobust
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The offer: Bundobust are giving away 2500 free ‘Lunch Express’ dishes this January with the main batch of free food going to the first 100 people queuing outside the restaurant across all locations in Manchester, Leeds and Liverpool. Then from 7 until 31 January, there will be 25 free lunch spots every weekday to get your hands on.
House of Fu
The Headrow | Monday to Friday throughout January
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The offer: Big bowls of ramen for just £10, plus free karaoke all day!
T&Cs: £10 ramen and rice bowls, 11.30am – 6.30pm Monday to Friday, plus loads of giveaways including a trip to Tokyo (scratch cards handed out every time you dine).
Galleria
Armley, Leeds | Throughout January 2025
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The offer: 25% off food from 5pm, Thursday - Saturday plus 2 cocktails or spritz for £15 all day every day and Bottomless Batch Brew £5 ‘til 5pm, Monday - Friday.
Manahatta
Greek Street, Merrion Street and Headingley
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The offer: 50% off food
T&Cs: Pre-bookings only, available from Sunday to Friday
Olive Tree Brasserie
South Parade | Available every Monday – Friday until 7 February
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The offer: 50% off food menu
T&Cs: Available every Monday – Friday, pre-booking required
Call Lane, Leeds City Cente | Available all week excluding Saturdays after 5pm
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The offer: 50% off dim sum
T&Cs: Advance bookings only
Restaurant Bar & Grill
City Square, Leeds City Centre | Every Monday – Thursday from 8 January
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The offer: 25% off food
T&Cs: Must be on the Á La Carte menu, available every Monday – Thursday when you sign up to Club IR (here)
Tattu
Toronto Square, Leeds City Centre | Sunday – Thursday and until 4:45pm on Friday throughout January
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The offer: 30% off food
T&Cs: Food must be from the A La Carte menu, available all day Sunday – Thursday and on Fridays until 4.45pm
Waterlane Boat House
Canal Wharf, Holbeck | Available 1 – 30 January 2025
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The offer: 50% off select dishes Monday - Saturday, 50% off pizzas all day Sunday and free chips and soft drink with any sandwich Monday to Friday 12 - 4pm
T&Cs: Available 1 – 30 January 2025
Where to find them: Canal Wharf, Holbeck behind Granary Wharf
Neon Cactus
Call Lane, Leeds City Centre | Offer changes each week
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The offer: The offers change each week, but there’s currently 50% off six popular items, including tacos, wings and cocktails
T&Cs: Offer changes weekly, booking in advance is recommended
The Cheesy Living Co.
Leeds Corn Exchange / Oakwood | Available throughout January
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The offer: £14.50 per person for fondue
T&Cs: Available at the Corn Exchange and the Oakwood site Tuesday – Friday, 12pm-5pm
Ox Club
19a The Headrow | Available throughout January
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The offer: 25% off food Tuesday - Thursday
Ambiente
36-28 The Calls | Available throughout January
The offer: 6 tapas dishes for £25
T&Cs: Available Sunday to Thursday all day and Friday until 5pm
One of the best days in the foodie calendar is hereand it's time to decide where you're going for the ultimate stack.
Whilst homemade pancakes hit the spot and attempting to flip them is definitely a laugh, it's always a treat to get out and about to celebrate the momentous occasion.
From thin crepes with lemon and sugar to pillowy, thick buttermilk stacks which are showered with a whole host of delicious toppings - there's a pancake dish for everyone to devour this Shrove Tuesday.
Keep reading for our top picks of cafes, restaurants and bars to visit this Pancake Day.
House of Koko
Chapel Allerton , Oakwood and Leeds city centre
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House of Koko are the absolute bees knees when it comes to brunch.
Their pancakes are fluffy, pillowy, light, perfectly formed and just down right delicious. The list of toppings is almost overwhelming and you can mix and match yours to your heart's content, we're talking bacon, biscoff, kinder bueno, toasted nuts, white choc chips, banana and even ice cream, the list really does go on but you'll be here all day.
Moose Coffee
Bond Court
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Given Canadian pancakes are a worldwide favourite, you'd expect the best pancakes to come from Moose Coffee. Made fresh to order, there's a stack of three dusted with icing sugar, dotted with blueberries and served with Canadian butter on offer as well as a Biscoff Stack made from three pancakes, biscoff sauce, vanilla ice cream, white choc shards, lotus biscuit.
Whatever your preference this Pancake Day, your combination of sweet and savoury is pretty much guaranteed to live up to the famous Canadian combination- maple syrup included.
Farmhouse
Lands Lane
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Farmhouse are basically famous in the city for their epic stacks of pancakes, fluffy and loaded with all the toppings it's just what you want this Pancake Day.
If Up North
Call Lane or York Place
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If you're a regular on the If Up North Instagram page, you'll know that these guys are big fans of pancakes. Given their obsession with posting their beautifully decorated variations online, we're confident that these pancakes will be lip-smacking, mouth-drooling good and packed with flavour.
Expect flavours like berry and Biscoff, fruits and cream, bacon and maple syrup as well as a whole host of different variations at any of their Leeds-based cafes.
North Star Coffee Shop
Leeds Dock
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Locally renowned for its coffee roast, North Star Coffee Shop is also a great contender for the best-looking pancakes around. Open from 8am this Shrove Tuesday, grab some fluffy pancakes topped with all the seasonal favourites they have on offer.
Galleria
Armley Road
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Running from Monday 16 February until Friday 20 February, you can bag yourself £1 pancakes with a huge range toppings like classic lemon and sugar, maple smoked bacon, fried egg and sausage, or singular toppings such as blueberries, avocado, IPA caramel and more.
You'll need to pre-book to secure your offer and when you arrive, pick up an order form from your server so you can select how many £1 pancakes you want, alongside your chosen toppings. Yeah, it’s really that flipping easy.
Laynes Espresso
New Station Street
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Everything Laynes touch turns to gold, and their pancakes are of course no exception.
They of course go perfectly with a heavenly cup of coffee served inside their dazzling bright yellow, life-affirming coffee shop.
10 of the best new openings coming to Leeds in 2026
Clementine Hall
Allow us to get you excited about the next one with a list of new openings coming to the city.
If you're feeling a little bit down in the dumps about 2025 ending then do not fear, because we've got a feeling that the next year is about to be even bigger and better.
There's already a great selection of restaurants, bars and shops gearing up to open up in Leeds during, so let us fill you in.
Salon Madre and Madre
Wellington Street
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Are you ready for a fresh taste of Mexico Leeds? Well you better be – because Madre, the day-to-night eatery that has made waves over in Manchester and Liverpool, is setting up shop on Wellington Street in due course.
Not only that, but their lively sibling Salon Madre will be opening next door on Friday 20 February. Expect tequila-fuelled nights, pool tables, lively DJs and Lucha Libre on the big screens. Madre will open one month later.
Trinity Kitchen 2.0
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Trinity Leeds is embarking on a major transformation with a £15 million expansion, introducing a second food court called ‘Freight Island’ The upgrade will add around 72,000 sq ft of new space, including a stunning rooftop terrace overlooking City Square the perfect spot to enjoy great food with skyline views.
Burgerism
Meanwood
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You may remember when Burgerism had a delivery kitchen in Leeds, and ever since it closed we’ve had a Burgerism-shaped hole in our hearts. Well not any longer, because the Manchester-based burger chain has been given the go ahead to open a takeaway on Meanwood Road - hallelujah.
Dishoom
Taking over the old Flannels Site on Vicar Lane
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The legendary Indian restaurant group is coming to Leeds, and we’re absolutely buzzing about it. Dishoom is inspired by the Irani cafes of 1960s Bombay, which were meeting places for people from all walks of life.
Famed for their Indian twist on a classic breakfast (seriously, their breakfast naans are out of this world), Dishoom offers an all-day dining approach so you can get your Bombay fix from morning to noon and noon to night.
Planning permission is up for the restaurant to take over the former Flannels site on Vicar Lane, so fingers crossed it won’t be too long until we can all get stuck in.
Just when you thought the wine scene in Headingley couldn’t get any better, Once Upon A Vine is popping the cork on their third site - right in the heart of Headingley.
Expect hundreds of wines, plenty of bottles of fizz, and of course, a carefully curated local beer selection.
Uniqlo
Briggate
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It’s happening…Uniqlo has confirmed it’s opening up right here in Leeds next year and we must say it’s looking very nice indeed. The Leeds store will be 1,100 square metres and will be located on Briggate in the old House of Fraser site. It’s part of a new expansion across the UK alongside new stores in Birmingham and Bristol.
A new Japanese grill and BBQ restaurant is opening up from Fern, the absolute mastermind behind Fern Modern Sushi. Opening up in the heart of the city on Vicar Lane, we can't wait for this one.
Dough Club
Burley Road
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Dough Club, a Manchester-based Detroit-style pizzeria, is planning to open up in Leeds.
Famed for their chewy, thick, cheesy crusts that are loaded with all the toppings imaginable, they’ll be opening up a spot on Burley Road for all your pizza needs.
MADE Matcha
Lower Briggate
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Introducing MADE Matcha, a matcha and açaí bar that has created waves in the foodie scene over in Sheffield since opening back in September last year. And it's pretty clear they're doing very well indeed, to be opening a second site in another city less than six months after launching is no mean feat.
Made Matcha will be opening on Lower Briggate in the Nice Things site and this pastel green paradise specialise in seasonal matchas that (almost) look too pretty to drink.
Lane 7
Albion Street
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The independent bowling brand is set to open at Trinity Leeds in late spring, spanning a whopping 23,000 sq ft.
As well as 12 state-of-the-art bowling lanes, Lane7 will be home to other games including darts, pool tables, beer pong, golf simulators, and even an interactive 'Playground'.
Clementine Hall -
2nd January 2025 
