Banyan Bar and Kitchen occupies the former Old Post Office building at 2 City Square in central Leeds, a short walk from the railway station. Spread over two floors of the landmark building, it pairs a cocktail-led bar with an all-day kitchen, and adds a spacious outdoor terrace facing the pedestrianised square. The interior leans into a heavily planted, floral look that has become a signature of the brand. The menu is built around globally inspired sharing dishes, running from breakfast and br.....

Baracoa Luxe Bar brought a deliberate touch of glamour to Call Lane, the heart of Leeds's busy bar and nightlife quarter, when it was established in 2010. Conceived around the idea of a combined lounge, bar and club, it set out to offer a more lavish, upmarket alternative to the surrounding venues, trading on opulent styling and an extensive cocktail and champagne list. The interior leans into that luxe identity, with elegant furnishings and an emphasis on presentation and service designed to m.....

A converted Victorian bed factory in the Hunslet district, just south of Leeds city centre, has been home to one of the north's most distinctive warehouse clubs since 1997. Beaver Works occupies a rambling industrial building on Whitehouse Street, and its raw, multi-room layout and two large outdoor areas have made it a byword for underground party culture in the city. The venue is purpose-suited to big events, with the largest nights spreading across as many as four rooms, each capable of carr.....

The Brudenell Social Club is an independent live music venue and working social club in the Hyde Park district of Leeds, widely regarded as one of the best-loved small venues in the country. It takes its name from the Brudenell family, the Earls of Cardigan, who held land in the area, and it retains the community atmosphere of its origins even as it has become a fixture on the national touring circuit. The club sits on Queens Road among the terraced streets of Leeds's student quarter, a short di.....

Billed as one of Leeds' newer all-day destinations, Canal Club sits on Little Neville Street in the city centre, beside the waterway that gives it its name. It runs as a bar and restaurant serving a globally inspired sharing menu and cocktails by day, then turns into a livelier bar in the evenings. Music is part of the formula: live acoustic sessions run midweek from Tuesday to Thursday, while Friday and Saturday nights bring resident DJs, a percussionist and a busy bottomless-brunch programme......

Set within the Park Plaza hotel on Boar Lane, directly opposite Leeds railway station and overlooking City Square, Chino Latino is an award-winning pan-Asian restaurant and Latin-influenced cocktail bar. Constantly evolving since it opened, it has built a national reputation for sophisticated, cosmopolitan dining and has been ranked among the leading restaurants in Europe, a notable distinction for a city-centre hotel restaurant. The kitchen serves modern pan-Asian cuisine drawn from China, sou.....

A rare survivor of the Victorian age, the City Varieties Music Hall in Leeds is one of the oldest continuously operating music halls in the world. Opened in 1865, the intimate theatre has changed remarkably little over more than a century and a half, retaining its horseshoe balconies, ornate plasterwork and gas-era charm, and offering audiences a genuine taste of the music-hall tradition that once flourished across Britain. The auditorium is small and atmospheric, seating only a few hundred peo.....

Trading from a basement just off the bustle of Call Lane, Distrikt is an underground bar, restaurant and nightclub that has been a fixture of Leeds nightlife since 2009. Its founders set out to combine three specialisms under one roof - quality food, an interesting drinks list and cutting-edge events - and the venue still runs on a "substance over style" ethos that prizes the music and the crowd over surface gloss. By day and early evening Distrikt operates as a bar and eatery, with a kitchen l.....

Home is a 960-capacity nightclub on Albion Street in central Leeds, set within The Light complex and opened in April 2024 after a multi-million-pound investment. Spread across two distinctly styled club rooms below its sister bar Carousel, to which it is internally connected, it is pitched as one of the city's flagship late-night destinations. The club is built around a VOID sound system with full-scale production -- pyrotechnics, CO2 jets, confetti cannons and live performers -- and multiple V.....

First opened in 1879 as a respectable alternative to the city's music halls, the Howard Assembly Room is a richly decorated concert hall tucked within the Leeds Grand Theatre complex on New Briggate. With its gilded, barrel-vaulted ceiling, leaded windows and prized acoustics, the room was praised in its early years for a warm, intimate character that still defines it today. Over the following century the space fell on harder times, serving as a cinema known as the Plaza and later as little mor.....