This restaurant on Commercial Street in the city centre boasted 16 starters and 17 specialities with house wine £4.70 for a litre back in April 1984.placeholder image
This restaurant on Commercial Street in the city centre boasted 16 starters and 17 specialities with house wine £4.70 for a litre back in April 1984. | YPN

25 lip-licking memories of Leeds restaurants from the 1980s

It was the decade which featured new food trends for diners in restaurants across Leeds.

The menu will probably have included culinary treats such as French onion soup, lobster bisque, pasta primavera as well as sushi, quiche, goat cheese and pesto. This was the 1980s and Leeds's dining scene was thriving with restaurants to cater for all tastes and budgets. How many of these restaurants around the city do you remember? READ MORE: 31 Leeds pubs we have loved and lost LOVE LEEDS? LOVE NOSTALGIA? Join Leeds Retro on facebook YEP RETRO NEWSLETTER: Sign up for our free monthly email digest of Leeds nostalgia

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