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Happy Hour in Leeds – all the best drink deals across the city centre and beyond

24 places to sink a drink at Happy Hour.

Sophie Smith Sophie Smith - 21st February 2024

We all love getting our usual order for less, so it's no wonder that Happy Hour is one of the most popular times of day to sink a pint in Leeds.

But if you're often left scratching you head wondering where's best to go - we've got you covered.

Long gone are the days walking down Call Lane wondering which is the bar where you can get a free slice with every drink (FYI - it's Cuckoo) or which rooftop bar does a deal of Moretti (Green Room), we've got the lowdown right here.

Keep reading to find some of the best Happy Hour deals across the city...

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Leeds City Centre

The Wardrobe

St Peter's Square, Leeds City Centre

  • 2-for-£12 cocktails: weekdays 4-7pm
  • £4 pints, £5 wines and £20 bottles of bubbly: weekends from 12pm

Cult Wing

Merrion Centre, Leeds City Centre

  • 2-for-1 cocktails: every Friday 12-6pm

Canary Bar

Leeds Dock

  • 2-for-£15 on cocktails: weekdays 4-6pm

Outlaws Yacht Club

New York Street, Leeds City Centre

  • £3.30 for pint of Freedom lager, house spirit and mixer, medium glass of house wine: everyday 5-8pm

Green Room

Wellington Street, Leeds City Centre

  • 2-for-£12 cocktails: Sunday - Tuesday, all day
  • £4.90 Kirkstall Virtuous and Pilnser: Sunday - Friday, 12-5pm
  • £3.90 Bottles of Moretti: Sunday - Friday, 12-5pm
  • 4 for £20 Corona: Everyday, all day

Revolucion de Cuba

Call Lane, Leeds City Centre

  • 2-4-£10 on ALL cocktails: Monday - Friday, 3-7pm and all day Sunday
  • £4 pints San Miguel: Monday - Friday, 3-7pm
  • £20 bottles of Prosecco: Monday - Friday, 3-7pm

BAR FIBRE

Lower Briggate, Leeds City Centre

  • 2-4-1 on all drinks (apart from premium wines) when you show the Fibre app: Monday - Wednesday until 10pm; Thursday - Sunday until 8pm and Saturdays until 4pm
  • £20 bottles of Whispering Angel: Fridays until 8pm
  • Free deli board with every bottle of wine or Prosecco purchased: Tuesdays

Sela Bar

New Briggate, Leeds City Centre

  • 2-4-£12 cocktails: Sunday - Friday until 8pm
  • Pizza and a pint for £10: Wednesdays

Banyan

City Square, Leeds City Centre; Ilkley

  • Two-for-one cocktails: Sunday to Friday, all day; Saturdays from 5pm

Brewdog

North Street, Leeds City Centre

  • £4.95 drinks including cider, cocktails, wine and Planet Pale pints: everyday from 8pm
  • 2-for-£12 on select cocktail list: everyday from 8pm

Dirty Martini

King Street, Leeds City Centre

  • Half price cocktails including martinis: Monday to Friday until 9pm; Saturdays until 7pm; Sundays all day
  • £25 bottles of Prosecco: Monday to Friday until 9pm; Saturdays until 7pm; Sundays all day
  • £15 bottles of wine: Monday to Friday until 9pm; Saturdays until 7pm; Sundays all day
  • £3.50 bottled beers: Monday to Friday until 9pm; Saturdays until 7pm; Sundays all day

Manahatta

Greek Street and Merrion Street, Leeds City Centre

  • Two-for-one cocktails: Sunday to Friday, all day

BOX

Infirmary Street, Leeds City Centre

  • Two-for-one cocktails: Sunday to Wednesday, all day

Gaucho

Park Row, Leeds City Centre

  • Two-for-one cocktails: Thursdays 5-8pm (and live music the last Thursday of the month)

Mean Eyed Cat Bar

Merrion Street, Leeds City Centre

  • Roll the dice for the chance to win up to 100% off your drinks order: everyday 5pm - 9pm
  • Free pizza with every drink: everyday until 9pm

Smokestack

Lower Briggate, Leeds City Centre

  • Two-for-£15 to mix and match on 'top ten classic' drinks

Lazy Lounge

Wellington Street, Leeds City Centre

  • 2-4-£12 mix and match cocktails: Tuesday - Friday, 4-8pm
  • £3.50 pints of Flensburger: Tuesday - Friday, 4-8pm
  • £4 glass of Prosecco: Tuesday - Friday, 4-8pm
  • £3.75 glasses of house wine: Tuesday - Friday, 4-8pm
  • £3 bottle of Madri: Tuesday - Friday, 4-8pm
  • £4 Lazy G&T: Tuesday - Friday, 4-8pm
  • £4 Schofferhofer: Tuesday - Friday, 4-8pm

Call Lane

Cuckoo

  • Free pizza slice with every drink ordered: everyday until 9pm

Tiki Hideaway

  • Two drinks for £14: everyday 5-9pm

Brooklyn

  • Two drinks for £14: everyday 5-9pm

Verve

  • Two drinks for £14: everyday 5-9pm

The Maven

  • Two cocktails for £15: Fridays 5pm - 2am

Hyde Park

The East Village

  • Two-for-£10 on all cocktails 6-8pm
  • Two-for-one on select cocktails all night long

Headingley

Headingley Taps

Monday - Friday, 5-8pm (exclusing bank holidays)

  • £3 Mojitos
  • £3 pints of Coors, Madri, Brewdog Punk IPA
  • £3 bottle of Rekorderlig, Peroni
  • £3 glass of Prosecco or wine
  • £3 G&T, spiced rum and select cocktails

The Original Oak

  • £3 Mojitos
  • £3 pints of Coors, Madri, Brewdog Punk IPA
  • £3 bottle of Rekorderlig, Peroni
  • £3 glass of Prosecco or wine
  • £3 G&T, spiced rum and select cocktails

Manahatta

North Lane, Headingley

  • Two-for-one cocktails: Sunday to Friday, all day

BOX

Otley Road, Headingley

  • Two-for-one cocktails: Sunday to Wednesday, all day

Meanwood

Terminus Tap Room & Bottle Shop

Every Monday - Friday, until 6pm

  • Two for £12 cocktails
  • £4.40 a pint of lager or cider
  • £3.50 Meanwood cask pints
  • £5 Meanwood brewery keg pints at 5% or under

Chapel Allerton

Canteen Bar

Every Wednesday and Thursday 4pm-11pm; Friday 4-7pm; Saturday 12-7pm and Sunday 12-10pm.

  • Two-for-£14 on cocktails
  • Pizza and a house pint for £10 (Wednesdays only)

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Get Baked’s viral ‘Bertha’ cake has a sister on the way – and she sounds just as cheeky

Danny Jones Danny Jones

She's big, she's green and she's ready to ruin your figure.

A lot of you will have seen the viral ‘Bertha’ cake by Leeds born beloved sweet treat specialists Get Baked.

They recently opened another site in Manchester's Northern Quarter, where queues literally formed round the block of hungry punters wanting to get their hands on the infamous sugary treats.

And now it's going to happen all over again, as they've recently unveiled their newest flavour which is sure to go down a storm.

We’ll give you a hint: it’s a current food and drink trend that’s about as big as Bertha herself – it’s not matcha, it’s not hot honey (duh), and it’s not Guinness…

Images: Get Baked

Yes—scratch that; HELL YES! Get Baked is set to welcome Bertha’s equally beautiful twin sister, and she’s officially a pistachio girlie.

Having started out life simply as ‘Bruce’, after taking inspiration from the iconic scene from Matilda, this thing has become a phenomenon in its own right, and who doesn’t like more flavours of a good thing?

Probably one of the biggest foodie crazes going at the minute, thanks to the popularity of pistachio cream, cookies, lattes and the similar social media sensation that is the ‘Dubai Pistachio Bar' people are rather fittingly going nuts for this particular flavour of almost absolutely anything.

With that in mind, the Leeds-born bakery and dessert shop – founded by Rich Myers over in Headingley back in 2011 – have shown no hesitation in hopping on the bandwagon and creating a new twist on their own viral menu item.

Teasing the full details in a post on their Instagram this week, they wrote: “What’s big, green, and is going to destroy your life in a couple of weeks’ time? Pistachio Bertha. Strictly limited to 5,000 slices. Coming oh so soon. GB.”

In case you were wondering just how mad those with a sweet tooth could possibly go for a slice of cake, just look at the recent queues when they finally launched in Manchester city centre:

@the.manc @GET BAKED® are giving away 1000 slices of Bertha right now at their new store in Northern Quarter and Manchester, you turned up 👏 #themanc #manchester #getbaked #giveaway #newopening #bakery #queue #manchesterfood #manchestereats #cake ♬ original sound - The Manc

Speaking on the grand opening here on our turf and his partner Amy’s hometown, Myers said simply: “Manchester, what a launch. Thanks for much for the warm welcome. Stay baked.”

Read more: The Swine That Dines announces the official opening date of its brand new restaurant

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The Swine That Dines announces the official opening date of its brand new restaurant

Clementine Hall Clementine Hall

Much-loved Leeds Bistro The Swine Bistro, formerly known as The Swine That Dines, has moved to a bigger space in Headingley.

Although it’s gone through a few name changes over the years since launching as The Greedy Pig cafe in 2012, this independent spot has long been a firm favourite for Leeds locals for some time now.

Run by chef couple Jo and Stu Myers, they’ve been operating out of North Street where it’s all about cooking seasonal produce simply and with an added ‘little bit of sunshine’.

But now Swine Bistro has moved up over to Headingley, taking up a unit previously occupied by Jam hairdressers on Otley Road.

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And the time has finally come for them to open their doors, as they announce their first service will take place on Friday 4 April with bookings open from today, Thursday 20 March.

The Myers will be welcoming head chef Kirsty Cheetham, who won Observer Food Monthly’s Best Sunday Lunch award in 2018 and 2022 when she ran The Queen o’t owd Thatch in South Milford, Leeds.

The expanded space in the restaurant has allowed the team to curate a bigger wine list which will include natural wines from Wayward Wines and Latitude Wines as well as local beers from Ilkley Brewery and Horsforth Brewery.

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The team remains passionate about locally sourced ingredients and has partnered with a variety of Yorkshire suppliers including R&J Yorkshire for its fresh meat, Tarbetts fishmonger, cheese from George & Joseph cheesemongers and beans from micro roaster, Chipp Coffee Co.

Jo Myers, co-owner of the Swine Bistro said: “It’s taken a huge amount of time and effort to realise our dream to revamp what was previously a hairdresser into a fully functioning kitchen and restaurant. It’s been a wild ride but we’re excited, and slightly nervous, to finally open our doors.

“We love the vibe in Headingley and the time out has allowed us to have fun with our menu as well as take part in lots of essential taste testing of ingredients and drinks from our brilliant local suppliers. We can’t wait to welcome guests into our new restaurant!”

Bookings for The Swine Bistro can be made here.

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