With restaurants, pubs and cafes opening their doors again, YEP reviewers were able to get out and about finding out some of the best spots across the city for readers to try out.
We visited some old favourites, some new businesses that had popped up after lockdown and some that were changing with the times and trends.
Here are the 12 top-scoring restaurants as rated by our reviewers.
7. Buy greens, eat greens
A natural wine bar and grocery store by day, Eat Your Greens becomes a European style organic restaurant by night.
9. Italian goes rustic
Buon Apps is an independent lounge and Italian restaurant set at the side of the River Wharfe in Otley.
10. Mediterranean medley
From a full English to Greek gyros and tapas, Residence 74 at Lawnswood washes them down with coffees or cocktails.
11. Cuban cuisine
Viva Cuba mixes Spanish, Cuban and South African delights at its restaurant on Kirkstall Road.
12. Fabulously French
Brasserie Blanc has been a firm favourite of the Leeds food scene for years with the restaurant at Sovereign Street.