The Highland Laddie in Leeds is crowned Best Pub 2025

The Highland Laddie pub on Cavendish Street in Leeds has been crowned the Best Pub 2025 by The Good Food Guide.

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00:00We always wanted to recreate a pub that has always been in the community's

00:08hearts and keep it a community pub but obviously with an elevated sense of a

00:15more careful considered way of how we're producing food and doing food which

00:21comes from our other restaurant Empire Cafe and why I'm passionate about as a

00:28chef and also but keep it as a community boozer where people can come and have a

00:35drink and obviously drink responsibly but have a good time with their friends

00:40and the family and with the response has been amazing we've got people from all

00:44walks of life which is exactly what we wanted to do. It was built around trying

00:48to keep it Leeds focus and be about the community in Leeds coming back to

00:55somewhere and using somewhere that's essentially been used for a hundred

00:59years. It was developed by a brewery in 1925 so it's actually a hundred years to

01:07the date roughly that it's been brought back to life as we think as a

01:13community pub. It's really nice to be noticed and mentioned by the Good Food

01:21guide we are on a back street in Leeds we're in a tiny sort of hyper new

01:26location with amazing tall student accommodation all around us and we've got

01:32a sort of 1800s old terrace house as a pub just sat here in the middle of it all

01:39so it's quite nice really that we're having that sort of national recognition as

01:44well.