Some cracking players as well... Jonny Freeman gave me a few cracks anyway

The Fish Hut darts team lock ins were a legend.

Had my first curry in Woodhouse - Nafees.

Bloody awful it was.

Wasn't there a place in Hyde Park called Chakwal's? Islamabad over the road from the Uni took bad food to new lows, but had some top arcade machines in!

Ditto I had to go home..across the moor in them days..... to change my sweat soaked shirt.

I'm getting my pub names mixed up I think, but wasn't there a pub at one side of the Merrion centre (the side towards the "Casino"icon_wink.gif called the Tap 'n' Spile, and the other one on the other side (St Johns centre side) was the Jug and Bottle?

There was also a hard metal club downstairs wasn't there, near the Jug and Bottle (if that was its name!) ?

Incidentally, I never ventured in any of them! However I have been in Arcadia a fair few times, its about a 30 minute walk from my home, and I think they have managed to make it not look like a shop inside!!

Cant recall but there was Sweaty Bettys Chippy (now demolished) at the side of the Eldon IIRC

Yes there was an Indian (or technically Pakistani I guess) called the Islamabad opposite the Uni. We had a name for it - the "Slimy Bad". I went in there on my 21st and got food poisoning (had nothing to do with alcohol honest

). My mate went in there one night and nearly caused a riot by claiming that the chicken bone in his tandoori was actually a cat bone. He did this very loudly and pointed out at the top of his voice that he was a zoology student and that he knew a f*****g cat bone when he saw one.
Priceless

Nafees was cheap and cheerful after beers at the fav - I assume we must have been in there quite a lot as they knew our normal order off by heart.

Once went in later on a Saturday night sober as we going on Hols in the early hours of Sunday, seeing the place with me being sober you realised what a bear pit it was and home much 'banter', good natured or other wise the staff got.

Naffes was great! Only in Leeds does a mushromm bhaji mean deep fried mushrooms rather than that slop they serve up down south, and Naf's had the best. The three free chappati's you got with your curry was a bonus as well.

Had a bout of food poisoning there myself once – IIRC it got closed down by the local H&S folk on ‘hygiene’ issues.

Go figure

It's not as bad as rajput


How that place is still going is unbelievable.

Never the same when they closed the China Buffet! Their 'bag' of chips was in fact a sack!
Just up from the Islamabad was the sadly-missed Theo's Charcoal Grill, a purveyor of the finest 'real' kebabs you could hope to taste. Think it's an Ainsley's now.

we have never ever ever had a problem with Rajput. I know it's not the most glamorous looking of establishment, but never had a problem with the food.

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Very lucky mate i once had an unfortunate rendevous with a madras in there

I don't like Indians.

I do but i could never eat a full one

I'd attempt a serving of Pocahontas. She was mighty fine.

Also up that road was that off license that used to sell beer in pint pots to get around the licensing laws. You had to stand on the street and drink it (sold for consumption off the premises), but it was as close to the continental "al fresco" lifestyle as we got in Leeds in the 1980's


It was the only place to get a pint between 3pm and 5.30pm.

Was 'It's Paper' there on that row? Art supply and card shop? I remember the wonderful smell of that shop but not quite where it was...

The East Street run, oh the memories, or lack thereof...

Phono, but a goth club not a metal club, the metallists used to go to Scrumpies which is down between where Little Tokyo and Oxfam are now near Boar Lane. I used to frequent both. Often frequented the Pig and Whistle beforehand, where FAB is now.

phono was actually a decent night, played a lot more than 'goth music', watery beer in plastic cups and submerged toilets have a limited appeal to me these days though

LOL, indeed they did. First place i heard The Wonderstuff and The Waterboys. I believe they played bands that didn't begin with W also.

Tuesday was gay night. Much less fun than it sounds.