Black Dog, Fisherman's Hut, Prospect etc?

Some quality rugby teams used to play out of those pubs as well.

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had my first curry in Headingley, probably circa 84ish, Kaghan Valley, the onion bhajis were a meal in themselves.

Errrrrrm. Whatsupwiffdat!?

I consider 1.90 to be cheap for a pint.

Yellow Card prices.

Gotta love the Yellow Card. Is the Dock a Scream bar?

Yeeeeeeeeeees mate. Can't get Yellow Card prices on Fruli though. Proper nice dead nice is Fruli man. Tastes like a smoothi does Fruli. Truely.

Ah yeah I know. Standard rule of the Scream bar here is, Sunday night = lack of beer. So I end up on the Fruli don't I.

No Carlsberg or Strongbow in the Dock on Weds. Gets a massive caining on Tues doesn't it. Didn't bother me though. I was on the Fruli. But I just needed to know y'know. It'd drive me insane if I didn't know which beer was off. Bit cerayzay like that me.

Quids night?

Tuesday - Quids.
Wednesday - Shipshaped.

Shipshaped is just 2quid dbl vdka rdbll though. Says so on all the tellys. I like the spelling of it. Do you?

Proper Headingley Old School that place, the bhajis were massive. Trying to remember what was there before. Seem to remember there was a judo place in the upstairs of that building?
Lazeez takeaway was where I bought my first bhaji.

Indeed, new pubs that shouldn't really have been on the route were added as others shut (or were, allegedly, burnt down by certain 'well-known' members of the East Leeds community).

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.