Best Burgers in Leeds: Markets and Call Lane

The best burgers in Leeds are easiest to find in the city centre, which is compact enough to cover on foot: burger stalls inside Kirkgate Market, the rotating street-food traders of Trinity Kitchen in the Trinity Leeds shopping centre, and the bars of Call Lane. Outside the centre, Headingley, the student district to the north-west, has burger kitchens of its own.

Leeds does a lot of its eating in markets. Kirkgate Market is one of the largest covered markets in Europe, and it is where Marks & Spencer began as a penny bazaar stall in 1884. Today its food stalls include smash-burger traders working a few metres from butchers and greengrocers. Trinity Kitchen takes another approach: it changes its line-up of independent street-food vendors several times a year, so a burger trader can be there one season and gone the next. Yorkshire supplies the local cheese, Wensleydale, made in the Dales.

Burgers in Leeds: key facts

• Neighbourhoods to explore: the city centre (Kirkgate Market, Call Lane, Trinity Leeds), Headingley and Hyde Park.
• Market burgers: stalls in Kirkgate Market, close to Leeds bus station.
• Rotating street food: Trinity Kitchen, with a new batch of independent traders each season.
• Regional ingredient: Wensleydale cheese from the Yorkshire Dales.
• Currency: pound sterling (GBP), market stalls included.
• What our guides check: whether a Trinity Kitchen trader is still in residence on the date of the guide.

Every guide we publish on Leeds is dated and lists only venues, addresses, prices and ratings we could verify. Leeds is one of many cities in our burger restaurant guides.