Zaap Thai Street Food Leeds

You know you're onto something good when the queue snakes around Grand Arcade most evenings. This isn't your average curry house Thai – they're doing the real deal here, with vendors cooking over blazing woks in an open kitchen that pumps out serious heat and even more serious flavours. The space feels authentically chaotic in the best way, with bright colours and communal tables that encourage you to dive straight into sharing plates of som tam that'll make your eyes water and pad thai that actually tastes like it should. The som tam salad alone is worth the inevitable wait, and their massaman curry strikes that perfect balance between rich and fiery that most places completely botch.