
Sous Le Nez
📍 The Basement, Quebec House, Quebec Street, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS1 2HA
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Quality dining at a quality restaurant... It's all about a different atmosphere. It's about good food. It's about good service and attention to detail. So no wonder the long-established Sous Le Nez is one of the most acclaimed restaurant and winebar in Leeds. In fact, our award winning basement bar and bistro - in a handy, city centre location - has been providing mouthwatering food to Leeds diners for over 15 years. Our wine list is as unusual as it is extensive, and our lunchtime and evening menus are creative and very popular. And our portions are huge too! The Restaurant The restaurant at Sous le Nez is a cavernous basement with an array of nooks and crannies and secluded private spaces. It's 'subterranean' nature provides the ideal hideaway from the hustle and bustle of the city above. Ever popular with the business community and diners alike the restaurant has built a reputation for consistency of high quality cuisine, a renowned extensive wine offering both backed up with excellent service and value for money. The restaurant also exudes a certain atmosphere where you can enjoy the hubbub of a busy city centre restaurant along with a privacy and intimacy other restaurants lack. The Bar The Bar provides an excellent space to meet friends and colleagues pre lunch or dinner and boasts one of the largest wine collections and cellars in the area along with a quality offering in single malt whiskies, brandies and much more. Aswell as a watering hole the bar also offers two food menus of its own - during lunchtimes customers can choose from an extensive bar menu including soups, salads, sandwiches, steaks and other main dishes or opt for a set menu of 2 courses for two people including a drink for only £19.95.Image Gallery
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📍 The Basement, Quebec House, Quebec Street, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS1 2HA
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Showing 5 of 828 reviews from Google Maps.Last updated 8 February 2026.
A fantastic meal, first class flavour combinations and excellent cooking. What a gem of a restaurant, classic French dishes are the staple accompanied by an extensive wine list. If you are looking for high-quality restaurant food then go and try the dishes here. Atmosphere was a busy hubbub, allowing for private conversation at tables, which were all relatively well spaced.
Everytime I come here I am never disappointed. The flavours are amazing, the wine to die for. The steak always melts in your mouth. From the starter to dessert every bite is divine. Will always be my favourite restaurant.
Gonna break from the crowd here. Didn't think very highly of this venue. Came here as a 'let's try this one' recommendation from a friend and started to get a feeling about 10 minutes in. We've eaten and been in France a lot, and it feels like they are trying to create a little French eatery but not quite hitting the mark in each area. 1. Incredibly loud. The tables are so tightly packed in with so many people you are talking/yelling at the person next to you. Some sort of design flaw? And we were seated in the M62 serving corridor which makes the poor service noteworthy. 2. Impressively uncomfortable seating. The sort of upright brown dining chairs your great grandparents might have had. 3. Service was dreadful. Was like we didn't exist, and when it was present it was service with a grimace. One chap with grey trousers and short reddish hair appeared to be a manager of sorts and took our order like he was doing us a favour. Was s 3h15m experience due to the service, of which probably 45m was eating. We would have ordered a lot more drinks IF we could have. 4. Impressive wine cellars, filled with incredible wine-I don't drink alcohol so am not side tracked, and was more taken with the grubby toilets with the handle hanging off the scratched and mucky doors. I had pig cheeks. Absolutely incredible, and melt in your mouth, 5 stars. All the starters on the table were incredible. No bread served. Odd. We had to ask even though all the starters were 'saucy' and then followed a pallava with counting the number required and allocating plates. Every French restaurant I have been to EVER just drops off a basket of bread. One friend was eating soup BTW. Amazingly we were charged £1 per roll which seemed comical on a £320 bill. Main course for me was venison special. It was served cold (not supposed to be cold) and was so tough I had to saw with the knife. Sent it back and the kitchen agreed it was too tough. I was fed up of waiting at this point and just ate the potatoes which you pay extra for. Dessert was a drop dead fabulous chocolate fondant which would be the only reason my friends would be able to make me return here. Stunning in every way, perfectly cooked and served with excellent ice cream. Maybe I was unlucky tonight because the other reviews seem very impressed. My share of the bill bearing in mind I drank tao water and sent my main course back was £60. I had ramen the day before for £11, served in 8 minutes and was perfect. I can think of at least 10 other places to eat that are better in Leeds than here. BUT, I would come back for the fondant alone, it was that good. Incredible how they got it to taste that good with a perfectly matched ice cream. Fabulous.
We had an amazing meal. The food was fantastic and the atmosphere was great. Favourite restaurant in Leeds!
Went here in August 2025. Had the three courses for £45 including half a bottle of wine. The food and service were top notch 10/10.