Nyla’s is a bar, restaurant and nightspot on Lower Briggate in Leeds City Centre. It has undergone a recent expansion, adding a new space on the first floor and unveiling a new menu.
A relatively recent addition to the nightlife scene of Leeds City Centre, Nyla’s has just celebrated its first birthday and is clearly going from strength to strength, with the new first floor space, “The Loft”, available for private hire and adding a new dimension to their offering.
On our visit to Nyla’s, we are greeted by friendly and attentive staff who welcome us into the bright, cheery and open bar and dining space on the ground floor, with decorative features including exposed brick walls and foliage all around. We are shown to our table and handed a menu which boasts a selection of punchy crowd-pleasers across both the food and drink selections.
We start things off with a couple of well-made margaritas. On the face of it, a margarita is a fairly simple cocktail to make, but in my experience it seems to be fairly easy to get wrong (it is apparently easier than you would think to combine tequila, Cointreau and lime in a way that reminds you of toilet duck). I think a bar’s ability to make a good margarita is often a bellwether of their quality more broadly, and so we are both pleased to find our margaritas are more than up-to-scratch.
Onto the food, then. The menu is stacked with a selection of robust crowd-pleasers that deliver on flavour and are a great accompaniment to our margaritas. We have a selection of the sharing small plates that compliment the drinks perfectly: salt and pepper squid, truffle and parmesan fries, and sticky soy chicken skewers all hit the mark, but for us the real star of the show was the pretzel bites with a maple mustard dip. It’s a snack often found in Bavarian beer halls, and for good reason: it’s the perfect thing to accompany a couple of drinks and to shave the edge off that hunger that I find often builds after a couple of drinks. For those in search of something a little more substantial, Nyla’s also has a variety of more traditional mains, including steaks, burgers and salad bowls, which, on the evidence we are provided, I would imagine would all deliver on expectations.
The friendly serving staff let us know about some of the deals they have on throughout the week, and whilst there are quite a lot to choose from, the two-for-one cocktails and £3.50 pints before 8.30pm on weekdays are particularly eye-catching. £3.50 for a pint of Estrella is surely up there with the best value to be found anywhere in Leeds City Centre, and it would possibly be worth a repeat visit to Nyla’s for this alone. Add into the mix some top-drawer food options, such as the pretzel bites, and it definitely makes it worth a visit.
https://visitnylas.com/
Main image by Jac Williamson.
