Get all your news in one place.
100’s of premium titles.
One app.
Start reading
Leeds Live
Leeds Live
National
Claire Miller & Sebastian McCormick

Leeds city centre is a Greggs hotspot - see which chains have taken over near you

Is your area of Leeds a hotspot for Greggs? Find out how well-served your area is for bakeries and chain coffee shops - or if you’re more likely to be getting your latte from an independent.

Yorkshire has a total of 171 Costas and 188 Greggs. It also has 43 Caffe Neros, 81 Starbucks, and nine branches of Pret. This makes Greggs Yorkshire's favourite and most popular branch.

Leeds City Centre is best served for Greggs, with 13 - or one for every 1,110 people.

Read More: Martin Lewis hands over £50,000 to help Leeds charity at 'breaking point'

The place with the fewest people per Caffe Nero is also Leeds City Centre, with 11 branches, or one for every 1,311 people (it ranks 10th in the UK). It’s also the best place to go if you fancy a Starbucks, with 8 branches, one for every 1,803 people, and Pret with five branches, one for every 2,885 people.

Enter your postcode below to see what's in your area

Based on venues registered with local councils for food hygiene inspections, Costa is the UK’s biggest coffee chain. There were 2,661 Costa outlets as of February.

Greggs was the next most prolific with 2,150 outlets, almost double the 1,104 Starbucks shops across the UK. Caffe Nero, which has 616 venues ,and Pret a Manger, which has 402, are less common.

The City of London is probably the easiest place to get a cup of coffee with a Costa, Caffe Nero, Greggs, Pret or Starbucks for every 108 people who live in the area. This is likely because while 10,938 people live in the Square Mile, it’s visited by many more workers and tourists.

The area has 16 Costas, six Greggs, 15 Starbucks, 14 Caffe Neros, and 50 Prets - one in eight of the company’s entire UK’s operation. Unsurprisingly, the City of London is the nation’s Pret capital.

City Centre South in Glasgow is the area best served by Costas, with one for every 664 people who live there. There are six Costas in the area, which contains Glasgow Central Station and St Vincent Street.

The area is also top for Greggs, with six branches of the chain in the area as well. There are also seven Caffe Neros and eight Starbucks.
The country’s hotspot for Caffe Neros is Shaftesbury 1 in Belfast, where there are seven - one for every 399 people. The area covers Great Victoria and Lanyon Place stations, May Street and the Victoria Square shopping centre.

It’s also the top hotspot for Starbucks.

The data is based on Food Hygiene ratings data from February, with locations matched to middle super output areas, intermediate zones and super output areas based on their postcode.

Enter your postcode to check food hygiene ratings near you

Sign up to read this article
Read news from 100’s of titles, curated specifically for you.
Already a member? Sign in here
Related Stories
Top stories on inkl right now
One subscription that gives you access to news from hundreds of sites
Already a member? Sign in here
Our Picks
Fourteen days free
Download the app
One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.