Alia

From a ‘dirty pizza’ point of view at the south end of town there are really only two places that are ‘worth salt’, on Lower Brigate there is Luigi’s, and at Bridge End there is Alia.
Alia isn’t competing for a fashionable, sophisticated or even sober clientele and the food on offer makes that very clear… Chicken, pizza, burgers, curry, all the usual ‘drunk food’ staples as you would expect.
Now what you attempt to eat at Alia will really determine how you feel about the place; burgers at Alia are good. Pizzas at Alia are below average. Chips are someplace between nondescript and overcooked slightly. I’ve never entertained the idea of chicken or curry, because at 3am they’re either too greasy and too much hard work — you can’t walk and eat a curry. It’s all fairly priced though and the staff are generally affable and up for a bit of banter.
All that said, maybe I’m judging Alia on all the wrong things though, after all at 3am the last thing on your mind is what the food tastes like, it’s more will it stop the hangover, and I’m pleased to say that ⁸⁄₁₀ Alia has helped with allaying serious head and body pain.
And then you factor in the Punching Bag arcade machine that has recently found a home in the waiting area? Well, what’s not to like about the only decent ‘drunk food’ shop south of the river in the centre of Leeds (I don’t like Mr Khans which is 2 doors down from Alia).

I was starting to become concerned about my local kebaby. Any time the volume of flies in an eating establishment conjures a word like «dense» to the front of my mind is a time to find somewhere else to eat, but they seem to have sorted the issue out now. Probably with cleaning. I think that’s how you get rid of stuff like that.
Actually, the last couple of times I’ve been in there they’ve been cleaning. Not just «sh*t the boss is coming» cleaning, but actually frantic «you can’t leave those bodies here» panic scrubbing. What’s been going on in there?
Anyway, I don’t know if it’s new management or something but their chips are now grey and smell funny, and yesterday they tried to put chilli sauce on my kebab AFTER the salad. That’s like wiping after pulling up your… oh you know what I mean.

The food here is only palatable if you have had a major binge drinking session. Cheap prices, but you pay for what you get. Open late, tends to get all the drunks gettin foodin there before headin to the taxi firm next door. If you were sober you just wouldnt !!