Saffron Indian Restaurant Bar Takeaway

Saffron sits on Leyburn's central Market Place — the cobbled square at the heart of upper Wensleydale that fills with visitors on Friday market day and again every other Saturday for the livestock auction. The kitchen runs a three-cuisine menu spanning Bangladeshi, Indian and Punjabi cooking, which is a wider spread than most Dales towns of this size can sustain. Aggregated reviewer scores sit comfortably above four stars across Google, TripAdvisor and Restaurantji, with feedback running into the high hundreds; the restaurant has picked up TripAdvisor Traveller's Choice recognition in 2024 and 2025 and a Restaurant Guru award for best takeaway food in 2024. Reviewers consistently single out portion size, the freshness of the breads and the care taken with chef-specials beyond the standard curry-house repertoire. Saffron operates as restaurant, bar and takeaway from the same Market Place unit, with a 5-rated food hygiene score from North Yorkshire Council. Online ordering runs through the shop's own site at saffronleyburn.co.uk, with delivery covering Leyburn itself and the surrounding upper-Wensleydale villages — Middleham, Wensley, West Witton and into Bellerby. The Market Place setting brings the trade in early on tourist weekends and keeps it ticking late into the evening once the day-trip coaches have left for Hawes.