Take a walk down London Road, Sheffield's takeaway central

The Star takes a tour down London Road, one of Sheffield's main hubs for takeaways, restaurants and colourful street scenes.

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00:00Today I'd like to take you for a walk down and share my thoughts on

00:03Sheffield's London Road, a bustling hub of takeaways, passing traffic and

00:07delivery cyclists that is a tapestry of cultures all on its own.

00:10London Road was once a sort of local high street with butchers and

00:14grocers and nowadays it lives on as more of a melting pot of communities and a

00:18densely packed market of takeaways and restaurants. There's too many to name

00:22there's Uber Eats takeaway of the year winner Munchies, really good chicken

00:25wings by the way, the super popular Rassam's Creamery, Taco Mex, half a dozen

00:30Turkish charcoal grills, four Chinese places I can think of, Yama Sushi, at

00:35least four chai cafes, Mr. Chai, burger places, the list goes on and the list

00:40seems to grow every month as well with new joints like Fat Buns, Wings Chinese

00:44Bakery, Chino's Pizza, Maison de Burger, all adding bright new signs to the street

00:50scene. All this makes London Road strikingly colourful too, helped in no

00:54small part by pieces of stunning street art like this dedicated street art wall

00:58which represses a few times a year, this one currently showing Joan of Arc. London Road

01:03is at the centre of the action too as a melting pot of Sharrow, Highfields,

01:07Lowfields, the Ring Road, a student accommodation, the Aldi supermarket

01:11brings no small amount of traffic, there's a large Chinese community as well as

01:15there being one street over from Bramall Lane so it's very popular with United

01:18supporters. What it doesn't have though is much in the way of parking or much of

01:23a nightlife, there's a few pubs sure but it always struck me that you're either

01:26walking on London Road for the food because you're passing through or you want

01:30to get something or you're ordering food on London Road to come to you through

01:34one of its delivery or Uber Eat deals, you're not ever really visiting London

01:38Road for its own sake. I hope that changes one day and there's something

01:42added to the street scene to make it more of a pull for tourists. That said I

01:46only see London Road getting more and more colourful as time goes on as

01:50businesses fight to stand out on this bustling street of takeaways and

01:53restaurants and in competition with the city's growing number of food halls that

01:57are all fighting for a slice of.