Leeds crowned UK’s spiciest city

Leeds takes the crown as the UK’s spiciest city, while Newcastle-Upon-Tyne ranks as the mildest, according to the latest data from Britsuperstore.

Britsuperstore is an online UK grocery exporter that has been delivering British food and supermarket brands to individuals and businesses for over 30 years.

As National Curry Week approaches, new research has revealed the UK cities with the biggest appetite for spicy food – and the results may surprise curry lovers.

Britsuperstore has analysed TripAdvisor data to identify the UK cities with the highest concentration of restaurants serving Indian, Thai, Caribbean, Mexican, Korean, and Ethiopian cuisines.

Leeds takes the top spot, with 51.33 spicy-cuisine restaurants per 100,000 people, followed by Bath and Oxford. Meanwhile, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne ranks as the UK’s mildest city, with just 7.14 restaurants per 100,000 people.

Rank	City	Number of Restaurants	Total Population	Restaurants per 100,000
1	Leeds	265	516,298	51.33
2	Bath	54	106,009	50.94
3	Oxford	75	161,662	46.39
4	Edinburgh	257	568,163	45.23
5	Bristol	227	725,939	31.27
6	York	64	210,620	30.39
7	Cardiff	134	498,999	26.85
8	London	2,621	9,927.020	26.40
9	Swansea	82	322,374	25.44
10	Sheffield	183	762,277	24.01

Source: Britsuperstore 

Leeds has 265 restaurants across the six spicy-cuisine categories, giving it the highest concentration in the UK.

Indian cuisine dominates with 181 restaurants, followed by Thai with 34, Caribbean with 21 and Mexican with 19.

London has the most restaurants overall

Despite having 2,621 spicy-cuisine restaurants, London ranks eighth per 100,000 people, showing that the biggest restaurant scene doesn’t necessarily have the highest concentration of spicy food.

Top 10 UK Cities with the Lowest Number of Spicy-Cuisine Restaurants

Rank	City	Number of Restaurants	Total Population	Restaurants per 100,000
1	Newcastle-Upon-Tyne	60	839,947	7.14
2	Manchester	355	2,853,370	12.44
3	Belfast	87	656,593	13.25
4	Birmingham	420	2,724,410	15.42
5	Newport	51	326,945	15.60
6	Glasgow	292	1,730,280	16.88
7	Liverpool	167	935,328	17.85
8	Brighton	117	637,322	18.36
9	Londonderry	16	87,153	18.36
10	Nottingham	196	825,506	23.74

Source: Britsuperstore

Newcastle-Upon-Tyne ranks as the UK’s mildest city

Newcastle-Upon-Tyne takes the bottom spot, with just 7.14 spicy-cuisine restaurants per 100,000 people.

The city has 60 restaurants across the six cuisines, with Indian and Thai leading the way at 22 and 21 venues respectively. Mexican accounts for nine restaurants, while Korean has seven. No Ethiopian restaurants were recorded.

Manchester ranks second 

Manchester has 355 spicy-cuisine restaurants, including 197 Indian, 48 Thai, 45 Caribbean and 35 Mexican restaurants.

However, its population of around 2.85 million means this works out at just 12.44 restaurants per 100,000 people, placing it second among the mildest cities.

Belfast rounds off the bottom three

Belfast has 87 spicy-cuisine restaurants, giving it a concentration of 13.25 per 100,000 people.

Indian cuisine dominates with 48 restaurants, followed by Mexican and Thai with 17 each. There are just four Korean restaurants, one Caribbean restaurant and no Ethiopian restaurants recorded.

Birmingham misses out despite its curry reputation

Birmingham has 420 restaurants across the six cuisines, but ranks fourth among the mildest cities once population is taken into account, with 15.42 restaurants per 100,000 people.

The result highlights the difference between having a large number of restaurants overall and having the highest concentration of spicy-cuisine options.

Britsuperstore analysed the number of restaurants by cuisine type, such as Indian and Ethiopian, in each city using TripAdvisor data. These figures were then compared with city population data to calculate the average number of “spicy” restaurants per 100,000 residents. Using this metric, we ranked cities to create a top 10 list of the spiciest cities, as well as a separate top 10 list of the mildest cities.

Britsuperstore is an online UK grocery exporter that has been delivering British food and supermarket brands to individuals and businesses for over 30 years.

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