Fat Hippo Headingley in Leeds

Great little place wonderful atmosphere and great food will be returning soon.

Brilliant service from Oscar, had an amazing family meal! Thank you guys

Excellent food along with excellent service. Thank you Oscar for serving us!

Ordered from Deliveroo and let me tell you... I have never ever felt more disappointed and hangry than I have felt today. Best way to describe the service I got today: tasteless, flavourless, unhygienic, frustrated and late AF. I thought my mood could be rescued from trying the food once it eventually got here, but unfortunately, even that fell through. After waiting about 1hr30mins for it, when the restaurant is only about 5 minutes down the road, to th3 driver confirming what my phone was telling me, that they were taking longer than they should've, to prepare the food, I rang on 2 occasions to be told that (after almost 1 hour) it just got out of the kitchen and that they were waiting for the driver, to hearing that they were really busy in the restaurant. Now, I know i could've very well walked down there to get it and see for myself, but I paid for a delivery service, as which, should've been on time as estimated. For the restaurant to be busy and miss as much as basic salt and seasoning in a Buffalo Hot Honey Burger, full of A LOT of ingredients, for me to taste LITERALLY NOTHING in said burger, was very disappointing. PLUS, the tater tots that came as a side, in a little tub, were not covered with a lid/ cling film/ foil, just anything, and to be stacked on top of each other, made me almost not want to eat them, but my unfortunate and desperately hungry self had no other choice at that point. The one star alone was honestly just for the tater tots atleast having salt in them and tasting alright. All of this to say that I understand they can be busy and I understand things can happen, but hygiene and flavouring your food, being a busy restaurant and all, should be the least of my problems as a customer, when I have waited that long for my food. And I usually don't rate things online, but with this being the second time I have ordered from here and the food having lacked an since of flavour, I'm upset to say a chance will no longer be given to them to say the least and I would recommend others to try any other place in bustling Headingley. Or, make your own at home lol, I've learnt my lesson today. Thanks to the person that answered the phone on both occasions though.

Quite fresh food and wonderful experience .

Brad, really great friendly and personable touch. Very welcoming and service with pleasant chat and a smile.

Brad P was an excellent host. Warm, friendly and considerate. He made us feel very welcome and nothing was a problem for him. My stand out memory of this visit was the great service.

A few reasons to visit the place. Firstly the food is phenominal, the vibe is calm and quirky without being false. Then Brad.P is a credit to this place recomendations and attentiveness is something you dont often get in the industry anymore. Will 100% return when back in the area.

Absolutely fantastic restaurant, great atmosphere inside, fantastic service, from a passionate and friendly server called Brad P. His enthusiasm, his professionalism, and his passion for the food really sold it to me and his recommendations were spot on. The burger was amazing, portion sizes were great and value for money, was spot on. I'd definitely recommend visiting here if you are about or passing and I will be back.

Not Fat Hippos fault but Just Eat didn't deliver food, it took 1.5 hours and at this point I called restaurant, I contact restaurant to find out the food left 30 mins before and driver had it. For context the drive is 8 mins. Finally contacted driver via app and he tells me he doesn't see the address. Just Eat refunded but it ruined my evening, food never arrived. I will come again but will drive and fetch myself. HOWEVER having called the restaurant and discussed they implied this is a known and frequent occurrence with Just Eat. Take some responsibility and stop using their drivers then IMO, as they're making your cracking product ruined.

As regular delivery customers my sister and I was shocked ordering this time round! We had ordered through deliveroo around 7:15pm under my sisters name! As I understand it with how deliveroo/uber/justeat works a restaurant doesn't start cooking the food until a delivery driver has accepted the order! So a driver accepted the order got to the restaurant and cancelled! 2 and a half hours and 4 other drivers later a driver finally picks our order up! But Low and behold when it arrives it is freezing cold and not edible! Because its just been sat there waiting on the side after the first driver accepted and cancelled as much money as we have spent ordering from this place I am absolutely flabbergasted that they would send food out that has been sat there for 2 hours and is most definitely going to be freezing cold upon arrival where is the pride in the food? not good at all considering like I say the amount of times we have ordered previously think you may have lost custom now especially as deliveroo only offered £5 in app credit as compensation

Alice served us and she was the best. Food was also 10/10!

Perfect service especially from both Brads! Thanks for fantastic service

Food was great but the service from Brad was exemplary. Really top notch lunch just now!! Gluten free burger was great too. Happy all round

Fantastic burgers. Visited on a Sunday evening so was really quiet so not so much of an atmosphere but the settings are great, and the food is fantastic

Eleana was a lovely server, very smiley and helpful. The food was amazing very filling and definitely worth the money!!!! Will definitely be returning.

For all the hype the burgers get, the chicken semi-parm was just mid.

Fantastic food the chees balls were more than expected. Quality food well worth a try

Great service, Bead was very friendly & helpful! Fab food as always!

Went on a Tuesday morning, nice and quiet. Gabby was very attentive and service was great! Food was delicious!

Great place for breakfast, our server gabby was very polite and attentive. Thank you

They are professional and honest, they tell you whether the food is halal or not! Thank you very much

Quality food, good service, Gabby provided great service.

Food and service was lovely, gabby couldn’t have given us a better experience!

Great place. New breakfast menu is amazing. Our server Gabby was really helpful and friendly. Good for gluten free options. And great menus to colour.

Very nice food and Gabby provided great table service. Breakfast menu is full of nice food which was delicious.

Gabby was great, she made our experience great. She checked up on us frequently and served us with lots of smiles.

came in for breakfast and the food was brilliant, great taste for gluten free and wasnt expensive.

Our waitress Gabby was very kind and kept checking us how our food was. 5 star service

Had a great couple of chicken burgers that tasted brilliant and we're bloody massive. Service from Eleana was amazing and very helpful in describing money saving deals to us.

Great food and fantastic service from Eleana

Fab service and great food Eleana was amazing and super helpful

Oscar served us and he was very polite and down to earth, he ensured we were happy with everything and checked on us throughout the meal. We did have a slightly longer wait than usual for the food to come out but there were some large groups in at the same time so this was understandable. Food was great and flavoursome

Oscar was our waiter for the day. He provided 5 star service :)

Came in for breakfast and would definitely recommend! Lovely service from Gabby, thank you!

To be honest, I only come here for Oscar my GOAT.

Nice environment to be in food was exceptional and Oscar provided us with amazing customer service. Would defo come back

Visited for the new breakfast menu that they have recently released & it was incredible. Loved the different burger options. I had the Uncle buck which was the perfect breakfast burger with all the good stuff, a runny egg & a delicious sauce. My partner had the pancakes which were lovely and fluffy with crispy bacon & a buttery maple sauce which was perfect. We both had hash rounds on the side too which were so yummy!! Definitely recommend adding a portion of these on. The filter coffee is unlimited too which is a great idea. Our lovely server Gabby made us feel so welcome & was super friendly and attentive, all the staff there were incredibly welcoming.

Amazing food, good service and decent price would happily come here every week

The only reason I can't mark the atmosphere as 5 stars!!!!

Fab meal at fat hippo. Food delicious, service fabulous. Special thank you to our server Sadie who was ace and arranged a wheelchair accessible table for us and confidently understood why my husband needed to use his own plate. We'll be back!

Really good food, lovely service. Lunchtime treat

Staff are rude. Long delays. The kitchen cannot handle more than 1 order every hour it seems. Do not visit here if u want ur food on time. Anywhere but here.

Ordered as a takeaway. Sides (tater tots and slaw) were nice but the vegan party in my partners burger was bland and springy. Disappointing as there are a great range of vegan pattys on the market now.

Served by gabby she was great and so was the food

The best place I've ever eaten and our server Gabby was amazing. Thank you

Great food (though massive portions, even ordering from the "little" menu). Great service from Gabby during a quiet lunchtime too.

Really tasty and the server Gabby was really attentive and friendly. My daughter used to come here when at university and always said this was the place to go. She wasn't wrong

Hangover III chicken burger was the best thing I’ve ever tasted, portion sizes are huge and fries are amazing 10/10 and the staff are lovely :)

Eleana was such an amazing server - really attentive without being intrusive and had a lovely, friendly demeanour. Thank you!

Had Eleana as server, amazing experience kind friendly, decent food. Easy peasy

Delicious, friendly staff, generous and clean!

Eleana served us with spectacular enthusiasm! She really is a true fat hippo burger lover. Music also spot on!

The best chicken burger I have had!! Our server was Eleana, she was brilliant, very enthusiastic and helpful, big burger love. Music was also fab.

My boyfriend and I came here today and ordered the Honey Shot Chicken Burger and the Born Slippy Beef Burger. Both were great, super tasty and everything you want in a burger. Highly recommend. Service was great as well which makes a big difference! Brad the manager was exceptional as well, a true representation of what great customer service looks like! Cheers guys, we’ll be back! 👌😊

Quite empty when we went but staff waited on us hand and foot, they were excellent and very accomodating. I think one was training? either way she has the makings to be fantastic as with everyone else :) By the way, the onion rings are fantastic.

good food, great service from gabby, thank you :)

Absolutely fantastic food and the service was exceptional 5 stars all the way and more

So delicious, good value for money and very attentive and friendly staff!

I’ve been with family and we all loved it what we ordered we’ve got it

Quality food, friendly staff and a reasonable price. What more could you ask for?

Our food took an hour to arrive, and even then half was missing. Due to their delay, they then said we were there after closing and needed to finish within 15 minutes. Absolutely galling and appalling service. We ordered at 9:15pm and were told there’s a 15 minute wait. 45 minutes in, and after seeing multiple takeaway orders being served ahead of us, we asked where our food was. We were told it was going to come in “two minutes”. We waited a further 15 minutes before our food arrived. Only half our order arrived. We then asked again for the remaining food, which took another 10 minutes. 5 minutes later we were asked by another waiter to vacate the premises as they had closed - even though they had only just put the food on the table. This was astounding given we were only there due to their slow service, and had just been served. Not only that, there were multiple other parties still seated, whilst we were a quiet group of 4. Had we known how long the wait was, we would’ve chosen any of the other establishments nearby. The food was mediocre and service appalling. Would not recommend.

10/10 Food & Maya was super lovely. Will definitely come again & will recommend to friends and family :)

Food is great and a bit different .

Bought the wild bill burger as it used to be 2 smash patties in the burger, they now just do frozen burgers heated up that you would do on the BBQ, disappointing.

The only reason I can't mark the atmosphere as 5 stars is becauae we were the first ones in and only 2 more 2s came in. There wasn't a bad atmosphere just not really an atmosphere to comment on. The food was delicious. The waitress was lovely and polite. I have to say I was shocked that the kids meals were exactly the same size as mine yet mine cost more than double. Same amount of chips too. My kids left alot because it was an adults portion. Next time, I will try order a children's one as it's more than enough. The toilets were clean although no nappy bin for baby changing. I had to put it in the sanitary bin as that was all that was there. Didn't fancy carrying a dirty nappy around on a red hot day. All in all, a great experience and we will revisit.

It was a Wednesday evening in headingley. Everywhere we passed was full of people drinking and eating and having a great time. We arrived to grey empty Fat Hippo. That signal would say “no” to me usually. But we’d booked (lol) so we went in. Music super loud. I guess cos the two wait staff were the only people there. Should have left. But we stayed. Ordered drinks. I asked a couple of questions. The server knew nothing about the menu. And seemed kind of annoyed that I’d asked. The food came pretty fast. Frickles were good. Maybe the best I’ve had in uk. But the. After a few. No. Not so good. Way too greasy. Shame. My dining partner kind of liked their chicken sandwich but didn’t finish it. Or the fries. My burger was meh. Reminded me of 1980s British pub food. Finally we paid and left. Within about 20 minutes I started feeling pretty ill. Didn’t really sleep. Hence this dyspeptic review. It won’t matter. They’ll be closed in a matter of months. I found the whole experience pretty immiserating

Burger was good, was expecting it to look more impressive having seen the photos on the website by each burger on the menu, posted side by side for comparison. Burger as I said was good, had the peanut butter one, not disappointed but not as impressed as thought I would be!

Good service from the moment you enter the building. Good choices on the menu and caters for the smaller appetite. Staff very friendly. Food was cooked perfectly. Would definitely recommend this restaurant.

The food was lovely - Maxine was very welcoming and made our experience really nice

Manager was absoultey horrible asked him if i could eat outside as i am autistic said no when 3 people was eating out side explained im nerodiverse became very aggressive in manner had to leave

Food was fantastic but the time to bring the food out was over 40 minutes. There were only 3 other tables in so unsure why the waiting time was soo long.

Great food & people. Would recommend.

Great vegan burgers and great service

Fabulous food and service - thank you

As always quality of both food and service was spot on. Eleana was both polite and helpful.

Kira was a delight, really friendly and efficient. Made sure we were looked after without being overbearing

Great food, reasonable price, and good service. Maxine was our waitress and she really looked after us, thankyou!

Food really good, fast and friendly service. Recommend the waffle fries and orange wine! Waitress with red hair and glasses was lovely, attentive and made us feel really welcome!

Kira was our server and she was so lovely and helpful. She clearly knew the menu and recommended great options for us. Great service

Delicious food, came out really fast, good value for money. We loved the tater tots with hot honey sauce. We will definitely return.

Food was great, location is really good. We were there early so not many other people were in the restaurant. Other than that, would recommend for a good burger! No parking I don’t think so you’ll have to find that yourself. We managed to get parked down a side street that allowed parking for certain times.

Great food at lunch time, decent price. Kira gave us great service. Can't complain.

Brilliant food, good service, but we were one of the first ones here so can’t comment on atmosphere! Would recommend!

Delicious food, especially Trash Brown starter. Very tasty burgers. Friendly staff, good service.

Kira was super friendly and had great service. had a great meal, huuuuge portions

Food was lovely and kira was a brilliant server!

Kira was absolutely beautiful. Had lovely tableside manner and it was a pleasure to be served by her. We will definitely be back and fingers crossed Kira is our server again. Girl deserves a raise. #teamKira

Best burger I've had in ages! They can do most of the menu gluten free and the bread buns actually stay together! Maxine our server was fantastic throughout - thank you!

Visited for a meal with my partner, and we were both blown away - amazing quality food, in very good portion sizes for the price. The service was attentive without being constant or annoying. We were served by Max, who was really friendly. We left very full and very happy.

Excellent service from Maxine and great tasting food.

Service slow and not very enthusiastic, lots of delivery drivers coming in but the burgers were dry, the slaw unseasoned and drinks over priced. The frickles were really greasy

Had a great time, will definitely come again

Maxine was a lovely waitress. Made sure we were happy and satisfied with our food. Thoroughly enjoyable experience will definitely come back.

Good food good service can recommend

Excellent burgers, especially the Kraken burger. Kira provided great service. Overall a lovely experience

I went as a 5 person visit, but will only talk about what I had. First of all the staff were terrible. One waitress in particular had a face like thunder the whole evening. We asked for table water but never got it. We never had desert because we were never checked upon after finishing our meal. I ordered a burger with pulled pork and that was cold. The burger and chips were lukewarm. I was surprised how quickly the food arrived, which means that orders are not cooked fresh to order. It shouldn't be hard to cook burgers to order. It's a shame because if it was hot, it would have been pretty tasty. Overall not a very pleasant experience and one I would not want again. With the choice of restaurants in Leeds, I'd choose somewhere else.

Good food on a limited 'fried' menu. Good location and atmosphere. Service was okay too

Incredible food, wonderful attentive service. Will absolutely be back!

Great food, Maxines service was very good.