Sheff is tops. I lived in West Yorks for 17 years and sheff for 12 and sheff beats bradford and leeds hands down. leeds is too big, mega city and hence crap. bradford is just pants. sheff is fab, its a city but feels like a small town. west and south sheff are the best, west gets you out to rivelin valley and the peaks also easy to go north from there up to greno/wharncliffe woods. walkley and hillsborough seem decent places to live. south has hunters bar, nether edge, nethergreen - all fab to live. bike route straight from hunters bar roundabout will take you straight out into the peaks.
Veggie stuff
Blue Moon Restaurant, 2 St. James Street, Sheffield - great place to eat. The cakes are amazing!!!!! Chocolate cake is the best closely followed by banana and chocolate. The main meals are good though they dont change the menu much. Decent place to find out stuff going on in sheff.
Bohemian Café, The 53 Chesterfield Road Sheffield - they do veg and vegan aswell as meaty things stuff but not been in here - close to lembas and In A nutshell shop.
Two south Indian restaurants in Sheffo. Both are great and definately worth a visit - dosas, iddlys, vadas, great coconut curries. Top stuff at both of them!!! Great veggie selections. The starters are amazing at both places. Manchurian starter at dhanisthas is to die for.
Dhanistha's, Sheffield. South Indian and Sri Lankan restaurant. 74 Abbeydale Road, Sheffield,
East & West Restaurant, Sheffield. South Indian and Sri Lankan restaurant. 227 Abbeydale Road, Sheffield,
Nirmal's Restaurant, 189-193 Glossop Road, Sheffield - great veggie selection though a bit pricey but it is in the city centre. Mrs Nirmal turns up at the Vegan/veggie food annual give away that takes place in sheff in december - usually at the quaker hall v. close to blue moon. She usually does a few food classes and brings some great free food along.
There are a few more other good curry places for veggies, there's one on chesterfied rd near to bohemian, lembas but i cant remember its name. another decent one at 282 Sharrow Vale Road
Hunters Bar - Moghul Rooms. Not the greatest but fair.
Pho68 175 London Road, Sheffield - Viet restaurant with great veggie section - better than all the others on London road. And no sneaky fish sauce in the veggie food.
Noodle Inn 156 London Rd, Sheffield - does great big bowls of soup. Awesome meal - the bowl is as big as your head and only cost a fiver. Get it with udon noodles. yum!!
Two steps Fish and Chippy 249 Sharrow Vale Road, Sheffield, - great chippy that has a seperate oil vat for chips so your chips aint contaminated by the fish. You cant take anything to them (tofu, veggie sozzies etc) and they will batter and fry them for you!!! Great place.
Health food shops - All these are great especially Beanies, DTE and New Roots.
Beanies 05-207 Crookes Valley Road, Sheffield, Between uni and walkley
Down To Earth Shrarrowvale Road Hunters Bar
New Roots Glossop Road near sheff uni
Your Nuts Fulwood Road Broomhill
Zeds Netheredge Road Netheredge
One great reason to live in sheff is for Lembas. Check em out on the web they are a wholefood veggie vegan wholesalers and you can go in and open up an account with them. Easy to spend alot of money there!! http://www.lembas.co.uk
These websites lists some alternative things going on - there's lotsa films and gigs on where people do veggie vegan food at and some of these people work at blue moon so the food is tops ... usually pizza!!
http://alt-sheff.co.uk/
http://sheffield.indymedia.org.uk/