Sheffield Retro: Dive into the 1980s Restaurant Scene 🍽️

It was the decade when chicken Kievs, prawn cocktails and black forest gateaux were the height of culinary sophistication.
But, delicious as those dishes undoubtedly are, fashionable or not, there was much more to eating out in the 80s. We’ve trawled the archives to transport you and your tastebuds back some 40 years to some of the restaurants which were popular then.

Among the venues pictured are two Sheffield institutions – Baldwin’s Omega, the much-loved banqueting suite which hosted many memorable nights out before closing in 2018, and Tuckwoods, which ran for 145 years before shutting its doors for good in the early noughties.

While many favourite 80s restaurants have disappeared, some are still drawing in the diners all these years later – either by moving with the times or ignoring the trends and sticking to the formula which made them a hit in the first place. This retro photo gallery is a pictorial celebration of dining out in Sheffield in the days before street food, gastropubs or microgreens were even a thing in the UK.

How many of these restaurants have you eaten at and which would you most like to bring back? All the images are published courtesy of Picture Sheffield.