The Proof Is in the Pudding: Leeds Yorkshire Pudding Festival
Finally! 273 years after its creation, the greatest food from the greatest county has its own festival! Yep, on the first day of February, the wonder that is the Yorkshir...
Episode One: Your New Favourite Binge
As a place that welcomes you into its world to forget the outside; where friends are made and thoughts are given space; a place to relax into and be entertained by; and w...
Veganuary in Leeds
At the turn of every year, almost every person decides it’s time to do better. Our resolutions range from being healthier to being kinder, and for those attempting both...
Can I get A (R)amen? Where to go for Ramen in Leeds
It seems strange to say that some of our favourite foods, only a few years ago, were unknown to many British palates. One famous old dish that took centuries to reach Yor...
Eat Up
During the festive season, our eating habits often alter. Foods untouched throughout the year are embraced, familiar home-cooking is insisted upon, and special social out...
Home Comforts
Words & Photos: Afsaneh Kaviani [twitter] @afsanehkaviani After moving to the UK forty years ago, Afsaneh Kaviani has since made Leeds her home. Showcasing her Irania...
Eye View
Words & Photos: Eva Piskadlo [insta] @thefoodpilgrims The humble Yorkshire pudding may be its greatest culinary claim to fame, but England’s largest county is plent...
If I like Belgrave Music Hall….What else will I like?
Belgrave Music Hall is a unique force in Leeds. Having taken over the site of a former snooker hall, seemingly too big to be filled by a humble bar, Belgrave immediately ...
Unique Independent Restaurants
Like most UK cities, Leeds’ high streets have a multitude of multi-present restaurants and coffee shops that are easy to fall into for lack of knowing where else to go....
Punk Kitchen: Dan Thrippleton
I’ve never followed a trend in my life, just followed my creativity, passion, and the love of food that feels right. Punk is how you do it, not how you use it!! ...
Autumn Inspirations: Food and Flavours
Autumn is on its way; it’s time to swap delicate stone fruits for robust squashes and dark greens. It’s a time to embrace soups and curries, indulgent cheeses and ric...
What’s Coming Up in Leeds
As we move into Autumn, the gatherings remain strong and many. Festivals of food, drink, music and other events, from the niche to the popular, frequent the upcoming mont...
Family Fortunes: Family Run Businesses in Leeds
Keeping an independent business alive in today’s climate is very difficult and impressive to say the least. Local, traditional, family-owned independent businesses act ...
Flying The Leeds Nest
Since opening in 2014, Bundobust quickly became a cornerstone of the Leeds food and drink scene. Looking back now, the concept seems flawless and unfailing; a collaborati...
Kirkstall: An Area Spotlight
Nestled on the eastern side of the River Aire sits the north-western suburb of Kirkstall. As we're reliably informed by Wikipedia, the name Kirkstall comes from the Old N...
The Assembly: a year in the making
The Assembly is a bottle shop, cafe and bar located in Crossgates. The bar is owned by husband-and-wife team Matt and Stephanie, who celebrate their first birthday next m...
Food Festivals Coming Up
The late Spring and early Summer have already brought with them an array of fab food events to Leeds. With longer days and lighter nights tempting folk from all around to...
Unsung Cuisine Heroes: Caribbean and Polish
You hear a lot about the big names of continental cuisine such as Italian, Indian and the newcomer Thai; but as we become more inclined to try new food groups, going out ...
Season’s Eatings: Summer
The time for restoring vital connection with nature is now. As one species among countless others, we must understand that ‘we are a part of nature and not apart from n...
Area Spotlight: a little more in Headingley
Earlier this year we put the area spotlight on Headingley: the Leeds suburb a couple of miles north of the city centre is celebrated as a worldwide sporting stadia and a ...
Ladies Who Lunch
‘Ladies who lunch’ is a phrase that was coined in the sixties and seventies as a description of women with spare time and excess cash that could afford to spend them ...
To Meat or Not to Meat
If ever there was a subject to polarise opinion, start arguments, and ruin evenings, it is this. No, not the ‘b’ word, for long before brexit was in unbearable existe...
The most popular Thai dishes in Leeds
Since the turn of the century the British palette has become increasingly adventurous. Where once we were happy with our meat and two veg, now the easier access to inform...
In Search of the Perfect Pizza
Pizza: the food of gods. That one dish which everybody loves, and those who say they don’t must be viewed with suspicion. For how can a mouth not salivate at the sauce,...
