Lunch in Leeds with Stan Graham
The rhetorical question was recently posed to me by my editor, ‘Why don’t you try Wagyu for a Let’s Do Lunch feature?’ My immediate thought was to let him know that I had had a look at the menu and it was fifteen quid for a steak sandwich, salad and chips so I didn’t think…
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It wasn’t so long ago that you seemed never to be more than a tostada’s throw from a Mexican eatery, but recently they seem to be a threatened species. Mexico is not in the EU so it can’t be Brexit and I doubt whether President Trump’s wall is likely to have had an effect yet,…
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http://ilparadisodelciboyork.com/our-new-leeds-restaurant.html Living alone I spend a fair bit of time planning my meals, from what to buy and when, to what to take out of the freezer and when. After my lunch at Il Paradiso, the new Italian restaurant in York Place, I can turn my mind to other things, as I’ve worked out that…
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The other week I was wallowing in self-satisfaction, having just finished a review of the final outlet in Assembly Underground. I was feeling as smug as a trainspotter who’d ticked the last loco off in his Ian Allen guide. It wasn’t to last long though, as a couple of days later I had an email…
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https://livinitaly.com/cloth-hall-st-leeds I thought that it was about time I paid a call to the ‘other’ incarnation of LivinItaly known as Dough House in Cloth Hall Street, next door to the Corn Exchange. Whereas the original place in Granary Wharf is mainly a deli and restaurant, the emphasis here is on cocktails and pizza, so what…
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Sometimes I find food to be really complicated and I’m at the time of life when I don’t want to be bamboozled. It’s enough of a challenge nowadays remembering whether I should call a member of the distaff gender a woman, lady or girl without causing offence, let alone worry about what I should call…
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I have never had an inclination to visit the Far East, although in a previous life I did go to Hull quite regularly, so I’m not in a position to compare the food on offer in Leeds with ’the real thing’. I would venture to suggest, however, that the dishes on offer at Noodle House…
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