https://www.manahatta.co.uk/bars/greek-street Just after national lockdown in March I saw a posting on social media which said that when the restrictions are lifted we will be a hunk, a chunk or a drunk. I have made it my mission to prove them wrong. Sadly, no matter how much I exercise there is very little chance of…
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http://www.midnightbell.co.uk I have visited a few establishments since the lifting of lockdown but they were places I did not know so, as far as I was concerned, the lack of other diners might have been the norm for the time of day when I called. Today, however, I was made starkly aware of the damage…
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https://www.barsoba.co.uk/ I had set off today with a specific location in mind but when I arrived at the establishment in question it had changed its opening hours without thinking to update its website. Thank you very much! My first choice was a restaurant specialising in Far Eastern cuisine and I was looking forward to using…
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Don’t worry, this is not a critique of the US election, or politics in general for that matter, but one of a cocktail bar in Call Lane which also does a pretty good lunch. I had wanted to try something a bit different once the lockdown was lifted and so decided to trawl through the…
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https://www.theowlleeds.co.uk It is ironic that I was quite comfortable during lockdown with my daily walk and two or three trips to the shops each week but since the restrictions have been lifted I feel that it is a great effort to go out and start socialising again. I am not afraid of becoming infected it…
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http://www.stuzzi.co.uk 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…
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https://www.littlebaoboy.com/ Not for the first time, my plans for the day had gone awry and also not for the first time the disaster turned to triumph. I had chosen a venue for my review before I left home rather than winging it as is my wont, but the place I had earmarked was not really…
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http://www.the-reliance.co.uk/ When I started this series four years ago I set myself some rules, most of which I have since broken. Hey, what else are rules for? This visit to The Reliance Bar and Dining Room has prompted me into abandoning all of them and just doing what the heck I like. Two of the…
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A few years ago when I was in fairly handsomely rewarded employment I spent a year living in Candle House, the round building in Holbeck Urban Village which looks like a stack of pizzas. It was a great place to live, only a couple of minutes’ walk to City Square and the train station, another…
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On a freezing cold February day, what more inviting name could any establishment have than Cosy Club? It had been ‘suggested’ that I call here by Leeds Living’s proofreader, Mags, aka She Who Should Probably Be Obeyed, so I gave it a go. I don’t normally review chains and this is one of twenty-one branches…
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