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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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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I’ve been meaning to do a review of Harlie’s for ages but, as it’s situated at the back of the Corn Exchange, it’s not somewhere which I pass regularly and so time has gone on and no visit been made. I was writing about an event for the Leeds Lit Festival recently, which was a…
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https://theoldredbusstation.com/cantina I have no idea as to where I ate this week. The name on the menu was Cantina, but the receipt states The Old Red Bus Station. After consulting the website for Cantina it looks as though they only open under their own name in the evening, but serve their food in the bar…
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We were having one of those mild January days which, whilst not exactly tropical, was conducive to perhaps eating al fresco. I had read about the stunning views over Leeds City Centre from the roof garden of East Parade Social so I decided to check it out. It was closed! I am not having the…
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I have been banished from the City Centre by my editor again this week and sent to the rolling moorlands of Pudsey. I think he’s a bit worried that the bright lights and fleshpots of Leeds on a Thursday lunchtime might just turn the head of a young innocent lad like myself. Excuse me for…
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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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Leeds in the 1960s had a thriving coffee bar scene. This was long before anyone had ever heard of the leviathans of today, although the chap who owned the Riviera Coffee Bar was called Costa. The salubriousness of the establishments varied from the basic, exemplified by the Ritz on Vicar Lane and the aforementioned Riviera…
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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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