Lunch in Leeds with Stan Graham
In May 2018, I ticked one more item off my bucket list when I visited Istanbul. To be fair, this is about my third bucket list as I have been fortunate enough to do lots of stuff I never thought possible, so I am now looking for stuff that I didn’t really want to do but…
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It’s funny how a place seems to keep cropping up throughout your life. In the early 1970s I worked as the manager of a betting shop in East Parade and one of my regular punters, who later became a good friend, did the racing commentaries for Extel. In those days it was illegal to have…
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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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I have been writing our Let’s Do Lunch series for two and a half years now and enjoyed every minute of it. After a year I was asked if I would like to try going to press nights to write articles promoting restaurants and I was only too pleased to oblige. Then came, ‘How about…
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This lunchtime saw me take a trip to Simpatico, which is a pizza restaurant in Queen’s Arcade. We are so lucky to live in a city where the Victorian architects were so forward thinking as to build these wonderfully ornate structures in order to protect shoppers from the ravages of the Northern climate. I often…
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Farsley in the late 1970s when I lived there was hardly the most alluring suburb of the City, possibly because I lived there. It had all of the disadvantages of a village, i.e. shops which closed at lunchtime on Saturday and no nightlife except for a couple of pubs, a decent chippy and a Chinese…
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As my regular reader may have noticed, the cheque’s in the post, I am doing a series of articles on Farmers’ Markets and so using the opportunity to do some Let’s Do Lunches in the suburbs on the market days. They are held over weekends and so the lunch spots will probably have a different…
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