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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I must begin with a confession. This review wasn’t done at lunchtime. There, I’ve said it. I was going to the theatre so I thought that I would kill two birds with one stone and write a restaurant review whilst in the City. This meant that I needed to look for somewhere suitable for midday…
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In my review of 2017 I bemoaned the lack of Jewish, Eastern European and Caribbean restaurants in the City Centre and, of course, the minute Leeds Living had published the review, I recalled having seen Jenny’s Jerk Chicken in the food hall at the bottom end of Kirkgate Market. I had been meaning to go…
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My normal modus operandi is to take a bus into Leeds and let the day take me where it will. This week I was asked to venture out of town to sample the food on offer at Butler’s in the newly opened Number One Kirkstall Forge. The building is an office block with six floors,…
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I must admit that I was not looking forward to doing this particular article as it was the end of the last working week before Christmas and the City Centre was awash with workers in their posh frocks subtly accessorised with Santa hats or flashing reindeer antlers. The women were not much more sophisticated either.…
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