http://www.cafe164.com I say, I say, I say! What do you get if you cross a library, an art gallery, a bakery, a coffee house and a philanthropic organisation? I don’t know, what do you get if you cross a library, an art gallery, a bakery, a coffee house and a philanthropic organisation? Café 164. I don’t wish to…
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https://www.eatyourgreensleeds.co.uk/ In the words of another grumpy old man, ‘I don’t believe it!’ I have battled my way through countless vegan and vegetarian meals and one of the best I have had so far is here at Eat Your Greens, which is not a vegan or vegetarian restaurant. I will repeat that: Eat Your Greens…
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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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Temporarily closed 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.…
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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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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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Please note. Closed for refurbishment but is reopening. Please keep checking social media for opening date. http://theunioncoffeehouse.co.uk/ Writing articles for publication is like talking to yourself but through a loudspeaker. In the absence of any feedback you just have to imagine who, if anyone, is reading the stuff you churn out and how you can…
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https://www.oliveandrye.co.uk/ Writing lunch reviews is a really great job except that, with all lines of work, you come across situations which make you wish that you did something else. Over the past couple of years or so I have been lucky in that I have only had to send one meal back because it was…
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Friends of Ham describes itself as a ‘bar and charcuterie.’ I was just relieved to find that it is not the fan club of some third rate actor. Whilst bar and charcuterie does indeed sum up the concept, it is much more than that. As well as a menu boasting cured meats and cheeses from…
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Lunch in Leeds with Stan Graham 