A couple of weeks ago I was asked if I would pop along to Holbeck Urban Village to take some photographs at Round Foundry, so I took my usual route through the Dark Arches and Granary Wharf to Water Lane. Wharf Approach was closed to traffic, so it was lucky I don’t have a car,…
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I was slightly wary about doing my Let’s Do Lunch article this week as I’d been to Blackhouse, or Grill on the Square as it is also known, a couple of months ago, when I was asked to cover its tenth birthday bash. As you will know, I do these articles incognito so was a…
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I have a set of self-imposed rules which I apply when I decide where to eat for my Let’s Do Lunch series. I drafted this list when I began writing the feature about three and a half years ago in order to be fair to both the restaurant operators and you, my dear reader. Not…
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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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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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According to their website the word Tattu is a corruption of Tattoo and Tatau, an ancient eastern word meaning ‘to make a mark’. The first thing which makes a mark is the decor. On entering the restaurant, customers are met with one of a series of huge faux cherry trees in full bloom seeming to…
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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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