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 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 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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I set off to Leeds with a specific establishment in my sights but when I arrived I found to my surprise that they don’t have a restaurant, just a bar, so that was that. I took a stroll around the business area of the City but nothing screamed out at me. The problem was that I…
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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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