Let’s Do Lunch at Nukkad
There was really only one place that I could visit for this Let’s Do Lunch and that was Nukkad. Don’t panic, all the other restaurants and cafes in Leeds are still open. The reason that Nukkad was on a shortlist of one was that last week, I had the great pleasure of attending the Garbutt […]
Review: Knaves Kitchen’s New Menu at Oporto
Come on, own up, how many of you – sorry us – have been for a night out on the lash in Leeds and not ended up at the Mill Hill Kebab House for a pitta full of unidentified frying object at, what for most people, is breakfast time? When I lived in the town […]
Review: Lowell’s Charity Comedy Night Raises Laughter and Funds
The comedy night Laugh in The Face of Cancer at City Varieties on Wednesday 13 March raised funds amounting to an impressive £11,700, bringing the total so far to over £45,000. I have had a couple of mixed experiences at comedy gigs at City Varieties recently. It is not the venue, far from it (I […]
Leeds Lit Fest – Leeds Library Ghostly Poetry Walk with Mark Pajak
Friday, 8th March saw me attend my first Leeds Lit Festival event since the launch and it could not have been more different. Rather than an indoor reading and an interview with one of Leeds’ foremost writers, it was a walk around the older parts of the City looking for ghosts! Our guide was the acclaimed […]
Review: Garbutt + Elliott Yorkshire Food Entrepreneur Awards
On 7th March I had the pleasure of attending the Second Annual Garbutt + Elliott Yorkshire Food Entrepreneur Awards held in the wonderful setting of the restored Kirkgate in The Castle Museum, York. I had perused the shortlist of nominations and, although West Yorkshire was not very well represented, there being only four Leeds-based businesses […]
