Review: Pieminister in Pie Week

As you can probably tell by the photographs for this week’s feature I ate much later than normal, 5.00pm to be exact, but it doesn’t really matter as Pieminister doesn’t have a special midday menu, so this is what you would also have at lunchtime. Another deviation from the normal review was that I didn’t […]

Review: Hamlet (With Commentary by Charles Eager)

I have spent 69 years, 5 months and 13 days on this planet and have only just seen my first live Shakespeare play. I watched Macbeth on television a few years ago but that is it. The reason I broke my duck was that Leeds Playhouse was staging a production of Hamlet and, as I […]

In Conversation With Tony Farmer

Tony Farmer is a Corporate Finance Partner in the accountancy practice of Garbutt and Elliott. He is based at their York Office at Monk’s Cross, where I went to have a chat with him about the forthcoming Garbutt + Elliott Yorkshire Food Entrepreneurs Awards 2019. My first question was the blindingly obvious one about how […]

Let’s Do Lunch at Caravanserai

I have passed this establishment on many occasions as it’s nestled next to one of my favourite buildings in Leeds, the Corn Exchange, but it’s always appeared to be purely a takeaway counter. A look at the website told me that potential customers are invited either to eat in or take away, so I thought […]

Review: Dinner 18:55 – Leeds Playhouse Pop-up Theatre

One of the unexpected side effects of the closure of the main Leeds Playhouse building is that the pop-up theatre, constructed as a stop gap, is a much more intimate space than the Courtyard Theatre was and is being utilised for productions which lend themselves to audience inclusion. The latest of these is a community […]