Let’s Do Lunch at Feed, Pudsey

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 […]

Let’s Do Lunch at Tattu

This week I fancied going somewhere a little special. I had heard about Tattu and so I thought that I would give it a try. 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 […]

Let’s Do Lunch at Mai Thai at The Old Steps

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 […]

Pudsey’s New Craft and Food Market – Already Thriving

Just when I thought that I had reclaimed my weekends after the series of articles I wrote on farmers’ markets I received an email informing me of a new one opening in Pudsey on the first Sunday of each month. Unfortunately, I couldn’t visit the inaugural one in September so I turned up on 7th […]

Oktoberfest and Oompah – That’s How It Goes!

It’s that time of the year again when Leeds is taken over by our Teutonic cousins – and the event has surpassed last year’s already. The German Christmas Market will shortly be popping up in Millennium Square, but first on the list is Oktoberfest running from 11th to 13th October (fancy that!) at the South Bank […]