1,000 Handshakes Pop-up at Bond Court Until Sunday 11 August

It’s a funny thing, a handshake, yet it’s used to signify so many different things. We shake hands to seal a deal, to congratulate an opponent who has just humiliated us at one game or another (smashed the living daylights out of us at rugby) when presenting or receiving a prize or when bumping into […]

Trinity Kitchen’s New Traders are Serving to Impress

Last night I did something I haven’t done for ages.  (Behave yourself!) I took up an invitation on behalf of Leeds Living to visit Trinity Kitchen to sample food and drink from the latest crop of traders in the area constructed to replicate a street, and where they change outlets every six weeks or so. […]

Let’s Do Lunch at Holy Ramen, Assembly Underground

The other week I was wallowing in self-satisfaction, having just finished a review of the final outlet in Assembly Underground.  I was feeling as smug as a trainspotter who’d ticked the last loco off in his Ian Allen guide.   It wasn’t to last long though, as a couple of days later I had an email […]

Let’s Do Lunch at Dough House

I thought that it was about time I paid a call to the ‘other’ incarnation of LivinItaly known as Dough House in Cloth Hall Street, next door to the Corn Exchange. Whereas the original place in Granary Wharf is mainly a deli and restaurant, the emphasis here is on cocktails and pizza, so what is […]

Yorkshire Day at The University of Leeds

I was very disappointed to see that most of the Yorkshire Day celebrations in the Leeds Area were taking place well out of town. There were two which I came across, one in Kirkgate Market and the other at Leeds University Union. As the former clashed with another appointment – lunch – I thought I […]