Let’s Do Lunch at Smokin’
One of the trends over the past couple of years has been the smoking of food. This ranges from fast food joints to high end restaurants who have imported eye-wateringly expensive equipment to do the job. The new kid on the block, the block on South Parade that is, is Smokin’. I called to sample […]
Launching Wicked
I was recently invited to attend a presentation on aspects of being green. Fortunately, it I wasn’t a lecture on ecology but the launch of the 2018 National Tour of the musical ‘Wicked’. The production is coming to Leeds in June for a second time, having been here on its first venture out of the […]
Let’s Do Lunch at Banyan
Another Let’s Do Lunch with nostalgia from Stan Graham, who this time takes us back to one of the 1970s best-loved music-makers as he savours the temptations of Banyan. According to the dictionary I use, the word ‘banyan’ has a couple of meanings. It is a loose flannel garment similar to a vest, or a […]
Let’s Do Lunch at Jenny’s Jerk Chicken
In my review of 2017 I bemoaned the lack of Jewish, Eastern European and Caribbean restaurants in the City Centre and, of course, the minute we had published the review, I recalled having seen Jenny’s Jerk Chicken in the food hall at the bottom end of Kirkgate Market. I had been meaning to go for […]
Let’s Do Lunch at Butlers, Kirkstall Forge
My normal modus operandi is to take a bus into Leeds and let the day take me where it will. This week I was asked to venture out of town to sample the food on offer at Butler’s in the newly opened Number One Kirkstall Forge. The building is an office block with six floors, […]
