Eat North Christmas Special 7 December

On Saturday, Eat North, the summertime food and beer events at North Brewing Company’s tap room, made a one-off festive return.  Christmas fairs and markets are big business, with seemingly no end of people happy to give up the warmth of indoors for more al fresco eating and drinking in the name of yuletide. Some […]

Knaves Kitchen at Oporto Introduces a 100% Vegan Christmas Menu

Oporto’s resident purveyors of plant-based junk food are launching their Christmas menu. Thomas Chalk put on his party hat and novelty jumper and started his festive season early. While I’m not a total Scrooge, Christmas isn’t something that particularly excites me, so I’m not perhaps Knaves’ natural audience for their festive menu. Indeed, I’m not […]

The Castle, Wakefield – Re-opening on 9 November

Leeds Living ventures out of the LS postcodes to take a look at the newly-refurbished Wakefield pub, The Castle.  Thomas Chalk and Cath Kane report back. The Castle reopens tomorrow, following a quick but extensive refit.  We visited for a preview night when the team lit the fires and brought out the new menus.  By […]

In Conversation With Anna Dyson, Co-founder of ToastLoveCoffee

Sitting at the junction of Harehills Road and Roundhay Road , ToastLoveCoffee – or TLC – is a pay-as-you-feel vegetarian café, and, as Thomas Chalk found out when he met co-founder Anna Dyson, so much more. Tell me about the origins of TLC. We’ve been a concept since Christmas of 2013, and we incorporated as […]

Leeds Kirkgate Market – Third Annual Indian Food Festival

Kirkgate Market’s food court hosted a festival of Indian food last Saturday, with around thirty stallholders offering spiced delights to a packed crowd.  Thomas Chalk joined the throng. It’s a good venue, the food court.  It’s a rare lunchtime that this high-ceilinged room feels at all empty, with an international mix of fare on offer, […]