Eat North Vegan on 14 September

For Eat North’s last outing of 2019, there was a showcase of vegan food. Thomas Chalk went along for some real tasty fake meat. This was the third year of Eat North summer food events at North Brewing Company, in partnership with Leeds Indie Food, and they closed the season with a celebration of vegan […]

Tales of a City – Walk a Mile in Their Shoes

Tales of a City Tours offer walks whose guides are Leeds residents, who arrived in the UK as refugees.  Guides like Lilly, who came here from South Africa, share their stories of living in the City which has become their home.  Thomas Chalk joins one of Tales of a City’s guided walks and sees Leeds […]

The Brunswick Burger Menu (and the best chips)

Thomas Chalk samples the new school of old school veggie burger at North Street’s The Brunswick, and along the way eats the best chips he has ever had. A brief history of vegetarian burgers: for a long time, takeway veggieburgers were discs of somewhat soggy mashed potato studded with diced carrot, peas, sweetcorn and chopped […]

LIF19 – Rawsome Vegan Supper Club

Vegan cookery has its roots in fruits, leaves and, well, roots. While seitan is having a renaissance and vegan cheese gets ever-closer to the coveted status of “melting just like real cheese”, Rawsome offered a supper club that focused on more identifiably plant-based matters.  Thomas Chalk went along. As a basic idea, raw food is […]

LIF19 – Bundobust Origins

Bundobust grew out of a collaboration between vegetarian Indian restaurant Prashad and Bradford’s Sparrow Bier Café back in 2013. For this year’s Leeds Indie Food Festival , they took a trip back to Drighlington for a night of beer and food. Spicy food and beer have a long (if not always entirely proud) history together.  […]