Let’s Do Lunch at The Botanist

Stan Graham visits The Botanist and enjoys the food, the wine – and a memory of pies gone by, reflecting on Leeds past; enjoying Leeds present. My name is Stan and I am a breadaholic. Being a good food lover I have not yet resorted to delving through wheelie bins for discarded bags of white […]

Let’s Do Lunch at The Alchemist

Stan Graham strikes gold at The Alchemist, one of his latest ports of call in Leeds………….but he’s a bit tarnished when it comes to cocktails! Recently I have been eating at street food stalls so I thought that I deserved a bit of a treat this week and get to use a knife and fork. […]

Let’s Do Lunch at Golden Balls

Stan took a trip to Trinity Kitchen last week, where he sampled Golden Balls’ deep-fried arancini balls, covered in rich tomato sauce. Here’s what he thought… Street food. If I have seen that term once in the past three years I have seen it a thousand times, but what does it mean? There are probably […]

Let’s Do Lunch at Hepworth’s Deli

Before I begin this week’s review I must warn you that I may not have the opportunity to finish it before I get a knock at the door and a member of the local constabulary enters to slap the cuffs on me and drag me down to the local Bridewell to be banged to rights. […]

Let’s Do Lunch at Dough Boys

I don’t think that I have ever eaten so well as when I was a penniless student in London in 1969. I had a bedsit in Maida Vale which I couldn’t afford and would hitch-hike up the M1 back to Leeds every couple of weeks to get my washing done by good old mum. On […]