Leeds Food History Walking Tour – Waking Those Half-Forgotten Memories
Street Food Tours Leeds offer a walking tour of the City Centre, including a mix of social and commercial history through tales of Leeds’ food heritage. Thomas Chalk went along to talk pies, dripping and (of course) Marks & Spencer. It was a mercifully dry Saturday afternoon, and I and four other people gathered in […]
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 […]
