Pizza Express is Coming to The Merrion Centre New Arena Quarter

Pizza Express has chosen the New Arena Quarter for its latest Leeds restaurant, scheduled to open in March 2019. This recognises the transformation of the Arena Quarter to provide bars and restaurants for all budgets and tastes. Pizza Express will offer 120 covers with additional outdoor space for 36. It will be ideally placed to attract […]
The 1st Made Up Leeds Festival Draws The Crowds

This week-end emphasised just how much impact the beauty and cosmetics industry has made on us all. The first Made Up Leeds Festival was a two day event, with all events free to attend and with the attraction on offer of some familiar faces: Georgia Toffolo hosted a talk at Trinity Leeds, where a Beauty […]
Westrow Wins Accolades at the British Hairdressing Business Awards

With a Leeds training academy and nine salons in Yorkshire, Westrow’s directors Marc Westerman and Steve Rowbottom were justifiably welcomed into the Hairdressing Hall of Fame in the Business Director of the Year category at the British Hairdressing Business Awards. The event was hosted on 17 September by Hairdressers Journal International and aims to raise […]
The 1st Made Up Leeds Festival 29 and 30 September

The line-up for this first ever, two-day Made Up Leeds Festival keeps growing. Well-known make-up artists, hairdressers, beauty vloggers, a tv presenter and a drag queen will be taking active roles in the Festival, and 90 local stores will be participating, with 110 offers, talks and demonstrations. Just some of the named stores are John […]
Let’s Do Lunch at The Swine That Dines

Now here’s a first; two firsts in fact. This is the first time I have done a second Let’s Do Lunch article at premises still run by the same owner, and it is the first time I have eaten in a restaurant named after me – how flattering! My first visit was in January 2016, […]