White Cloth Hall: first thoughts
I’ll preface this piece by saying this is not a review. If that’s what you’re looking for, then there will no doubt be (at least) one published here in due course. This, however, is not it. It has puzzled me for a while that Leeds hasn’t had more permanent destinations for independent food traders. After […]
Stuzzi’s New Lunch Menu Hits All The Right Notes
I have long been a fan of Stuzzi; there’s a theatre to the place that I love. On arrival, a moodily dark stairway leads up to the main dining room. The stairway is lined with artfully designed posters for past events at the restaurant that put me in mind of film posters and heighten a […]
Bundobust is Ten Years Old!
Back in summer 2014, Bundobust arrived in Leeds, just a few months before I arrived from the other side of the Pennines. During my 3 years living in the City Centre, it became one of my favourite food places. It was somewhere I took friends and family when they were visiting. We looked forward to […]
Bavette: Incredibly French. Incredibly good.
As I sit at a table, in front of me a plate of beautifully cooked bavette dressed elegantly with a sauce vierge, I notice a big chunk of garlic. In fact there are a great many chunks throughout the dish, and indeed the meal, but this one in particular caught the eye, settled determinedly right […]
Horsforth’s Bavette Takes The Top ‘Good Food Guide’ Title
The Good Food Guide has today announced its annual 100 Best Local Restaurants list. Bavette has won the ‘Britain’s Best Local Restaurant’ award, celebrating the very best of British dining and beating off competition from across the country. These hugely popular awards celebrate fabulous independent restaurants from Scotland to Cornwall, Norfolk to North Wales. This year, The Good […]
