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 […]
A Night at The Casino: Napoleon’s

I’m not someone who goes to casinos. I don’t judge those who do – I just don’t have the attention span or intellectual ability to excel at card games, and, apart from the odd lottery ticket, I don’t really gamble. Consequently, I think the only time I had ever been to a casino was when […]