Stan Graham's Leisure Guide for North and West Yorkshire
When I was approached to write an article about the opening of Broadley’s at The Craven Heifer in July it was suggested that I might like to pay a visit and sample the food for myself. Unless there is a dedicated press event I like to give new ventures a short time to get into…
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Don’t panic, all is not what it seems from the headline. Ilkley’s favourite cocktail lounge, The Ticket Office, is alive and well, in fact it is expanding its operation to provide top quality food to accompany the expansive range of drinks. The End of the Line is the new food residency run by Linford Nicholson…
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It is great to see familiar events returning from their virtual versions to the format for which they were designed. The latest of these is Leeds Rum Festival which is celebrating its fifth birthday this year. I have been fortunate enough to be able to get to two of the previous live events and can’t…
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In the words of The Four Seasons ‘Oh What A Night’. When I arrived at Temple Arches, home of Chow Down, to write about the awards I had absolutely no idea of the events which were about to unfold. I had been invited by Leeds Indie Food to come along to see what was happening…
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Over the weekend of 19th – 22nd August a panel of celebrity judges will be sampling the best of Northern Street Food and selecting winners to go on to the National Street Food Final at Freedom Festival, Hull from 3rd – 5th September, where the overall winner will be judged by the general public alongside…
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There are worse ways of spending a Saturday afternoon than by loading up with culture, especially when it involves both learning some history of your home town and indulging in the odd beer. After having called at The Yorkshire Square last Thursday to see what was going on, I returned on Saturday to attend two…
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When I read that Small Acts (Katie Etheridge and Simon Persighetti) were opening a pub in Leeds Kirkgate Market as part of Compass Arts Festival I was elated. When I read the small print and found out that it would be the size of a Yorkshire Square i.e. 12ft x 12ft I wondered how on…
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What do you do when you have a wonderful traditional village pub, complete with seven guest bedrooms, and you want to make it even better? You strike up a partnership with the owner of a top local bistro to run the kitchen. That is just what Phil and Karen Croft, the owners of the Craven…
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Life took another small step towards normality on Friday 16th April with the launch of a new weekly event known as Friday Social at The Tetley. I managed to book a table and so went along to see what it was like. I have felt somewhat left out of things insofar as the offerings in…
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No, I haven’t changed my spell checker to the Italian version, I thought it appropriate to bid one of Leeds’ favourite regular events a warm welcome back. On 4th November last year I was covering a performance at Leeds Playhouse which didn’t begin until 8.00pm and so I thought that I would kill two birds…
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