by rich on May 18, 2013
I’ve got a busy job.
It involves a lot of meetings, a lot of running around doing things, sorting things out, making – and sometimes stopping – things from happening.
Lately, work has stretched at the seams, slowly drifting into cracks it never reached before … those hours early in the very early morning when the lights flicker on for me as I stride alone, wearily, down the office, breaking the peace and waking a frozen PC, with nothing but coffee and silence for company. It’s attacked other parts of the day, too … that time in the middle formerly called ‘lunch’ is a recent casualty.
Lunch, or whatever you call that meal (often ‘dinner’ round here) has all but gone these days, reduced to simply eating something while working, instead of anything that could be described as a meal. Soup, a sandwich, or if I’m organised, the remains of last night’s dinner, most often at my desk, occasionally hunched in a corridor between meetings, barely ever in the actual restaurant. Sometimes, there’s nothing at all.
This isn’t good. Not good at all.
There’ are clear benefits to taking a proper break at lunchtime, and the nutritional angle is the least of the rewards. There’s much to be said for removing yourself from the workplace for a while in the middle of the day, simply going somewhere different and just not working.
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by Marisa Aitken on May 15, 2013
I first discovered Creative Breads, located at the back of Shipley Health Store on Westgate, last September.
I remember the day well. It was the first weekend of the Saltaire festival. We had returned from our holiday in France to find their flyer in our postbox and, keen to try something new, along with showing support for a new, local business, off we went to buy our lunch on a warm September morning.
And what a lunch it was.
We came away with a pork and herb sausage roll, a sausage sandwich, a three cheese toasties and a Portuguese egg roll. That I remember all four things, eight months later, shows what an impression they made. A tradition was born that day; if we are at home in Shipley on a Saturday we get our lunch from Creative Breads. That’s the rule. And it’s no exaggeration to say that in the subsequent months nothing has disappointed. And there’s not much we haven’t tried.
So there was no hesitation about booking a table when we heard about their new venture; a pop-up restaurant. Dining for twelve people, six courses, no choice and no advance warning of the menu. We had absolute faith. Knowing the delicate touch and fantastic flavour combinations of the two talented chefs, Jez and Lisa, we were prepared to be impressed.
And impressed we were.
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