Eating out and restaurant reviews and recommendations

Restaurant reviews and recommendations – good places to eat out in Leeds, Bradford, West Yorkshire in general and sometimes further afield.

Sarto, Leeds

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Some new ground for two of Leeds’ existing and best-known independents, Sarto is a restaurant collaboration between the people behind The Brunswick on North Street, up past The Reliance, and the frankly awesome Laynes Espresso just outside the station. It focuses squarely on pasta, and was born out of a series of test pop-up events [...]

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Where to eat in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York

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New York, New York. The king of cities. Bustling, frenetic, funny, edgy, and with literally thousands of places to eat. Here’s a quick round up of the places we ate on a recent short break in the New York, based in the much-recommended neighbourhood of Williamsburg, over in Brooklyn, about five minutes ride from Manhattan [...]

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Rok, London

Rok, London

We had a weekend in Shoreditch the other week, and stayed at some achingly hip hotel, the type that has a lobby that people use as an informal shared work space. I’ve honestly never seen a higher concentration of Macbooks anywhere. For dinner one night, we ate at Rok, a loosely Scandinavian place on Curtain [...]

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Saturne, Paris

Saturne, Paris, France

Bread is important. It’s the most fundamental of foods, loaded with symbolism, heavy with tradition, commanding its own rituals and reverence. Often, you can take one look at the bread that a restaurant serves and work out precisely how good or bad your meal will be. If a kitchen cares not for the bread it [...]

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Mans Market, Leeds

Mans Market Chinese restaurant, Leeds

“So, when you want to order, just write what you want on these cards – this one for drinks and this one for food, and clip them on here, OK?”, said the waiter, pointing upwards to a huge wooden clothes peg dangling from a wire above the table. It’s a big peg, a very big [...]

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