If you keep walking up past Sela and North Bar, past the Grand Theatre and across the road with Mojo’s on it, the one where the Chinese supermarket used to be back in the day, you get to a fairly intimidating slip road, a lot of hurtling traffic and a fair amount of climate-changing fug. [...]
There’s a cautionary tale here, or a call to arms, depending on which way you look at it. Mrs Liu went to a restaurant in Taipei, found the food ‘too salty’, saw a couple of cockroaches in the kitchen, wrote about his experiences and ended up being sued for libel by an outraged restaurant owner. [...]
We ate at Kendells Bistro last week, and managed to spend a paltry £56 for a meal that I’d happily have paid double for*. Here’s how it went… Kendells is tucked away between the West Yorkshire Playhouse and the new BBC building. It looks fairly low-key and unpromising from the street, but step through the [...]
Last week, I made one of those freak miscalculations that left me stranded in Leeds Station fairly early in the morning with nothing to do. My train left at 10am, so I had an hour to wander around and explore the parts of the city south of the River Aire around Holbeck. Breakfast seemed like [...]
French? Well, no, not really…more like one of those ‘modern British’ places. There’s a lot of belly pork, lamb, black pudding and the like, with the odd Mediterranean dish and some Asian flavours here and there, too. Mainly though, think classic British ingredients and you’ll be close to the mark. It’s been there for years, [...]