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Leeds on a plate with Luke Denning
From expertly made coffee to cocktails in one of the city’s under-the-radar new bars, Luke Downing of Vice & Virtue picks his favourite places in Leeds to eat and drink
From expertly made coffee to cocktails in one of the city’s under-the-radar new bars, Luke Downing of Vice & Virtue picks his favourite places in Leeds to eat and drink
When The Reliance closed in Leeds, it left a gap in the form of a solid, neighbourhood, everyone-welcome restaurant equalled by excellent cooking. It’s early days yet, but Bavette, a French bistro from Sandy Jarvis and Clément Cousin in the suburb of Horsforth, looks like it will comfortably fill the brief.
Leeds city centre, a bustling hub of creativity and cultural diversity, boasts scores of independent restaurants, cafes, bakeries and bars ready to welcome you with a good old dose of Northern hospitality. Here’s our pick of the best places to eat in Leeds....
Smoke machines, heavy metal, dialling up the concrete bunker aesthetic. Psycho Sandbar isn’t the everyone-welcome pivot we were expecting from Michael O’Hare’s restaurant rebrand.
You might imagine that it would be the conurbations of York and Leeds that had the pick of Yorkshire restaurants, but with rent and business rates spiralling, restaurateurs are moving out of town and establishing themselves in rural areas where costs are more manageable.