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.
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It’s been 20 years since Nathan Outlaw opened his first restaurant, the Black Pig in Rock, Cornwall. To mark the occasion, he has launched a very special lunch menu at Outlaw’s New Road which celebrates some of his greatest hits from the past two decades. Some of the dishes are almost unchanged; others have been elevated with new techniques or new ingredients. They’ll be available for the next three months. Hilary Armstrong speaks to Outlaw about his trip down memory lane.
Tucked away at Acme Fire Cult is Dan’s Room. Sometimes it’s called The Lab, or The Fermentary; either way it’s the place where Daniel – Dan – Watkins, chef and co-owner of the vigorous, music-filled, live-fire BBQ restaurant in Dalston can be found.
Camellia Panjabi has always been an agent of change. Along with her sister and brother-in-law, she is responsible for igniting a shift in the perception of Indian food in the UK from low-cost, one-flavour-fits-all, post-pub curry to an exciting, nuanced cuisine, inflected with the scope of flavours of the sub-continent, and deserving of the same respect as the finest classical cookery. This year’s Lifetime Achievement recipient in CODE Hospitality’s annual Women of the Year Awards, tells Tessa Allingham about a drive to innovate that has defined a game-changing career.
