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Ian Jones, Food and Drink Editor
Freshness is the name of the game for this city centre cafe bar. The bread is baked on site daily and there’s an exhaustive range of coffees and teas – not to mention alcoholic drinks.
Freshness is the name of the game for this city centre cafe bar. The bread is baked on site daily and there’s an exhaustive range of coffees and teas – not to mention alcoholic drinks.
Stella Baraklianou’s show ‘Her Unstable Materials’ at BLANK_Leeds gathers the artist’s new ceramic work with interactive elements.
free entryLeeds International Concert Season is on a mission to push boundaries, expand horizons, and ask the question: ‘What haven’t we heard?’ as it presents its city-spanning Sound Out Leeds series.
from £10.00From TikTok sensation to a sell-out star at Edinburgh Fringe, Abi Clarke brings her acclaimed stand-up show to Leeds.
from £18.00‘Eternal Return’ celebrates filmmaker Stuart Croft whose. innovative approach to film blurred the boundaries between the art gallery and cinema.
free entryFrom ‘raging’ women to Ukrainian dancers, Photo North Festival #6 celebrates the magic of camera work with exhibitions and artist talks.
from £10.00Sarah Roberts: SICK explores environments of care in her signature style of brightly coloured installations, spread across two galleries.
free entryThackray Museum of Medicine’s new exhibition explores the medical uses and symbolic meanings of blood in science, culture and wider society.
from £8.95StrangeForms Festival returns for its 10th edition, bringing two weird and wonderful days of math-rock, post-rock, post-metal to Brudenell Social Club.
from £22.00In the heart of Leeds is also an Asian market held every Wednesday, featuring a vast array of fabrics and spices from the Indian subcontinent and beyond.
It’s no surprise that this is a popular part of Leeds nightlife as there is plenty to entertain with video screens, arcade games, TV/movie props, memorabilia, and film nights.
The Ivy Asia Leeds is now open, serving up high-end dishes in the Victoria Quarter.
HOME is a fine dining restaurant in Leeds, launched in 2017 by Masterchef semi-finalist Elizabeth Cottam and Michelin-starred Head Chef Mark Owens.
Blue Rinse is a busy and affordable vintage shop in the centre Leeds. Alongside their traditional lines of vintage sweaters, brights, and sportswear is a range exclusively featuring fabrics recycled locally.
Tribe Records returns after a 4 year gap with a new store stocking house, techno, electro, reggae, dancehall, disco, world, dnb, bass & beats.
Man Behind The Curtain is a stylish, exclusive fine dining restaurant in the Victoria Leeds shopping centre, with a flair for the weird and wonderful.
Leeds’ go to place for premium shopping, Victoria Arcade, has both style and substance in abundance.
Crowd of Favours is a relaxed, welcoming restaurant and pub serving a great range of beers, spirits and locally sourced food.
A quirky little shop for comics, graphic novels, role-playing and board games, with frequent in-store events.
The outsiders, the oddities and the outrageous – we’re keeping it weird with a hot new batch of underground gigs about to hit Manchester, Leeds, and Liverpool.
Dynamic dance, party-performance, high-energy stand-up and a site-specific show set in a pub. All this and more in our newest theatre guide.
Vintage Alfred Hitchcock and a family friendly film festival are amongst our highlights this May.
Make the most of the springtime sun with some of the North's best bars and restaurants.
From precarious ceramics to photography festivals, spring is here and brings with it a breath of fresh air in visual art and exhibitions.
It's like the Woolies pick'n'mix counter this month in live literature land – so much choice, we're not sure where to start digging in.
Read our latest highlights from the live classical music offer in Manchester and the North, taking in a number of the region's most cherished orchestral forces and venues.
Dragon quests, coconut pyramids and topsy-turvy Wonderland adventures... curious?