Category: Local food

Chef’s Pantry at The Local Pantry, Pool

Post author By Jo Murricane
Post date November 4, 2016

The Local Pantry has some amazing produce, and their chefs are creating delicious food. It’s also a beautiful venue, in a stunning location. Be sure to pay it a visit if you can.

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Halloween Trail at Hollybush, Leeds

Post author By Jo Murricane
Post date October 26, 2016

There are ponds, trees, fairy houses, bee hives, exciting doorways, vegetable patches, a Halloween scarecrow, and so much more. It’s a really magical place.

Tags adventure, Cafe, explore, fun, Hallowe'en, Halloween trail, Hollybush Conservation Centre, Kirkstall, Leeds, TCV, TCV Hollybush, trip, Wildlife gardens

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Vice & Virtue’s Fine Dining Restaurant Opens in Leeds

Post author By Jo Murricane
Post date September 13, 2016

Vice & Virtue is fine dining with high ambition. Keep your eye on this one, it’s going to be exciting.

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Wildflower Bakery, Leeds

Post author By Jo Murricane
Post date July 6, 2016

The quality of these cakes is of the highest standard, and the attention to detail raises them to another level entirely. I highly recommend Wildflower Bakery for celebration cakes to suit any and all occasions.

Tags Artisan, Birthday cakes, Brownies, Cakes, Cakes to order, Celebration cakes, Chocolate, Edible flowers, Independent, Layered cakes, Leeds, Wildflower Bakery, Wildflowers

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The Food Academy, Leeds

Post author By Jo Murricane
Post date June 21, 2016

The Food Academy is a great venue, doing some brilliant work with new talent in Leeds.

Tags Butchers, Chefs, Deli, Drink, Food, Leeds, Leeds City College, Restaurant, The Food Academy, Training

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Leeds Chocolatier on Bake Off Creme de la Creme

Post author By Jo Murricane
Post date April 26, 2016

Lauden Chocolate is grown up chocolate; it’s like the fine dining world of confectionery. I’m going to tune in to support this great Leeds producer of chocolate delights. I hope you will too? #TeamLeeds

Tags BBC2, Chocolate, competition, Creme de la Creme, Great British Bake Off, Leeds, Nelson Barros, Stefan Rose, Stephen Trigg

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The Real Junk Food Project Opens in Horsforth, Leeds

Post author By Jo Murricane
Post date April 25, 2016

The Real Junk Food Project is a network of ‘pay as you feel’ cafes dedicated to feeding bellies, not bins. They divert food that would otherwise be destined for waste, and use it to create delicious and healthy meals. Its three main aims are: to reduce food waste to reduce food poverty to build community Horsforth launched […]

Tags Community, Emma Mawer, Food, food poverty, food waste, Horsforth, Horsforth Cafe, Leeds, Pay as you feel cafe, St Margarets Parish Centre, The Real Junk Food Project, TRJFP

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The BBC Good Food Show Spring, Harrogate

Post author By Jo Murricane
Post date April 14, 2016
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Gin and hogs at The BBC Good Food Show Spring, in Harrogate.

Tags BBC Good Food, BBC Good Food Show, BBC Good Food Show Spring, Cheese, Daffy's Gin, Gin, Harrogate, Michel Roux Jr, Olianas Gusto Italiano, Samples, Shepherd's Purse, Whole Hog Roast

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Wolf Street Food, Leeds

Post author By Jo Murricane
Post date March 11, 2016

A brand new street food concept has landed in Leeds, and it’s all Italian. Wolf Street Food opened recently, providing fresh, quality Italian food, for busy people on-the-go. The name of the venture can be traced to the legend of Romulus and Remus (twin boys raised by a wolf, with Romulus being credited with the founding of Rome) and the fact that Italy’s […]

Tags Diavolo sauce, Focaccia, Free range chicken, Italian, Leeds, Locally sourced food, Pasta, Piada, Pizza, St Paul's Street, Take away, Wolf Street Food

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Yorkshire Rapeseed Oil

Post author By Jo Murricane
Post date March 10, 2016

The next product up for review for The BBC Good Food Show is Yorkshire Rapeseed Oil. Yorkshire Rapeseed Oil is a natural product of high quality. You can it’s natural because it’s cold pressed (if oil isn’t cold pressed, chemicals are used to extract the oil from the seed). I sound knowledgeable don’t I?! Well, […]

Tags BBC, BBC Good Food Show, BBC Good Food Show Spring, Burn point, Garlic, Local, Local food, Oil, Recipes, Yorkshire Rapeseed Oil, Yorkshire Rapeseed Oil with Garlic