Shop plastic free at Leeds Kirkgate Market this summer
July has been named Plastic Free July by the Plastic Free Foundation and you can’t shop more ‘plastic-free’ than at Leeds Market. The market has been home to lots of traders who support the ethics of zero waste for a long
Bronze Birthday Present for Leeds Food Partnership
After just one year, the Leeds Food Partnership (LFP) is celebrating winning a prestigious accolade, The Sustainable Food Cities Bronze award. Set up in 2018, the partnership celebrates good food and helps address health inequalities by reducing food poverty, supporting local
ITV Studios are looking for new keen amateur chefs to take part in the hugely popular Channel 4 show, Come Dine with Me in Leeds
Come Dine With Me is the BAFTA nominated Channel 4 series that sees amateur culinary show-offs from across the UK putting their hosting skills to the test. Over the course of a week, contestants take turns cooking for 3 to 4
Tasty treats in store as food festival returns
A spectacular showcase of some of the city’s finest food and drink will return to Millennium Square this weekend. The eighth annual Leeds Food and Drink Festival opens this Friday and will feature a huge array of street food vendors and
Regeneration scheme helps vinyl make a comeback at historic building
A former cloth merchant’s house in one of Leeds’s oldest streets has reached the vinyl frontier thanks to an exciting regeneration project. The building at 93 Kirkgate reopened last week as The Doghouse café and bar, with Paula’s Vinyl record shop above
Leeds city centre restaurant operator fined for poor food hygiene standards
An operator of a Leeds city centre restaurant has received a fine of over £700 after pleading guilty to a number of food hygiene offences. This follows officers of Leeds City Council’s Environmental Health Team undertaking an inspection of Bar Red
South Leeds pizza bar owner fined for failure to follow food hygiene standards
The owner of a pizza takeaway in Hunslet has been fined over £4,800 after admitting a range of food hygiene offences. This follows an inspection by Leeds City Council’s Environmental Health Team of Sky Pizza Bar on Dewsbury Road in Hunslet,
Morley takeaway owner hit with large fine following food hygiene investigation
A takeaway owner in Morley has received a large fine after pleading guilty to various food hygiene offences. This follows the then owner at the time of China Orchid on Britannia Road, Mr Wei Zhong Yang, failing to address immediately a
Dixy Chicken falls ‘fowl’ of the law for a second time
A Leeds city centre fast food outlet has been prosecuted for a second time in one month by Leeds City Council. Following a successful prosecution earlier this month which saw the former owner of Dixy Chicken on New Briggate, Aqueel Ahmed,
Big fine not poultry matter for takeaway boss who dumped rubbish
It was no poultry fine for the former operator of a Leeds city centre chicken takeaway and restaurant when he fell fowl of the law for repeatedly dumping rubbish outside. Bags of filthy rubbish and other mess were discovered at Dixy