Street Food Beer Food Culture A year ago this festival didn’t exist. What did exist We started out with ideas for five or ten events, Where else can you try Colombian Find brews in all the right places. Expand your mind as well as your Arepa, Indian Dosa and American We are the UK’s Capital of Craft Beer waistline with talks, films, was a thriving, energetic independent food and and since then #LIF15 has grown. A lot. We BBQ all in one place? after all. art and workshops. drink scene and a whole load of people cooking asked our friends for help and nearly 200 of food, brewing beers, pouring coffees and waiting them crowdfunded our little festival to the tune tables. Some of them, like North Bar or Salvo’s, of almost £10k - but that’s nothing compared have been around for decades. Others are a bit to what restaurants, cafes, art galleries, bars, newer. This time last year, Bundobust were just cinemas, shops and indie businesses all over the getting ready to open their doors and Northern city have come up with. We’re running the project Monk had barely picked up the keys to their new under the umbrella of @LeedsIndie, and we’re home. It’s a testament to our independent scene working with over 100 businesses to deliver that the latter two businesses feel just as strong nearly 100 events! and important a part of Leeds as the former. In a world where the food and drink industry So get out there and check out what they’ve got can seem in constant flux, we thought we had to offer. Go party with your old favourites and something special, something important and discover some new ones whilst you’re at it. And something worth celebrating. don’t forget to tell us, @leedsindiefood, all about it using #LIF15. No city eats like our city. The restaurant industry can be divisive and macho, but we wanted to help people The Leeds Indie Food Team Dining Family Wine & Spirits collaborate, celebrate and shout about what they Try the best food on offer, from It’s not all about booze and tasting Shaken, stirred or barrel aged? It’s were doing together, as well as what they achieved traditional dishes to boundary menus. We’ve got foodie fun for little always five o’clock somewhere! on their own. pushing plates. ones too. BAR & CHARCUTERIE Friends of Ham supports: Tw — @FRIENDSOFHAM In — @FRAMLEEDS Leeds Emporium For Gin, Whisky & Wine Our passion for an abundance of multiple offerings, has led to an award winning wine list and one of the biggest selections of Wine, Gin & Whisky in Leeds. Alongside this we also have a plethora For exciting details of 4-8 New Station St of other spirits, cocktails, beers, new hammy projects in Leeds, LS1 5DL ciders and a selection of delicious, the pipeline sign up to 0113 242 0275 locally sourced food. our mailing list at: Mon – Wed: 12 noon-11pm wwww.lazy-lounge.com friendsofham.com Thur – Sat: 12 noon-12am West Point, Wellington Street, Leeds. Sunday: 12 noon-10pm LS1 4JY 01132446055 A BIG HELLO FROM YOUR FRIENDLY, LOCAL INDEPENDENT CINEMA! WE ARE THE HYDE PARK PICTURE HOUSE. WE’RE SMALL AND LIKE BEING SMALL. WE LIKE SAYING HELLO AS YOU ARRIVE AND GOODBYE AS YOU LEAVE. WE LOVE SHOWING FILMS THAT MAKE YOU THINK, GASP, CRY & SMILE. WE ARE 100 YEARS OLD. WE HAVE TWO 35MM PROJECTORS & NINE GAS LIGHTS. WE’RE A NOT FOR PROFIT CHARITY. WE THINK COFFEE & TIFFIN TASTE GREAT. AND WE’D LIKE TO THANK EVERYONE WHO CONTINUES WATCHING FILMS WITH US. HYDEPARKPICTUREHOUSE.CO.UK 0113 275 2045 @HYDEPARKPH SATURDAY 11TH APRIL / SATURDAY 9TH MAY BELGRAVE MUSIC HALL AND CANTEEN We know you love food and drink. We know you really love food and drink. LEEDS INDIE FOOD FESTIVAL So we’ve created a Festival Passport so you can PASSPORT squeeze every last drop out of the fortnight. BELGRAVE You don’t need to be a Passport holder to buy most Your Passport also gets you free entry to our huge tickets, but you’ll miss out on loads of special closing party, Leeds Feast, a weekend of the dishes, great discounts and even some exclusive nation’s best street food, craft beer, cocktails, events. Rock up at Bundobust and your Passport art, music and family fun all held in the historic will get you 25% off all food. It’ll nab you access to surroundings of The Tetley. a special sandwich in The Greedy Pig and a pizza from Sela Bar no one else can get their hands on. But let’s not forget the most important thing about FEAST You’ll get you cheaper tickets at North Bar and Hyde a passport: filling it with stamps! You’ll be able to AND Park Picture House, bottomless filter coffee atMrs collect ink from the businesses and events you visit STREET FOOD ART MARKET Atha’s and epic tacos at Pinche Pinche. There are during the festival, and we’ll be awarding prizes at loads more benefits and discounts to be had, and Leeds Feast for those with the most, and those with we’re adding extra every day. the most varied collection. Try and pick up a stamp from each of our strands: Dining, Beer, Wine and AND They’ll all be listed at Spirits, Street Food and Food Culture, or simply go 3 FLOORS OF STREET FOOD, ART, ALES MUSIC www.leedsindiefood.co.uk for broke and fill your book. 11AM - 8PM - FREE ENTRY “A REAL FESTIVAL EXPERIENCE KIDS AND DOGS WELCOME AND A STREET FOOD MECCA” Get your Festival Passport THE GUARDIAN now for £15 from www.leedsindiefood.co.uk. BELGRAVEMUSICHALL.COM / LEEDSFEAST.COM / TWITTER - @BELGRAVE_LEEDS / FACEBOOK - BELGRAVEMUSICHALLANDCANTEEN Dining event Street Food event Family event Wine & Spirits event Beer event Food Culture event 11am – 8pm (FREE) all under one roof. Lazy Italian cuisine. Tour 11am – 10:30pm (FREE) with loved ones to enjoy Belgrave Feast Lounge has been called Calabria & Basilicata, a Recovery Sundays it, is an act of beauty, and Art Market ‘Leeds’ best kept secret’, taste of the undiscovered at North Bar celebration and love. Belgrave Music Hall so why not spend a day south, with a sumptuous North Bar and Canteen with Tom and the team 10 course tasting menu 3pm – 5pm (£24) discovering that there’s of authentic recipes Relax, rebuild and recover The East Village Present: Dive head first into the more to gin than G&T and produce. after a hectic week of The Whisky Tasting opening weekend with with a twist. Leeds Indie Food with Workshop Belgrave Feast, the 11pm (Various) Recovery Sundays at North The East Village monthly street food and 7pm – 10pm (£20) 7pm – 11pm (£50) 6.15pm – 11:30pm (£35) 7:30pm – 10:30pm (£35) 2.50pm (Various) Creatures of the Night: Bar. Featuring amazing THURS 7TH art market at Belgrave The Ginposium: A Shears Yard X North Bar Magical Mystery Cheese and Fortified Wine UK Premiere: Mystic Pizza pop up food by The Greedy Want to know your Islay Music Hall and Canteen. Lighthearted Look at the Portobello Road Gin Tour Friends of Ham Good Things Await (Sa Hyde Park Picture House Pig and Hot Damn! Burrito, from your Speyside? Let Packed with great Street 6:30pm – 10:30pm (£35) History of Gin Art’s Cafe All six ‘North bars’ meget godt i vente) and the best Bloody Mary The East Village help. Food, family activities, Marble Beer Dinner Smokestack Friends of Ham are really Hyde Park Picture House Join Hyde Park Picture in town to wash it down. Sample drams of premium stalls and the best roof The Cross Keys The talented team at One bus, six venues, six grabbing the festival by House for a late night single malt, discover the terrace in town. Join Chris from Latitude Shears Yard take over their iconic North beers, food the horns, and to kick off Join Hyde Park Picture screening of this 80s cult 12 noon – 6pm (FREE) history and traditions of Manchester’s Marble Wine for a romp through bohemian little sister, Art’s and plenty of surprises. they’re hosting Yorkshire House and the UK Green classic. Kat, Daisy and Jojo Beer and Ice Cream whisky distillation and 11.30am – 1pm (£3) Brewery are crossing the the history of Gin. Taste Cafe, for a one-of-a-kind Pay a visit to all six ‘North Wine School and the Film Festival for the are three working-class Pop Up Party experience the range, age, Thinking About Food: Pennines for a unique Beer Gins and Genevers through dinner with Portobello bars’, sampling the most acclaimed Neals Yard premiere of Good Things women just out of high Black Swan character and depth of the British Seasonal Eating Dinner hosted by The Cross the ages, learn the history Road Gin. Five delicious iconic beers from their 18 Dairy for a night of artisan Await, a fascinating school who have jobs at amber nectar. Leeds Markets Keys. Meet head brewer of the seductive spirit courses, five creative gin years of trading along the cheese and fortified look at idealistic Danish the same pizza parlour in Join Leeds’ newest dessert Kirkgate Suite Matt Howgate, learn the and knock back some cocktails. Book the next way. Start your journey at wine. Sample cheeses farmer Niels Stokholm. the resort community of pushers Northern Bloc 6pm (£35) secrets of his art and enjoy bespoke cocktails from day off work. The Cross Keys. from some of the UK’s Their spiritual-ethical- Mystic, Connecticut.