Take the plunge into Pieminister's steaming hot gravy fondue where you can dunk a whole range of delicious dippers into flavoursome, rich gravy.
If there's one thing us Northerners love, it's gravy.
Whether its smothered on your Yorkshire puds or acting as a dipping sauce for your chunky chips, we will find a way to put that sweet nectar on pretty much anything.
So when we heard that Pieminister on Duncan Street were serving up hot gravy fondues, we couldn't quite believe our luck.
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But what exactly is a gravy fondue you might ask? Well, it's basically a huge steaming pot of thick, savoury gravy which you can dip a range of delicious dippers into.
We're talking free range British honey and mustard sausages, crispy parsnip and kale fritters, onion rings, potato fries, halloumi fries, pork scratchings and so much more.
It's perfect for a group of gravy-loving friends or family who fancy mixing up their traditional gravy slurping tendencies.
And of course you can't go to Pieminister without indulging in one of their epic, award-wining pies.
From their Kate & Sidney pie which is filled to the brim with British beef steak, kidney and ale to their Wild Shroom which features portobello and chestnut mushrooms, asparagus and white wine.
There's also a huge range of pies for veggies out there including the Mock a Doodle with Tofu 'chicken' and the Mooless Moo which has Jackfruit 'steak', craft ale and black pepper.
Image: The Hoot Leeds
The gravy fondue is the perfect way to kickstart your meal or just on it's own if you quickly need that gravy fix.
The gravy fondue costs £15 and that includes three dipping vehicles of your choice. To find out more and to book your table, take a look at Pieminister's website.
The tiramisu hype lives on, and this time it's coming to Leeds.
It really does feel like the traditional Italian dessert has taken the world by storm as of late.
Everything from tiramisu cups and tiramisu coffees have been popping up all over our feed, and now tiramisu in drawer form is popping up in the city centre.
Misu Tiramisu is an independent business that began at Manchester's Christmas Markets and quickly became one of the most popular operators, all thanks to its miniature tiramisu ‘drawers’.
Images: The Hoot Leeds
The individually portioned and colourfully packaged desserts quickly became one of town’s top puddings, and owners Aleem and Aishah went on to launch a stand inside the Manchester Arndale too.
And now they’re branching out again in Leeds inside Trinity shopping centre for a two month residency.
You’ll find all their delicious flavours of handmade tiramisu, including classic, pistachio, chocolate, Biscoff, mango, and lemon - they'll also have some gluten-free tiramisu on offer as well, so no one has to miss out.
Images: The Hoot Leeds
Misu Tiramisu owners Aleem and Aishah spent a year refining the recipe for their tiramisus after a trip to Milan, first launching with their first market stall in Sale.
Misu Tiramisu is now open inside Trinity shopping centre opposite Boots Opticians and Pop Specs.
They're open every day of the week for you to get your tiramisu fix, from 9am to 8pm Monday to Saturday and from 11am to 5pm on a Sunday.
And trust us Leeds, they're just as delicious as they are adorable.
Fossilised 320-million-year-old fish found in Leeds’ Roundhay Park
Clementine Hall
A prehistoric fish fossil has been unearthed at Roundhay Park in Leeds.
The fascinating prehistoric skull bone of a coelacanth fish was discovered by a geologist at Roundhay Park earlier this year.
It is thought the creature was frozen in time aeons ago, during an era when the park was submerged under a vast tropical lagoon.
The remarkable discovery has now been kindly donated to Leeds Museums and Galleries and added to the natural sciences collection at Leeds Discovery Centre.
Image: Leeds City Council
The Leeds fossil was found by Ru Smith of the Yorkshire Geological Society during a reconnaissance walk he was carrying out ahead of a planned field excursion in the north Leeds park.
Describing the moment he made the discovery, Ru said: “There’s a layer of rock in the park which dates from around 320 million years ago, from a time before the breakup of the continents, when what is now the park would have been situated close the Equator and under the warm waters of a tropical lagoon. West Central Africa would be a good place to find similar environments in the present.
“There’s a bed of freshwater mussels called Carbonicola at one level in the rock, and opening a piece of shale from this bed in my hands I saw something unusual – a distinctive skull bone of a large fish. I knew straight away this was something different and very rare."
The bone was verified byexperts as belonging to a coelacanth older than those found elsewhere in Yorkshire, making it the oldest fossil coelacanth discovered in the region.
Ru added: “Coelacanths are pretty amazing fish and it’s just very cool to think that at one time, you could have been standing in Leeds and watching them swim around above a bed of mussels in Roundhay Park.
“That’s really the wonder of geology, looking at the rock and time travelling in the imagination to what was a very different world.”
Clementine Hall -
2nd March 2023 
