Fillet steak, truffle fries and garlic mushrooms all come highly recommended.
The Cut & Craft are known in York for their comfortable yet stylish bar and restaurant, but the popular eatery have now announced they will be opening another venue in Leeds later this year.
Work has now commenced on The Cut and Craft Leeds, with the restaurant sharing the occasional update on their Instagram page.
Their selection of craft beers, located just minutes from the York Minster have made this restaurant a firm favourite for anyone visiting the city.
There very little information about the specific details of the Leeds restaurant but visitors can expect the same beautiful interior and mouthwatering delights as their flagship York restaurant.
The York restaurant has received glowing online reviews, with the steaks and cocktails coming highly recommended ahead of their Leeds opening. / Image: Cut & Craft
Their signature flat iron steaks currently come from their in-house master butcher in York and leave nothing by empty plates and glowing reviews.
The new venture for the Cut & Craft is expected to be located in Victoria Quarter and it will certainly fit right in.
Think long hallways, high ceiling with a luxury hotel feel. A dimly lit bar will set the ambience for any intimate affair, with grand chandelier-eque fixtures sitting above velvet booths.
The bright flowers and pastel soft furnishings are perfectly in keeping with the existing bars and restaurants in the Victoria Quarter. / Image: Cut & Craft
The grandeur of the existing York venue is complemented perfectly by their drinks menu. There are a range of wines and cocktails where Moët Spritzers and Espresso Martinis are hidden on the menu amongst a range of sophisticated boozy drinks.
The Paradise in Yorkshire cocktail is a particular delight anticipated to make an appearance in their Leeds restaurant. Absolut Mango Vodka is shaken to fuse with Passoa, pomegranate, apple and passionfruit and sounds delicious.
Most inquisitive ale drinkers will be delighted with their Black Sheep ale, infused with sticky toffee pudding.
100% British burgers, oysters on ice with tabasco, craft chicken wings with succulent sauces are just some of the menus that get local foodies talking but it is their steaks that Cut & Craft are best known for.
Choose from premium steak cuts like rib-eye, sirloin and fillet, each aged for 30 days and sourced exclusively for the restaurant.
For more information visit the Cut & Craft website.
Because one Fern Modern Sushi wasn't enough, we've now got two.
And guess what? It's even better than the first.
Fern Modern Sushi located in the unassuming Central Arcade has become a firm foodie favourite after opening just a couple years ago.
Run by the wonderful Chef Fern, who you could say is somewhat of a local celebrity at this point, the restaurant is known for serving delicious sushi with the freshest fish possible and traditional Japanese dishes with modern flair.
Images: The Hoot Leeds
Full with hungry punters no matter the time of day, it's no surprise that Chef Fern has just opened Fern Modern Sushi 2.0 on Park Row.
This beautiful new space is serving up all the classic Fern dishes, from stacked donburi bowls and perfectly rolled sushi to miso glazed cod and hearty bowls of ramen.
Images: The Hoot Leeds
Different for this location, though, is their exclusive cocktail menu - so you can wine and dine to your heart's content.
The interior has also levelled up, complete with a huge open kitchen so you can pull up a chair and eat whilst watching the magic happen.
Images: The Hoot Leeds
And this isn't all that Chef Fern is up to, after opening Tori Nori on Vicar Lane a few months ago this will be her third restaurant in the city centre, and that is no easy feat.
She's even got another restaurant imminently opening in the Central Arcade which will be focused on traditional katsu dishes, and we wouldn't be at all surprised if she had something else lined up in the pipeline.
Images: The Hoot Leeds
Fern Modern Sushi 2.0 officially opens on 19 November, but is open now for soft launch with limited bookings.
A pub in Leeds has been crowned the third best in Britain by The Good Food Guide
Clementine Hall
A Leeds pub has been crowned one of the very best in the country by The Good Food Guide.
The trusted guide has just released its 100 Best Pubs in Britain list, and we're very chuffed with the results indeed.
Taking the coveted number three spot is our very own The Highland Laddie, a 100-year-old city centre institution that reopened in April 2025 in the hands of new owners Sam Pullan and Nicole Deighton.
These guys also run the Empire Cafe, so you just know it's going to be good.
Last year they soared straight to the top of the list and were crowned the best pub in the whole of Britain by the guide.
Images: The Hoot Leeds
This time, the Queen's Arms over in Eccles came number one followed by The Cow in Notting Hill.
We still think bagging third place is quite the achievement, and if you've visited The Highland Laddie yourself you'll know just how much of a special place it is.
Don't just take our word for it, The Good Food Guide labelled the Laddie as 'a true pub with a genuine community vibe'.
They also said: "Reenergised by the team behind the Empire Cafe in 2025, this is everything that a proper English pub should be – 'oh, and they have a mustard menu!'
"Inside, the Laddie ticks all the boxes, preserving the essentials of a traditional old-school boozer and maintaining a genuine sense of community while letting the good times roll. As for the food, it’s ‘both high-end and accessible’, pulling in ideas from all over, whether you fancy a freshly shucked Lindisfarne oyster, a keema toastie or an elevated ham roll with bread cooked over the coals.
"Dig deeper and you might find a lobster madeleine with Yorkshire chorizo butter, a treacle onion tart or pork schnitzel with two fried eggs. Club steaks are served by the inch, there’s no creative let-up when it comes to sides, and the nostalgia is ramped up with the likes of strawberry and Champagne trifle with ‘sprinkles’.
"But never forget that this is a self-proclaimed ‘drinkers’ pub’ dispensing everything from ‘properly served’ British brews and ’the best Guinness in Leeds’ to a staggering line-up of whisky optics."
Sophie Smith -
24th May 2021 
