Three hours of unlimited booze and all your favourite festive dishes.
It's certainly the most wonderful time of the year once more and so the turkey dinner has started to make its way back onto menus around the city centre.
The standard sit-down formal three courses are so last year and The Soap Factory is hosting a bottomless Christmas buffet to fill your cold wintry nights.
The series of Christmas bottomless evenings, where mince pies, beef and roasties are all on the menu, will be available on Thursday 15 December and Friday 16 December 2022.
The popular bar have doubled the standard 90 minutes of booze to offer three hours of free-flowing Prosecco, bottled beer and a range of flavoured gins.
New this year, there's blackberry gin, peach and raspberry gin, bottled Budweiser and Stella to choose from.
Tuck into select favourites from their Bottomless Brunch including their famed continental charcuterie, smoked salmon, delicious seafood and a selection of leafy greens to accompany.
If you're feeling festive, there will be a host of mouthwatering Christmas treats available too.
Grab a cracker and a tuck into the Soap Factory's delicious Christmas party buffet. / Image: Soap Factory
Think pigs in blankets, duck fat roasted potatoes and crispy roasted vegetables stacked as high as the eye can see with mini Yorkshire puddings stuffed with beef and turkey.
Finish your meal off with winter warmers like cinnamon pancakes, mince pies and some brandy cream.
The bottomless Christmas dinner is served in a buffet style, so you can leave the sprouts and stack up on your favourites instead.
The Soap Factory's Christmas Party has already kicked off with a stellar bottomless running throughout December, but there's still tickets available for Thursday 15 December and Friday 16 December 2022, both running from 7pm until 10pm.
For more information, visit The Soap Factory website. Tickets start at £55 and are available online via EventBrite.
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Salon Madre – a new tequila bar and pool hall is opening in Leeds this month
Manchester's favourite Mexican bar is about to become your newest nightlife destination in Leeds.
It's been a long time coming, but Salon Madre is officially ready to open in Leeds.
Although we may have to wait a little bit longer for Madre, the day-to-night eatery that has made waves over in Manchester and Liverpool, Salon Madre, its lively tequila bar and pool hall sibling, is officially opening on Friday 20 February.
Salon Madre, which will be located just around the corner from Madre at 114 Wellington Street, is where the party really gets started.
Image: The Manc Group
Expect tequila-fuelled nights, pool tables, lively DJs and Lucha Libre on the big screens.
There will also be plenty of tacos being flung out the kitchen to keep you going until the early hours.
If you’ve ever visited one of their venues in Manchester or Liverpool, you’ll know it’s an absolute riot and we can’t wait to welcome them to the city.
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Co-founder Sam Grainger, inspired by countless trips to Mexico, says: “Mexico is alive with passionate artisans and cooks, mastering everything from street tacos to regional delicacies. It’s a world where traditions blend and evolve and we’ve built that ethos into the heart of both Madre and Salon Madre.”
Madre Leeds will open soon and you can even grab yourself a free margarita by signing up to their newsletter here.
We’ll keep you up to date with their opening times but for now, we'll see you at Salon Madre for a boogie, margarita and game of pool next week.
Award-winning Leeds restaurant announces shock closure just months after opening
Clementine Hall
Emba in Leeds will be closing its doors with the owner blaming rising costs and pressure on the hospitality sector.
Back in April last year, one of Leeds' top restaurants The Owl closed its doors.
Run by renowned Chef Liz Cottam, The Owl was reimagine into Emba - a trendy restaurant tat bridged 'the gap between cosy bar and vibrant dining room'.
To open Emba, Cottam opened a Crowdfunder where supporters would be awarded with prizes such as VIP dinners and merch depending on how much they donated.
But sadly just months after opening, Emba is to close permanently.
Cottam confirmed the sad news with a statement shared with customers over the weekend, saying she was completely "heartbroken".
She said: “This is no longer the right time to own independent restaurants like Emba,” she said. “Under the current conditions they cannot survive and the recent budget confirmed what so many of us already knew: no meaningful help is coming for hospitality.
"The experience of being here and the harsh financial reality of running a business here no longer stack up.
"Being award winning, popular, admired and loved no longer means profitable and as an industry if we’re honest most of us have not truly been okay since Covid."
She signed off the statement promising to return to the restaurant world, she said: “What I do know is this, I am not done. I will keep cooking, keep creating and keep finding ways to do the thing I love.”
Sophie Smith -
9th December 2022 
