Fleur Cafe is the first to call itself the most Instagrammable spot in Leeds, proudly stating on its website that it is the "most Instagram-friendly cafe restaurant" in the city.
As the name suggests, the theme here is floral - and they have gone all out on the aesthetic. Think cascading wisteria draping down from every spare corner of the ceiling, which is also covered in 10,000 pink and purple butterflies.
It's also just as lush from the outside, with pink signs draped in more pink and purple flowers and flanked by large green areca palms, ferns and peace lilies.
Add in hanging spotlights hidden amongst the flowers and luminous pink neons declaring their own hashtags like #BrunchatFleurs and #FleurCafe and you've got yourself a proper Insta trap if ever we saw one.
But whilst we're quite taken with the decor, we also want to talk about the brunch offering - which features the likes of wagyu pretzel bun burgers, baked coconut pancakes, spaghetti pasta and harissa chicken depending on what time you take yourself down.
The boozy brunch offer stretches across most of the day, broken into two sessions: the first running from 10.30 am to 2.30 pm, the second from 4 - 8 pm.
Available to enjoy with unlimited prosecco for £27.95 a head, if you head down for the morning you'll be treated to all the classic breakfast favourites: smash avocado toast, masala baked beans, shakshuka, french toast, pancakes or a breakfast bowl plus your choice of side.
Whilst the breakfast mains sounds pretty wholesome, it gets a bit naughtier when you look at the side options - which include the likes of cheesy chips, cauliflower cheese, 'drooling' fries and macaroni and cheese. That's our two personalities on one menu right there.
As for evening options, the aforementioned wagyu pretzel bun burger definitely catches our eye - but if that's not up your street there's plenty more to choose from too.
Think grilled beef short ribs, skewered kebabs, foccacia sandwiches, cauliflower and chickpea curry, Dubai beef biriyani and a harissa chicken pretzel burger. It's quite the feast, once again priced at £27.95 for unlimited prosecco - or £24.95 if you'd like to sample their bottomless mocktail offering instead.
Often, mocktails can be quite unimaginative - but not here at Fleur cafe. Alongside your standard virgin mojitos and pina coladas, you'll also find a raspberry sherbert drink made with additional elderflower, lime, grapefruit soda, a honey and mint concoction, and a tempting-sounding fruit punch thrown into the mix.
Available Monday to Sunday, with the bottomless evening offer extended to 9 pm on Saturdays, there's never a bad time to visit Fleur Cafe.
To find out more, head over to their Instagram page here.
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.”
Georgina Pellant -
14th September 2021 
