It's fair to say that Leeds has some excellent bottomless brunch options, but this one at Mans Market might just be our favourite yet.
The Chinese restaurant and bar concept is already a favourite in the city amongst foodies in the know, having been highly recommended by the Sunday Times.
Serving up a mix of dim sum, stuffed bao, sharing pans and 'belly fillers' alongside sides like triple cooked salt and pepper chips, stir fried mixed veg, egg fried rice and broccoli with chilli and garlic, we're tempted to head down for a scran at any time of the week.
The bottomless brunch at Mans Market includes two hours of drinks / Image: Mans Market
If you visit on Saturdays and Sundays between 12 and 3 pm, though, chances are you'll get a whole lot more for your money by dining out on the £29 bottomless brunch deal.
For that, you'll get two hours of unlimited drinks, a selection of dim sum, sides and mains. An absolute steal in our book. And the food looks mega, too.
Think giant prawn crackers, spring rolls, satay skewers and prawn sesame fingers to share, followed by a choice of crispy chilli beef, duck and char siu or sweet and sour chicken.
For an additional £10 you can upgrade to bottomless cocktails / Image: Mans Market
If none of those take your fancy, there's a few more mains choices too - like black bean and pepper with tofu, chicken or beef, or Mans Market's 'around the world chicken curry', served with your choice of egg fried rice, steamed rice or noodles.
If that's not enough to tempt you, you'll also get to choose a selection of sides (we're definitely feeling those salt and pepper chips).
Throw in two hours of free-flowing prosecco or house lager, and you've got yourself a top notch brunch. After all, most places we've found in Leeds only do 90 minutes - so you're certainly getting a lot more bang for your buck at Mans Market.
The way it works is you're given a little sign that says 'feed me' / 'drink me' which you clip to a chain above your table when you're in need of a top up. First the team will bring you over a dim sum sharing platter to start, before you move onto your mains.
If you don't fancy lager or prosecco, there's also a few upgrade options available. If you fancy sipping on bellinis instead, you can add these on for an additional £5 or go the whole hog and upgrade to any cocktail of your choice for an additional £10.
With fun drinks like bubblegum daiquiris, Hong Kong island iced teas and Kobe Tais, we're certainly tempted.
To find our more, head over to their website to view the menu and book your table.
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 -
8th September 2021 
