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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Leeds pizza shop hailed ‘exceptional’ and ‘best in the UK’ by major reviewer
A Leeds pizza takeaway has received a glowing review from popular review duo.
Edges Pizza opened up their first permanent spot in Leeds back in June this year, after making a name for themselves slinging out pizzas at multiple pop-ups across the city.
Owners Grace and Edge from Harrogate opened Edges Pizza two years ago, taking inspiration from trips to New York over the years.
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Their pizzas are a love letter to the class New York slice, think thin and crispy rather than chewy and floppy. But above all else, think absolutely delicious.
And now, they've caught the attention of a major review page, with Bite Twice Food Reviews (a page with almost 300k followers) paying Edges a visit.
The food review duo of Gerry del Guercio and Paul Delany popped up in Holbeck beneath the arches to get their hands on a pizza, and the outcome is brilliant.
In the video, Bite Twice said that the pizza is 'f**cking exceptional' and up there with 'one of the best pizzas in the UK'.
Before even taking a bite, they said: "On aesthetic, I don't think anywhere in the UK is doing pizza like this".
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Then after the first bite, they go on to say: "There are very few pizzas in the UK that create this, I’m a little bit blown away".
As Londoners themselves, they go on to say that Edges is 'easily hitting with the best that we’ve got down south'.
And if that's not high praise enough, they sign off the video saying: "Leeds has got an absolute gem. I give this a stamp so hard my foot went through the pizza. Edges. Don Level."
The 42-year-old Kirkgate Market stall serving freshly shucked oysters for £1.90 a pop
Clementine Hall
Tucked away in Leeds Kirkgate Market you'll find a wonderful seafood stall selling freshly shucked oysters for £1.90 each.
It's places like these that remind us why we love Leeds so much.
Established in 1880, Hayes Seafood is widely regarded as the oldest trader within the historic Kirkgate Market.
For the past 42 years, it has been run by Cliff and Michelle, the loveliest couple who welcome every customer with open arms.
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The menu here is small but perfectly formed, focusing on fresh, ready-to-eat seafood that you can enjoy with a squeeze of lemon and a dollop of mayonnaise at most.
Delivered fresh every morning, there's pre-cracked crab shells, brown and white crab meat, cockles, crawfish tails - all perfectly prepared for you to eat at their bar or high tables opposite.
But, it's the oysters that you'll see people queueing for. And rightly so.
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Everything here is prepared to order right in front of you, and for no extra fee. You can choose from two types of oysters: super salty Lindisfarne oysters or the slightly sweeter English Loch Fyne.
We recommend having a couple of each, pulling up a stool right by the counter and getting stuck in. If you ask Cliff nicely, he might tell you a bit about the history of the place - but you may have to order a couple more oysters for that.
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You're left to dress them yourself, whether you prefer dash of fiery tabasco or a few pickled shallots. But to be honest, they're delicious just as they come.
This spot is a real piece of Leeds history, and the queues at lunchtime as well as the repeat regular customers proves just how special it is.
All it's missing is a champagne stall next to it...now wouldn't that be perfect?
Sophie Smith -
9th December 2022 
