Ian Jones

Food and Drink Editor
Ian Jones

Ian Jones is a Manchester-based journalist, photographer and videographer with 23 years' experience, writing food reviews for Creative Tourist since 2015. His work has appeared in Telegraph Food, Time Out, The Independent, Vice and New Scientist. He has also contributed cultural commentary on Manchester for the New York Times.

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Food and DrinkLeeds
The Fun of Food

The Fun of Food is a family-focused interactive experience exploring the joys of food. Expect visual and unusual activities, all around your favourite ways to eat.

Free entry
Leeds
Tourist Attraction
Leeds Dock

Leeds Dock is a creative waterside village, home to a vast number of businesses and shops.

Leeds
Restaurant
Sheaf Street Cafeteria

Part of the effortlessly cool Duke Studios, Sheaf Street offers all kinds of interesting food and drink plus events and resident DJs.

Leeds
Restaurant
Gaucho Leeds

High-end Argentine restaurant with a focus on steaks, glamour and wine.

Rafters
Sheffield
Restaurant
Rafters

Rafters isn’t the kind of place you stop by for a quick bite to eat. It’s a fine dining experience that requires an entire evening, invoking cooking techniques up there with Simon Rogan.

Chinese restaurants in Manchester (outside Chinatown)

Look outside Chinatown and you'll find everything from little backstreet haunts, to celebrity-packed multi-million-pound mega-restaurants. The one thing they have in common is excellent food. Here are the city's best

Ocean Treasure 235 Cantonese restaurant and casino.
City Centre
Restaurant
Ocean Treasure 235

This upmarket Cantonese restaurant is based in a casino, meaning you can fill your belly then go blow your wages, all in the same place!