Perhaps the most famous restaurant in Leeds, The Man Behind The Curtain was opened in 2014 by celebrated chef Michael O’Hare. This is modernist cuisine, often weird but always wonderful – you don’t get a Michelin star without being reliably brilliant.
Happening as part of Transform 25, check out this one-to-one performance sharing the Palestinian experience of displacement and resistance.
Pay-What-You-Can
Take a cinematic journey across the city with Leeds Cinema Crawl.
From £8.00
Join Leeds-based writer Ian Harker as he launches his pamphlet, Gain Access, co-winner of the 2025 Poetry Business International Book & Pamphlet Competition, judged by Kim Moore.
From £1.00
Aaron Sorkin’s riveting, award-winning stage adaptation of To Kill A Mockingbird comes to Leeds Playhouse this autumn.
From £16.50
Leeds International Festival of Ideas (LIFI) returns this October with five days of bold conversations, big names and fresh perspectives.
From £8.00
Leeds’ Transform Festival is an engine room of powerful, urgent and trailblazing performance, visual arts, dance, conversations and adventure.
Free entry
A little kindness goes a long way in this playful retelling of Little Red Riding Hood.
From £9.25
Leeds’ go to place for premium shopping, Victoria Arcade, has both style and substance in abundance.
The Ivy Asia Leeds is now open, serving up high-end dishes in the Victoria Quarter.
A Japanese-inspired restaurant speciaising in ramen and handmade dumplings, with a karaoke cocktail bar and lounge upstairs.
Home to regular arts and live music events, with djs, live gigs, comedy shows, and more, visiting this four-storey venue is a must.
Ox Club is famous for its live, open-fire cooking, and carefully sources some of the finest ingredients in Yorkshire for its menus.
In the heart of Leeds is also an Asian market held every Wednesday, featuring a vast array of fabrics and spices from the Indian subcontinent and beyond.
Wall of Sound is an independent record shop stocking second hand and rare Records, CDs, DVDs, Books and Memorabilia, located in the the heart of Leeds.
Crash is a yellow beacon of taste, located on Leeds’ central Headrow. With vinyl, tickets and in-store gigs it’s a must visit for indie and rock fans.
Industrial-chic bar and live-music venue with multiple dance floors and a vegan comfort-food menu.
Empire Café is located in Leeds’ ‘home of day dining’- Fish street!
One to add to your TBR pile, our latest round-up is a bumper edition and features some amazing events in Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds and beyond...
Get ready for a suitably spooky October, with Pumpkin delight, theatre, workshops and all sorts of hair-raising fun!
From corrupted shoegaze to experimental electronica, post-hardcore to Indian classical, these are the shows that should be on your radar.
A host of Halloween horrors, experimental shorts, plus pioneering black British cinema make our October Cinema Guide.
Galleries around the North are gearing up for a new season of exhibitions - from iconic art prizes to smaller, artist-led gems.
Theatre this month bursts with contrasts - from bold new writing and Black History Month highlights to contemporary arts and reimagined classics.
"Tours, tours, tours!" If this month's Tours and Activities guide were a sentient speaking person, this is what it would say.
