Kirkstall Abbey Deli Market: Leeds

It's a Saturday in Leeds and the sun is out Leeds List tweeted about Kirkstall Deli Market and we decided this was a good place to check out. It is on from 12-3 on the last Saturday of every month - check out the website for more details.
I love markets with local fresh produce, but also cuisines from around the world and this is what we found here. 

 Canadian stall - just in time for Canadian Day!

 Yorkshire Pies

 Salts Bakery

 Stalls selling local produce from their allotments

 Plenty of tasters and free samples - this chipolata ketchup was seriously spicy but very tasty

 My husband's lunch of Nepalese curry from The Hungry Buddha

 My personal favourite stall - The Yummy Yank

 In the gorgeous surrounding of the Abbey

 Yummy brownies from the Yummy Yank (find her on twitter here: Lisa Gair @TheYummyYank)

 These slices with reeses pieces and oreo are the tastiest thing on her stall

 This is where I got my lunch - a sweet potato falafal wrap with hummus and taziki

The Hungry Buddha

We are definitely going again in July and I look forward to trying out some of the Mexican food then...

Krispy kreme: Birstall Royal Donuts

Have you tried the new bite and reveal donuts? They've been released to coincide with the royal baby, but i am due three days before Kate. We haven't found out what we're having and our server, who was very friendly, said that it was 75% effective! So apparantly its a...girl. We shall see.
We each tried their new summer coolers i had raspberry ripple cream and it was very sweet, but I have a sweet tooth and loved it. The Belgian had the pink lemonaid and found it quite sour-but also liked it.
A fun thing to do with the kids this summer.

So! Bar and Eats: Knaresborough, West Yorkshire

We had a taste-card free trial for a month and so decided to take a day out to Knaresborough and go to one of our old favs for lunch - So! Bar and Eats.
Being a veggie I love it when you can get loads of interesting little dishes to pick at and so this menu is perfect for me.
The nibbles are all around £4 and we got some falafel and hummous (which was a really generous portion) and some breads and drizzles. Mains are from around £7-12. I had the scoobies, pictured below, filled with Mexican ingredients like guacamole, salsa and refried beans. They were great.

My husband had the Italian burger and seemed to enjoy it a lot. The chips were tasty too and you got generous dips with them too. 

The dessert menu looks really tasty, but we were really full and for lunch felt that one starter would have been sufficient, A great place to come with a group of friends of family and you can get a whole selection of sharers. Food is fresh and service was quite good. I would recommend it.

Address:
1 Silver Street
Knaresborough North Yorkshire HG5 8AJ

Krispy Kremes: Birstall, Leeds

Ever since my exchange to UGA near Atlanta Georgia I have loved these babies. My roomate's family took me here and we got a dozen glazed and I fell it love with the sugary sweetness. They were nothing like the sugared jam donuts that I knew from kids parties where we had to compete not to lick our lips.
The fun thing about KK is that when the light is on you can get a free hot one straight off the conveyor belt. In the bigger stores they have a big window where you can see them making the donuts and follow the process - which is cool for little and big kids. They have a huge range of flavours and often seasonal specialities - like Sundaes for summer. This is good as there is always something new to try.
On this visit we got a great deal of a four donuts and summer smoothy for around £10 - I think it was less. I had a mango cooler and it was refreshing and not too sweet - so a nice contrast to the donuts. On the donut front he had a plain (as he's vanilla kinda guy) and a lemon meringue pie which I thought looked very tasty and he confirmed it was - nice and tangy with that meringuey crunch on top. I went for my usual the sprinkles and then tried the millinaire shortbread which had a delicious caramel centre and was generously topped with dark chocolate glaze and nuggets of shortbread. I would highly recommend it.

Overall:

• Great for a snack when out shopping in Birstall
• They have drive-through if you are just out cruising and want something sweet
• They do seasonal specials and are always revising their menus
• If you go when the light is on you get a freeby

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