Date visited: March 2018

LEEDS LEEDS LEEDS!

I've visited Leeds a fair few times in the past but never with beer-tinted spectacles on and so making the trip up to the 'Capital of the North' with a new perspective meant I got to see the city in a new light. That light emanating from the various drinking establishments we frequented.

Leeds is one of my favourite cities in the UK. There's a oft-repeated comment that people from the north of England are super friendly and very hospitable and Leeds is a wonderful example of this. Especially to a gaggle of Southern lads drinking, eating and exploring t'city.

We voyaged up Friday afternoon and left Sunday morning and managed to pack in a surprising amount. We even slotted in an excursion to Huddersfield on Saturday afternoon to visit Magic Rock but that's a blog post for another day.

Looking back at the list of places I'd earmarked to check out just shows there's an abundance of amazing pubs and bars in Leeds and so we didn't manage to make it to all of them. I'm pretty happy that it's given us a reason to go back another time.

Of the venues we did make it to, here are our highlights from an exceptional weekend in Yorkshire.

Northern Monk Refectory

Northern Monk have been one of my favourite UK breweries for quite some time now, consistently churning out delicious beers in a range of styles so it was inevitable that their brewery and tap room was top of my list.