No boundaries as Leeds chefs reveal what is on the menu for new business 'Feed'.

Naughty but nice - the Hangover Cone has got people talking.

Crisps, ice-cream, bacon bits, pretzels and chocolate and peanut butter sauces.Absolutely should not work, but it just does.

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This ‘Hangover Cone’ descended from "everything you need" to recover after a heavy night is possibly one of the most bizarre but best things you will eat in Leeds this summer - and when chef and businessman Luke Downing said there were no boundaries to his new venture and collaboration with Jonathan Hawthorne - he wasn’t kidding.

Feed will open in Pudsey on Friday August 24 and you can expect the hangover cone, cheeseburger spring rolls (both signature dishes of XO Supper Club's Hawthorne) and fine dining dishes like crab tartine and dry aged sirloin and some eyebrow raisers - fish skin or chicken parfait and chocolate anyone?

Crab tartine.

Cheeseburger spring roll.

Stick in there a beer blended with honey, Marismeno Fino sherry and a Tuscan vintage red wine drinks pairing and that was City Buzz on Tuesday night getting a sneak preview of what might feature on future menus. A couple of the spiced pumpkin, rum and prosecco creations will also justify a hangover cone. Simple ingredients but they do the job.

The blend is eclectic and effective. Each dish is an example of imagination but also tastes amazing.

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It is a coming together of the hugely different styles of Hawthorne, who favours Asian contemporary cooking, and Downing who is the multi award winning chef behind fine-dining restaurant Vice and Virtue.

It also takes both chefs out of their comfort zone and makes them both cook in different ways and perhaps refreshingly Downing admits: "For Vice I am in at 8am making everything and finish at midnight. I don't want that for anyone else and I am open to utilising other people's ingredients and produce. If I go to Asda and they do a great jam donut I will do something with that and that stops chefs being in first thing creating conditions that are not the best.

"Likewise the crab tartine on sourdough - we got the bread from Leeds Bread Co-op because it is a good product."

Luke Downing, Laura MacLeod and Jonathan 'Jono' Hawthorne.

The duo, along with Downing’s partner Laura Macleod also a chef, have created a hipster cafe/bar/bistro in west Leeds in probably the city’s first collaboration of its kind.Downing said: “Small plates sharing plates, it is up to you. Come in a shirt, shorts, a cap. It is informal dining without the rules of a restaurant. It is a new concept that is coming here.”

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