Leeds food fans set for summer feast of food and drink

The countdown is on to the return of the city’s weekly pop-up street food market with just a week until the first Eat North event of 2018.

From the team behind one of the city’s favourite food festivals, Leeds Indie Food, and the award-winning brewery North Brewing Co there will be 18 weeks of rotating traders from veterans of the Leeds food and drink scene to newbies.

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From this year’s first event on Saturday April 28, they will pitch up at the brewery HQ in Sheepscar where North Brewing Co. will be serving its own award winning brews alongside DJs and outdoor games - and the kids and the dog are invited along too.

The line-up for the first five weeks is confirmed, with over thirty different street food traders signing on to serve up everything from Latin American arepas to Kenyan barbeque, plus speciality coffee and sweet options.

A week on Saturday the stalls will be Parm Star, Yakumama, Ball Box, Tikks Thai, Baking Bike and Rabbit Hole Coffee.

Set to be one of the most popular events is Veg North which will coincide with the first weekend of the Leeds Indie Food Fest and there will also be dedicated vegan weeks.

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Christian Townsley, director of North Brewing Co, said: “We were blown away by the response to Eat North last summer and can’t wait to team up with Leeds Indie Food on this year’s run. The quality and variety of the food traders lined up is ace and we’re really excited to showcase a range of North Brewing Co beers at the tap. We’ve been plotting monthly specials and are going to be brewing [in collaboration] with some of our favourite breweries.”