For a mere £18 you can buy a sought-after pint in one of Leeds’ “bougiest” bars, and mix with a crowd of the city’s trendiest and coolest punters.
Friends of Ham, on New Station Street, offers some of the world’s “finest beers” along with a range of charcuterie, cheese and wine, just a stone’s throw away from Leeds Train Station. The rustic-looking bar opened in 2012, and has been a hit with fine-drinking locals, couples, stag dos and young professionals, ever since.
Assistant Manager Andy McLaughlin, originally from Reading, is immensely proud of the bar which he says has a demographic of “young trendy people, cool people, like ourselves.” “We like to call it bougie!” he chuckles, and then backtracks with a wry smile and a wink, "Well, we don’t really call it that."
