For many of us, a roast dinner is a staple, often the spark of powerful debate among Brits.
Often served at its best on Sundays, a lot of people would have it every day. However, this weekend is the perfect excuse to splash out and save yourself the effort of cooking.
Easter Sunday is a great time to spend with family and friends and maybe have a trip out for a good roast dinner.
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In Leeds, there are a number of great places serving all the joints and trimmings, including veggie and vegan options too.
Below is a list of the best places in Leeds to find an Easter Sunday roast.
Shears Yard, Wharf Street
The venue’s Sunday lunch is known to draw people from miles around Yorkshire (and beyond). They offer tall and crispy Yorkshire puddings with a fluffy inside and a range of meats with all the trimmings.
Ox Club, The Headrow
The popular restaurant, featuring in the Michelin Guide as a recommended venue, has a Sunday dinner menu featuring a range of starters from courgettes with black garlic to Lindisfarne oysters as well as the traditional roast.
Currently, the Ox Club Sunday roast dinner menu features roast rump cap of beef, Confit fennel, apple and herb porchetta, smoked trotter and fennel gravy as well as coal roasted celeriac with pearl barley risotto and truffle gravy.
The Fox and Hounds, Tinshill Road
The Fox and Hounds in Cookridge has a fixed price Sunday lunch menu with one course starting from £8.99. Each is served with crisp home-roasted potatoes, fresh chantenay carrots, honey-glazed parsnips, steamed greens, a crisp Yorkshire pudding and a jug of rich gravy.
They offer beef, turkey, and a Wellington as well as a duo of roast which beef and turkey with pigs in blankets.
Dill and Bay Restaurant, Marsh Street, Rothwell
Their Sunday dinner sittings run between noon and 8pm. Two courses are listed as £19.50 or you can treat yourself to three for £25. Sunday roast mains include Yorkshire silverside of beef, roast pork loin, roast chicken and a nut roast.
The Myrtle Tavern, Parkside Road, Meanwood
The Myrtle Tavern’s roast dinner is as famous as it is eye-catching. They offer superb Yorkshire puddings with a range of roasts and all the trimmings.
Whitelock’s, Turk's Head Yard
Tucked away in an alleyway on Briggate is Whitelock's Ale House. The oldest public house in Leeds has been operating for centuries, changing with the times, including the food.
Whitelock's offer an impressive menu with all the pub classics including a veggie and vegan Sunday lunch menu, however there is no vegan option for the roast.
The Brunswick, North Street
Located on North Street, The Brunswick is a pub that serves burgers, fried chicken and Sunday roasts. They also have over 50 beers both cask and keg and advise booking for the roasts as they sell out most weeks.
They offer a range of meats, including topside of beef, porchetta, chicken supreme and veggie/vegan roasts for the non-meat eaters.
Wapentake, Kirkgate
Wapentake is a bar that prides itself on serving locally sourced, Yorkshire ingredients. Their menu is as local as possible, they source ingredients from their literal neighbours in Kirkgate Market.
All their meat products, fruit and veg and eggs come from the market meaning it's not travelled far at all. Wapentake also offer a range of vegan and gluten-free options to everything on the menu, including a vegan roast dinner.
Kirkstall Bridge Inn
This pub, located in Kirkstall by the River Aire serves delicious food and beer. It's not known so much for its veggie and vegan alternatives but according to reviews, it serves some pretty good vegan roasts.
Sitting atop their roasts is a massive Yorkshire Pudding complete with all the trimmings.
Harvey Nichols, Briggate
There are a couple of menu offerings at Harvey Nichols, including the mammoth beef roast dinner, which comes with supplements. The aforementioned dish, naturally only available on Sundays, costs an additional £5 but many will likely feel it is worth the cost - as it clearly competes for the title of the best roast dinner in Leeds.
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