On Monday, much to mine and my coffee and cake companions' dismay our usual haunt of Opposite was closed. Therefore, we headed out into Headingley to search for a suitable alternative.
I had often walked into the Pickles and Potter cafe in the city centre, looked at the menus, the delicious looking food fridge and the home made cakes, decided that it was above my price bracket and turned around again. I am severely regretting those many decisions now. In the second of their cafes in Headingley the jacket potato I had was crispy, the houmous smooth, the chutney wonderfully tangy and the side salad a lovely addition to my lunch. The skinny mocha managed to retain a creamy chocolate texture that many coffee shops (starbucks and I hate to admit Opposite) don't. The crowning glory of this coffee has to be the addition of a tiny bite size piece of their award winning brownie. After trying it one can truely tell why it is award winning. It is so chocolatey and smooth it melts in your mouth. Perfection in a bite sized piece. The whole experience was topped off by my choice of desert, lemon cake. The triangular slab of cake was light and spongy as well as zesty and tangy.
I am disappointed in myself for not going to this cafe earlier in my life. I only spent 3 and a half years in Leeds! The food, rather than the coffee and cake, is more expensive than my ranking Leeds favourite, Opposite, but it will definitely be on my list of places to go when I am visiting friends.
A quick note on Opposite. I couldn't leave Leeds without a visit here. The coffee was strong but smooth, my houmous, feta, roasted peppers and spinach sandwich was on delightfully soft brown bread and the sweetness of the peppers still combines wonderfully with slightly sour but soft taste of the feta. It will take something truely extrodinary to replace Opposite as my favourite Leeds cafe (although it gets many points from sentimentality).
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