Best opera brasserie in Britain
OperaThe Observer’s foodie Jay Rayner does not go to the opera, but he sure knows where to eat.
… While I have never quite found my way into opera, perhaps because I have never quite met the right opera, I have always admired Opera North. During the 80s, they went through the coolest of marketing rebrands: lots of moody black-and-white imagery, a love affair with blocky sans serif fonts and so on. Even if you never went to a performance, you wanted their posters on the wall of your student house. It made a nice change from the tennis player scratching her bum, or the bare-chested beefcake cradling a baby.
Accordingly, I have always associated Opera North with the gentlest kind of innovation and that still seems to be the case. Attached to the Grand Theatre, their home on New Briggate, is a smart, modern brasserie with lots of wipe-down surfaces, eager waiters and precisely placed downlighters…
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Seems most opera spectators nowdays are just looking for an evening out and good food.
well, at least some of the opera singers are making a living out of it.
When I retire in a few years, it will remain my biggest regret that I never worked for Opera North. Their programming was intelligent, innovative and the quality always very high. Despite having worked all over the world in prestigious houses, it’s the absence of Leeds that will irk me the most; more so, now they have this swanky eatery.
I was at Opera North yesterday for Vixen, but while I am sure Kino is lovely there is a brilliant Thai just around the corner…