Many a Leeds resident will know of the Sunday Joint at The HiFi Club, every Sunday for the past 15 years the now legendary Sunday Joint at The HiFi Club has been playing host to some of the greatest jazz, Latin, funk & salsa bands with free gigs that last all day and all night. What you might now know is that every week the chefs from the Arts Café Leeds (2010 winner of the Oliver Award for Best Café Bar) go down to The HiFi Club to listen to the music and cook up a storm!
Every week 12pm – 4pm they serve up the cities most delicious home cooked roast dinners. Roast Beef, Nut Roasts, a selection of pies, roast potatoes, mash, fresh vegetables and a selection of deserts means there’s something for everyone and no one will leave hungry!
As a special offer for Easter, until the end of April HiFi is offering a free bottle of wine to any group of 3 or larger buying food, simply ask at the bar to claim it.
So is there such as thing as free lunch? In this case yes! The HiFi Club are offering one lucky Culture Vulture reader the chance to win a free meal for two with a bottle of wine on Sunday 18th or the 25th April. Just tell us in the comments box what your perfect last lunch on earth would be!
We will choose the winner based on which whets our appetite the most! Closing date 12th April
For me it’s got to be really simple but delicious I’d go for Frisee Salade au Lardon – Bitter Frisee offset by crisp and sweet Lardon. (served with a cooool crisp pint of Jupiler, the best Lager in Europe)
Steak Frites – Rib Eye – cooked rare over a wood burning grill close to the flames so it’s well coloured and crisp in places and allowed to rest well with Skinny Fries and some fresh buttery Hollandaise to dip them in… Heaven on a bloody plate. (Served with a bottle of Masi Amerone Valpolicela, rich blackcurrant mentalness in a glass)
And finally to top it all of Vanilla Creme Brulee just on its own, lush!
Oh my god, I think you may have just set a very high bar there Paul, do you cook this? If so I’m coming round to yours for lunch! Now everybody else, don’t feel daunted by this mouth watering response!
egg and chips
Bangers & mash with a pint of Leeds Brewery Pale Ale.
My last lunch? GREAT question!
Starter: Baked Camembert with a red onion and cabbage culi
Main: A wild mushroom and chicken risotto!
Dessert (if you can manage it!): A citrus cheesecake served with chocolate covered fresh strawberry’s with their stalks on the side!
nom nom nom
Ummm Roast dinner and chocolate fudge cake yum yum yum
I think my last lunch would probably be (bearing in mind that if it was the last time I were to eat I would probably spend alllll day eating)
Pre starter – large juicy fresh olives with balsamic and fresh olive oil and bread for dipping in
Starter – a large portion of nachos with really good fresh guacamole and the chips would be made from floury tortilla’s that are deep fried and good fresh slightly spicy salsa with lots and lots and lots of soured cream…
Main – I think the potatoes in the meal would have to be roasted – cut smaller than your average roast potato and making sure they’re soft and fluffy. Along with this I think there would be Beef Wellington, with mushrooms and lovely pastry. Also on the plate would be carrots that are steamed when peeled – can’t think what the word for that is – and courgettes, cooked in butter with a little nutmeg and lots of black pepper. All of this would be coated in very tasty gravy.
Desert – I think right now it would have to be Eton Mess. But Eton Mess that has the sort of meringue that is chewy in the middle when you bite into it, and with fresh raspberries and strawberries and bits of clotted cream as well as just thick whipped double cream. It would also have (it’s my last meal ok) melted chocolate – good chocolate – drizzled over the top of it all. Decorated with a sprig of mint! There might also be a little bit of ice cream on the bowl as well…
After all of that, there would definitely have to be a cup of peppermint tea because I’m not sure I would be able to move otherwise…
Either All-Day Breakfast or double-egg, chips and beans.
Probably something really comforting like mum’s home-made macaroni cheese. Soporific !!!!
steak and chips followed by creme brulee.
My fav has got to be a Roast Beef dinner with Yorkshire puddings and lashings of gravy! Oh and horseradish sauce…yum. Dont need a pudding, i’ll be full after my dinner! x
Simple – crisp butty (preferably McCoy’s steak on thick white toastie loaf).
Followed by (keep an open mind, its really good) – a mars ice cream bar wrapped in a pancake. I invented it after a drunken afternoon on pancake day. and then ate it most days in Lent.
I like a good old chicken roast stuffed with thyme, rosemary and garlic. Nigel Slater has a recipe where you stick garlic under the skin with bay leaves and orange peel and it tastes great. That with roast spuds, curly kale, carrots, parsnip and potato mash and lovely gravy would do it for me.
I’ve not had jam roly poly in ages, so I wouldn’t mind that for pudding too. With custard obviously!
It’s got to be my Mum’s traditional roast beef with all the trimmings.
There’s a bit of travelling involved but..hey, if its my last lunch its going to be worth it…
Starter: Santa Fe spring rolls from Hard Rock Cafe in Surfers Paradise.
Main: Eggs Benedict in Rainforest Cafe, Las Vegas
Dessert: Tapas of Desserts at Dos Amigos, Leeds
Not a traditional mix and not the most exotic, i know, but if its your last lunch its got to be the best food you’ve ever tasted in the world.
It’s ‘Dinner’ in the North.
Chip Barm Cake with Gravy and a Steak and Kidney Pudding chaser washed down with a tin of Dandelion and Burdock whilst sat on a bench looking out to sea.
A totally ripe and juicy pear, picked from a nearby tree 🙂
Obviously it would be Sunday Lunch and all the trimming at HiFi, then I could die happy!!
i had the most amazing antipasti type lunch with a gorgeous reisling in a tiny winery near Bright, in VIctoria, Australia. so for my last lunch, i would choose to go back there – gorgeous views, a cute wee doggy running around, delicious olives, bread, meats and cheese – yum! sitting in the sunshine and sipping australian reisling….
Smoked salmon with houmous on blinis, followed by pan-fried sea-bass with roast potatoes and rocket salad. Washed down with a crisp, dry white wine. Mmmmm
My choice would have to be a starter of garlic, cheese and tomato pizza bread, following by a calzone pizza filled with all the toppings you can think of, covered in heaps of steaming tomato topping finished by a generous helping of tiramisu and a big ball of vanilla ice cream. Heaven !!!! Well done to the Italians !! I hope I win !!!
Its got to be a big roast beef dinner with all the trimmings, yorkshire pud, cauliflower cheese, roast parsnips, sprouts, roast potatoes and lots of gravy!!
Sinking my teeth into warm crusty French baguette with slightly salted butter and black cherry conserve. On a sunlit terrace overlooking the sea in the South of France, listening to cicadas chirping amongst the olive groves, the smell of lavender wafting on the warm breeze. With George Clooney. Naked.
Mine would be simple but perfect. Two hot home made muffins, split rather than cut so they are still light and fluffy inside. They would be gently toasted and then topped with a perfectly fresh poached egg, very crispy free range streaky bacon and lovingly drenched in a fresh home made hollondaise sauce made with Jersey butter. You really couldn’t get any better; the tangy and crisp bacon, the crunch of the muffin and the sweet egg yolk all bursting over your tongue overlaid with the creamy sauce …… a little bit of heaven!
a proper afternoon tea – cucumber, cream cheese and mint sandwiches and salmon sandwiches with the crusts cut off, scones with big fat juicy raisins served with clotted cream and homemade strawberry jam (the type with huge strawberry bits in it), then fondant fancies, macarons and teeny tiny slivers of rich sticky fruitcake and (to break with tradition) a lovely cheeseboard. all washed down with champagne cocktails and a gigantic pot of earl grey with a big bowl of lemon slices.
dammit i’m hungry now.
You have also won! Which date would you like to eat your Roast? 18th/25th April?
ooh this sunday please! how exciting! yay!
For starters it would be a platter of beautiful butterfish, wild salmon & albarcore tuna sashimi – or steak tartare ( I like raw food 🙂 )
Followed by the perfect medium-rare prime rib dinner with all the trimmings, including pigs-in-blankets, cauli cheese and yorkshire pud
Ending with a Chocolate Fondue for two (consumed by me alone) from the bad boy of chocolate, Max Brenner (http://www.maxbrenners.com)
oh yums….kill me now…:)
Lunch, under an oak tree, summertime by a river, with her.
Hamper, pies, quiche and cider. Pickles, jams, butter. Sandwiches.
Red and white checked sheet.
Followed by staring up at the sky for desserts.
You have won! Which date would you like to enjoy your roast on? 18th or 25th April?
Sunday 25th please! Many thanks!
Well my perfect last Sunday lunch would be:
Roast Chicken stuffed with lemon and garlic Jamie Oliver Style, with:
Mama Bear’s Yorkshire puds, my famous cauliflower cheese….mmmmm cheese….green beans, brocolli, peas and sweetcorn.
Good old fashioned Yorkshire Sunday Lunch.
Followed by:
Baileys bread and butter pudding…mmmmmm baileys….
blimey its a bit classy on here. I just had an egg and bacon butty from greggs.