Cook, Eat, Repeat – Dinner at the Manor’s FINAL EVER SUPPERCLUB!

Saturday 25th February 2023, 7pm to 10pm Leeds Cookery School £60pp

Tickets are now on sale for our final ever supperclub! Dan and I started running Leeds’ longest running secret supperclub, Dinner at the Manor, over 10 years ago.

Our monthly feasts, served out of Dan’s Victorian home in West Leeds, were themed around the different cook books on Dan’s heaving bookshelves and ranged from Korean, American, European to Mrs Beeton!

The pandemic caused a brief hiatus, but we are now back to throw one last dinner party as a final farewell and to raise funds for Leeds Cookery School’s charity arm – Zest, who tackle health inequalities and poverty in Leeds. The theme for this event takes the Manor back to where it all started with Nigella’s ‘Cook, Eat Repeat’.

This unique Chef’s Table event gets you full access to the Manor’s infamous 8 course tasting menu, a welcome drink, corkage for you to BYOB, water, tea and coffee, lots of other tasty treats and the warm fuzzy feeling of helping out a brilliant local charity.

This is an interactive event, sat round one big communal table and the chance to chat with Dan and I, as we cook, to get all the supperclub gossip from the last decade before we say goodbye!

To bag one of just 20 exclusive tickets you can book on via the Leeds Cookery School website

Please note that we’ll be able to provide vegetarian alternatives at this event but for any other specific requirements then please get in touch ahead of booking to see if we can accommodate.

8th Birthday Menu, inspired by Dishoom

No doubt the cookbook of the moment is the wonderful Dishoom “From Bombay with Love” and given Leeds hasn’t managed to bag a Dishoom as yet, we decided to celebrate our 8th year of supperclubbing in style and bring a little bit of Bombay to Leeds.

Who’d have thought our little idea to create a supper club in west Leeds would see us still cooking away! We reckon we’re probably served up almost 10,000 plates of food in that time which is just bonkers!

So here’s our celebratory menu, we hope you like it!

September 2019 Menu – Greek Taverna

This weekend we’ll be hosting the first of our autumn / winter events at the Manor, and this month we’ll be taking our guests to warmer climes in the shape of our Greek Taverna menu.

Bright, sunny flavours with the usual Manor twists! Take a look at the menu and let us know what you think.

August 2019 Menu – Seafood Odyssey Lunch

Next weekend we’ll be welcoming our guests to the Manor and cooking up seafood lunch, inspired by the one and only Rick Stein, in honour of the 20th anniversary of his Seafood Odyssey.

The book itself really showcased Rick’s passion for seafood and travel, showcasing how fish is used across many different cuisines, from India, Spain and beyond.

We’ve picked our menu, and we’d love to know what you think.

July Menu – Vegetarian Bazaar, a fundraiser for Zest

In just over a week we’ll be cooking up a vegetarian feast, inspired by one of our favourite writers and Supperclub queen Sabrina Ghayour, for our guests as part of our fundraiser for Leeds based charity, Zest.

Zest support people living in disadvantaged areas of Leeds. They’re the charity behind Leeds Cookery School and Jamie’s Ministry of Food and aim to improve life chances by promoting healthier lifestyles and enabling fulfilling lives.

We’ll be taking this event out of the Manor this time too, and will be popping up at a secret location in north Leeds!

Here’s the menu we’ll be cooking up!

June 2019 Menu – Portuguese Lunch

After a small hiatus in May, we’re back and raring to go for our summer events. First up is our Portuguese event, inspired by our trips to Portugal, sipping on vinho verde and eating delicious food the sun. We won’t be able to guarantee the weather, but tasty food and good company is a given. We’d love to know what you think.

New! summer 2019 events on sale!

Surprise! We thought we’d be a bit sneaky and announce our next couple of events! We’ve got a bit of a busy year but have managed to fit in two events over summer as follows:

Sat 8th June – Portuguese Lunch – 12.30pm to 3.30pm

We’re big fans of Portugal and its cuisine, with both Dan and I recently having travelled to Portugal in the past year and we want to bring back some of the recipes and flavours that we came across.

Expect traditional Portuguese classics with the usual Manor twists, vibrant flavours with maybe a hint (a lot?) of spice.

For £38pp we’ll be cooking up 8 course and a welcome drink on arrival.

Event Sold Out

Sat 20th July – Charity Fundraiser, Vegetarian Bazaar – 7pm to 10pm – Sold Out

In July, we’ll be cooking up a veggie feast using Sabrina Ghayour’s new book, Bazaar for our inspiration, showcasing delicious meat free dishes. A firm favourite at the Manor, this event is sure to be a hit!

Not only that, but we’re holding this event as a fundraiser for Zest, a Leeds based charity who support people living in disadvantaged areas of Leeds. They’re the charity behind Leeds Cookery School and Jamie’s Ministry of Food and aim to improve life chances by promoting healthier lifestyles and enabling fulfilling lives. This event coincides with their annual fundraising week so we thought we’d do our bit! £38pp gets you the usual manor feast and welcome drink.

May 2019 – Leeds Indie Food – Leeds Cookery School events

And whilst we’re not doing any events for Leeds Indie Food this year, our friends at Leeds Cookery School are! They’re hosting an interactive meal where you get to cook yourself around the world in three delicious courses, all paired with drinks.

It’s the ultimate eat, drink, do and is a great way to have a taster of what the cookery school offers, from having a go at authentic Thai cuisine, to mastering the scary soufflé!

To book for 23rd May click here

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To book for 25th May click here

April 2019 Menu – Simon Rogan

Here’s the menu we’ll be serving up to our lovely guests this coming weekend.

We’re going to try and recreate Michelin starred food for this one, from one of our favourite chefs, Simon Rogan. This event will be equal parts scary and exciting and we’re ready for the challenge!

Also, keep your eyes peeled, as we’ll be announcing some new dates soon…

Burns Baby Burns…

Last month we hosted our first event of 2019 and what better way to celebrate than with a Burns Night supper to celebrate all things Scottish. We took traditional recipes and put our usual Manor spin on things. We didn’t do an Ode to the Haggis though, maybe next time!

We started off with a welcome drink of Bramble Mac, Dan’s take on a whisky mac using his home infused blackberry whisky. Paired with this were our snacks, which were a lovely parallel of “high end” and “low end”, the former being Dan’s treacle cured salmon. Scottish salmon fillet was cured for a week in a dark, treacly mix. Little slithers were then served with smoked mayonnaise and a burnt grapefruit gel.  The latter snack was a mini cock-a-leekie pasty, my take on the soup, but pimped up with double cream and mustard then encased in puff pastry. Just like they’d come fresh from Greggs!

Moving onto the starters, first up was a beautiful smoked haddock soufflé. Again showcasing some of Scotland’s finest seafood – this simple twice based soufflé was lovely and light and came with a sharp, lemony fennel salad.

Next up was a gamey, rich venison and black pudding scotch egg. A soft boiled quail’s egg encased in venison and black pudding and coated in a crisp crumb. This was served with a tart, creamy celeriac remoulade to cut through the richness of the meat.

For our mains, we served up two dishes both closely linked to haggis, which just had to feature. First up was skirlie, often referred to as “poor man’s haggis”. This was potato cooked up with brown butter, pinhead oatmeal, lots of sage, rosemary and thyme and mace.  These little cakes were served up in their own little pans with bacon and cabbage.

Next up was a dish based on the classic haggis, neeps and tatties, with the addition of pork belly. Twice cooked pork belly with crispy crackling was served alongside a haggis bon bon, creamy tatties and pickled neeps to cut through the richness of the meat.

Onto dessert, which was my take on cranchan. White chocolate parfait was paired with a rosewater infused raspberry sorbet, fresh raspberries and a raspberry and oat crumble. cool, creamy, tart and crunchy. Delicious.

To finish off the evening, our guests were treated to a wee dram and Dan’s moreish whisky chocolate fudge. This was a lovely event to kick off 2019, with a mix of returning and new guests this was a relaxed, enjoyable event. But it doesn’t stop there. Next weekend we’ll be hosting our Ottolenghi lunch and we’ll be sharing the menu for that tomorrow.

January ’19 Menu – Burns Night

And here we are in 2019! We’ll be hosting our first event of they year next weekend, which will be a Burns Night supper.

We’ll be showcasing Scottish ingredients but also putting our usual Dinner at the Manor twists on them, we can’t wait.