Andrew Porter-Emery Senior Writer

Andrew Porter-Emery is a Senior Writer at Leeds-List with more than 20 years' experience writing about food, drink and culture across Yorkshire. An author of three books and former contributor to the Guardian, Observer, NME and The Face, he has an encyclopaedic knowledge of Leeds – its restaurants, bars, live music venues and everything in between – and knows what separates good from great. When he's not writing, you'll find him at a city gig, at a table somewhere new or, ideally, reading a book in a pub with something interesting in his glass.

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The Best Pubs in Leeds

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