Cosy Club — Restaurant in Leeds

Generic bar with-a-restaurant type place with no specials board. Avoid going on Sunday if you want food. Visited Sunday evening, less than a fifth of the tables were occupied.

Staff were nice enough, when they appeared. It's one of those places where you see a different member of staff each time the table is visited, so you have no idea who your wait staff may be. They get a star for using a clipboard to take orders which indicates the covers, so the food is brought to the right part of the table. This is something that used to be absolutely standard, but for some reason most in most places the staff take the order and immediately forget who ordered what, so when the food comes they interrupt everyone as they shout the name of whatever dish they are carrying.

On Sunday the kitchen was missing a great number of ingredients, so many of the menu items were not available. Considering the kitchen would have known what the stock levels were at the end of service on Saturday, which apparently was busy, they could have bought in the missing ingredients during Sunday. To be fair, the management probably lounge around elsewhere on Sunday, leaving the staff present to make do. They are open from 9am on Sunday, which seems unnecessarily early, so management probably still can't feel their face. However, as we were eating at 7pm there had been plenty of time to sort out stock levels, so no excuses. Due to the restricted menu, the vegetarian options were limited, I ended up having the 'Superfood Bowl', which was a tired collection of slightly weird food combinations which combined were much less than the sum of their parts. On the upside, there is the challenge of the guessing game of which part of the dish may have been responsible for the diarrhoea which visited me later that evening! Was it the strangely fizzy 'pickled red cabbage', the slightly wiffy rice (or the three edamame beans within), the pallid hummus, the acidic miso and sesame cucumber or the suspicious avocado? It certainly wasn't the lemony kale, heirloom tomatoes or the fennel, radish and dill salad, because none of those things was present on the plate. In their place we where provided with a mound of dank, limp finely sliced red onion and the saddest, unripe, crunchy, pink tomato on the planet. I did not eat the onion. The avocado was suspicious due to it's presence. On a day where they had run out of pretty much everything, it seemed odd that avocados were present, given their temperamental nature as regards ripeness. I suspect the avocados may have been from the freezer as they were served as an unsliced half covered in a strange runny white sauce (perhaps the chef's special sauce?) that served to obscure the avocado. The strange white sauce may have been what the menu describes as hummus. Everything was slightly wrong, and even if it had all been at peak freshness would not have comprised a coherent whole. Luckily, my taste buds are not particularly sensitive, the downside of that is that I cannot easily detect when food is off and send it back. The lighting was low and reduced during the course of the evening, literally gas-lighting us. It was difficult to see exactly what was on the plate , but it did all seem to be made of vegetables, so small mercies and all that. There are many places of this sort in every city centre in the country, maybe we could have repeated this experience at any of the others and it is just the bad luck of the Cosy Club that we visited it and that I have the time and inclination to write this sarcastic review. Nevertheless, it wasn't very good and I would not recommend it based on my experience. Ending on an up note, the floor was nice, reclaimed school gym, probably hardwood and the toilets were clean, so they get a...

I visited this restaurant last night with my husband and young baby for the first time. It looked inviting and we thought we would have a change from our usual meal at Browns. Firstly, the lift (we had a heavy pram) was very temperamental and left us sat in it for around 30 seconds before opening at the top! We were welcomed by a very helpful waiter with tattoos, who I must commend for his service and professionalism throughout. He is a credit to the restaurant. We ordered drinks and I ordered a margarita. I was surprised this came in a short glass and no salt rim. Once all of the ice was taken there was very little actual drink, but it was very tasty. Our food order was taken efficiently and came in good time. I ordered the risotto, which was very tasty but a small portion even with the extra chicken I ordered on top. There was 4 tiny slices of chicken placed on too of the risotto for £4.95. Not good value for an £18 dish. The restaurant got busier at this point and service went downhill as a result. I had to move our own plates out of the way. We had to ask for a dessert menu and it took a really long time for these to arrive. When they did, the toffee pudding was missing the butterscotch sauce and my husband didn't enjoy his brownie which was a sponge texture? By the time the requested butterscotch sauce arrived, I had nearly finished the dessert so it was no good. It was clearly a lack of staff causing these problems as I only saw two staff members in a busy restaurant. I would have considered the restaurant reasonable value had the food and service being up to par. As it was, we enjoyed it but wouldn't visit again...

My friends and I were looking for a peaceful spot for coffee yesterday afternoon in Leeds city centre. Being a Sunday, most places were either too busy, or nearing closing time. Having often walked past Cosy Club but never been inside, we decided to give it a try, despite being unfamiliar with their franchise and menu offerings.

At the upstairs entrance, we were warmly greeted by a polite gentleman. When we mentioned that we only wanted hot drinks, he kindly handed us drinks menus and invited us to sit wherever we felt comfortable. The interior was beautifully classic, and we particularly appreciated being able to sit in the restaurant’s sofa dining area. As we do not drink alcohol, we preferred this space, which was set apart from the bar.

My friends ordered a selection of coffees, while I ordered a hot chocolate. Although the bar staff took some time to prepare and deliver our drinks - understandably so, given the weekend rush - the service was courteous throughout. The drinks themselves, while perfectly fine, were average.

What stood out, however, was the comfortable and welcoming atmosphere. We were able to sit and chat for about an hour, which we greatly appreciated. We chose not to try any food or snacks, as we had a restaurant reservation elsewhere. Nevertheless, I will be sure to visit again next time I am in Leeds city centre, in need of an inviting and relaxed setting for a casual outing...