New Cafe opening in Sir William Henry Bragg Building

A brand-new café is set to welcome new customers from the end of August.

Based in the Sir William Henry Bragg Building on Woodhouse Lane, the 1915 café takes its name and inspiration from the year University of Leeds alumni Sir William Henry Bragg was awarded a Nobel Prize.

The 1915’s relaxed and informal menu has been carefully created to offer a mix of both classic and on-trend options. Using locally and ethically sourced ingredients alongside seasonal produce throughout the year, customers will enjoy regularly updated specials as well as gluten-free and vegan options with regionally sourced coffee and locally handmade cakes sitting alongside more contemporary wraps and flatbreads.

Julie Tong, Head of Retail at Great Food at Leeds, said: 

“We are delighted to add 1915 to our portfolio on campus. The café space has been designed with the University community in mind, working with the schools of Engineering, Physics and Astronomy, and Computing.

The 1915 café offers a wonderful place for staff and students to enjoy light meals throughout the day or catch up on work accompanied by a barista coffee

As with our other outlets, the cafe will be opened in line with appropriate government covid regulations.”

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Hot Cross Buns

Head Chef Lisa’s traditional hot cross buns recipe.

30 mins + 3 hours proving time

Advanced

Makes 15

Vegetarian

Freezable

  • For the bun 
    300ml full–fat milk, plus 2 tsp more 
    50g butter 
    500g strong bread flour 
    1 tsp salt 
    75g caster sugar 
    1 tbsp sunflower oil 
    7g sachet fast–action yeast 
    1 egg beaten
    50g mixed peel 
    75g sultanas 
    Zest of 1 orange 
    1 apple, peeled, cored, and grated.
    1 tsp cinnamon
  • For the cross 
    75g plain flour 
     
  • For the glaze
     3 tsp of apricot jam  

Equipment
Piping bag

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Easter Rocky Road

Use up leftover chocolate in this easy no-bake Easter-themed rocky road!

prep 10, 2 hours to set

Easy

Makes 16

Vegetarian

Freezable

 

  • 400 g Milk/Dark Chocolate
  • 125 g Golden Syrup
  • 125 g Unsalted Butter
  • 100 g Mini Marshmallows
  • 150 g Digestives (chopped)
  • 600-800 g Easter Chocolates (smarties, mini eggs)
  • 250 g White Chocolate

Equipment

  • 8” ( 20cm ) or 9” ( 22cm ) square tin
  • Parchment paper
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Feel good food

To compliment your tea or coffee, we work with many local suppliers to stock brands that have a positive social impact on society and the planet. We also understand that choosing to back Fairtrade and ethically sourced products is one way we can stand with those vulnerable communities on the front line of the climate crisis.

 

Brown & Blond Brownies


Location: Wortley, Leeds
Served: Selected outlets across campus
Brown & Blond Brownies website

This small bakery, which started out on a smallholding in North Yorkshire in 2010, is now firmly embedded in the heart of Leeds (Wortley) and supplies cafes, restaurants and delicatessens throughout the region and beyond.
Using only the finest ingredients (sourced locally where possible) coupled with an uncompromising attitude to quality drives artisan bakers, George and Lucy, and their team forward to deliver over fifty mouth-watering flavour combinations – from Banoffee to Black Forest, Peanut Butter to Praline and Salted Caramel to Stem Ginger!

Artisan Bakes

Location: Wakefield, West Yorkshire
Served: Selected outlets across campus
Artisan Bakes website

Artisan Bakes are a small team of passionate skilled bakers located in nearby Wakefield, West Yorkshire and have been a regular supplier of cakes to campus for several years.

What makes Artisan bakes taste so good is that everything is crafted by hand, in small batches that are made to order. The ingredients used are sourced as locally as possible – including the fruit that goes into their home-made jams.

Artisan continues to innovate its range with increasing choices for Vegan and Gluten-Free bakes as well as offering healthier options.

 

One World Bakery

Location: Lincolnshire & Holmfirth
Served: All Cafes
One World Bakery website

We are proud to stock a vast range of “One World Bakery” snacks by Bewleys across all of our catering outlets on campus. All handmade in the UK, using fairtrade ingredients and certified sustainable palm oil. The range covers healthier on-the-go snacking including, the Vegan Coconut bites to super indulgent Rocky Road and Billionaire’s Shortbread.

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Our Coffees and Teas

Ever wondered where the coffee beans and tea leaves that go into your GFaL (Great Food at Leeds) drink come from? Well, it’s closer than you think! Every cup of tea and coffee served in our cafes is either Fairtrade or ethically sourced using local suppliers from Yorkshire. We serve over 500 thousand cups of tea and coffee a year, so it’s important that we use the best quality ingredients and support local, sustainable suppliers.

Coffee

 

Darkwoods

Served: Affine, Loma, Loma Express, The Edit Room 
Roasted in: Marsdon, West Yorkshire
Darkwoods.co.uk

Nestled away in the West Yorkshire Pennines, just 25 miles away from campus is Darkwoods coffee merchants, who are one of the first coffee roasters in the UK to be BCorp certified.

Dark Woods use specialty grade coffees, which have cleaner more distinctive flavours and are traceable to skilled farmers and their farms across the world. 

Ian Agnew, Director of dark Woods, is also the director of the Lorna Young Foundation, a small charity that works with farmers in developing countries to help them get more value from what they grow. It was with this foundation that his involvement with coffee began when he helped to set up the Oromo Coffee Company, the world’s first refugee-owned social enterprise coffee company.

 


Bewleys: Coffee Eros

Served: Refectory, Hugo, Café 7, Café Maia, Baines Wing Café, Delivered catering
Roasted: Meltham, West Yorkshire
bewleys.co.uk

Bewleys

Established in 1840, Bewley’s source a large range of triple-certified, 100% Arabica, and Fairtrade coffees. Our cafes only use Bewley’s Fairtrade coffees which are sustainably sourced and roasted in nearby Meltham, West Yorkshire.

Bewley’s grower partner relationships go back years and they visit many of the growers they buy from regularly. As a business, Bewley’s are committed to reducing their environmental impact and actively work on the sustainability of coffee cups, alternative packaging and offsetting carbon emissions.

 

Tea


Canton Teas

Served: Affine, Loma, Loma Express, The Edit Room
cantontea.com/

Canton work hard to make the finest teas available at the fairest prices.  Most of their teas are beyond organic, some are biodynamic – and several are from abandoned tea farms where the plants now grow wild. Others are from ancient tea trees in the forests of Yunnan and Vietnam.


Bewleys: Eros Tea

Served: Refectory, Hugo, Café 7, Café Maia, Baines Wing, Delivered catering
bewleys.co.uk

Bewley’s carefully sources the finest teas based on leaf appearance and infusion qualities such as flavour, colour, strength and briskness. All Eros tea is Fairtrade and organic where possible.

 

 

Get involved!

Join the ‘Choose the World You Want’ online festival with your friends and family.

Follow Great food at Leeds on social media for all the latest posts around Fairtrade Fortnight

#Fairtradefortnight
#Choosetheworldyouwant​

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Fairtrade Fortnight 2021

Great Food at Leeds and Fairtrade

Since 2003 Great Food at Leeds (the University’s catering service), has been responsibly sourcing and selling ethical and Fairtrade products, to use in meals and sell in its cafes.

In 2005 the University of Leeds obtained Fairtrade status and our continued support has helped Yorkshire to be named the first Fairtrade region in the country.

We understand that choosing to back Fairtrade and ethically sourced products is one way we can stand with those vulnerable communities on the front line of the climate crisis.

As a consumer, YOU too have the power to help make a change socially and environmentally on the products you choose to buy.

At Great Food at Leeds, we understand that it is our responsibility to inform our customers about making these choices as well as making sure we provide a good variety of ethically traded products available across all of our cafes.

Fairtrade Fortnight 2021

For two weeks each year at the end of February and start of March, thousands of individuals, companies and groups across the UK come together to share the stories of the people who grow our food and drinks, mine our gold and who grow the cotton in our clothes. People who are often exploited and underpaid. The COVID-19 pandemic has shown us more than ever how interconnected we are globally.

This Fairtrade Fortnight, Great Food at Leeds will be shining the spotlight on the ingredients and suppliers we use and sharing information on how we can all make informed choices when it comes to Fairtrade and ethically sourced products.

Fairtrade and Sustainability

So, how does Fairtrade fit in with sustainability? Ellie, a final year BSc Geography student and one of the Community Reps at LUU writes about this year’s Fairtrade Fortnight theme 2021, and the growing challenges that climate change brings to farmers and workers in the communities Fairtrade works with.

Read Ellie’s blog post here

Get involved!

Follow our social channels below to find out how you can get involved or join the ‘Choose the World You Want’ online festival on the Fairtrade website with your friends and family.

Follow Great food at Leeds on social media for all the latest posts around Fairtrade Fortnight.

#Fairtradefortnight
#Choosetheworldyouwant​

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