bye ls1, hello ls3 !

LS3 1JP !

After 5 years spent working real hard in LS1, we’ve found a corner of heaven in our very own neighborhood.

WHAT IS HAPPENING ?

OWT is moving to bigger premises !

WHEN IS THIS HAPPENING ?

Our last service in LS1 Corn Exchange will be Sunday 29th of October.

We are aiming to reopen in our new premises early November (if we work fast enough and our master plan unfolds smoothly).

WHERE IS THIS HAPPENING ?

104 Burley Road, LS3 1JP. We are proud to announce that we are taking over the iconic and beloved Corner Cafe !

WHY IS THIS HAPPENING ?

Thanks to your repeated custom and your enthusiasm, we’ve completely outgrown our current location.

OWT has had a very slow but steady organic growth and we feel ready, after 5 years of serving you brunch, to show you what we have to offer on a friday and saturday night (yes yes evening service it’s happening!).

AN EMOTIONAL NOTE FROM JAMES AND ESTHER !

We started in 2018 in Kirkgate Market because we wanted to have a space of our own to define what hospitality meant to us. It was the 2 of us, we were changing the menu weekly and we were wondering if maybe one day we’d be leaving Fishmongers Row for a place a bit more comfortable (remember the 5-hard-chairs-and-thats-it that we had back then??).

2020 lockdown hit & we decided to use this forced pause as a welcoming break to polish OWT. That’s when we decided to go bigger and moved to Leeds Corn Exchange. We loved our time here. Our super colorful unit, our more refined menus, our wine offering, our team; those past 3 years helped us mature as a business, but also as humans.

5 years older and we feel ready. Ready to take on 60 covers, ready to run a big kitchen, ready to do dinner service.

That’s the thing with OWT. It took us time because we wanted to get it right. We wanted to embrace our definition of hospitality.

When we came across Corner Cafe and the beautiful souls behind it (hello Kate and Karim!) we knew it was it. A building with history in its walls (we like that at OWT!) and a legacy to pursue. Corner Cafe has been loved for over 30 years in LS3 and we feel honored to have been chosen to carry on the task of being Burley Road’s neighborhood restaurant.

Finally - thank you to Leeds Corn Exchange for these successful years, thank you to our team for all your hard work, thank you to Kate and Karim for allowing us to step into their shoes.