Friends Of Ham

Tonight we welcome the rather fabulous @unitybrewingco to FOH for a rather delicious tap takeover featuring these tasty drops.
Come drink!
#unitybrewingco #leeds #belgianbeers #taptakeover

Tomorrow we're teaming up with the amazing guys from CAST to bring you an evening of fizz, cheese & charcuterie and a chance to make your very own bespoke piece of 925 silver jewellery 😍 💫 There's still a few tickets left, link below! https://www.experiencecast.com/…/cast-x -friends-of-ham-lee…/

Getting ready for our 6th birthday bash tonight!
Hopefully see you at the bar!
5 or 6 birthday brews will be getting their first pour anywhere (Dependent on if Gaz from @gibberishbrewing makes it over or not!)
... Other brews from @donzokobeer @unitybrewingco @trackbrewingco @ridgesidebrewery & @wanderbeyondbrewing
#birthday #friendsofham #six #craftbeer #leeds
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Six years ago to the day we opened FoH in Leeds and the Fram Journey began with Kitch and Claire at the helm. We’ve had some amazing members of Team Ham over the years, many going on to bigger and better things and we’ve got Baby Jasper added to the team now too 👶 Our customers are some of the best in the land too, some even travelling from afar especially to visit us! Due to a little football tournament we’ve decided to postpone the party to this Thursday instead - we’ll be... putting on our birthday brews during the day, big thanks to Donzoko Brewing Company Unity Brewing Co Gibberish Brewpub Wander Beyond Brewing Track Brewing Co. Ridgeside Brewing Co We’ll have plenty of balloons, fun, frolics, delicious cake from Copper Spoon Cakery and from 7pm we’ll have live music from HAILBAILS Who’s coming? Trot On!
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To celebrate working with Unity Brewing from Southampton we're holding a tap takeover showcasing six of their keg beers including Vignette our collab brewed for our 6th Birthday. We'll have a couple of the guys up from the brewery for the evening to chat and drink beer!
Full beer list: Vignette - Biere Brut 7.4% Fresco - Summer Belgian IPA 6%... Ete - Elderflower Saison 6% Congregate - Belgian Pale 4.2% Centenaire - Quadruple 12%
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Next Thursday we'll be celebrating six years in Leeds with six birthday brews, delicious cake, great banter and live music (from 7pm) from the HAILBAILS
Trot On!

Create bespoke jewellery. Do so over wine and charcuterie. Any good or what!
Tuesday 24 July 7 - 10pm £65 (for this you get an evening out, food, and a piece of jewellery to wear)
... Who or What is CAST?
CAST is a jewellery making experience. We provide guests with an unparalleled opportunity to both design and create bespoke jewellery pieces, at public and private CAST events. Bespoke pieces; rings, earrings, pendants, broaches and cufflinks, are first crafted (by you) at an event, and cast by us at our Sheffield workshop in Gold, Silver and Platinum. We finish each piece by hand, and return to spec, within 2 weeks!
To complement, we combine the making process with an exciting space and equally exciting menu. Why? Because we wanted, when we launched the company, to re-imagine the workshop environment. Wax carving and jewellery design, take place in workshops and studios in pockets all over the world. That said, that process, the theatre, is wasted in a dusty old workshop. This process can now be enjoyed in some of the world’s most iconic and exciting spaces!
Tickets now available online https://www.experiencecast.com/…/cast-x -friends-of-ham-lee…/
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So apparently there’s a game on today....
If you’re football inclined head up to @luckynumber7leeds to watch the game.
If your not, we’ll keep you cool in FOH!
... #worldcup #craftbeer #england
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If Carlsberg did brewdays..... oh wait...
Midday start, 3 hour mash while they had lunch and a few beers, 8.30pm finish.
Kitch and Gaz doing it right @gibberishbrewing - Elderflower Tripel anyone?
... See you On he 12th July for our party. Trot On!
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Just arrived in Liverpool for the last of our birthday brew days @gibberishbrewing
#hamis6 #brewday #liverpool

You may have noticed we have been playing around with our wine list and specials list over the last month or so, having been inspired by the amazing wines we stocked at (now sadly no more)Ham & Friends. Over the next month or so we'll be getting in some fantastic new wines to our main list and we'll be getting in brand new specials and magnums every week for your delectation.
In celebration we've re-started up our monthly Wine Club with Josh and Kitch at the helm. Starting n...ext Wednesday at 7.30pm - tickets are £20 each and you will definitely leave feeling sated and merry.
Available on our website www.friendsofham.com/events/
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Bullseye! 🎯
It’s the LN7 darts league tonight from 7pm.
Come on down if you fancy throwing a few arrows with like-minded folk.
... Open from 4pm today for the Poland v Senegal game. 🇵🇱 🇸🇳 ⚽️ 🏆
#darts #leeds #pub #craftbeer #worldcup
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Our new monthly wine tasting

We have been showcasing a lot of new minimal intervention wines on our Specials list over the last couple of weeks - and boy have they gone down so well we've struggled to keep the lists updated at times.
So we thought we'd start back up our monthly Ham Wines club to give us the opportunity to provide you with a laid back evening to enjoy some of the more eclectic wines we've been getting in with a little bit of banter from our resident wine lover Josh.
Tickets are £20 and include a lot of wine to keep you going through the evening.

To celebrate our 6th birthday we're busy this June brewing six birthday beers with Track, Unity, Wander Beyond, Donzoko, Gibberish and Ridgeside. We'll have them all on plus more besides all day on the 12th (our actual birthday is on the 10th but you know there's two quite big football matches getting in the way!). We'll obviously have cake and live music and many many balloons. Trot On!
A little info on the beers:
FOH X Wander Beyond - Imperial Smoked Baltic Porter
... FOH X Track - Juicy IPA
FOH X Unity - Hallertau Blanc Oaked Bier Brut
FOH X Donzoko - DDH Hefeweizen with Lemon
FOH X Ridgeside - Melon Gose
FOH X Gibberish Brew Pub - Belgian Tripel
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We're hiring for our kitchen team.........and who wouldn't want to work with Charcuterie and Cheese all day when it looks like this?
More deatils on our website www.friendsofham.com/jobs/
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We are currently looking for talented interested individuals to join our Kitchen Team at Leeds.
This isn't your average kitchen job and you don't need to know technical cooking techniques - what's most important if product and the care and attention you give it.
We spend a lot of time getting the best tasting ingredients on our menu - we only do two things and we think we do them pretty bloody well - Charcuterie and Cheese.
... They are carefully and lovingly produced then carefully stored by our suppliers. At Friends of Ham we have certain ways of storing and serving our produce meaning our charcuterie and cheese in the best possible way.
This isn't your average kitchen job and you don't need to know technical cooking terms - full and part time positions are available.
Passion and a willingness to learn are the most important traits we are looking for. You must be a hardworking, reliable, trustworthy, mature individual who will go the extra mile, happily chat to customers, take the initiative and will always find something for yourself to do.
Previous kitchen experience is a definite plus and a yearning to come up with new dish ideas and specials would be a real perk - we love getting the kitchen team involved in menu development.
Supervisor/Management levels do need experience and must have managed busy shifts, managed a team, and are up to scratch with recent food hygiene and allergy paperwork requirements.
You must be presentable and happy to be customer facing - this is an open kitchen where we expect you to serve the customers sat on our Ham Bar. The big benefit of this is you are in a kitchen with natural light that is in the thick of our service, not tucked away in a stuffy basement somewhere.
If you think our kitchen is for you please email your CV and a covering letter to jobs@friendsofham.com
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Exciting part of Monday is ordering new toys, sad part of Monday is letting you know we've had to cancel Brunch Babies tomorrow and here's why
Exciting part of Monday is ordering new toys, sad part of Monday is letting you know we've had to cancel Brunch Babies tomorrow and here's why:ordering new equipment for Leeds and thought Amazon could work delivery miracles, unfortunately not this time and the items won't be here in time. We will be cancelling tomorrow's BB while we wait the brand new shiny toys and mats to arrive. Any suggestions on things you would like to see: always welcome..... We'll be back on Sunday 10th June. Trot On!

What a great little pub! Lovely atmosphere. Didn’t eat there but the food coming out for other customers looked very nice. Nicely presented too.

Went here yesterday with my hubby and ten of our friends for his 40th birthday , we were well looked after, was lovely room downstairs and the he good was enjoyed by us all! Thankyou

The best real ale bar in Leeds! Staff have great knowledge of the products they sell and the food is gorgeous, will definately be back!

Samurai Chardonnay goes really well with the Italian meat platter. Always have good food and service when I go here.

Really enjoyed our first visit and will definitely return. After a busy day shopping we wanted somewhere chilled to eat and FOH was that and more. We didn’t book but got a comfy seat straight away and we’re looked after very well by the staff. Food and wine was great and the staff were really helpful with giving advice about what would go best with the food. Lovely evening spent- thank you!

My friend and I visited The Friends of Ham on 9/10/17. The cheese plate along with the Iberian ham and Bath Shapes were amazing. Add a couple of fine pints of ale for a memorable lunch experience. Great concept and service! We will be back!

My 'go to' place in Leeds !



As ever, sampled the delights of beer/wine and a mixed platter of meat and cheese ...



.... yum yum

Lovely place with a good selection of drinks! Service is also very good would highly recommend it 🍻👍

Lovely bar restaurant situated near the main railway station. Love the hanging hams! The food looks great but we were only in for the beer. Mary Ann is dead is a pretty special porter. Was this named after Mary Ann Cotton, Britain's first female serial killer, by any chance? I'd love to know!! Anyway great drink....loved the bar, we'll be back...

Love the chilled atmosphere, the quirky interior and its fab to have waiter/Ress service to your table ordering lovely plates of food, loving the British charcuterie; great that you’re supporting it

I visited 'Friends of Ham' in Leeds with my family, and i loved it. I ordered Eggs royale off the brunch menu and i absolutely loved it! It was delicious, and i would definitely visit this little pub again.

Had a great couple of unplanned hours here. Fab food/drink/atmosphere and very attentive staff. Would definitely recommend and will be back.

Good atmosphere, great Ale, fabulous food... and the best meats I have ever tasted in the UK this is another level. Staff are really knowledgeable about the good and understand it they know what to pair with what to bring out the best in the taste. Dan carved the Serrano and Iberico hams into wafer thin slices to get the best from the meat. All staff were so knowledgeable about the meats cheese and Ale they sold. It's a true gem and a foodie paradise... an oasis of taste in a world of bland chainstore food.

Marvellous fabulous and well worth a trip.

Fantastic staff, fantastic food and fantastic beer! This is an exceptional place to go and within 30 seconds from the station.



A very good and varied selection of ales and the meat and cheese selection is to die for!!



I fully recommend this place as a lot of love is poured into this and the passion of the staff to deliver great service and good quality food and drink makes me travel from m Birmingham to Leeds just to go here, that's how much I like it!



Trust me, you won't be disappointed 😀😀

Fabulous meats and cheese to die for with great breads..even the apple and kale sakad was delisch...oh and the beers! Good range of quality real ales. All this in a relaxed atmosphere with happy friendly staff.

#PERFECT

Brilliant staff, awesone food and great drink, great place to relax.

We usually come here every Sunday and love it. Live music, great wine, great cheese board and amazing potato salad. On this occasion we came on a Tuesday and although it was still great but there were a few things I have to express. So we ordered what we usually have which is stated above. The potato salad came but not as it usually would but with just around 5 potatoes with a bit of dressing and very minimal salad, when we asked why it was different we got told by the young lady that served us that it had changed which is fair enough but why change something that was spectacular to something that was just average? Anyway the cheese board came with only 3 cheeses which is usually 5 not sure if this has changed also? The young lady that served us was actually quite rude when my friend was asking what else he could have as he didn’t like cheese, after a few suggestions which he didn’t fancy the sound of she said quite abruptly well tell me what you do like then but with quite a bit of attitude then walked away shaking her head then a different lady came over to suggest something straight after I know everyone has their bad days but throughout the whole experience on this occasion this young lady really let the side down on customer service. On the plus side the young lad with the baby face with a bit of a beard in the black t shirt came over and was very helpful with recommendations and was actually very charming and cute in the way he presented him self. We will continue to visit as this is our favourite place to chill out on a Sunday and each time spend £100+ but please please please get the old potato salad back it was amazing!!

Very disappointed with the service, 3 pieces of cheese at £13 for the cheese board, complained to the management who didn’t show, very rude will not be going again, ruined a very nice day out in Leeds

STAY WELL CLEAR!!!!

ABUSIVE STAFF!!



Not one for posting bad reviews publicly online but after my private massages have been ignored I want to warn everyone to stay clear.



After having a lovely night with family, I left in absolute disgust at the way a member of staff had spoke to me.

My mum nocked a glass over & on the way out she apologised twice to a lady with dark brown hair stood at the front desk who then didn’t even look up & acknowledge her & said under her breath “it’s ok” -which I replied please can you look at her when your speaking.

I found it incredibly rude that she couldn’t even be bother to look up at her & reply in a polite manner.

She clearly didn’t hear me but then felt the need to follow me out to the street where we were waiting for a taxi & began to be extremely confrontational, shout in the middle of the street & accused us of not paying!

Absolutely disgusting, I have never come across such an argumentative member of staff in my life.



I’m a very understanding person & know everyone is human & can have a bad day but that is beyond a joke!