Manjit's Kitchen and Bar
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Vegetarian Punjabi Street Food 🇮🇳 Leeds Kirkgate Market, LS2 7HY 🌶️ 333 Kirkstall Road, Burley, LS4 🍻 Managed by (Dave) a fictional social media intern 🤖
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"Keep your Pxki smells to yourself" shout two young kids as i leave the restaurant to go the shops...... the sadness that this is still a thing grows in my mind .. i get in my car and drive away..... and yes for many reasons the tears come...
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I am planning to do a range of chilled curries to be delivered and reheated at home. These will be offered on a Pay What You Feel basis. We will have a sugested fee but less or more is fine... our aim is to pay our bills. It may work it may not...
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One staff in tears today after the way a customer shouted at her... Don't shout at us.. Don't threaten us with what will you write on review sites... Be nice.. She told me what happened .. i back her 100%... you Sir can get lost and find other lunch options.....
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This is the properry we are taking over on Kirkstall Rd in Leeds. Number 333. Needs loads of work but we should be able to get it back up and cooking... am very very excited and very very frightened...
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Fuck right off leaking these life changing decisions to your press... we in the North deserve better.... you utter twats in Westminster (rarely swear)
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My main aim as social media manager is to create good curry vibes... but whilst i am here..
. We are the NORTH and fuck you Mr Johnson and especially Mr Gove... also tables available Thurs to Saturday... i thankyou
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Mate.. I have seen things at Leeds Market I cannot explain
Astronaut Chris Hadfield has seen ‘things in the sky that he cannot explain’
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Samuel L Jackson is eating a Chilli Panner Wrap and going on about Marvel and asking where Newcastle is…
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@Hopenlesmyth
We are closing early...... i am taking her out for tea and she is having a paid day off tomorrow....
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Remember Hansas?... the first female led kitchen i ever heard of.... 3 of the team from there have found us this year and now work with us..... ace to be able to keep this legacy going in the City....
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My son is looking through my lease on the new place and underlining things... he is now a trainee solicitor.. I fled with him to a safer place many years ago ... I am in tears... life is better....
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A sudden flurry of bookings and takeaways... I feel what you are doing... I feel you are again trying to keep us afloat... it is amazing ....tears.... I will make a new plan for next week 👊🏾👊🏾 ...
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Our kitchens are run by women.. there are a few all female kitchens around so big up to them all 👍🏾👊🏾👏🏾💃
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That day in lockdown when we turned everything round for a Hairy Biker visit and they no showed and nobody returned calls… but it’s all ok cos we are just a tiny business and they are a TV show… and I don’t have any residual anger 👊🏾👊🏾
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I absolutely love living in Leeds… big enough to get stuff done, but small enough to be a community … amazing place… we are blessed here…
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Job Done.... and our plan for next week ...
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10 Years of Manjit’s Kitchen .. Birthday celebrations commenced today…. 👊🏾👊🏾🍺🔥.
#ManjitsTen
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We have done payroll... all staff paid.. and at home safe.. Takeaway has eased the cashflow issue.... 👊🏾
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I know it's not major economics... but we have managed to create 3 jobs at Kirkstall Rd...
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It is the anniversary of our wedding today 👊🏾 Married at Leeds Town Hall, then to Create for a meal, then to TJ’s for a party 👊🏾👊🏾🙏🏾
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All good this morning for us on Kirkstall Road. 🤞
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Tonight we did 9 deliveries TO THE SAME STREET .. a street about 5 minutes walk from our restaurant.. the street planned this in their WhatsApp Group ... social casual dining... at home in lockdown... or something like that.....
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Weird phone calls, bookings made & cancelled 5 minutes later, takeaways ordered by phone & not collected, flurries of One star Google reviews, we are tightening up, if you are coming for me.,I am ready… otherwise just focus on ya own thing… and we all stay happy.. 👊🏾👍🏾👊🏾👍🏾
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And no.. your other local curry houses don’t tweet about the menopause…. Cos none of them are owned and run by women.. or “female led” as we say in the media
#ffs
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i tweeted this a few years ago and got much hassle and negative messages about the description ... but i say it again with renewed vigour and confidence...
I am an independent - brown skinned, female owned business - give us a RT to help us compete with the big boys.
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One of our team after the longest journey .. finally got her British passport today… we are all eating the biggest cake and I am having a gin
#thisisengland
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Working on the "Tier 3 Meal Deal"
1 onion Bhaji
8 pints of lager
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And as night follows day … whenever I get a bit political… I get messages to go back home…. And so mates my Uber up Chapeltown Rd to Brackenwood is en route 👍🏾👊🏾
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We have made the decision to close both our sites until further notice.
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Tough day... have had to let two staff go.. The numbers not adding up... I managed to get us all to here from Lockdown... but.. am sorry... Fuck this Virus.....
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I wouldn’t be an Indian mother if I didn’t tell you my son has his first law job after all the years of training, the lockdown pause, loads of interviews... he has done it...
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I shouldn't really announce this yet.. .. but you know me...the property we are very close to signing a lease on is on Kirkstall Road...
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Rashford is doing all he can to get into a Bielsa side.. got to admire the mans ambition
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Sending two staff to an awards dinner as they did all the work... they are both in total fear of us winning in case they get called up on stage.. i have reassured them we wont win... .... i have never wanted to win an award more... ! Will keep you posted...
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First week on Uber Eats .. the drivers are completely stunned that Mr Manjit is Me and is in fact a Mrs 👊🏿
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"I didn't realise it was a vegy place... what a bunch of Cxnts".... shouts one young man as he leaves...... the finest compliment we have had... we are indeed.... if you are looking for a collective description of us... we embrace that xxx
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Yes..well chuffed... we built a kitchen from scratch and put all the processess in place for a 5 star at Kirkstall Rd.... Merry Christmas...
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It is not much fun asking if people have a mask ….. most are fine… but I have had some run ins today that have done me in……if you are in any doubt I AM NOT CHRIS WHITTY… I am just doing what the law says and trying to keep a business afloat…. Back Next Week 👊🏾
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It is back .. left in a bag at the rear door.. Alls well that ends well … 👊🏾👊🏾👍🏾👍🏾
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Today marks 3 years since we opened the cafe at Leeds Market. Massive thanks to all our staff and customers along the way.. Thankyou and Happy Birthday to us ... 👊
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Second one of these this month at the restaurant
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Takeaway finished for today.. plan is to do it again next ..Fri Sat and Sunday...i need to take a few days to rest.. like many i am pretty broken inside.. keep safe.. keep a smile
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As if ...we opened a restaurant and have survived until Christmas.. everybody paid..... love and respect to all who have dropped into Kirkstall Rd... back 27/28/29th... Peace out x
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We are still here & open. We have
1 Increased cleaning and sanitising schedules
2 Removed communal cutlery from tables
3 Held staff meetings & training
4 Are exploring delivery as a means of keeping the business going
5 Planning for a temporary closure scenario
Keep safe x
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Takeaway/collect from Kirkstall Rd tomorrow from 2pm
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We have a ritual. A lady used to come to the restaurant with her husband. He passed away 2years ago.. She always books a table before we open and we cook, serve & raise a glass… We did it today for the last time…..she is happy for me to let you know about this..
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I was anxious that if i spoke up, it would show Leeds in a bad light... i did and then then look what happened...
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In 5 months.... 2 near floods and now a pandemic..... restaurants are a little bit harder than i anticipated......
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A chap phoned me at 6.45am this morning to book a table.. I was kinda fuming as I was asleep ! ..Turns out he was in another country then..got his times wrong.. has landed in Leeds. Is the nicest customer ever !! Drinking loads eating loads… here for for Leeds V Chelsea…. 👊🏾👊🏾
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In hospitality we are surrounded by booze. & often need to redefine our relationship to it.. Michael is 8 months sober this week..& we are very proud of that. We look forward to a booze free Christmas. It’s not all about the booze.. Happy Christmas. 👊🏾👍🏾x
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My Diwali lights are burning bright on Kirkstall Road...
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WOOOOO! Guys we just hit our
@kickstarter
goal! Thank you all so so much! We can't believe it!! (This is
@turtleandstudio
BTW) Manjit will post her personal thanks asap!
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Its alright to just have a filthy chip butty mid service innit ? .....
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ANNOUNCEMENT - I have just signed a lease to open a cafe in Leeds Kirkgate Market.
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We have sort of arrived on Kirkstall Rd .....
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we did this again. It was the most beautiful experience. Spiritual. I asked if I could share this story and she said please do. Restaurants are about more than food. To all our customers we wish you a Happy Christmas
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Busiest week across both sites since we started trading … Started from the bottom now we here….. am so chuffed we managed to hold onto our team…. 👊🏾👍🏾👊🏾
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It will soon be 10 years since I set up Manjit’s Kitchen from my home kitchen with £200 … we are planning a few things to celebrate/cope/understand the moment in time …..
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Not quite the 1st Birthday we imagined.. but we got here.. nice vibes tonight.. we Thankyou
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Spent the day making canapés… am now at a gallery….
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There was stint tonight when everyone in the kitchen /FOH and every customer was female ..The whole place was woman.. .. I very nearly put my Disco playlist on.. shut the door and called a lock in 💃
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I totally get it’s ok to not be ok.. but also it’s ok to be ok.. and today has been ace.. and I feel good today.. so am sharing that too 👊🏾👍🏾👍🏾
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We see you.. with your repeat orders.. with putting nice stuff on social media. With your smile behind your masks. With big tips. With an ask of how we are.. with ordering the whole menu.. with a wave as you go....we see you... xx
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Only one person called us "cxnts working for the government" today whilst trying to explain the test and trace system we have in place.... only one... the rest of you were MAGNIFICENT .... five stars....
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We done another 12 months at Kirkstall Road… Thankyou if you joined in.. Gonna rest now.. and come back better in 2022 .. love peace respect 🎄👍🏾👊🏾❤️🌲
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Interviewing today.. why did you leave your last place? … “Because it was awful and they treated me like shit” …… she starts us next week 👊🏾👍🏾
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Me and Michael sat in my empty restaurant eating leftovers for tea.... whilst a man bangs on the window saying he is going to report us because restaurants shouldn't be open yet..... i just stared him out...
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Many years ago on this day... we were married ..... taking a picnic to Fewston reservoir for a walk....
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Everyone and everything paid, VAT, Rent, service charge, wages, COVID loan, suppliers, me. Can go into 2024 with a clean sheet. Thankyou everybody. We got there.. 👊🏾
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After looking at all sides of the argument... i definitely think it is better to feed children...
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We have a customer who used to visit the restaurant with her husband. Sadly he passed away this year. She now comes to the restaurant on her own, 1 hour before we open. Orders wine, food and we run the restaurant as usual. Tonight on Christmas Eve 1 hour before we opened
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Woke up feeling like packing it all in... sun came out.. got some supplies for Kirkstall delivered... here now sorting this weekends menu and feeling better.... quite a journey this....
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Don’t slap any of our team on their behinds to get their attention.. should this happen again we will appear from the kitchen with more effing chilli powder than you can handle…..
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So.. today.. a pub in Leeds chanted "she's one of our own..she's one of our own ... Manjit's Kitchen is one of our own " the strangest..most brilliant experience 💓
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Our Mum Irene passed away today. Things will run as normal this week. But then we will take some time/days with our family. We will keep you all posted. Thankyou Manjit & Michael
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Just over 12 months ago we hit send by accident on a Kickstarter campaign to try open a new place in Leeds.. tonight we welcome the first group of Kickstarter backers to that place....
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You all know this.. and I mention it from time to time.. but I fled a violent relationship.. I am lucky to be alive.. my recent success sits against this backdrop....there are ways out and through to the other side...
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We have now managed to create 5 jobs & me at the cafe
@LeedsMarkets
.. all women who were not working before here..
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Last day of my 40’s today... tomorrow I start a new decade..... looking ahead looking forward... 👊🏾
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A female team... working late at night in catering.. safety getting home has always been an issue... we factor in taxis, lifts, texts when home... Some women don’t want to work at night.... I had forgotten how normalised this fear is....
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The shift of the camera lens towards immigration.. towards the boats.... i can't help thinking Cummings and a room of men in suits and Priti are orchestrating this... anyways... we sell food and it is 50% off at the moment
#bastards
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I had dream last night I failed all my exams... (never took any) .. but I failed everyone... I sat at a desk and could not answer any questions.... I woke from that... and jumped into a day... we have a plan.... we are going for it....... we ain’t fucking done yet.... xxx
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Ok... we are not taking anymore orders today.. BLESSED BY YOUR SUPPORT.... Back tomorrow.. x
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Hi new students to Leeds... come find us... we don't have a marketing budget... but we will sort you on the food front and make it harder for you to leave Leeds in the end x
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Maybe this is weird... but tonight i walked into my own restaurant.. sat on my own.. ordered food.. paid the bill.. and then got a taxi home ...with a proud tear in my eye.... staff are great x
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Meeting a landlord with an empty property today and looking at a pub with an empty kitchen……. Am planning some time off but the looking process starts today 👊🏾👍🏾
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Report back from our very own Deliver Who driver M
1 some people are in tears
2 the roads are empty but people are driving like Lewis Hamilton
3 we need to join uber eats or summat
4 People wave and are well chuffed especially when we get beers to them
5 can i have a beer now.
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