Working lunch: Friends of Ham, New Station Street, Leeds
What to expect This Leeds bar and charcuterie is one of the best in the city and it’s within walking distance from the 14.15 to train to London.
What to order You should probably check whether your companion likes meat. Share a meat and cheese board with Italian fennel seed salami, French salami with rum, Beenleigh Blue and Cora Linn, a hard ewe’s milk cheese. Or check out the Nduja spicy spreadable salami.
Book of the week: Toni: My Story by Toni Mascolo, with Stafford Hildred
How does a baby born into a hard-up family on the Italian frontline in 1942 become a papal knight and “hairdresser to the world”? On the surface, this is a rather sugary ghostwritten memoir of Toni Mascolo, who started Toni & Guy with his brother in 1963. However, with the company now running 450 salons in more than 40 countries, it also serves as a fascinating guide to building a brand, multimedia expansion, franchising, exporting and transforming the face (and hair) of customer service.