An independent guide to Sheffield’s best-kept secrets
It still has a long way to go, but Sheffield’s reputation as a tourist destination is slowly improving. And as you would expect, there are some traditional guides available to help visitors find out what the city has to offer, as well as advertising campaigns plugging our must-see attractions.
However, the best recommendations often come from people who live in the city and are able to take the time to suss out just where its most cherished treasures are located. Every now and then, a blog post or article pops to pick these out, but they can quite easily get lost in the depths of the internet and finding a definitive list can be difficult.
The good news is that a selection of recommendations have now been collated in a beautiful pocket guide that will appeal to not only visitors to the city, but people who have lived here all their life.
Sheffield – our favourite places book (just £4) has been lovingly put together by local design agency Eleven. Described as an informed travel guide for curious folk, it lists over 50 of the places in Sheffield that they love including restaurants, cafes, pubs, shops, galleries, theatres, walks, parks, gardens and day trips.
As well as the more obvious highlights, I’m sure that there are places listed that even long-time Sheffield residents won’t have yet visited. And what won’t surprise you is that many of their recommendations are for the places that make the city the quirky, creative, independent and imperfect place that so many feel affection for.
Aesthetically, the pocket-sized guide is really pleasing and a far cry from some of the other local publications you can pick up around town. It includes plenty of photos as well as a pull-out map.
The guide’s introductory text admits that Sheffield – our favourite places isn’t trying to be definitive or exhaustive. It is simply an unhyped list of the places in the city that the people at Eleven love.
Pick up a copy of the guide and catch these locations before they become everyone’s favourite places and no longer Sheffield’s best-kept secrets.
See inside and buy Sheffield – our favourite places
Our favourite places - Sheffield
JCom
/ 13 May, 2010Nice design and a good idea. Handy to give out to business clients as well as friends/family visiting Sheffield.
projectsheffield
/ 20 May, 2010Culture without the working class is no culture..
Sheffield is an incredibly warm and characterful city. There are some great places to eat and drink and lots of interesting sights to see… you just need to know where to look…
You know underclassrising.net love Sheffield. We’d like more people to know how great it is too… This why we do what what we..
Eleven is a graphic design consultancy that creates intelligent and effective design solutions for print, web and brand identity.
Our Favorite Places is an independent guide to the best of Sheffield’s cafés, restaurants, bars, shops, galleries, parks and more. Designed by Eleven, a creative team living in the city, Our Favorite Places champions independence, focusing on unique places that can only be found in Sheffield.
Our Favorite Places is 40 pages of 50+ brilliant places – from tiny Victorian theaters to tucked away vintage shops, and from Chinese fondue to the best Italian delis. These are the kind of places that only locals know about.
So that is the blurb, do we need The Middle Class to tell us about this city of culture, In Sheffield, we create, make and take part in culture every day. Culture isn’t something that happens around us.
We make it happen. Together, the people of our city have the passion, skills, venues, programmers and expertise – and most importantly, the ideas and creativity and those people are The Working Class.
Here underclassrising.net have a problem with people like Eleven and the Sheffield City of Culture bid we support with the bid, it is through art and culture we have found a path, but look at sheffield city of culture web pages the images the hype, from four pounds for a book of independent guide to the best of Sheffield’s cafés, restaurants, bars, shops, galleries, parks and more, some are free, others are simply out of the price range of The Working Class of this City and here we make it very clear
Culture with out The Working Class is no Culture..
Art/Culture in this city operates like a symbolic representation of reality.
The act of representing reality or mediating our relation with the world – through an object or product of symbolic art/culture – reinforces the process of reification. The projection of the interior mind onto upon the exterior world produces an expansion of colonising zeal. This zeal, in tun, projects the ego over the other: the external world (nature), and the creatures that inhabit it (human beings, animals, plants, and the soil). The expamsive project of the “I” over nature accelerates the process of reification.
All Art/Culture is id EGO.
If you see Picasso on the road – KILL HIM. When will The Middle Class learn that they speak to nobody but each other? The City of Culture bid needs to involve The Working Class more and we ponder just what is the Our Favorite Places publication about other than just an overpriced gloss..
Ian
/ 13 February, 2011Never been to Sheffield, just flying passed to Harrogate for a conference.