Whenever I grow weary of Michelin-starred places…
Whenever I fall a bit out of love with Michelin-starred restaurants, a visit to Simpsons helps to revive my flagging passion. Here’s a restaurant…
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Michelin-starred vegan food
Simpsons in Edgbaston has been ranked in the Big 7 Travel top 50 vegan restaurants in the world. The Big 7 Top 50 list…
This dish is an absolute bargain
Cheap isn’t necessarily good. Cheap can be expensive if the purchase turns out to be unsatisfactory. But that was far from the case with…
Have you heard about this new local independent gem?
In a month when a national pizza chain opened amid a hullabaloo of publicity a branch in Birmingham city centre, quietly an independent pizza…
Here’s a BBQ and gin festival heading to Birmingham soon
Meat will be sizzling and gin will be supped when a Birmingham food and drink festival returns for its third year later this month….
Ugly but beautiful and worth the trip
It’s certainly not the prettiest dish I’ve ever eaten. Nor is the menu description the most lavish: “Lentils stewed in duck broth with foie…
Here’s an afternoon tea with a real difference
Award-winning Wing Wah restaurant has joined forces with cocktail maestro Robert Wood to create Birmingham’s most exotic afternoon tea. Wing Wah, situated in the…
Fancy trying a Michelin-starred chef’s food along with a few beers?
A Michelin-starred chef will be rustling up food at Birmingham’s Beer Central Festival this summer. Brad Carter, chef-patron at Carters of Moseley, will will…
French food as it should be
Soup is seldom a starter I order in a restaurant for it rarely rises above something that a half-competent home cook could rustle up…
A menu of old favourites at a great price
The mackerel might look beautiful served almost raw, its silver skinned charred by a blowtorch and its flesh pearly white and firm. And there’s…