The Pint Shop – does it live up to the hype?
The Kinks’ most snidey hit, Dedicated Follower of Fashion, seemed an appropriate song to be playing as the last remnants of beef brisket disappeared…
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Your chance to win tickets to a great wine event
Here’s your chance to win tickets for Birmingham’s fantastic Love Wine Festival. The annual event takes place on Saturday November 10 at the Burlington…
What the world needs is more baked beans
Would the world be bearable without kimchi? Quite probably. Tolerable without quinoa, sushi, foie gras or fillet steak? You bet. Without Heinz Baked Beans?…
The top chefs who gathered to celebrate a special anniversary
For Birmingham food fanatics like me, Simpsons holds a very special place. When the restaurant earned a Michelin star in modest premises in Kenilworth…
What’s plump and tasty and coming to Digbeth?
Birmingham is hosting the UK’s first international dumpling festival. Local events group Taste and Liquor will stage the festival at Boxxed in Digbeth on…
Check out this vegan feast heading to Birmingham
Birmingham’s High Field Studio is teaming up with a leading vegetarian chef for a special Far Eastern-inspired dinner this month. For one night only…
Tom Kerridge is heading to Birmingham to cook at a special Simpsons birthday dinner
Tom Kerridge and other culinary stars are lining up to help Birmingham’s Simpsons restaurant celebrate 25 years in business. Two very special dinners are…
Is this the best takeaway food in Birmingham?
Show me a kitchen without a drawer overflowing with cleaned-out plastic containers that once held takeaway curries and I’ll show you a householder who…
Here’s how you can learn to cook Caribbean classics
Birmingham’s first Caribbean cookery school has opened. The Tan Rosie Foods Cookery School is the brainchild of mother and daughter combo Lee and Monica…
Two famous restaurants – but only one great meal
They lay pale and forlorn in a bowl, some clinging together and impossible to separate as though they were ashamed to face the world….