Quite probably Birmingham’s best steak
Some restaurants simply know what they’re about. They don’t seek to dazzle with adventurous combinations of ingredients, complicated modernist cooking processes or presentation that…
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This place is an up-and-coming culinary star
At the risk of stating the bleeding obvious, good restaurants are about feeding people well. Yet too often frippery gets in the way, with…
This is what Birmingham lacks
Back through the mists of time, before I’d started school and when we lived our lives solely in monochrome while listening to George Formby…
Here’s the lowdown on Birmingham’s new Dishoom
Here’s what to expect when Bombay café Dishoom opens a new restaurant in Birmingham early next year. Dishoom Birmingham will open in spring and…
Take a look at the changes at this landmark pub
One of Sutton Coldfield’s best known pubs has undergone a major refurbishment. The Royal Hotel is now known as The Townhouse and reopens on…
Vegans no longer seem so weird
Not many years have passed since I mocked vegetarianism in my restaurant reviews, resorting lazily to cliches about its followers and their sandals knitted…
I’m an idiot for not visiting this place sooner
On Saturday morning, I gave myself a good talking to. And, were I not irreversibly opposed to violence of all sorts, I may well…
This place has rediscovered its sparkle
Whitebait and marie rose sauce – a dish straight out of a 1970s cookbook and one that might draw sneers from snooty food lovers….
Top recipes from some top chefs
Ever wondered how to cook dishes like those of Glynn Purnell, Luke Tipping, Adam Stokes or any of those other guys at your favourite…
Here’s the first review of Moseley’s new Peruvian restaurant Chakana
Octopuses are bastards, moodily swaggering around the sea bed avoiding others of their species. And, when they are confined together, it ends up in…