Craft beer to flow at Brum food fair
Beer buffs will be raising their glasses at the Birmingham Independent Food Fair, with a host of craft brewers represented at the event. Sutton…
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Making dough in Brum
French artisan bakery and pâtisserie PAUL opens next month at Birmingham’s newest shopping centre, Grand Central. The brand’s 34th shop will open its doors…
Butchers Social
Some restaurants tick many boxes in that way beloved of corporate marketeers. They offer huge menus that are supposed to offer something for everyone…
Fishy Flowers
Looks good, doesn’t it? Tasted pretty good, too. And it was healthy and cheap. The briefly-fried prawns came from the excellent Pearce’s Shellfish at…
Showcasing Birmingham’s independents
Birmingham Independent Food Fair returns next month – with organisers adding an extra day to take the festival across the weekend of September 12-13….
Michelin chef rejoined by ex-colleague
Richard Turner – chef-patron of Michelin-starred Harborne restaurant Turner’s – has linked up again with his award-winning second in command Tom Wells. Senior sous…
Welcome
Welcome to my new website and thanks for visiting. It’s hard to stop a greedy man eating, difficult to stop a thirsty guy drinking…
Marseille
The concierge minced no words at our modern, pleasant hotel, the Alex, just a stone’s throw from Marseille’s grand railway station, where we’d arrived…
Nosh & Quaff
I’m sitting wearing a plastic bib in a sunny bar with the music of David Bowie blasting out and fingers stickier than those of…
From Garden to Plate
It’s fair to say that I am to gardening what Lee Clarke is to football management. Yet even I, with fingers not so much…