Here’s a way to enjoy restaurant quality food at home
Home-cooking has taken on a new feel during these locked-down days. We make do with tired vegetables that have been languishing in the fridge,…
Reviews
No gnawing doubts about the High Field’s new menu
Gnawing on a bone should surely be enshrined as a basic entitlement in human rights legislation. Few eating experiences match the pleasure of finding…
Have you discovered this proper pub in the city centre?
There was a time when the Bull was popular with journalists from the old Birmingham & Mail headquarters in Colmore Circus. This was mainly…
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…
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…
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….
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…