Creating a little Simpsons magic at home
Simpsons, I’ve missed you during lockdown. I’ve missed the airy, smart elegance of your restaurant and its relaxed but attentive service. I’ve missed sitting…
Reviews
How to eat a Michelin-starred chef’s food at home during lockdown
Frugality has been a keyword in my kitchen during lockdown – buying whatever ingredients have been available in the shops and making the most…
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,…
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…