This is one of Birmingham’s crowning glories
Regrets? I’ve had a few, but then again too few to mention. Apart from failing to finish the chips served to me at the…
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This place shows the way to succeed is to offer quality
There’s a tightrope that restaurants walk when they offer Sunday lunch. How do they stand out from the crowd in such a crowded and…
Now this is a VERY interesting new place
There are some things that are beyond the forgiveness even of one as saintly as I. Supporting Aston Villa is among them. Being Boris…
So cheeky….
Consider the humble pig cheek. It spends its time snuffling in mud and muck as the swine scavenges for food in a way we…
Here’s what happened when the girls took over Simpsons
Think of the big hitters in Birmingham’s flourishing culinary scene and the names that are likely to spring to mind will be those of…
The world needs more baked cheese
Tartiflette is one of the world’s great evils, tainting the breath with garlic and clogging the arteries with cholesterol. But like many great wrongs,…
Prawns versus oranges… and the oranges won
The second-hand Škoda that I drive seems to have a function that wasn’t mentioned when I bought it almost on a whim a few…
The highs – and lows – of eating out over the past 12 months
Newcomer of the year A close-run race with plenty of newbies adding to Birmingham’s vibrant food scene. But there’s none that I’ve found more…
Brains and Brest and lots of wine – a route to culinary bliss
You won’t find foams or fermentations, powders, prissy presentation, gels or swirling clouds of aromatic dried ice on the dishes at the French House…
Have you tried this great new place?
My ingenuity knows no bounds when it comes to avoiding the Sausage-Scoffing Drunken Zombie Tat-Fest that is otherwise known as Birmingham’s festive German market….