Pub Review: The Shakespeare, Lower Temple Street, Birmingham
THE Shakespeare has seen a grand designs style makeover of late, but food-wise it has turned out to be much ado about nothing.
View ArticleRestaurant Review: Cielo, 6 Oozells Square, Brindleyplace B1 2JB. 0121 643 6770.
ITALIAN restaurants have come on by leaps and bounds over recent years.
View ArticlePub Review: Bennetts, 8 Bennetts Hill, Birmingham B2 5RS
LOOKING at this magnicent former bank from the outside, Bennetts should be a diamond destination – perhaps even the first port of call for namesake crooner Tony when he comes over to sing Fly Me To The...
View ArticleA Valentine's dish fit for an Empress
MUMTAJ Mahal seems to have been quite a lucky lady.
View ArticleRestaurant Review: Drop Forge, 6-10 Hockley Street, Hockley B18 6BL. 0121 448...
THERE’S much to like about the Drop Forge, a bar-restaurant that opened last year in Birmingham’s glorious Jewellery Quarter.
View ArticleRestaurant Review: Anderson's Bar and Grill, 30 Mary Ann Street, Birmingham...
ANOTHER chilled Friday evening. Another restaurant situated in a beautiful old building in the Jewellery Quarter.
View ArticlePub Review: All Bar One, Waters Edge, Brindleyplace, B1 2HL. Tel: 0121 644 5861
I SPENT Sunday afternoon driving around listening to the growing excitement of the Blues v Arsenal game on the radio.
View ArticleRestaurant Review: Stirling's Bar and Bistro, 21 Ludgate Hill, Birmingham B3...
THERE are few things that the Queen and I have in common. For a start, I work for a living.
View ArticlePub Review: Bushwackers, 103 Edmund ST, Birmingham B3 2HZ. Tel 0121 236 4994
ACCORDING to folklore ‘there’s no such thing as a free lunch’.
View ArticleRestaurant Review: Amazon Brazil, 197 Broad Street, Birmingham, B15 1AY. 0121...
IT IS perhaps unlikely that diners will ever routinely say “I’m going for a Brazilian”.
View ArticleRestaurant Review: Metro Bar and Grill, 73 Cornwall Street, Birmingham. B3...
IN ALL matters unrelated to my many and various shortcomings as a husband, father and human being, my wife is reluctant to complain.
View ArticleRestaurant Review: Piccolino, 9 Brindleyplace, Birmingham. Tel 0121 634 3055
THERE are certain restaurants that, for me, are default settings – places that readily spring to mind when I want to eat a particular type of food or imbibe a particular sort of atmosphere.
View ArticleRestaurant Review: Edmunds, Six Brindleyplace, Birmingham B1 2JB. 0121 633 4944
ANDY Waters has long been among my favourite chefs.
View ArticleRestaurant Review: Annexe, 220 Corporation St, Birmingham B4 6QB. Tel 0121...
YEARS ago that bit of Corporation Street which joins Steelhouse Lane used to be a bustling sort of place, not least because of the much-missed Hawkins Cafe Bar with its laser show, dry ice, throbbing...
View ArticleRestaurant Review: Bank, 4 Brindleyplace, Birmingham, B1 2JB.
IF THERE’S a Birmingham restaurant menu that ticks more trendy boxes than that at Bank, I’ve yet to encounter it.
View ArticleRestaurant Review: Aria, Hyatt Regency Hotel, 2 Bridge Street, Birmingham B1...
EATING out at lunchtime is a pleasant way to wile away the hours, especially if work doesn’t demand your return after a last hurried mouthful.
View ArticleLight Bite: Rossopomodoro, Selfridges, Upper Mall East, Bullring B5 4BP. Tel...
IF YOU were to award the leading pizza parlours marks out of ten, what would you give them?
View ArticleRestaurant Review: Purnell's, 55 Cornwall Street, Birmingham B3 2DH. 0121 212...
IN THESE cash-strapped times, it’s probably insensitive to describe a £120 lunch for two as a “bargain”.
View ArticleRestaurant Review: Blue Piano, 24-26 Harborne Road, Birmingham B15 3AA.
THE tentacles of that creative powerhouse that is Moseley and Kings Heath appear to be spreading into less advantaged parts of the city.
View ArticleRestaurant Review: Brasserie at Malmaison, The Mailbox, Birmingham B1 1RD....
LOCAL has come to mean ‘good’ in the restaurant world, probably because what was once exotic fare from far away has now become rather familiar and therefore dull.
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