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Paul Fulford

Angels of the past are wise

REVISITING past pleasures is seldom a good idea. That pretty girl you had a crush on at school has almost certainly aged into an overweight crone who breathes fire (whereas you, of course, retain your youthful good looks).Read

Restaurant Review: Simpson's Restaurant, 20 Highfield Road, Edgbaston, B15 3DU. Tel: 0121 454 3434.

OCCASIONALLY, just occasionally, there are dishes that delight me almost beyond words, a bit of a problem for a food critic.Read

Paul Fulford

Face facts - we're rubbish

YOU can rage all you like about the need for goal-line technology in football. And I’d agree with you.Read

Paul Fulford

Raise a glass to drinking

THERE might be a few who will raise a disapproving eyebrow and utter a tut-tut when I say that many of the best times I’ve had have been fuelled by drink.Read

Restaurant Review: Cote at The Mailbox, Birmingham B1 1RX. 0121 631 1587.

THE waiter knew a thing or two about flattery and was shameless in its execution.Read

Paul Fulford

My smoking Pype dream

FIRST came the voice, rasping and gasping and broken by a vicious cough.Read

Restuarant Review: Mint, 52 Thornhill Road, Little Aston, B74 3EN. 0121 353 0488.

PITY the scotch egg, too often encountered only at buffets during the sort of weddings at which your sozzled aunt insists on belting out Tammy Wynette’s greatest hits over the karaoke.Read

Restaurant Review: Barnt Green Inn, Kendal End Road, Barnt Green, B45 8PZ. 0121 445 4949.

IT IS a source of pleasure when a restaurant that has previously disappointed is discovered to have improved.Read

Paul Fulford

Sorry, no sympathy for Fergie

THEY were different ages and genders, the elderly man and young woman who sat nattering animatedly on the bus.Read

Paul Fulford

Reminder that cars can kill

DARKNESS has descended over the industrial landscape that surrounds the Birmingham Mail’s offices here at Fort Dunlop, but it’s broken by the piercing headlights of cars whose drone cuts through the stillness of the night.Read

Restaurant Review: The Gallery, Selfridges, Birmingham Bullring

HUNTING for an item of clothing that my wife desperately needed – though she was unsure what it might be – we took respite in the top-floor bar and restaurant of Birmingham’s iconic Selfridges.Read

Paul Fulford

Chugging hell for charity collectors

EVER heard the term “chugger”?Read

Restaurant Review: Sabai Sabai, 25 Woodbridge Road, Moseley. Tel 0121 449 4498.

THAI cuisine, I have to confess, has never been my favourite food.Read

Paul Fulford

If only MPs were like football fans

THE election is over...for now. So let’s get down to the serious business of the year.Read

Restaurant Review: Madras Currys, 445 Dudley Road, Winson Green, B18 4HE. Tel: 0121 555 7750

AS USED as I am to writing from a position of blissful ignorance, even I have to admit I’m struggling a little with this particular review.Read

Restaurant Review: City Cafe, City Inn, 1 Brunswick Square, Brindleyplace, Birmingham. 0121 643 1003

INEVITABLY, the weather took a turn for the worse when City Cafe launched its spring menu – clouds rolling in as a chilly wind blew.Read

Paul Fulford

Beware the bland leading the blind

THIS, of course, wouldn’t apply to any of you who have ever spoken to me on the phone, but there have been times when I’ve been less than complimentary about callers after I’ve hung up.Read

Restaurant Review: Ju Ju's, Canal Square, Browning Street, B16 8EH. Tel: 456 3384.

THEY can pile up food fancily into stacks and decorate it with twirls of this and squiggles of that.Read