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Kitchen Garden Cafe, York Road, Kings Heath

WHEN a confusion envelops a business’s purpose, disaster generally follows. All the more so if that business involves serving food.Read

Eat what you want when you want it!

A GROUP of young men, smart in their business suits, are eating steak sandwiches, salad and chips in the window seats.Read

The Rectory, St Paul's Square. 0121 605 1001

IS THERE some secret conspiracy to thwart the wishes of those who ask for their steaks to be served rare?Read

Mum of 7 is our romantic winner

WITH seven children, Emma-Louise Finlay jokes that she is no stranger to romance.Read

Chef is spot on at The Vaults

WHEN the England Under-21 football team steps on to the pitch, they are fuelled by the food of Birmingham chef Sean Kyle. Likewise the England ladies’ team.Read

The Bucklemaker, St Paul's Square, Birmingham

THERE’S something attractively reprobative about eating and drinking in a cellar restaurant, especially at lunchtime.Read

La Bastille, 220 Corporation Street. 0121 236 1171

DURING the meal I ate at this city centre establishment, a customer at a nearby table pulled on one of those Scream masks. I understood how she felt.Read

Manoir made me a pasta master

TWICE before I had tried to make my own pasta.Read

Taking the snobbery out of wine tasting

SURROUNDED by bottles and rows of gleaming glasses, Rob Price is a man with a mission...to take the snobbery out of wine.Read

Edmunds, Brindleyplace, Birmingham. 0121 633 4944

THERE came a time during my meal at this newly opened restaurant that I didn't know whether I was about to glaze over ecstatically like Homer Simpson during one of his doughnut moments or would begin uttering the sort of noises made by Meg Ryan in that embarrassing cafe scene in When Harry Met Sally.Read

Great British Eatery, 13 Broadway Plaza, Edgbaston

OPENING the lid of the recyclable cardboard tray in which my fish and chips were served, I was enveloped by an aroma that took me back to childhood.Read

Cookery lessons are revolutionary

IN FRANCE it's common for restaurants to be owned by their chefs. Less so in this country where chain eateries dominate our high streets.Read

Syriana, 1-7 Constitution Hill, Birmingham. 0121 236 9444

TABOULEH too often proves to be a miserable dish in this country - a stodgy mass of bulghur wheat with a few tired leaves of parsley or mint.Read

Vibrant market has a taste for the east

HANDS up who knows what the wonderfully named Pancit Luglug might be.Read

Quality ingredients are king of the plate

CHEF Chris Duffy is a fairly laid back sort of guy...until he brings out a selection of the ingredients he gets to work with at the Radisson hotel's Filini restaurant.Read

The Oriental, 128 Wharfside Street, Mailbox.

WITH dishes from across the Far East, the aptly-named Oriental sets itself a tough target.Read

Best of British fish and chips

IT WAS one of those conversations that friends have when they sit down for a drink. One of those discussions that rarely come to any conclusion.Read

Jojolapa, 55-59 Newhall Street, Birmingham.

NEVER having trekked through the Himalayas to Nepal, I've no idea if the food at this city centre Nepalese curry house is authentic.Read

Dream gives couple a taste of the good life

IT'S a dream that many people have - opening a stylish cafe in beautiful premises.Read

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