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Paul Fulford

Enjoy Rachel Allen's taste of home

RecipesRead

Paul Fulford

We’ve got every reason to be proud

OK, FOLKS, here’s the deal to help re-establish Birmingham’s tattered reputation among the self-styled opinion-formers of the south.Read

Bordesley Green man and three others jailed over dog-fighting syndicate

A BIRMINGHAM man and three other people were jailed for their part in one of Europe’s largest dog-fighting syndicates.Read

Restaurant Review: Love's Restaurant, Canal Square, Browning Street, Birmingham. Tel: 454 5151.

STEVE Love is a chef with a fine pedigree, having worked with such culinary luminaries as Alan Ducasse, Claude Bosi and Gary Jones.Read

Saffron restaurant in Oldbury is a delicious blend of East and West

HAVING just returned from a fortnight in India eating nothing but curries, I must admit the thought of an evening sampling Indian cuisine didn’t fill me with excitement.Read

Paul Fulford

Sometimes swearing is just plain wrong, mum

WORDS more colourful than “crikey” and “blooming heck” have been known to pass my lips, as would be the case with many journalists.Read

New restaurant hoping to bite back against economic woes

Birmingham's top five Indian restaurants

Birmingham Mail food writer Paul Fulford picks his top five indian restaurants for a classy curryRead

Restaurant Review: Shapla, 173A Stratford Road, Shirley, Solihull. 0121 733 2864.

THE shopping precinct in which Shapla is situated is one of those horrible concrete constructions that so marr Birmingham’s outer edges.Read

The Glass Lounge, Fort Dunlop, Erdington

TIMES have changed since we journalists scuttled off into dark, smoky pubs at lunchtime to knock back a few pints of bitter and scoff the occasional packet of pork scratchings.Read

Hacks bid farewell to the dark ages at Fort Dunlop's Glass Lounge

THE GLASS LOUNGERead

Paul Fulford

Sometimes swearing is just plain wrong, mum

WORDS more colourful than “crikey” and “blooming heck” have been known to pass my lips, as would be the case with many journalists.Read

Henry's Cantonese Restaurant, 27 St Paul’s Square, Birmingham. 0121 200 1136.

CRISPY duck served in Chinese restaurants can be a disappointing thing.Read

Paul Fulford

Ill-mannered brats and their loud parents

SHE had one of those unprepossessing, moon-shaped faces that are as vacant as the boarded-up Woolworths stores in our high streets.Read

La Banca, 1896 Pershore Road, Kings Norton. 0121 459 2204

AFTER a night on the lash, many young Romans go for a bite to eat in much the same way that we Brummies might pop for a balti and naan.Read

Paul Fulford

Mad world of motorists and the malicious

HE STOOD in the middle of the road, eyes bulging, face flushed, arms flailing manically, blocking the path of a car that had screeched round an island and hurling a blue torrent of abuse at the driver.Read

Pascal's, 1 Montague Road, Edgbaston. Tel: 0121 455 0999.

WHAT’S pink, wobbly and utterly irresistible?Read

Tipples that will make the sun shine

RaiseAGlassRead

Paul Fulford

A weighty issue of commercialism

SOME of those who frequent gyms tell me that bitchiness festers in their changing rooms like a unwashed leotard.Read

Piccolino, 9 Brindleyplace, Birmingham. 0121 634 3055.

HERE’S an example of a thoroughly enjoyable meal spoiled by one thing – the bill.Read

Paul Fulford

We can only hope for a better world

TWENTY years after the Berlin Wall fell amid scenes of jubilation, the notion of communism as a system of government is largely dismissed.Read

Author Profile

Paul Fulford is Features Editor and restaurant critic of the Birmingham Mail. He previously worked on the paper's news and sports desks.