IF YOU get a pang for chips while travelling out to Tamworth via the “back way” from Sutton Coldfield, look out for this shop near to the traffic lights on Watling Street.Read
IT will be three years in January since I last visited this shop, shortly after it had opened. Because Moseley folks are passionate foodies, my return was overdue.Read
FRESH from a very tasteful makeover in February by Pershore-based experts Centreplan Retail Interiors Ltd, Ideal Fish & Chips certainly looks the business the second you walk inside the gleaming shop.Read
CAUGHT up in M6 no-man’s land one sunny evening, I was somehow persuaded by my wife to enter this labyrinthine retail hell-hole in search of light bulbs.Read
ONE OF Birmingham’s most famous chip shops, Bedders of Small Heath, is sensibly still only opening at lunchtimes and at Friday tea time, even though it’s got new owners, the Carrellis.Read
WHETHER you consider it to be Y-Our Plaice or mine, this stand-alone chippy is on the opposite side of a busy junction to a Tesco Express, which looks more like a shed than a palace of food.Read
DRIVING along the M6, I had barely left Birmingham behind when I had a panic attack. Cue an emergency pitstop at the Thunderbirds-style northbound Hilton Park Services ready to refuel... with chips.Read
WALKING back to the REP car park on Saturday afternoon I was just thinking I could devour a bag of chips when, hey presto, The Full Monty Catering Co van loomed large. Fancy that...Read
BRUM’S most consistently recommended chippie is still going strong thanks to the Italian Carrelli family who have taken over from father and son team John and Martyn Bedders.Read
THERE’S a handful of these shops dotted about the city and when you’ve been in one, you begin to appreciate how the red, white and blue go together quite nicely.Read
