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This week's best buys.Read

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Cocktail of the Week

Here’s a toddy to serve up after the carol singing!Read

Avoiding a festive drinks disaster

IT’S hard enough to turn out a delicious festive bird with all the trimmings without having to agonise over what drinks to serve up with it.Read

Frankfurt Market, Victoria Square, Birmingham

Question: When does eating chips force you to practice your maths?Read

The Fat Cat, 165 High Street, Solihull, 0121 704 9136

HERE’S the difficulty: The Fat Cat sees itself as a fine dining establishment and doesn’t quite hit the target. But despite that, I actually enjoyed the food a great deal.Read

Ingredient of the Week

Winter is the time to make the most of preserved ingredients, such as dried borlotti beans, which make great ballast for cold days.Read

A taste of the farm in Brum

It’s been a whirlwind few weeks for celebrity pig breeder Jimmy Doherty, best known as the star of the BBC TV show Jimmy’s Farm.Read

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This week's best buys.Read

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Cocktail of the Week: Yuletini

This week's cocktail of the week.Read

End era in style with fizz

CHAMPAGNE sales may well have taken a hit in these tough financial times but the corks are still likely to be popping at Christmas-time.Read

The Dog and Doublet, Dog Lane, Bodymoor Heath

THE best time to visit this Grade II listed pub would clearly be on a fine summer’s day when you could (a) see the Birmingham and Fazeley Canal running alongside and (b) even the pub itself.Read

Steve's Fish & Chips, 35a Lower Gungate, Tamworth

IF YOU visit Tamworth SnowDome’s impressive Winter Wonderland like we did, why not go chip chomping on your way home?Read

Maharaja, 23-25 Hurst Street, Birmingham, 0121 622 2641

NEARLY four decades after opening, Birmingham’s venerable Maharaja has undergone a bit of a transformation.Read

Ingredient of the Week

Of all the little oranges (collectively known as mandarins) that appear at this time of year, clementines have the best, most intense flavour – and are less likely than most to contain pips.Read

Alan's a cut above

THERE are few small towns with a bigger culinary reputation than Ludlow.Read

Cheap as Chips: Westley Fish Bar, Westley Road, Acocks Green

THE grubby finger prints on the front window below a broken shop fascia spoke volumes when I arrived in search of an early lunchtime Saturday treat.Read

The Vaults, Newhall Place, Newhall Hill, Hockley

PYROMANIA isn’t, I imagine, a condition much welcomed in restaurants.Read

Science answers taste questions

FANS of sherry know already that it goes very well with food – just ask the thousands of tapas enthusiasts who would drink nothing else but fino with their patatas bravas and chorizo.Read