Food and drink, restaurants in Birmingham & West Midlands

Pub Grub: Queen and Castle, Castle Green, Kenilworth CV8 1ND. Tel 01926 852661. Verdict: +++ Jun 01 2012

THE challenge for this week’s Diamond Jubilee holiday weekend column was to find a pub that would, quite literally, be fit for a Queen.Read

Cheap as Chips: Sophies 2, 17 Watford Road, Cotteridge, Birmingham B30 1JB. Tel 0121 459 3710. *** Jun 01 2012

ANY hopes that I might find Sophie, Countess of Wessex in here en route to any of this weekend’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations were dashed.Read

Cheap As Chips: Chamberlains in Oldbury May 25 2012

I ENJOYED the restaurant here a year ago just after it had opened and since then the business has won the fish and chip shop award for best UK newcomer.Read

Pub Review: The Ropewalk in Hockley May 25 2012

THIS Marston’s pub opposite the gravestones in St Paul’s Square was nice and dead itself at 6pm last Saturday.Read

Pub Review: The Dog in Warley May 18 2012

EGGS, like newspapers, are daily miracles many people tend to take for granted these days.Read

Cheap as Chips: McDonald's on Warwick Road, Olton May 18 2012

I MUST be really thick – because at least three people will arrive behind me before I’ve grasped Maccy D’s menu.Read

Restaurant Spy: Experimental Claire Hutchings is no flash in the pan May 17 2012

AT the age of 23 and with relatively little kitchen experience, Claire Hutchings was catapulted to fame when her innovative and beautifully-crafted dishes took her to the final of last year’s MasterChef: The Professionals.Read

Restaurant Review: Aalto Restaurant in Hotel La Tour, Birmingham May 11 2012

COMPUTERS and I are not natural best mates.Read

Pub Review: Amber Tavern on Hagley Road West, Birmingham May 11 2012

SITTING next to the huge, curved bay window of this pub gave us a bird’s eye view of the Hagley Road traffic lights.Read

Cheap as Chips: Urban Feast on Navigation Street, Birmingham May 11 2012

I HAD to double-check the name of this eatery on my way out after the friendly server flash-cooked some quarter-inch square fries so quickly I thought I must have been to a shop called Urban Fast.Read

Restaurant Review: The Queens in Belbroughton May 04 2012

THIS area is far from short of talented chefs, but Andy Waters ranks among the very best.Read

Pub Review: TGI Friday's on the Hagley Road May 04 2012

ONCE the first of its kind in the UK, the now 26-year-old TGI remains ever-popular.Read

Cheap as Chips: The Cod Pot in Cotteridge May 04 2012

YOU learn something new every day – I never realised the route between Pershore Road and Linden Road was called, er, Watford Road. Why would you?Read

Cheap as Chips: Frydays in Acocks Green Apr 27 2012

IF YOU don’t know the area between the Warwick Road and Coventry Road, then this chippy might be hard to find.Read

Restaurant Review: Delhi 6 in Little Aston Apr 27 2012

CHEFS are show-offs. Not all of them, of course.Read

Pub Review: The Peacock in Kings Norton Apr 27 2012

EVEN though this pub is technically in Kings Norton, it’s still a lovely drive out into pristine countryside.Read

Restaurant Review: Don Diego in Sutton Coldfield Apr 20 2012

THE pursuit of good tapas in Birmingham often turns out to be a forlorn thing.Read

Cheap as Chips: The Big Fish in Stratford-upon-Avon Apr 20 2012

MIDLANDS Seafish Industry Training Association training manager Michael Pili discovered an “incorrect practice” was at the root of my one-star review here in January last year.Read

Pub Review: The Victoria in Barnt Green Apr 20 2012

THE motto on this pub’s website is that ‘you can’t beat a good local’.Read

Cheap as Chips: Beeches Walk Takeway in Sutton Colfield Apr 13 2012

WAITING to walk into this tidy shop in a prime position next to the main road into Sutton Coldfield, I was surprised by how quiet trade was.Read

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