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Food and Drink: Young chefs join foodie boot camp Mar 04 2011

TOP Birmingham chefs are hoping to transform the fortunes of jobless city youths with a gastronomic boot camp.Read

Food and Drink: If Heston made cocktails, they'd taste like this... Feb 25 2011

TRAVEL, they say, broadens the mind.Read

Food and Drink: Birmingham's best set to taste even better Feb 18 2011

IT’S set to be Birmingham’s biggest and best-ever food festival – staged by Brummies, for Brummies.Read

Food and Drink: DIY cocktails for a romantic night in Feb 10 2011

FANCY a seductive night in on Valentine’s Day but still want to woo your sweet-heart with an oozingly glamorous cocktail?Read

Food and Drink: Young diners on a roll at sushi joint Feb 03 2011

I HAVE never seen so many happy children in a restaurant – ever.Read

Food and Drink: Culinary kids put to the taste test Jan 20 2011

THE aroma in the competition kitchen is intoxicating.Read

Food and Drink: Coffee house for city connoisseurs Jan 13 2011

WALKING into Hudson’s, you could be forgiven for thinking you’ve been transported back to the 1930s or ’40sRead

Food and Drink: Dinner at Villa is home win thriller Jan 06 2011

WHEN they first started cooking, some of the trainee chefs didn’t know what a carrot was.Read

Food and Drink: A glass of beer with posh nosh is ale right Nov 25 2010

IT’S the age-old dining conundrum: what do you drink with a dessert of caramelised banana, caramel parfait and peanut butter ice cream?Read

Food and Drink: First, soften the onions – and chill Nov 18 2010

SHE’S worked with some of the country’s top professionals, including Masterchef’s John Torode.Read

Food and Drink: Can you cook up Brum's best balti? Nov 11 2010

ONE of Birmingham’s top Asian chefs has urged restaurants to be creative as they battle for the title of the city’s best balti.Read

Food and Drink: O’Neills launches tasty new menu Nov 04 2010

THERE was a time when I associated O’Neill’s pubs with messy heavy drinking sessions, bare decor and pints of overflowing Guinness being spilt among heaving rowdy crowds.Read

Food and Drink: Jamie's pucker pasta's coming to the Bullring Oct 28 2010

HE’S bleary-eyed but unbowed – and he’s coming to Brum.Read

Food and Drink: And along came an edible spider... Oct 21 2010

STUCK for a way to keep the kids occupied during the half-term holidays?Read

Food and Drink: Chef’s pursuit of tasty local treats Oct 14 2010

IF YOU see a chef haggling over the price of some prime rib at a farm gate, it could well be Nick Turner.Read

Food and Drink: Nachos, naturally, at Matt’s Bodega Oct 08 2010

HE’S Birmingham’s very own burrito brother.Read

Food and Drink: A labour of Love that’s paying off Oct 01 2010

TO LAUNCH a new restaurant is a risky venture at the best of times. To do so in the depths of a recession borders on lunacy, perhaps.Read

Food and Drink: The globe-trotter for pigs’ trotters Sep 24 2010

AS TV exposure goes, having your restaurant showcased to 59 million viewers takes some beating.Read

Food and Drink: Chef’s south east Asian love affair Sep 17 2010

IT WAS love at first bite for Jason Atherton, one of Britain’s top chefs.Read

Food and Drink: Chameleon offers colourful evening Aug 27 2010

TRANSFORMING between bar, restaurant and club in one large room, the very adaptable The Chameleon is an apt name for Birmingham’s newest venue.Read

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