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Chef at Birmingham restaurant Lasan named UK curry chef of the year

Birmingham Mail — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 13:24:00 GMT

A Birmingham chef has been named Chef of the Year at the British Curry Awards.

How to raise money while eating Birmingham's 5,000 calorie breakfast in Kitts Green

Birmingham Mail — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 08:00:00 GMT

Mail food writer PAUL FULFORD finds his eyes are bigger than his tummy when he takes on the mother of all fry-ups

Food and Drink: Michelin-star standards at Purnell's bar

Birmingham Mail — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 12:39:00 GMT

THE intricacies, invention and craftsmanship displayed by Glynn Purnell’s food at the restaurant that carries his surname is what’s earned him his Michelin star.

Food and Drink: Chef Aaron thinks outside the box

Birmingham Mail — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 10:32:00 GMT

YOU’VE just been handed a box of mystery ingredients and been given 15 minutes to invent an eye-catching dish that will impress a veteran chef lecturer, a food marketing expert and a restaurant critic.

Food and Drink: The team of blind chefs with a secret or two

Birmingham Mail — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 12:13:00 GMT

IT’S the most unusual pop-up restaurant of the year – staffed by blind chefs.

Food and Drink: Aktar's all set for People's Banquet

Birmingham Mail — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 11:14:00 GMT

WHEN it comes to TV cooking competitions, Birmingham’s Aktar Islam can’t stop winning.

Food and Drink: Waiting is over for fine dining at Weston

Birmingham Mail — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 09:00:00 GMT

THE stately home of Weston Park on the Staffordshire/Shropshire border is renowned for the handful of times a year it serves up food in its historic dining room.

Food and Drink: Thank cod! We've got plenty of dab

Birmingham Mail — Fri, 27 May 2011 12:33:00 GMT

CAN the humble dab save the fish world from extinction?

Food and Drink: Full of beans after coffee pilgrimage

Birmingham Mail — Fri, 20 May 2011 12:35:00 GMT

SOPHIE Highfield does not do things by half.

Food and Drink: New service is hot on halal curries

Birmingham Mail — Fri, 13 May 2011 13:04:00 GMT

DELICIOUS “home-style” halal curries are being prepared at the first catering outlet of its type in Birmingham.

Food and Drink: Claire makes Villa top of the chocs

Birmingham Mail — Fri, 06 May 2011 12:24:00 GMT

ON the face of it, a starter of salmon and white chocolate sauce would appear to be so wrong, on so many levels, that any sensible diner would reject it.

Food and Drink: If we cooked the royal banquet...

Birmingham Mail — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 12:17:00 GMT

Cornish crab, spring lamb, a luxury biryani... and perhaps a trifle with Birmingham-made chocolate to finish.

Food and Drink: Ladies swapping cocktails for ales

Birmingham Mail — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 10:51:00 GMT

REAL ale. Two little words, but pretty potent ones all the same, conjuring up images of hirsute men nursing pints of super-strength ale in a spit and sawdust pub.

Food and Drink: Chef Martyn is to the manor born

Birmingham Mail — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 13:31:00 GMT

WHEN Martyn Pearn first arrived at the once grand home created on Prime Minister Sir Robert Peel’s estate, it resembled a building site.

Food and Drink: Make a fuss over huss, for cod sake

Birmingham Mail — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 12:20:00 GMT

I AM being served a delicious banquet of Mediterranean-style dab, roast coley with a shrimp butter and a fragrant curry made from whiting.

Food and Drink: Who could resist a Cocky Blonde?

Birmingham Mail — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 13:34:00 GMT

HAVE you ever found yourself in a pub drinking Moonshine with a Cocky Blonde?

Food and Drink: Gould sets gold sandard at NEC

Birmingham Mail — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 14:27:00 GMT

FROM pop princesses to royal princesses, Paul Gould has cooked for them all.

Food and Drink: Culinary greats in meeting of minds

Birmingham Mail — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 14:10:00 GMT

THE roar from the competition hall is ear-splitting, the cheers accompanied by claxons, whistles and hooters.

Food and Drink: Young chefs join foodie boot camp

Birmingham Mail — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 14:20:00 GMT

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

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

Birmingham Mail — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 10:53:00 GMT

TRAVEL, they say, broadens the mind.