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Great value lunch that was high on quality Sep 30 2011

EATING out at lunchtime is a pleasant way to wile away the hours, especially if work doesn’t demand your return after a last hurried mouthful.Read

PUB GRUB: Ember Pub & Dining: Fieldhouse,10 Knightcote Drive, Solihull B91 3JU. Tel: 0121 703 9209. Sep 23 2011

ONE of modern life’s most contentious issues is whether children should be allowed in to pubs.Read

CHEAP AS CHIPS: IKEA Coventry, 2 Croft Road Coventry CV1 3AZ. Tel 0845 355 2150. Sep 23 2011

AS WE arrived at this very strange building, a couple were arguing in the car park.Read

Combining Scottish and Japanese elements Sep 16 2011

THE similarities between Scotland and Japan are not obvious.Read

CHEAP AS CHIPS: AFC Arches Fish & Chips, 290 Slade Road, Erdington, Birmingham B23 7RJ. Tel 0121 240 4911 Sep 16 2011

WHAT are the odds of finding a chippy called the Arches (pronounced like the fake 60s Sugar Sugar pop stars The Archies) at the corner of Abbey Road and Slade Road... in Brum?Read

CHEAP AS CHIPS - ON TOUR: Golden Fry Fish & Chips, Golf Links Road, Westward Ho! Devon EX39 1LH. Tel 01237 470815. Sep 09 2011

NAMED after the 1855 novel by John Kingsley, Westward Ho! is a pretty little bay town in north Devon.Read

LITE BITE: Cafe Pasta, 10-11 Sheep St, Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 6EF. Tel 01789 262 910. Website: www.cafe-pasta.co.uk Sep 09 2011

AS FAR as formula restaurants go, this brand has got its purpose off to a fine art.Read

CHEAP AS CHIPS: King Kebab, 85 High Street, Kings Heath, Birmingham B14 7BH. Tel 0121 443 2550. **** Sep 02 2011

KING Kebab is a great name for a fast food shop in Kings Heath.Read

PUB GRUB: The White Swan, 100 High Street, Henley in Arden, B95 5BY. Tel 01564 792623. www.thewhiteswanhotel.com ***** Sep 02 2011

ACCORDING to this famous old hotel’s website, the first inn on the site dates back to 1352.Read

CHEAP AS CHIPS: West Midland Safari and Leisure Park, Spring Grove, Bewdley, Worcs DY12 1LF. Tel 01299 402114. ** Aug 26 2011

AFTER finishing the animal tour, this micro-chippy is your first chance of food at West Midland Safari Park.Read

PUB GRUB: Bridges Cafe Bar, MAC, Cannon Hill Park, Edgbaston B12 9QH. Tel 0121 446 3232. **** Aug 26 2011

IT’S 18 months since the MAC reopened during an especially chaotic May Bank Holiday weekend.Read

PUB GRUB: The Talbot, Hartle Lane, Belbroughton, Worcs DY9 9TG. Tel 01562 730249. Aug 19 2011

JEREMY Clarkson once destroyed a boxy Talbot Samba by using a catapult to hurl it into a wall.Read

CHEAP AS CHIPS: St John's Fish Bar, 32 Saint John's, Warwick CV34 4NE. Tel 01926 493 727. Aug 19 2011

IF YOU are going to Warwick Castle or any of the many other nearby attractions this forthcoming holiday weekend you might care to pop into St John’s for a few fingers of golden goodness.Read

CHEAP AS CHIPS: The Green Fish Bar, The Greeen, Kings Norton B38 8RS Aug 12 2011

CLOSED for years, this shop is so small it’s like stepping inside a brightly-lit microwave.Read

PUG GRUB: Grill Inn, Drayton Manor Theme Park entrance, A4091, Tamworth, Staffordshire B78 3TW. Tel 01827 252499 Aug 12 2011

GIVEN the number of pubs which have been closing recently, it’s heartening that this is the second new venture I’ve been to this summer.Read

CHEAP AS CHIPS: Black Country Living Museum, A4037,Tipton Road, Dudley, DY1 4SQ (M5, J2). Tel 0121 557 9643. ***** Aug 05 2011

THIS wonderful museum has two chippies – Hobbs, which still cooks chips in beef dripping, and this original shop which has now switched to vegetable oil for diet crazy punters.Read

PUB GRUB: Greswolde Arms Hotel - Chef & Brewer,1657 High St, Knowle, B93 0LL. Tel 01564 772711. **** Aug 05 2011

HAVING wandered off the beaten track a couple of times in deepest Warwickshire on Sunday, it was a case of third time lucky at the revamped Greswolde Arms Hotel, in Knowle.Read

PUB GRUB: All Bar One, 43 Newhall Street, Birmingham B3 3NY. Tel 0121 212 2551. ** Jul 29 2011

IF THIS bar was a village, it would be described as a ‘ribbon development’.Read

CHEAP AS CHIPS: The Swan Fish Bar, 216 Swanshurst Lane, Moseley B13 0AW. Tel 0121 777 9888. **** Jul 29 2011

I HADN’T been to what would have been JRR Tolkien’s local chippy since May 2006.Read

PUG GRUB: The Wernley, Wolverhampton Road, Oldbury B68 0LR. Tel 0121 423 2805 Jul 22 2011

NOT for the first time in recent months, we got stuck in traffic on the Wolverhampton Road close to that hell hole known as Burnt Tree Island.Read

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