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CHEAP AS CHIPS: Kingfisher, 66 Meadway, Kitts Green, Birmingham B33 0AP. ** Jul 22 2011

ONE of the reasons chips have been part of our diet for more than 150 years is that we love ‘em.Read

PUB GRUB: The Edgbaston Tap, 17 Hollies Croft, Pershore Road, Birmingham B5 7QN. Website: www.theedgbastontap.co.uk Jul 15 2011

THERE are signs of pubs everywhere being on their metaphorical knees – and either ready for conversion into flats or death by demolition ball.Read

CHEAP AS CHIPS: Balsall Fish and Chip Bar, 207 Station Road, Balsall Common CV7 7FE. Tel 01676 533576 Jul 15 2011

AS WELL as the nice touch of drawings by Balsall Common schoolchildren, there are two posters featuring dozens of exotic fish on the walls of this semi-rural chippy at 207 Station Road.Read

DVD REVIEWS: Uknown (15) ***; Battle Los Angeles (12) **; Love's Kitchen (15 ): ** Jul 15 2011

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CHEAP AS CHIPS: The Arden, 2 Arden Road, Rubery B45 0LA. Verdict: **** Jul 08 2011

THIS mini-shopping centre has been so heavily revamped it looks almost new, but you might still need a keen eye and a dashboard-mounted chips detector to spot what used to be the Golden Plaice Fish Bar.Read

Pub Grub: The White Hart, The Village, Hartlebury, Worcs DY11 7TD. Tel 01299 250286. Jul 08 2011

ONE OF the joys of driving out into the English countryside is the hope that you might stumble upon a decent pub.Read

P~UB GRUB: The White Horse, Kenilworth Road, Balsall Common CV7 7DT Tel 01676 533207. Website: www.thewhitehorseatbc.co.uk Jul 01 2011

ARRIVING at this semi-rural pub at 6pm on a Saturday, we were given a table for four just so long as they could “have it back for 8pm”.Read

CHEAP AS CHIPS: Bell Lane Fish Bar, 19 Bell Lane, Birmingham, West Midlands B33 0HS. Tel: 0121 693 2707. Verdict: No stars. Jul 01 2011

A NEARBY gym was full of larger-than-life exercisers.Read

PUB GRUB: Breakfast at Beefeater's The Duck, 176-184 Hagley Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham B16 9NY. Tel: 0121 452 5951. Jun 24 2011

TWENTY years ago the world managed to keep going without an endless array of coffee shops – now they’re on every corner.Read

CHEAP AS CHIPS: Pleasure Beach, 525 Ocean Boulevard, Blackpool, Lancashire FY4 1EZ. Tel 0870 444 5566. Website: www.blackpoolpleasurebeach.com Verdict: +++++ Jun 24 2011

AFTER visiting the Seagull in Tile Cross for last week’s column, I thought I would take the 300th marvellous week of Cheap As Chips up to Britain’s chip capital.Read

CHEAP AS CHIPS: Seagull, 265 Tile Cross Road, Tile Cross, Birmingham B33 0NA. Tel 0121 779 6265. Jun 17 2011

THE queue moves slowly here but there was no sign of any teenage Chekhovs using their time and an iPad to write a modern story called Seagull – The Chippy.Read

PUB GRUB: The Lord Clifden, 34 Great Hampton St, Hockley B18 6AA. Tel 0121 523 7515. Website: Urbanartbar.com Jun 17 2011

THERE are two ways of looking at this magnificent pub on the sometimes scruffy Great Hampton St main road going out of town from Snow Hill.Read

PUG GRUB: THE BULLS HEAD 7 LIME KILN LANE, EARLSWOOD, SOLIHULL B94 6BU\nTel 01564 702 335 Jun 10 2011

THERE’S rustic charm in abundance at this Thwaites country pub.Read

CHEAP AS CHIPS: Big Bite, 219 Broad Street, Birmingham B15 1AY. Jun 10 2011

THIS is the little sister of the bigger Big Bite across the road in the former Left Bank restaurant.Read

CHEAP AS CHIPS: The Taste of Italy, 23 Edgewood Road, Rednal B45 8SB. Tel 0121 628 1999. Verdict: ***\n Jun 03 2011

I’M not sure what a 150-year-old British dish like fish and chips has to do with the ‘taste of Italy’.Read

Kebab memories proved to be right Jun 03 2011

MEMORY can play some funny tricks. In my memory, for instance, I once had hair and was good looking. As if...Read

The Encore, Bridge Street, Stratford-upon-Avon, Coventry CV37 6AB. Tel 01789 269 462. Website: www.theencorestratford.co.uk May 20 2011

LOOK at this pub’s website gallery and you’ll see a picture of the Queen gliding past in a Rolls Royce during her March visit to open the rebuilt RSC Theatre.Read

CHEAP AS CHIPS: The Original Ben’s Lickey Hills Fish Bar, 460 Lickey Road, Rednal B45 8UU. Tel 0121 453 8UU. Verdict: **** May 20 2011

IF I had a shop here, I’d be more inclined to call it something like Lick Your Lips, but plain old Ben’s didn’t disappoint.Read

CHEAP AS CHIPS: Mediterranean Fish Bar, 31 Broad Street, Town Centre, Worcester WR1 3NH. Verdict: +++ May 13 2011

THE day I visited this shop for the first time, it was a blisteringly-hot afternoon. For late April, it was excessive.Read

PUB GRUB: Red Lion, Wall Hill Road, Corley Moor nr Meriden CV7 8AP. Tel 01676 542345. www.redlioncorley.co.uk May 13 2011

THIS delightful pub is tucked away in the countryside and has a Coventry address.Read

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