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CHEAP AS CHIPS: Graham Young reviews the Classic Fish & Chips Kebab House, Wyndhurst Road, Stechford, Birmingham. Tel 0121 783 0107. Jul 09 2010

WE bemoan England’s World Cup teams, but how often do you see a five-star rating in this humble column?Read

Cheap as Chips: Kitts Green Fish Bar, 5 Kitts Green Road, Kitts Green, Birmingham B33 9NY. Telephone 0121 783 7377. Jul 02 2010

FOR A split second I thought I’d been followed into this shop by a swarm of bees.Read

Graham Young visits the award-winning Pisces Fish Bar, 2416a Coventry Road, Sheldon B26 3JB Tel 0121 742 5802. Jun 25 2010

WHEN I spotted in a horoscope that it should be a great day for Pisces, I shot straight over to Sheldon to make the most of the opportunity.Read

Cheap as Chips: Ideal Fish Bar, 91 Bordesley Green, Bordesley, Birmingham\nB9 4QP Jun 18 2010

THIS chippy is at the heart of a nightmarishly busy crossroads where the B4145 Bordesley Green Road meets the B4128 Bordesley Green.Read

Cheap as Chips... on tour: Graham Young visits The Esplanade Fish Bar, Lynmouth, North Devon. EX35 6EQ. Tel 01598 753798. Jun 11 2010

NATIONAL runners-up in 2005 and voted North Devon’s Favourite Fish and Chip Shop this year, you can’t go wrong at The Esplanade.Read

Pub Grub: Graham Young reviews Broad Street bar Rococo as it prepares for the 2010 World Cup. New pix. Jun 11 2010

THE then-novel idea of watching World Cup matches in pubs wore off for me back in the 1990s.Read

Cheap as Chips: Graham Young visits the City Kebab House Fish & Chips, 29 Constitution Hill, Birmingham B19 3LE. Jun 04 2010

THIS tired Victorian route could be really attractive if done up, but some of the windows high above City Kebab are broken.Read

Cheap as Chips: Graham Young reviews the chips at Daalyaal Kebab House, Albert Road, Stechford B33 8UB May 28 2010

VISITING this brightly coloured, newly-opened shop on a seriously sunny afternoon nearly saw me doing a ‘Klinsmann dive’ across the floor after I tripped on my way in.Read

Graham Young visits the Golf Bar at West Midlands Golf Club and The Lake at Barston Restaurant, Barston, Solihull B92 0LB. Tel 01675 444890. May 21 2010

FEW if any bars in the West Midlands can have a 21-acre lakeside view to match the one here – and the food was so good it almost shocked us.Read

Cheap as Chips: Graham Young tries Chequers, 1545 Stratford Road, Hall Green, Birmingham B28 9JA Tel 0121 745 9500. May 21 2010

WITH this week’s reopening coinciding with a freshly-elected Prime Minister, the chippy which once shared its name with the PM’s official weekend residence is back.Read

Light bite: Graham Young visits Bridges' Cafe at the MAC, Cannon Hill Park, Birmingham B12 9QH. Tel 0121 446 3232 May 14 2010

ON DAY three after MAC had reopened following its £15 million redevelopment, a sign said: “Technical hitch. No hot food, no card payments”.Read

Birmingham chef Helen Evans wins new cookery competition Apr 30 2010

THEY’VE been given a box containing vegetables and a chicken – and told to cook the dish of their lives.Read

Pub grub: Graham Young reviews M&B's new Samuel Cooper pub in Birmingham city centre. Apr 23 2010

THE Windsor is one of the first examples of M&B’s latest brand, a freehouse called Samuel Cooper.Read

Cheap as Chips: Graham Young visits Ravenshill Chippy, Ravenshill Road, Yardley Wood, B14 4HQ. Tel 0121 474 5690. Apr 23 2010

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Pub grub: Graham Young reviews The Towers Inn, Part of M&B's Sizzling Pub Co chain, at 636 Walsall Road, Great Barr, Birmingham B42 1EY. Tel 0121 358 4627. Apr 16 2010

AFTER a typical marathon journey down the dreaded M6, it took another 40 minutes just to get from Hilton Services to this A34 pub close to the Scott Arms junction.Read

Cheap As Chips: Graham Young reviews Andrea's Fish Bar, Castle Square, Weoley Castle, 96 Weoley Castle Road, Birmingham B29 5PT. Apr 16 2010

AFTER failing to park in one of the spaces on the busy Weoley Square roundabout, I readily found a spot on Weoley Castle Road itself.Read

Cheap as Chiips: Graham Young visits England's No 1 chippy - the Great British Eatery, 13, Francis Road, Edgbaston. Tel 0121 456 5955 or visit: www.greatbritisheatery.co.uk Apr 09 2010

WITH residential permit restrictions now in this area, the city council should help the shop recently declared England’s No 1 chippy by removing the double yellow lines outside, at least after 5pm.Read

PUB GRUB: Graham Young enjoys a fabulous meal at The Boot in Mappleborough Green, Studley, B80 7BJ. Tel: 01527 852192. More details and online booking available via: www.thebootmappleboroughgreen.co.uk Apr 09 2010

MANY pubs are closing throughout the land. But if they were all this good, there would be noting but queues out of each door.Read

We meet the woman who drinks beer for a living Mar 31 2010

"I AM getting toffee and a hint of coffee,” says Annabel Smith as she sips her pint. “What about you?”Read

Graham Young found there was an old fashioned solution to the cold weather at the Old Orleans on Broad Street, Birmingham. Mar 26 2010

THE weather was freezing outside when we arrived at Old Orleans.Read

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