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Pub Review: The York, York Road, Hall Green B28 8LE www.sizzlingpubs.co.uk, 0121 776 6927

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IT’S THE ultimate test of a suburban pub – arriving hungry for a good meal on an unforgivably wet Wednesday night during the first week after Christmas and the New Year.Read

Pub Review: Miller & Carter, Stratford Road, Hockley Heath B94 6NL. Tel 01564 784137

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THE last time I had a meal at ‘ye olde’ Harvester Nags Head in Hockley Heath, it was close to an abomination.Read

Pub Review: The Rose & Crown, 30 Market Place, Warwick CV34 4SH. Tel 01926 411117

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I HAVEN’T chased the gastro end of the pub trade very much for this column down the years.Read

Lite Bite: Ed's Easy Diner, Selfridges, Upper Mall East, Bullring B5 4BP. Tel: 0800 123 400

IT SEEMED like a good idea to try an Ed’s Easy Diner breakfast.Read

Pub Review: The Green House, Lichfield Rd, Sutton Coldfield, B74 2UD

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LOOKING for a relaxing Saturday lunch, we had requested a quiet table for two at this trendy gastropub. So we were more than a little surprised to be sat next to a table with a dozen women celebrating a birthday bash.Read

Pub Review: The Black Horse, Bristol Road, Northfield, Birmingham B31 2QT. Tel 0121 477 1800

IT’S hard to believe but this pub was only built in 1929, especially as JD Wetherspoon has recently spent £2.5million on a major Tudor restoration project.Read

Pub Review: The Bell, Belbroughton. Tel 01562 731928

THIS pub always looks so inviting, perched above and offset from the Bromsgrove Road, that I’m drawn to popping in every now and then.Read

Pub Review: Prince Of Wales, High Street, Shirley B90 1JW. TEL: 0121 474 3038

I’VE NEVER eaten Michelin-starred food in my life – and it wouldn’t bother me in the slightest if I never did.Read

Light Bite: Rossopomodoro, Selfridges, Upper Mall East, Bullring B5 4BP. Tel 0800 123 400

IF YOU were to award the leading pizza parlours marks out of ten, what would you give them?Read

Pub Review: Beefeater Badgers Sett, Birmingham Road, Hagley, DY9 9JS. Tel 01562 883120

SOME people fancy a curry or a kebab every now and then. For me, it’s a Beefeater.Read

Pub Review: Fieldhouse 10 Knightcote Drive, Solihull B91 3JU 0121 703 9209.

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

Wylde Green pub

Pub review: Wylde Green, Birmingham Road, Sutton Coldfield

WE DON’T have a television near the dining table at home so it was something of novelty for our youngsters to sit in a booth with its own screen showing cricket.Read

Lite Bite: Cafe Pasta, 10-11 Sheep Street, Stratford-upon-Avon CV37. Tel 01789 262910

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

Pub Review: The White Swan, 100 High Street, Henley in Arden, B95 5BY. Tel 01564 792623.

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

Lite Bite: Bridges Cafe Bar at the Mac, Cannon Hill Park, Edgbaston, B12 9QH. Tel: 0121 446 3232

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

Pub Review: The Talbot, Hartle Lane, Belbroughton, Worcestershire, DY9 9TG. Tel: 01562 730249

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

Pub Review: Grill Inn, Drayton Manor Theme Park, B78 3TW. T: 01827 252499

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

Pub Review: Greswolde Arms Hotel, 1657 High Street, Knowle, B93 0LL. Tel: 01564 772711

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 Review: All Bar One, 43 Newhall Street, Birmingham, B3 3NY. Tel 0121 212 2551

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

Pub Review: The Wernley, Wolverhampton Road, Oldbury, B68 0LR. Tel: 0121 423 2805

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