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Lite Bite: Bridges Cafe Bar at the 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 Review: The Talbot, Hartle Lane, Belbroughton, Worcestershire, 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

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

Pub Review: Greswolde Arms Hotel, 1657 High Street, 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 Review: 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

Pub Review: 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

Pub Review: The Edgbaston Tap, 17 Hollies Croft, Pershore Road, Birmingham B5 7QN 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

Pub Review: The White Hart, Hartlebury, 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

Pub Review: The White Horse, Kenilworth Road, Balsall Common CV7 7DT. Tel: 01676 533207 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

Pub Review: The Duck Beefeater, 176 Hagley Road, 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

Pub Review: The Lord Clifden, 34 Great Hampton Street, Hockley, B18 6AA. Tel: 0121 523 7515 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

Pub Review: The Bull's Head, 7 Lime Kiln Lane, Earlswood, Solihull, B94 6BU. Tel: 01564 702 335 Jun 10 2011

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

Pub Review: The White Swan, Alcester Road, Wythall, B47 6JG. Tel: 01564 826894 Jun 03 2011

EVER been out for a meal and then wondered why you bothered?Read

Pub Review: Chamberlains, Wolverhampton Road, Oldbury, B68 0LH May 27 2011

WHAT would your last meal be if you knew the world was about to end?Read

Pub Review: The Encore, 1 Bridge Street, Stratford-upon-Avon, CV37 6AB, Tel 01789 269 462 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

Pub Review: Red Lion, Wall Hill Road, Corley Moor, Meriden CV7 8AP May 13 2011

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

Pub Review: Miller and Carter Steakhouse, Sutton Park, Boldmere Gate. Tel 0121 355 6919 May 06 2011

IF THIS unsightly building was hidden away on a labyrinthine council estate, it might have long been vandalised, shut down or even demolished by now.Read

Pub Review: The Village, 179 Alcester Road, Moseley B13 8JR. Tel: 0121 442 4002 Apr 28 2011

THE idea that anybody can be what they want to be can also be applied to pubs.Read

Pub Review: Robin Hood, Rashwood, Wychbold, Worcestershire Apr 21 2011

I CAN’T see Robin Hood and his Merry Men having much in common with this gastro-pub – but that’s a compliment.Read

Pub Review: The Garrick Inn, 25 High Street, Stratford-upon-Avon, CV37 6AU, Tel 01789 292186 Apr 15 2011

NEWSPAPERS are often wrongly accused of being harbingers of doom.Read

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