THERE can be few Brummies who don’t have a favourite curry house – a place that offers a warm welcome, good food at a fair price and is within walking distance so that those pints of Cobra can be consumed without worrying about the drink-driving laws.Read
LOCAL has come to mean ‘good’ in the restaurant world, probably because what was once exotic fare from far away has now become rather familiar and therefore dull.Read
THE urge towards vegetarianism does not engulf me often for I am a man who scorns the prissiness of those who get dewy-eyed about animals, which, every sensible person knows, were put on Earth simply to provide me with chunks of meat and offal.Read
ONE of the gravest embarrassments of a restaurant reviewer’s life is to be urged to visit someone’s favourite place only to discover that it isn’t very good.Read
OUR good old-fashioned British boozers – the premises, not those of us known for their enthusiastic and reckless consumption of alcohol – have been having a tough time over recent years.Read
LEAVING a restaurant with regrets can be a good thing. So long, of course, that those regrets don’t involve extreme inebriation, violence or physical acts of a grotesque and revolting kind.Read
ON a summer evening when the sun is shining and a band is performing an outdoor concert, Tin Tin’s position above Brindleyplace isn’t the most appealing of the restaurants in the area.Read