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Restaurant Review: Tin Tin, 9F Water's Edge, Brindleyplace, Birmingham B1 2hl. Tel: 0121 633 0888.

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

Restaurant Review: Tin Tin, 9F Water's Edge, Brindleyplace, Birmingham B1 2hl. Tel: 0121 633 0888.

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

Restaurant Review: Bay Leaf, The Greenhouse, 2 Gibb Street, Digbeth B9 4AA. Tel: 0121 224 7700. www.bayleaf-restaurant.co.uk

ALONGSIDE the many identikit curry houses that serve perfectly fine food in this city, very few stand out from the crowd.Read

Restaurant Review: Cote, 120-122 Wharfside Street, Mailbox, Birmingham B1 1RX. T: 0121 631 1587

THERE are few restaurants in which it’s pleasant to sit outside eating in this city, even on those rare evenings when the sun is shining.Read

Restaurant Review: Rose Villa Tavern, 172 Warstone Lane, Hockley, B18 6JW. Tel: 0121 236 7910. www.therosevillatavern.co.uk

FOR donkey’s years the Jewellery Quarter has been standing nervously on the threshold of trendiness, wondering whether to take that next step towards becoming an vibrant, urban village in which people gather to eat, drink and make merry.Read

Restaurant Review: The Saxon Mill, Coventry Road, Guys Cliffe, Warwick, CV34 5YN, Tel: 01926 492 255. www.saxonmill.co.uk

OVERLOOKING a river that meanders through the countryside and with its own slowly-turning water wheel, there can be few pubs as attractive as the rambling, old Saxon Mill.Read

Restaurant Review: Zagora, 4 Fletchers Walk, Paradise Circus, Birmingham, B3 3HJ. Tel: 0121 233 2484. www.zagorarestaurant.co.uk

WITH its red, green and gold colour scheme, there’s something welcoming and exotic about Zagora.Read

Restaurant Review: Pushkar, Broad Street, Birmingham. Tel: 0121 643 7978

CAN the humble lentil ever have reached such heights as it did in the bowl of dal makhani that I ate at Pushkar?Read

Restaurant Review: Turner's of Harborne, 69 High Street, Harborne, B17 9NS. Tel: 0121 426 4440. www.turnersofharborne.com

AMONG the many ways to have shown solidarity with the striking chalk-face operatives last Thursday, few can have been as pleasurable as eating Michelin-starred pork scratchings.Read

Restaurant Review: Miller & Carter, 178-180 Wharfside Street, Mailbox, Birmingham B1 1RN. Tel: 0121 643 7738. www.millerandcarter.co.uk

LEAVING this recently opened branch of a small chain, I felt a degree of goodwill.Read

Restaurant Review: The Oak, 8840 Stratford Road, Hockley Heath, B94 5NW. Tel: 01564 785252, www.theoakathockleyheath.co.uk

LAMBS’ kidneys, with their firm texture and faint smell of urine, are not to everyone’s taste.Read

Restaurant Review: Piquant, 12 St Mary's Row, Moseley, B13 8JG. Tel: 0121 249 1216

OUR suburbs would be poorer places were it not for the curry houses that exist there.Read

Food Review: Lime Bar and Thai Brasserie in Bromsgrove

I'm ashamed to say that my knowledge of Thai Cuisine is pretty limited, in fact it's as limited as a microwave Thai Green Curry from Sainsbury's when my good lady is at work and I have to fend for myself.Read

Restaurant Review: The Vaults, Newhall Place, Newhall Hill, Birmingham, B1 3JH. 0121 212 9837. www.vaultsbirmingham.com

THE menu read well, the subterranean surroundings were wonderfully atmospheric and the dishes that were placed on our table looked stylish.Read

Restaurant Review: Sheereen Kadah, 543 Moseley Road, Balsall Heath, Birmingham, B12 9BU. Tel: 0121 440 4641

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

Restaurant Review: Bank, 4 Brindleyplace, Birmingham, B1 2JB.

IF THERE’S a Birmingham restaurant menu that ticks more trendy boxes than that at Bank, I’ve yet to encounter it.Read

Restaurant Review: Jee Jee's Punjabi Bar and Grill, 304 High Street, Smethwick B66 3PA. Tel 0121 565 4986.

STUCK in the middle of a one-way road system and housed in a former pub with an exterior that would win few design awards, Jee Jee’s Punjabi Bar and Grill isn’t exactly the sort of place that begs you to enter.Read

Restaurant Review: Annexe, 220 Corporation St, Birmingham B4 6QB. Tel 0121 236 1171.

YEARS ago that bit of Corporation Street which joins Steelhouse Lane used to be a bustling sort of place, not least because of the much-missed Hawkins Cafe Bar with its laser show, dry ice, throbbing music and trendy revellers.Read

Restuarant Review: Lime, 418 Birmingham Road, Wylde. Tel 0121 377 7772

THE knife skills of a chef who can turn a red onion into something resembling a flower are to be admired.Read

Restaurant Review: Edmunds, Six Brindleyplace, Birmingham B1 2JB. 0121 633 4944

ANDY Waters has long been among my favourite chefs.Read