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Restaurant Review: Kitchen Garden Cafe in Kings Heath

Birmingham Mail — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 14:29:00 GMT

TO CRITICISE a place that has an approach as transparently good-hearted as that of Kitchen Garden Cafe seems wrong – a little like kicking a cute kitten or poking fun at a Liberal Democrat.

Restaurant review: Scottish Steak Club, Burlington Hotel, Burlington Arcade, New Street, Birmingham B2 4JO, 0844 879 9019

Birmingham Mail — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:50:00 GMT

ALARM bells ring when you walk into a hotel restaurant and the question that is immediately fired at you is: “Room number?”

Restaurant Review: The Chef's Dozen, Longbarn Village, Alcester, Warwickshire B49 5JJ

Birmingham Mail — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:34:00 GMT

BEING a grizzled old grump, there are few occasions on which my heart excitedly skips a beat.

Restaurant Review: Chao Baby, 6 Spiceal Street, Bull Ring, Birmingham B5 4BH. 0121 643 2424.

Birmingham Mail — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:04:00 GMT

LET’S find something positive to say about Chaobaby. Here goes. The staff eventually brought the right dishes to our table.

Restaurant Review: Saffron, 126 Colmore Row, Birmingham B3 3AP. Tel: 0121 212 0599.

Birmingham Mail — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 14:08:00 GMT

THERE are some things that simply have no place together.

Restaurant Review: Marco Pierre White Steakhouse, Bar and Grill, The Cube, Birmingham B1 1PR. 0121 634 3433.

Birmingham Mail — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 13:59:00 GMT

SIMPLE holds its own delights... unless, of course, it comes in a school report about your child.

Restaurant Review: The Asquith, 11 Newhall Street, Birmingham B3 3NY. 0121 200 1588.

Birmingham Mail — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 14:27:00 GMT

THE link between a childhood holiday in Great Yarmouth back in the early 1960s and fine dining in 21st century Birmingham may not seem obvious.

Food Review: Peels - Birmingham

Birmingham Mail — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 14:05:00 GMT

PEEL’S is a restaurant of some ambition, boasting a talented chef and a menu that reflects his impressive pedigree.

Restaurant Review: Kababish, 29 Wooodbridge Road, Moseley, B13 8EH. 0121 449 5556.

Birmingham Mail — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 13:56:00 GMT

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.

Restaurant Review: Brasserie at Malmaison, The Mailbox, Birmingham B1 1RD. 0121 246 5000.

Birmingham Mail — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 14:09:00 GMT

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.

Restaurant Review: Sanskrit, 1122 Stratford Road, Hall Green B28 8AE. 0121 702 2244.

Birmingham Mail — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 14:09:00 GMT

MY FAULT for not properly reading the menu, perhaps.

Restaurant Review: Blue Piano, 24-26 Harborne Road, Birmingham B15 3AA.

Birmingham Mail — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 00:18:00 GMT

THE tentacles of that creative powerhouse that is Moseley and Kings Heath appear to be spreading into less advantaged parts of the city.

Restuarant Review: Sabai Sabai, 268 High Street, Harborne, Birmingham. 0121 426 2688.

Birmingham Mail — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 15:10:00 GMT

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.

Restaurant Review: Purnell's, 55 Cornwall Street, Birmingham B3 2DH. 0121 212 9799.

Birmingham Mail — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 13:22:00 GMT

IN THESE cash-strapped times, it’s probably insensitive to describe a £120 lunch for two as a “bargain”.

Restaurant Review: Metro Bar And Grill, 680-684 Warwick Road, Solihull, B91 3DX. 0121 705 9495.

Birmingham Mail — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 13:17:00 GMT

CURSE the council that imposes evening parking charges in a shopping and entertainment area at a time when businesses are struggling.

Restaurant Review: Rainbow, 59 High Street, Kings Heath B14 7BH. 0121 444 4195.

Birmingham Mail — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 12:42:00 GMT

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.

Restaurant Review: Aria, Hyatt Regency Hotel, 2 Bridge Street, Birmingham B1 2JZ. 0121 643 1234.

Birmingham Mail — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 12:29:00 GMT

EATING out at lunchtime is a pleasant way to wile away the hours, especially if work doesn’t demand your return after a last hurried mouthful.

Restaurant Review: The Spice Room, The Bird-In-The-Hand, Birmingham Road, Henley-In-Arden B95 5QR. 01564 792 689.

Birmingham Mail — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 13:11:00 GMT

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.

Restaurant Review: City Cafe, Mint Hotel, Brindleyplace, Birmingham

Birmingham Mail — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 12:17:00 GMT

THE similarities between Scotland and Japan are not obvious.

Restaurant Review: Shiraz, 167 Hagley Road , Edgbaston B16 8UQ. Tel: 0121 4545 9911.

Birmingham Mail — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 13:29:00 GMT

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.