Tag Archives: restaurant review

Nomad: Waiter waiter, there’s an ant in my soup!

Waiter waiter, there’s an ant in my soup! …Don’t worry sir, the echidna nibbling your bread will soon get him. <Pause for laughter after monotreme related joke>. We’ve eaten Chef Alex Claridge’s food around his various locations in Birmingham over … Continue reading

Posted in Area: Kings Heath, Cuisine: Modern Mixed, Price: Average, Venue type: Restaurant | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Tan Rosie Caribbean Supper Club

Mother and daughter team Monica and Lee have been inviting guests in to their Erdington home for several years now to offer them a little ray of Caribbean sunshine inspired by Monica’s home island of Carriacou, a parish of Grenada.  “Tan” … Continue reading

Posted in Area: Erdington, Cuisine: Caribbean, Price: Average, Special Event, Venue type: Home Supper Club | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Gas Street Social

I’m never sure whether I like The Mailbox.  Unfortunately the stag and hen parties that were once the fodder of the Broad Street bars seem to have found their way down the canal towpath to The Mailbox now, though I think … Continue reading

Posted in Area: The Cube, Area: The Mailbox, Cuisine: English, Cuisine: Modern Mixed, Price: Average, Venue type: Bar, Venue type: Cocktail Bar, Venue type: Restaurant, Venue type: Wine Bar | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Harborne Kitchen – Pop-Up

If you haven’t heard of Chefs Mike Bullard and Jamie Desogus then you’re not paying enough attention to the goings-on of the Brummy food scene.  As well as bringing you fine dining Pop-Up restaurant The Harborne Kitchen, which is intended as … Continue reading

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Umami Indian Kitchen and Cocktail Bar

Harborne welcomes another Indian restaurant to the scene this last weekend as Umami Indian Kitchen and Cocktail bar has opened next to Boo Boo Coffee at the top of War Lane. There is some competition in Harborne for Indian cuisine … Continue reading

Posted in Area: Harborne, Cuisine: Indian, Price: Average, Venue type: Cocktail Bar, Venue type: Restaurant | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Tapas at Amantia Spanish Restaurant

UPDATE FEB ’16: We’ve eaten here a couple of times since this review and the interior is much improved, it now feels like a nice place to sit and eat a meal and is no longer stark. Service is also … Continue reading

Posted in Area: Central Shopping, Area: Colmore Business District, Cuisine: Spanish, Cuisine: Tapas, Price: Average, Price: Cheap as Chips - Inexpensive, restaurant review, Venue type: Restaurant | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Emporio Maria

It’s been a while since I’ve dined under a cypress tree fresco, I think it was 1997 in fact when the world was going Changing Rooms mad, but we did so at Emporio Maria Italian Restaurant on Harborne High Street … Continue reading

Posted in Area: Harborne, Cuisine: Italian, Price: Average, Venue type: Restaurant | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Soul Food from Big Papa’s B.South

We all know the feeling of waking up on a Saturday with a dry mouth and pounding head, and insisting that “the last pint was off”.  A sure fire solution to that rubbish feeling is a fry-up, and we always … Continue reading

Posted in Area: Central Shopping, Area: China Town, Area: City Centre, Cuisine: Modern Mixed, Cuisine: US Southern Soul Food, Price: Cheap as Chips - Inexpensive, Venue type: Bar, Venue type: Entertainment, Venue type: Pub | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Extravagance at The Edgbaston

“A chauffeur in a uniform of robin’s-egg blue crossed  my lawn early that Saturday morning with a surprisingly formal note from his employer: the honour would be entirely Gatsby’s, it said, if I would attend his ‘little party’ that night”. … Continue reading

Posted in Area: Edgbaston, Area: Harborne, Cuisine: Modern Mixed, Price: My eyes are watering - expensive, Venue type: Bar, Venue type: Cocktail Bar, Venue type: Restaurant, Venue type: Wine Bar | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

Turners – New Year’s Eve – 10 Courses

Some people look at New Year’s Eve as a night to remain firmly on the sofa in front of Jules Holland. Not so us. It’s one of our favourite nights of the year, and we usually start researching it in … Continue reading

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