Month: August 2016

There's something all a bit Pretty Woman-esque about waking up to see a bath in your bedroom. No, not in a seedy prostitute kind of way, but more that feeling that you don't quite belong in the swanky setting you've found yourself in and have...

Whipping up a saucepan full of sangria isn't my usual camping weekend activity, but recently I found myself winning my friends over with a slightly off-piste version of the Spanish classic. We might not have been sat in a bar on a Spanish Costa but...

By the time you read this, ironically I'll have been back to beautiful Cornwall on my second trip of the summer, which just goes to show what a backlog there's been. I figure better late than never, though, so expect a little flurry of lovely...

Summer is festival season, and if you're a food-fan like me it doesn't mean Glastonbury or Download. It means food fests. Recently I've been back to the fabulous Grillstock, where I spent last year videoing all sorts of meaty goodness and did pretty...

We all know I'm no stranger to Indian food and a fair few Indian restaurants have featured on this blog, from my local Omar's which is still doing us proud, to the marvellous fine dining banquet at Five Rivers in Walsall and our recent trip to...

Who doesn't get tempted by the prospect of dinner on a boat? As you probably noticed recently, Mr M and I headed down to Bristol with his sister and her other half for a weekend of meaty madness at Grillstock. Before the chaos ensued, we managed a...

Since writing this post, the Met Bar and Kitchen has  closed and has now been replaced by Esabella's Restaurant. When you blog about food, you quite often get asked, 'yeah but do you really tell the truth?' I'd like to think I do, but then that's...

Birmingham features a lot on this blog but it's not that often that I get actually do some exploring around it and just stumble on places. I tend to pop in for a specific restaurant, bar, or to meet people, so it's rarely a case of wandering around...

It's already a few days into August and I'm only just getting to my round-up. So many blogs, so little time, as ever! Despite that though, I'm happy to say I think I've given you guys a LOT of reading material in July. Some were things I did last...