[Disclosure: We paid in full at the White Swan at Shawell – this wasn’t an invite] It’s been six-and-a-half years since I’ve written about the White Swan at Shawell on […]
Review: The White Swan, Shawell
September 13, 2023
Review: Raymond Blanc’s Le Manoir Aux Quat’Saisons
August 15, 2023
[Disclosure: My mum paid for us to have lunch at Le Manoir, which is good, because I very much couldn’t have afforded it] There are some restaurants that are on […]
Review: The Table from Kristian Curtis
April 16, 2023
[Disclosure: I was invited to one of the several preview nights of The Table] “We want people to leave and think, ‘shit, I haven’t had that before’,” Kristian Curtis tells […]
Review: Grace & Savour, Hampton Manor
April 6, 2023
The best meals are ones full of moments that you’ll never forget. Like the moment my mum asked for a spoon to accompany her main course of ex dairy beef […]
Review: Upstairs by Tom Shepherd, Lichfield
March 29, 2023
The best dishes are those that render you speechless. They rob you of words, leaving only smiles and strange noises that don’t need vocabulary to show that the sentiment behind […]
Review: Orelle, Birmingham
December 14, 2022
[Disclosure: I was asked to review Orelle for a review for National Geographic Traveller Food magazine, so our meal was complimentary. I wasn’t obliged to write a review for this […]
Review: Lunching at Adam’s, Birmingham
November 24, 2022
[Disclosure: We paid in full at Adam’s – well, my pal Laura of Bite Your Brum paid for me as a treat, but there was no invite here] Adam’s in […]
Review: Gourmet Food Kitchen, Coventry – consistently excellent
November 10, 2022
[Disclosure: We paid in full at Gourmet Food Kitchen] If you want to snag a place at Gourmet Food Kitchen – Coventry’s own, unique answer to fine dining – then […]
Review: Black & Green, Barnt Green
September 15, 2022
[Disclosure: I was asked to review Black & Green for Nat Geo Traveller Food, but how could I not write something for here too?] I grew up about ten minutes […]
Review: 670 grams, Digbeth, Birmingham
April 28, 2022
There are some meals that stop you in your tracks. The ones that leave you reaching for words yet struggling to find them, helplessly reduced to wide eyes and shrugged […]
