Skosh - sounds a bit like a weapon someone would have used in the olden days. “He was clobbered to death with a skosh.” I don’t know the origins of the name of this restaurant, but I’m sure if you Google it you’ll probably find out. What I do know is this was my favourite … Continue reading Skosh – York

Tommy Banks, sounds a bit like cockney rhyming slang doesn’t it? “I’m just popping to the allotment for a Tommy Banks.” = “I’m off to the shed for a wank.” There was, fortunately, no masturbating during my visit to Roots, mainly because Tommy wasn’t there. Full disclosure: I actually booked this meal because I’d been … Continue reading Roots – York

The grand old Duke of York, what an indecisive bastard, not like me, I’m mega decisive. How decisive exactly? Well, take this for example: My lady wife spent her 30th birthday in Lockdown uno, and her 31st in lockdown tres, so I DECIDED to take her away for the weekend once we were vacc'ed up … Continue reading Rattle Owl – York

Review of Tierra tacos Birmingham

Bearwood High Street? More like Beerwood High Street! You see, it now has a craft beer place on it so it’s officially allowed to be called a high street rather than just a road. Congratulations! It was outside this craft beer place while sinking a couple of juicy pints that I started talking to a … Continue reading BrasilPortu – Bearwood, Birmingham

Review of Rosa’s Thai Birmingham

I’m not sure if any of you have noticed but Dishoom have opened in Birmingham. Birmingham’s top bloggers have probably already covered it, but I thought I’d take it as an opportunity to try and get some traffic to my website. Then I thought, “hang on, Rob, you could give something back to the blogging … Continue reading Dishoom – Birmingham

AD / Invited / I don't know what you're supposed to put here. Being an absolute expert at: A) watching sport + B) drinking + C) eating It was only a matter of time before the people at Walkabout invited me to visit them. You see, there is categorically no one in the West Midlands … Continue reading Walkabout – Birmingham

A review of Gino D'Acampo Birmingham

Have I ever mentioned that I lived in Vietnam? Yeah, six months spent at the Viet Duc Industrial College in Sông Công, Thai Nguyen province back in 2004. My time was spent teaching at the college and a bank up the road. I also spent a lot of time listening to my Irish flat mate … Continue reading Eat Vietnam – Birmingham