Recently, Salt Bae said, "Now everybody wants to be a butcher because of me. Now, if you ask a kid, they want to be Salt Bae. They see me as an idol. I’m an inspiration to a lot of people in a very short period of time.” It’s a terrifying prospect isn’t it? A world … Continue reading Butchers Social – Dorridge

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