Rattle Owl – 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 […]
Tierra Tacos – Birmingham
Review of Tierra tacos Birmingham
BrasilPortu – Bearwood, 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 […]
Rosa’s Thai – Birmingham
Review of Rosa’s Thai Birmingham
Where to Eat in Verona
Verona has absolutely mega massive Bill Shakespeare vibes. The bard quilled not one, but two bloody plays based in this Italian city. You’ve got ‘The Two Gentlemen of Verona’ and the lesser known ‘Romeo and Juliet’. It’s perhaps this link to Verona which made it appeal to me, you see I’m actually from Solihull — […]
Dishoom – 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 […]
Walkabout – 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 […]
Gino D’Acampo – My Restaurant – Birmingham
A review of Gino D’Acampo Birmingham
Eat Vietnam – 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 […]
Ynyshir – Wales
1 x taxi that didn’t turn up. 1 x train that stopped after 10 minutes and chucked everyone off because of flooding. 1 x taxi that broke down on the hard shoulder. 1 x cancelled train. 1 x lovely man from Machynlleth called Huw. That’s how we spent our first wedding anniversary getting to Wales. […]