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NEW POST. Kolae, it might be the heat and the martinis talking, but I think it’s my new favourite restaurant.

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This city is better than articles titled ‘Why is Birmingham so ugly”. I’m going to put my favourite pictures of Birmingham on a thread below; feel free to add your own to it. #birminghamisbeautiful

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4 years

My girlfriend wants to get a pizza oven for the garden but I think it’s an unnecessary spend. We’ve compromised and are now getting a pizza oven for the garden.

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2 years

Someone has not thought this through as a business name in Birmingham

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The volunteers have made these games. Not some bull. Not an ex athlete shopping in Selfridges. The volunteers. Everyone is full of joy and pride. They epitomise everything which is great about Birmingham,

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1 year

The gates of hell have opened

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4 years

I love Digbeth, but this set up for DDC Coventry is next level.

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4 years

Working on the signature dish for my restaurant. It’s called ‘the land before thyme’

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4 years

I’ve muted Birmingham Live. They aren’t doing anything positive for this city right now. It’s click bait of the highest order; misleading headlines that are using panic and fear for interaction. I find it really sad that it is Brum’s primary news source.

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3 years

You might not like the Royal family but please keep your fucking opinions to yourself for a day. That’s someone’s Husband. Someone’s Father.

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4 years

Yes we have a Banksy. Yes it’s lovely and Christmassy and has reindeers. But please consider why Banksy chose Brum; because our levels of homelessness are out of control. Instead of rushing to Vyse st for a picture for the ‘gram, spend that time reading about how you can help

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3 years

Edgbaston reservoir looks beautiful this morning. #birminghamyesbirmingham

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2 years

The opening ceremony is just brilliant. An open love letter to Birmingham, it’s everything it needs to be and more. Unmissable tv later on this week. @birminghamcg22 have completely excelled themselves.

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2 years

Today I take my Dad for shopping. Buy him some lunch. Beat him at pool. Drink all the beer in Birmingham with him. Today is my favourite day of the year.

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3 years

Nice touch, Birmingham

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2 years

@KarenB139 Happy Birthday Freddie. I’d be honoured if you wanted to write a guest post for me, or even just join me for dinner at any restaurant you’d like to eat at. It’s on me.

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NEW POST. Wondered where the best pizza in Brum is? Or negroni, breakfast, balti, burger and more? Here is the Best of Birmingham; the definitive list.

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4 years

The negativity towards this weekend is really winding me up. If you don’t like it, stay at home; it’s that simple. It’s legal to open and places are doing it to stay afloat. Nobody is breaking the law by going out, seeing friends and putting money back in to the industry.

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3 years

Part of @DarkHorseMosele ongoing campaign to create a better environment to work and drink in. Take a bow.

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4 years

Beautiful, beautiful Brum.

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3 years

Got this from Aldi off the back of @FoodieBoys suggestion. Last night I found it a bit one-note, but now it’s opened up it’s great; heavy and complex, full of fruit. An absolute steal at £5.50. Going to start a thread here of supermarket wines I like for those interested.

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6 years

Mom and Dad married 35 years today. Tonight we go to the curry house they ate in every week and just Dad will be there. Life is short. Make every second count with the ones you love.

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3 years

I’ve spoke to two people today about lock down and both were crying. If you live by yourself in Brum and want company, I’ll do my best to be your outdoor exercise partner for a walk. Nobody should go through this alone. Just DM me.

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6 years

Go fuck your self, Pete

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2 years

This is amazing for Yikouchi who absolutely deserve all the praise heading their way. A bizarre lunch, made all the more surprising that someone I’ve spent years ripping off badly reads my stuff. Cheers @jayrayner1

Yikouchi at Chancer’s Café: ‘An utter joy’ – restaurant review

A move to Birmingham from Beijing lets this fine British chef show off his robust talents

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3 years

I love this city

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4 years

I fucking love watching Brummies succeed.

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1 year

Asked for a negroni. The gent poured 75ml of each spirit into each. 225ml negroni, or a negroni thrice. 6 euro. It’s been lovely knowing you all.

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4 years

The footage of the knife attack perpetrator is out and so begins the same old racist shit. I have nothing to add other than if you bring his race into it, or BLM, or any other tired stereotype, please unfollow me before I call you out for being the prick you are.

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4 years

When I asked @PloughHarborne to get involved with @Taborhouse365 they passed me a menu and said “pick whatever you want for us to cook them”. Tonight we filled the back of a taxi with box after box of various pizza to be delivered to the shelter. Amazing work tonight.

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5 years

HUGE congratulations to Brum’s very own @40StPauls for scooping the title of Best Gin Bar in The World. Incredible news and fully deserved.

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3 months

Impossible to not get a bit emosh about this. Brum’s first two star.

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6 years

*immediate changes to the blog*. As of today I'll accept no more invitations to group blogger or PR events. I no longer want to write about the same restaurants as everyone else, so will focus on the kind of restaurants to not hand out free meals. If its shit, I'll say its shit.

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2 years

I buy a half bottle of wine on the train and offer a glass to the guy sat opposite me. We drink the wine, he goes to the shop and buys another half bottle for us to drink. This is how every train journey should ever be.

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4 years

Confirmed bookings for the next two months or so looking pretty sweet. The Coach Crown at Burchetts Green Harborne Kitchen Opus Opheem L’Enclume Lake Road Kitchen Henrock Parker’s Arms Opheem Hampton Manor Opheem Ynyshir Putting my (redundancy) money where my mouth is.

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Top tip for avoiding queues at the bar of Wetherspoons. Don’t drink in Wetherspoons.

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I’m proposing a minute silence for the influencers no longer being able to blag a living. It’s those being hit the hardest in these times

Coronavirus: Influencers' glossy lifestyles lose their shine

Advertisers are cancelling contracts with influencers who can’t travel to create content in lockdown.

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4 years

10.39am. I’ve had a pork pie and a glass of fizz.

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Without question, if one Birmingham restaurant is going to win 2* in January, it’s Adams. Precise, intricate, with absolute clarity of flavour. A class lunch of the highest order.

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4 years

I don’t react well to criticism

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4 years

Heated outdoor places. Meals at home packages. Restaurant’s offering takeaways. Make yourself heard and I’ll retweet everyone of you.

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2 years

My city

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6 years

This may just be the greatest thing to ever happen to ShitAdvisor. Take a bow, @thewildernessb5

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4 years

If single households mean solo lunches, I’m going to do it properly

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3 years

Only in Macclesfield

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4 years

And I sincerely hope that the businesses who do open realise they don’t need ‘collabs’ who’ll go once for free and never return. They need regular customers who are willing to accept the risk and spend money with them. Instagram likes won’t pay bills.

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3 years

Opheem last night was sensational. Birmingham feels a very special place to be right now; so much young talent pushing and inspiring each other to reach new levels. I woke up thinking about this halibut dish.

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2 years

NEW POST. Fat Hippo. The worst burger I have eaten in Birmingham.

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1 year

Now THIS is a menu.

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2 years

Tickets left for mens beach volleyball but none for the ladies. Birmingham, you dirty city of perverts.

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4 years

Lunch was excellent. I appreciate that a lot of people’s financial situation might be less than ideal at present, but £40 for this is a bargain.

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2 years

Brum continues to capitalise on Tolkien by building the Eye of Sauron on Broad St

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2 years

All good and well but it has to start with Birmingham Live. Ten months ago it ran the headline “why is Birmingham so ugly”. Ironic or not, we need upwards hitting from them, not scraping the barrel for clicks. They perpetuate much of the subconscious negativity.

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It's time to turn the page

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4 years

NEW POST. Eat Out to Help Out: the right way. Support independent. Support local.

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4 months

Indian Chip Shop at @herberts_yard . Blending Black Country style battered chips with the most incredible chicken tikka, fish pakora and lamb keema. Hand on heart, it’s up there with Buddha Belly and Flying Cows as the best street food I’ve ever eaten.

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5 years

Let’s not mess around; The Backyard Cafe is the best breakfast going. Sausage patty, muffin, hash brown, fried egg, crispy onions, Welsh rarebit. A McMuffin on steroids. Unreal.

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9 months

Seems apt to have this in the house. Lovely early birthday present.

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3 years

Whilst I was in the land of nod, @clairelucy_ was running around the reservoir, taking bad-ass pictures of the city coming alive under light.

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3 years

Harborne Walkway was majestic today

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4 years

I’m busy as fuck today and I don’t care. For the first time in my life I’m being paid to do what I love and it feels incredible.

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2 years

Do not adjust your eyes. That is chips AND battered sausage AND scraps AND gravy AND curry sauce

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3 years

Reason #2679 why TripAdvisor is a crock of shit:

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4 years

I hereby declare the smoked potatoes with beer cheese sauce at @PureCraftBars THE GREATEST BAR SNACK IN THE WORLD

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4 years

NEW POST; Gino D’Campo My Restaurant. Not Fantastico.

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2 years

I’ve had three pizzas from Poli in the last month. It’s the best in Brum and, I think, probably the best in the UK right now. Better than ‘O Ver, which is ranked the highest ranked on the Euro list in England. The bread is mind blowing. It’s quite special.

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2 years

The worst kept secret in Stirchley is now out. @SaiBuddhaBelly is opening opposite The Bournebrook. Expect them to have pretty cool neighbours who do banging drinks, a competition winner to open the most ambitious restaurant in the area to date, and another street food to join.

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3 years

Sneaky peak inside Estado da India, the latest restaurant from the Lasan group, opening up next to M&S on Harborne High Street.

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3 years

This is my mate Nathan. He isn’t on Twitter. You might not like what’s coming later, but this isn’t just about you. Stop bitching and do your part.

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Businesses telll me about your amended service hours, your new days that you’ll open, and your plans for takeaways/home deliveries. I’ll retweet them all. Let’s make this account a place of positive news as opposed to the anxiety ridden doom and gloom.

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4 years

Don’t let anyone tell you that Birmingham isn’t beautiful

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11 months

This piece on Grealish in GQ is sensational “Waltzing through an airport blasting Fleetwood Mac, not a second of sleep on his face, about to absolutely ruin whatever science podcast Kevin de Bruyne was planning on listening to”

Manchester City's treble win was soulless and hard to like – apart from Jack Grealish

In an age of football puritanism, Grealish makes this robotic City team almost possible to like

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4 years

Made it, lads

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4 years

Crab meat is better than lobster.

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3 years

Got to write a piece for the meal for the best of the ‘at home’ options for The Mirror. Ft. @HamptonManor @GauthierSoho @YnyshirRest @aktarislam @bleeckerburger @FazendaGroup @NorthcoteUK and @wearerudyspizza . Show it some love, please.

Lockdown Michelin-starred food at home from how easy it is to prep to the taste

Our guide to the best restaurant meals you can have sent to your house anywhere in the UK while you're stuck indoors

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1 year

Aktar at Home continues to be one of life’s bargain joys. Todays lunch was beef vindaloo, some tempered chickpeas and chicken makhani. Massively underestimated the portion size and overestimated my appetite. Will be eating curry all week.

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The wonderful @HarborneKitchen coming up with the goods tonight with 30 portions of curry and rice for @letsfeedbrum . Great people doing great stuff for great causes. I love this city.

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4 years

I’ve been a long term believer in anyone returning from Benidorm mandatory quarantining for 14 days, global pandemic or otherwise.

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1 year

Alex Dilling will be the UK’s next 3 star restaurant. Sensational.

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2 years

Stop 4. Credit where credit is due, Bonehead has never been better and this is the best thing we’ve eaten today by a distance.

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3 years

Cheddar and ‘nduja toastie. Egg fried in crispy chilli oil. Absolute filth.

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2 years

Ten weeks ago we sat at this very table and you paid for the drinks over a few hours of laughs and gossip. “You get them next time”, you said. Rest easy, mate. I’ll always feel incredibly lucky being able to call you a friend. I wish that hug had been much longer.

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Had a lovely message from a restaurant manager telling me how someone had traveled to the restaurant purely off the back of the blog. She signed it off with “I’m amazed that anyone pays attention to your shit”. She’s right

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The streetfood, the starred restaurants, Harborne Kitchen, Cheal's, Foliums, Opheem; all these great places pushing for accolades. Our independent scene that gets better by the day. The only people who say Brum is shit are those who have never been here. Our city is incredible.

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3 years

I’m surprised more people haven’t taken a picture of this view. It’s really quite something. Everyone should be taking a picture of it and tweeting it. We need more people saying how they feel about the city.

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2 years

The Tom Cruise effect. Add a rice and naan and it’s a £30.75 curry.

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2 years

I find the level of dignity just astonishing. When my mom passed I wasn’t capable of doing anything other than staring blankly at a wall for five days. He has the worlds eyes on him whilst he his grieving.

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2 years

I’ve just witnessed a man propose to his girlfriend outside of Claire’s Accessories in the Bullring and I’m not sure my year is going to recover

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2 years

If ever 2021 could ever be summed-up in a product, @walkers_crisps have released a potato flavour potato crisp.

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3 years

Some of you may have noticed I omitted Yorkshire puddings from the World Cup, because Yorkshire puddings on a Christmas dinner are an abomination. Thank you for attending my TED talk.

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I’ve now caught up with last weeks GBM. Anyone who has been to Upstairs will know that @tom_chef1 was never in question with the cooking, but what stood out was his humility, manners, and support for his fellow competitors. He is a credit to the central region.

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Congrats to @HarborneKitchen on the green star initiative award at this years Michelin awards. Leading the way for sustainable eating in the city.

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4 years

It brings me joy that the readers of the blog are so supportive towards me

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I mean I’m happy for people from elsewhere to adapt this city as their own from lesser places, but to have grown up with people taking the piss out the accent, saying how shit your home is and then succeed. Fair fucks. We Brummies are cut from a different cloth.

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I fucking love watching Brummies succeed.

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