A well-known modern Indian restaurant in Birmingham that closed down during the pandemic is to be resurrected – for the second time in five years. Deolali in Moseley will be brought back to life this time following a £1.15 million cash injection from a local property developer. The restaurant originally opened in 2005 in a converted […]
Des Gunewardina (left in photo), half of the D&D London operation that took over Conran Restaurants in a 2006 management buy-out, has left the company “to pursue other ventures”, days before it opens its 41st venue, Orelle in Birmingham. His co-founder David Loewi, the other D who served as deputy chairman and chief operating officer, […]
Andrew Sheridan, the chef behind the experimental Birmingham venue About 8, has opened a neighbourhood restaurant in his home village of Barnt Green, Worcestershire. Launched this week, Black & Green serves up to 16 diners, with five- and six-course tasting menus at £55 and £65. Focusing on “humble local ingredients”, Black & Green is a […]
Former Hampton Manor head chef Rob Palmer opens his ambitious first restaurant in Solihull on the outskirts of Birmingham next Friday, 18 March. Toffs by Rob Palmer will have an open kitchen and just 26 covers, including six at a bench overlooking the chefs at work. Rob grew up nearby in Castle Bromwich and has […]
Glynn Purnell, whose Purnell’s in Birmingham city centre is hailed as the second best restaurant in Britain in the new Harden’s 2022 guide, is to open his first venue outside the city in Henley-in-Arden next month. The Mount by Glynn Purnell is a refurbished historic pub – formerly the Butchers’ Social – on the high street […]
Gino D’Acampo is planning to launch a string of Italian restaurants under his Luciano brand this year, with venues in Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds and Sheffield all in the pipeline. The celebrity chef, pictured with Cheshire reality TV star Christine McGuiness at the opening this week of Luciano – named after his first-born son – in Alderley […]
The trio behind long-running Birmingham city centre restaurant Opus, which closed down in the face of pandemic losses after 15 years in May, have launched a new venture in Edgbaston, appropriately named Chapter. Ann Tonks, Ben Ternent and Irene Allan (pictured above) say the new venue, in Greenfield Crescent, Edgbaston Village, will focus on top-quality […]
Albert’s Schloss, Manchester’s Bavarian-inspired beerhall and Alpine restaurant, opens a spinoff in Birmingham on Monday (6 December), in the city’s Paradise Forum. Billed as an ‘escape from the modern world’, the Schloss will offer live music and cabaret, a wide range of beers, wines and cocktails, and a menu of rib-sticking classics such as cheese […]
Qavali, a glamorous Indo-Persian restaurant, opened this month in Birmingham’s Brindley Place, inspired by the ecstatic Sufi singing tradition (also known as qawwali) whose adherents stretch from Turkey across Iran and Afghanistan into India and Pakistan. With a menu that takes “the best dishes from each cuisine” in this region, the 250-seat venue features a […]
When Grace Dent reviewed The Langham’s new ‘pub’ The Wigmore, she decided she never, ever wanted to go there again. We would hazard a guess that The Guardian’s Marina O’Loughlin would be quite happy to go back any time…“Silly? A bit. Delicious? Oh yes.” “Creative cocktails in their own weeny tankards… pies and roasts and toasties… reimagined […]
