Chef Adam Stokes and his wife Natasha will relocate their city-centre two-year-old, which “set a new standard for fine dining in Birmingham”, to a £1.5 million venue next year. For the last two and a half years Adam’s has been run as a (sort of) pop-up in Bennett’s Hill, but will reopen as a permanent […]
Harden’s survey suggestions for gin bars and palaces in London Crocker’s Folly NW8 A magnificent Victorian gin palace rescued from an uncertain fate and given a complete makeover; it was built in 1898 as the palatial Crown Hotel by Frank Crocker who mistakenly believed the site would be adjacent to London’s newest railway station, ultimately […]
Steve Love’s Birmingham canal-side venture into fine dining is to close on 31 May after six years. Though Loves has always been “difficult to find” it was considered well worth the extra effort by our reporters for “first-class” cuisine that’s “inventive without being faddish”. The “outstanding” list of drinks “from UK-centric bubbles to local liqueurs” was […]
