food Archive

  • City centre news – 27 August 2010

    City centre news – 27 August 2010

    The city centre news for August 27: Traders at Birmingham Wholesale Markets ‘in limbo’ over delay to planned move Birmingham Post Traders at Birmingham’s wholesale markets face years stuck at their “not fit for purpose” Digbeth site following delays in the £100 million plan to move them out of town. Rail repairs hit train services [...]

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  • Review – Tin Tin Chinese Restaurant, BrindleyPlace

    Review – Tin Tin Chinese Restaurant, BrindleyPlace

    I can’t remember what year it was I first went to Tin Tin‘s restaurant; it was the mid-90s for sure, so it can’t have been long after it first opened. A friend was taking me out for my birthday, and when I said I didn’t particularly like Chinese food, she replied “trust me – you’ll [...]

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  • Birmingham International Food Fair returns

    Birmingham International Food Fair returns

    The Birmingham International Food Fair returns this week and has doubled in size following the huge success of last year’s inaugural event. And, just as the Frankfurt Christmas Market has grown year on year, Council leader Mike Whitby believes the International Food Fair can develop into one of the major events in Birmingham’s social calendar. [...]

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  • City centre news – 9 June, 2010

    City centre news – 9 June, 2010

    The city centre news for 9 June: Police Tasking Meeting – any issues to raise? BrumCityCentre.com It is almost a month since I attended the first police City Centre Tasking meeting since the police were reorganised. The area it covers is the main City Centre retail/business district, along Broad Street/Brindleyplace, and Southside. Birmingham’s world first [...]

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  • City centre news – 4 June, 2010

    City centre news – 4 June, 2010

    The city centre news for 4 June: Private vs state schools in Birmingham Daily Telegraph King Edward’s School v King Edward VI Five Ways School in Birmingham. Cannabis factory found after residents complain Peterborough Today A man has been arrested after the discovery of a cannabis factory in a flat in Birmingham, police have said. [...]

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  • City centre news – 2 June, 2010

    City centre news – 2 June, 2010

    The city centre news for June 2: Birmingham city centre takeaway pizza parlour riddled with mice Birmingham Mail THE owner of a filthy Birmingham takeaway pizza outlet found to be “riddled” with mice droppings has been given a suspended prison sentence and banned from running a food business. East Pizza, in Smallbrook Queensway, run by [...]

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  • City centre news – April 30

    City centre news – April 30

    The city centre news for April 30: Cheap as Chips: Big Bite, Broad Street, Birmingham Birmingham Mail ISN’T IT odd that what will become the tallest tower in Brum is to be built on a pinprick of land on Broad Street? What future for the site’s beautiful 1836 bank turned restaurant, good enough to host a [...]

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  • City centre news – April 25

    City centre news – April 25

    The city centre news for April 25: Jamie Oliver to open restaurant in Birmingham Sunday Mercury The celebrity chef, currently wowing audiences Stateside with his healthy eating campaign, has his eye on the abandoned Borders store in the city’s iconic Bullring for a 260-cover eaterie that would be the biggest in Brum. St George’s Day [...]

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