Birmingham ramen specialist Koba-Ko is to open its first permanent shop in Kings Heath, south of the city centre, later this year following a successful crowdfunding campaign. The fundraiser sailed past its £10,000 target this month, ensuring the project’s future. Co-founder Sam Hill had already secured the venue, just off Kings Heath’s main drag, and […]
Leading Midlands chef Glynn Purnell will next week launch a bistro at a newly restored medieval monastery in Coventry. Purnell’s Café & Bistro at Charterhouse will provide coffee and snacks to visitors during the day, and remain open for drinks and meals in the evening. It is a second out-of-town venue for Glynn, known as […]
Chef Andrew Sheridan is moving his highly rated tasting-menu restaurant 8 from Birmingham to Liverpool, in a move he describes as a “homecoming” to the city of his birth. The new venue will be close to The Cavern, where The Beatles started out. He said: “Liverpool is my home and when the opportunity arose, we […]
Leading Birmingham chef Glynn Purnell has opened a tapas bar a street away from his flagship, Purnell’s, in the city’s business district. Plates by Purnell’s occupies the former site of Spanish restaurant Pinchos on Edmund Street. Last year Glynn, aka ‘the Yummy Brummie’, opened The Mount pub in Henley-on-Arden, his first venture outside the Birmingham, […]
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 […]
