A new lifestyle for Birmingham, Solihull and Leicestershire.
Feb
Work has started on a new and exciting, fine dining Indian restaurant in Mere Green. Formally Pier 39, the new restaurant located on Lichfield Road will be called Bhujon Cocktail Bar and Dining, and will open its doors in April 2012 creating 15 permanent jobs. A whopping £50,000 worth of investment has been injected into the new venue which is designed to...
Jan
Birmingham-based young entrepreneur Sophie Highfield, founder of Café Blend – a licensed coffee bar; has recently opened the doors of its second venue in the city centre of Manchester in The Triangle in December 2011. Café Blend began trading in June 2010 in Birmingham city centre – it has proven to be a very successful new concept of ‘coffee bar’...
Dec
Glynn Purnell, Birmingham’s Michelin starred chef has become a Patron of Cure Leukaemia, the local blood cancer charity based at the Queen Elizabeth (QE) Hospital. Talking about his history with the charity, Glynn said: “I have been supporting Cure Leukaemia for a number of years now. It’s a charity very close to my heart and it was important to me...
Nov
Following the runaway success of the London launch of The Kitchen, this unique dining experience, now known as M Kitchen, is coming to Birmingham. The M Kitchen is a gourmet collaboration between Morrisons and five of the nation’s most respected chefs, Pierre Koffmann, Atul Kochhar, Aldo Zilli, Bryn Williams and Nigel Haworth. Over the course of just three...
Nov
Congratulations to Birmingham’s Pushkar Cocktail Bar and Dining, who have reached the final of the 2011 British Curry Awards. Located on Broad Street, the luxury North Indian restaurant has secured this position for a second successive year and head to the star studded award ceremony at Battersea Evolution in London on the 28th November. This years British...
Oct
Congratulations are in order for Rosie Clark, who has won the top prize in the hunt for the county’s signature dish with her Leicestershire Loaves. She says of the win: “I am delighted that my recipe is Leicestershire’s Signature Dish. It’s an absolute honour and I am so proud to have represented the county in this way. Leicestershire has so much to...