Midlands food critic James Day travels around the region sampling what the regions’ restaurants have to offer.

Each month James will be sampling food from around the regions’ restaurants and eateries and reporting back to Midlands Business News.

For more information and restaurant reviews check out James’s other websites; Eat the Midlands, Dine with us and Midlands Lifestyle Dining Club Gourmet Life.

If you would like your restaurant to be considered for review on Midlands Business News please contact James here at info@midlandsbusinessnews.co.uk

• Birmingham Airport Control Tower Restaurant   My most memorable meal was up an airport control tower... Over the years, writes wine and food journalist and broadcaster Philippe Boucheron, I have been fortunate enough to eat at more Michelin starred restaurants than I can count on my fingers.  As we...
• Carters of Moseley After popping into the opening back in November 2010, meeting owners Holly and Brad and tasting a few samples of the food I promised faithfully to return for a proper meal at Carters of Moseley. Just over a year later and I’ve finally made it through the door. It...
• Turners Restaurant, Birmingham Birmingham’s three Michelin chefs are vying with each other for the city’s lunch trade, but is it Game, Set & Match to Turners Restaurant, Harborne? Richard Turner is an exciting, talented and brilliantly driven chef. His tiny eponymous Michelin starred resta...
• Marco Pierre White Steakhouse Bar & Grill, Birmingham   If your suffering from post Christmas and New Year blues, fed up of the dark nights, cold weather and can’t bear to hear anything else about the world economic crisis and what 2012 may bring, may I suggest a tonic in the form of a trip to Marco Pierre Whit...
• Peepo Italian Restaurant, Bridgnorth, Shropshire Peepo Pizza… Bridgnorth isn’t known for its high street brands or innovative cuisine – bar a few exceptions – its not quite Ludlow….However, in the past twelve months there have been a couple of creations which are good enough to become regional success stories, ...
• Three Choirs Vineyard, Worcestershire We were sitting on the terrace enjoying a delicious pre-lunch glass of sparkling wine. The retired Californian couple to my left had been saying how much the view reminded them of Mendicino County.  On my right young husband and wife, their hands full with a toddler...
• Saracens Restaurant, Hadnell, Near Shrewsbury Philippe Boucheron discovers one of Shropshire’s culinary secrets – The Saracen at Hadnell It’s no secret, I enjoy dining.  My ample Pickwickian figure is sufficient evidence.  But best of all I enjoy discovering restaurants with really talented chefs using local...
• Rossopomodoro Pizza, Selfridges, Birmingham Tonino Magno is a big, stocky fellow with the broad shoulders of a rugby forward and the reach and delicate fingers of a concert pianist. However, he is not making music but creating the most melodious pizza that you will have tasted outside Naples.  The son of a pizza ...
• Beef Restaurant, Kenilworth, Warwickshire   “It simply must rank as one of the very finest steaks that I have ever eaten.” It takes the farmer the best part of two years to raise the beast, the butcher 28 to 30 days to get it ready for the kitchens, and then less than ten minutes for the chef to coc...
• The Moat House, Acton Trussell, Stafford The Moat House, Acton Trussell, Restaurant Review by Philippe Boucheron who enjoys a most entertaining Tasting Menu. Really good restaurants are said to combine gastronomy with a sense of theatre.  At the Moat House, Acton Trussell – near junction 13 for Stafford...
• The Lion & Pheasant, Shrewsbury   Shrewsbury ~ An absolute antidote to extravagant ostentation Today far too many people consider a display of extravagant ostentation by hotels and restaurants as a sure sign of excellence.  At last I have found the perfect antidote to this vulgarity at ...
• Simpsons Restaurant, Edgbaston, Birmingham     Man does not live by bread alone (Deuteronomy 8: 2-3) An old friend of mine, a former Egon Ronay Chief Inspector, once explained that one sure-fire way of evaluating a really good restaurant was by the quality and variety of their homemade bre...
• Loves Restaurant, Birmingham Imagine, if you will, a romantic 'mamma & poppa' restaurant serving outstanding food set on a triangular Piazza beside a canal and overlooking a footbridge. Only this canal is in Birmingham, not Venice, and the restaurant is run by the young husband and wife team of Steve and Claire Love.
• The Lowfield Inn, Marton, Shropshire Like many of my fellow foodies, I’ve found recent weeks a bit frustrating – snow, ice, more snow, and, according to restaurateurs – shortage of consumer funds due to a maxing out on credit cards during December.