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Richard McComb

Richard McComb

Modern vs Classic cuisine... which is best?

How does classic French Escoffier inspired cuisine match up to today's modern menu degustation? Food critic Richard McComb eats his way through 18 courses to find out.Read

New Inn, at Harborne

New Inn at Harborne takes on the chain steakhouses in Birmingham

A Birmingham venue entrepreneur has fired the latest salvo in the city’s “steak wars” by opening a restaurant specialising in rare breed beef.Read

Richard McComb: I've become a prisoner of the dead bug

Sherlock Holmes had Moriarty, Batman had The Joker and Victor Meldrew had unhinged neighbour Nick Swainey.Read

Birmingham chef Adam Bennett finds international success in Bocuse D'Or

Food critic Richard McComb was ringside as Birmingham chef Adam Bennett, of Simpsons, went up against the continent's heavyweights at the Bocuse D'Or cookery contest.Read

Richard McComb: Tories give the game away by tucking into supper

For me, it wasn’t the “granny tax” or the cut in the 50p tax rate that did it. It was the Tory old-guard’s use of the dreaded S-word. Read

Richard McComb: Using war casualties to score political points

It would be in poor taste to evoke the spectre of Luftwaffe raids and the killing of innocent civilians during a prosaic political debate over the rights and wrong of appointing an elected mayor. That, however, is what a tawdry bunch of self-aggrandising local politicians has done.Read

It was springtime in Birmingham - as told by the Tindal Street Press writing class

Members of Tindal Street Press’s first academy masterclass, including Birmingham Post writer Richard McComb, have just completed their 10-week course.Read

Restaurant Review: Restaurant Bosquet in Kenilworth, Warwickshire

We live and eat in a world of fabricated obsession where everyone is desperate to discover the next big thing, the next big name.Read

Edmunds Restaurant

Popular chef Andy Waters leaves leading Birmingham restaurant Edmunds

One of Birmingham’s top chefs has quit his restaurant following an acrimonious dispute with his partners.Read

Loves

Loves Restaurant to stay in Birmingham after considering move

The owners of a top Birmingham restaurant have committed their future to the city despite considering proposals for a new venture.Read

Richard McComb: The race for musical gold at the London 2012 Olympics

With the opening ceremony of the Olympics just four months away, some major issues are unresolved. What tune will the TV stations pick to accompany their Olympic coverage? Read

Orchestra in helicopters

Helicopter heaven for Birmingham Opera Company during Cultural Olympics

Birmingham Opera Company will stage the world premiere of Karlheinz Stockhausen’s spectacular Mittwoch (Wednesday) in an old chemical plant in Digbeth as part of this summer’s Olympics arts festival - with a string quartet performing from overhead helicopters.Read

Richard McComb: The death of classic pop

Adversity gives rise to clarity and produces those moments when one faces up to the big issue of existence, specifically: what albums are in your Top Ten best ever?Read

Richard McComb: We're not designed for an all-night sleep

Like most 40-something men I suffer from a low-level Generalised Anxiety Disorder, or GAD. It’s at night when the problem occurs. I can’t sleepRead

Richard McComb: The battle of the bulge - and the office rivalry gets serious

Last summer, when I decided to get fit or die trying, my training guru carried out a series of tests to see how much lard I was packing. I returned last week for an update on my progress. Read

Kathleen Edwards plays Birmingham's Glee Club to promote new album

Canadian singer/songwriter Kathleen Edwards talks to Richard McComb about love, insecurity and why you won't catch her in Dolce & Gabbana.Read

Author Josie Barnard comes up with some novel solutions

Author Josie Barnard, course tutor for Tindal Street Press's new academy masterclass in Birmingham, tells Richard McComb about her first novel, Poker Face, which won a Betty Trask Award following publication in 1996.Read

Restaurant Review: Marco Pierre White Steakhouse and Grill in The Cube, Birmingham

Never in the history of Birmingham gastronomy have so many come to worship at the restaurant of a chef who doesn’t cook.Read

Tindal Street creative writing course: Read Richard McComb's short story debut

What is it like to tackle your first piece of creative writing – then present it to a group of writers you barely know? The Post's Richard McComb recalls his recent literary debut.Read

Richard McComb: Magistrates out of touch with seriousness of metal theft

The crooks arrived under the cover of darkness and may well have got away with it had they not been utterly and completely useless. Read

Author Profile

Richard McComb is a columnist, writer and restaurant critic for The Birmingham Post. Likes: Stevie Wonder (1963-1982 output); taking the long view; beaches; jumpers for goalposts. Dislikes: (Amongst others) enablement; spitting; the short straw; double maths.