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Richard McComb

Richard McComb

Richard McComb: My new year goose was a cooking disaster

I have just oven roasted Carlos Tevez and it is going to take some time to get over the trauma.Read

A taste of paradise in Barbados

It's cold, it's bleak, it's January. Richard McComb escapes the gloom on a dining tour of Barbados.Read

Wife Natalie leads worldwide tributes to 'soul mate' Dave Hodgson

The wife of former Birmingham marketing director Dave Hodgson, who died from cancer on New Year’s Eve, has paid tribute to the “soul mate” who knew her like no other. Read

Richard McComb: Time for the 2011 McComb Awards for Dining

It’s that time of year again when the discount wrapping paper comes off the most insignificant awards in the culinary calender.Read

Restaurant Review: Mount Fuji, at the Bullring, Birmingham

Birmingham was the most heavily bombed city outside London during the Second World War, tonnes of explosives raining down from the night skies.Read

After Birmingham's Balti Belt, here comes the Delhi District

In the beginning was the Balti Belt but now Birmingham is fast developing a new culinary quarter. Anyone for dinner in the Delhi District?Read

Richard McComb: Back to the 80s ... in our 40s

The steamy room reverberated to the subversive sounds of alternative 80s music – The Clash, The Southern Death Cult, The Psychedelic Furs and Wham’s cutting-edge Club Tropicana (“Fun and sunshine/There’s enough for everyone”).Read

Keep calm and carry on with the Christmas cooking

Be prepared - Richard McComb asks two chefs how to tackle the challenge of cooking on Christmas Day.Read

Richard McComb: £39? Fir the love of Christmas

Having gone on record as saying I would wait until the last minute to buy the scruffiest, cheapest Christmas tree, I exercised my unilateral opt-out – and impulse-bought a prime stick of greenery.Read

Dave Hodgson: You plan for your future but you don't know what your future is

Dave Hodgson is under no illusion about what is happening to him as he fights cancer. He tells Richard McComb about fulfilling dreams and coping day by day.Read

Richard McComb: Dusting off the 1980s 7-inch singles for a school reunion

After 26 years of self-imposed silence and non-communication, I am preparing to take part in the second school reunion of the year. Read

The Birmingham company which makes cufflinks for the stars

Birmingham's cufflink-maker to the stars is making a belated entrance into the spotlight.Read

Richard McComb: Ballet rekindles the Christmas spirit for me

I was sitting in Row L at the Birmingham Hippodrome when I felt a warm, once familiar tingling sensation. It started somewhere around the top of my head, spread to my shoulders and induced a misty, inner glow. Read

Restaurant Review: Sabai Sabai, in Harborne

I don’t entirely get Thai food, although I am sure this is my fault. In fact, I am convinced of it. Read

Chef at Birmingham restaurant Lasan named UK curry chef of the year

A Birmingham chef has been named Chef of the Year at the British Curry Awards.Read

Desperate plea from Birmingham arts centre Mac over budget cuts

The most popular arts centre in Birmingham may have to cut its opening hours and “dumb down” artistic output if it loses out in the city council’s next spending review.Read

Richard McComb: A shame for Birmingham to lose the Great British Eatery

It was mid-week, the cupboard was bare and the troops on the domestic front needed a morale boost. I did the honourable dad thing: I said I would pick up fish and chips on the way home.Read

Share fraud helped destroy Birmingham chip shop the Great British Eatery

The owners of an award-winning Birmingham fish and chip shop have revealed how their company crashed with debts of more than £200,000 after they became unwittingly entangled in an international share fraud.Read

Richard McComb: Being Serena Williams...

I am gasping for breath, looking at a hoop and feebly attempting to bounce a ball when the realisation hits home.Read

Wolverhampton director's film on the forgotten war in Burma

Film-maker Don Clark tells Richard McComb about the voices emerging decades after the end of the ‘forgotten war’ in Burma.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.