Updated 9:58pm 22 May 2012

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Richard McComb

Richard McComb

Taste of Birmingham axed in favour of new festival

Birmingham is to host a new food festival promoting mass market gastronomy after Taste of Birmingham was axed in favour of a more populist culinary celebration.Read

Shake it up, baby, with cocktails at home

A range of drink-at-home cocktails, invented in Birmingham, require you to shake, not stir. Richard McComb reports.Read

Restaurant Review: Asha's in Birmingham

The issue of service in restaurants has become a popular dinner-table talking point thanks to Michel Roux’s BBC2 show.Read

Richard McComb: Logging on to fear.co.uk

According to police.uk, the super new website designed to show taxpayers how crime is ravaging their neighbourhood, my street has gone. Read

Memorial service to Birmingham's homeless who died in 2010

Gathered at Digbeth’s SIFA Fireside centre, about 30 people pay tribute to those who have died homeless on the streets of Birmingham in the past 12 months. Read

Richard McComb: Police rating website is a waste of time - and cutbacks will make matters worse

How long do you think is reasonable to wait before being served a drink in a restaurant? Five minutes? Ten minutes? Read

Birmingham should have more than three Michelin-starred restaurants

Birmingham is no longer the whipping boy of national food critics, although clearly there is still considerable work to be done.Read

Richard McComb: Remembrance Day should be sacrosanct

The bouquet of decaying flowers lies on a cold marble plinth, still wrapped in its shop cellophane.Read

Keeping up appearances in Birmingham's North Western Arcade

A coffee shop without lattes and pierced baristas? What spiffing good fun, says Richard McComb.Read

Talented youngsters pass the FutureChef taste test

Food Critic Richard McComb watches the kitchen stars of tomorrow in action in Birmingham.Read

Birmingham's Michelin star restaurants keep their places in 2011 guide

Birmingham’s three Michelin star restaurants have cemented their place in national gastronomy by keeping their coveted status in the guide’s centenary year. Read

Richard McComb: My 2010 dining awards

They are possibly the least talked about awards in the catering and hospitality industry and they’re back: the 2010 McComb Awards for Dining, better known as the MADs.Read

Richard McComb: Happy to be stuck at home in the snow

As I write this column, I have no idea what is happening about Christmas.Read

Future stars of Villa Park in the kitchens and hospitality suites

Cooking's coming home... to Villa Park. Richard McComb reports on an innovative apprenticeship for budding hospitality stars.Read

Finding the right Champagne for Christmas

Food Critic Richard McComb trawls the supermarket shelves to find out the best festive Champagnes for last-minute shoppers.Read

Richard McComb: A Christmas truce between food critic and restaurant

It is almost 100 years now since English and German soldiers downed rifles and celebrated Christmas on the Western Front with an impromptu armistice.Read

Funding cuts put Birmingham charity for homeless SIFA Fireside at risk

A Birmingham charity for the homeless could be a torch-bearer for David Cameron’s drive for a Big Society, but SIFA Fireside is facing job cuts for the second time in a year. Richard McComb reportsRead

Restaurant Review: Carluccio's at The Water's Edge, Brindleyplace

Like most chaps, I am unsure about my cholesterol score and blood pressure, just as I don’t know my best side for portrait photography and am ignorant about what I’d like to do when I grow up.Read

Restaurant Review: Jamie's Italian, at the Bullring, Birmingham

Richard McComb endures a dispiriting visit to Jamie Oliver's new restaurant in Birmingham.Read

Richard McComb: Keeping the home fires burning

The quest to find my favourite coal merchant - so far, and yet, so near.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.