Fantastic dinner at Piccolino Birmingham!

Had some fab food at Piccolino in Brindley Place I would definitely recomend the restaurant if you haven't been before! We both went for Chicken dishes :)

View from the rooftop restaurant at The Cube Birmingham

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Here is one of the pictures I took when I went up to check out the new Marco Pierre White restaurant...It looks over to Bath Row and the Peace Garden.

Mayan Cheery Coffee Frappè at Cafe Blend - Birmingham

Mayan Cheery Coffee Frappè at Cafe Blend - Birmingham

Cafe Blend is quickly becoming my favourite coffee shop in Birmingham because of its large selection of drinks and chilled out comfortable atmosphere. They offer tea, coffee, alcoholic coffee cocktails, coffee martini's - plus LOTS more on their menu!

On my first visit I had just a regular coffee and a sandwich but I was eager to try one of their coffee cocktails so on my second visit I went for a Mayan Cherry Coffee Frappè which was Blended with Tia Maria, chocolate, cherry & vanilla topped with whip cream this was very delicious but I did find it a little sickly towards the end but thats my fault for going for the one topped with cream! haha. It was just what I needed to relax after a day of shopping.

If you haven't been you should go and check out the menu, its full of exciting flavours and you will definitely find something you like. Its such a great place to sit and chill after shopping. You can find Cafe Blend at the address below...

Orion Building, 90 Navigation Street, Birmingham, B5 4AA

Twitter@Cafe_Blend

Facebook.com/CafeBlend

Leave me a comment if you have been and ill get some ideas on what to try on my next visit!

An afternoon of Pottery Painting with the girls

An afternoon of Pottery Painting with the girls at All Fired Arts, Kings Heath

It was my friends birthday in July and we wanted to do something fun and girly and a little different and Jo the Birthday girl had recently been pottery painting and had really enjoyed it so we all booked in to go and have an afternoon of painting pottery whilst gossiping and nomming our way through some delicious cupcakes from Selfridges :) it was a lovely afternoon and I enjoyed the relaxing painting session a lot!


The place is called All Fired Arts and its in Kings Heath, Birmingham, if you're local to Birmingham and you're the creative type this is the place for you! You can take food and drink and if nobody was driving we may have even taken a bottle of wine. The lovely ladies in the shop do offer you tea/coffee/cordial so refreshments are all sorted. We took a box of cupcakes to nibble on whilst we were creating our masterpieces and we all had a great afternoon without the boys hehe

They have a huge selection of blank pottery which you can choose from, I spotted lots of things I liked from plates & mugs to teapots and gnomes there was everything! I then saw a triangle plate and thought that I could paint it to look like a slice of pizza and use it as a pizza plate forever more so I decided to go for that. So off we went to paint the pizza plate, lizard, plate & teapot.

I stared at my blank pizza plate for a while before deciding that I would try and make it look like my favourite pizza - ham & pineapple! I started drawing little hams and pinapples onto the blank canvas totally scared of messing it up haha

I drew them on with one of the pens and then coloured them with the chosen colours and it started coming together quite nicely although it didn't look great at this point I was told that the finished product would be shiny and gorgeous when it comes out of the kiln so I had my fingers crossed for good results! I finally mixed a few colours together to make a nice pizza crust and more cheese for inbetween the ham and pineapple.



Lastly I added some tomato dots and I even added herbs - I was very impressed with the last minute creative touches! Haha. We all left feeling pretty good about our pottery painting experience and left our pieces at the shop to go into the kiln and be finished off. We got a call to say our pottery was ready after just a couple of days so we were all very excited to go and pick them up and heres my finished glossy pizza plate which was done just in time for its first use at my birthday party :D

We paid full price and really enjoyed the experience but this week All Fired Arts have a discount voucher listed on KGB Deals under Birmingham which makes booking up even more tempting! Click here for the current KGB Deal Please bear in mind that this link is only valid until roughly the 10th Sept 2011 but can be used until the 11/12/11 so be quick and enjoy the experience and if you miss the voucher go anyway because its a really great afternoon or day out!

Fabulous meal at Miller and Carter - Mailbox

Fabulous meal at Miller and Carter - Mailbox

The new Miller and Carter steakhouse opened at the Mailbox in April and we just knew we had to go. I love my steaks and I certainly wasn't dissapointed!

We started off with their Sharing platter which really helped us out because it was way too difficult to choose which starter to have. The sharing platter had Creole prawns, buffalo chicken wings, garlic bread, cheddar mushrooms and a slice of Miller and Carters secret recipe onion loaf, served with chilli marmalade and BBQ dips

It was amazing! We really enjoyed it, unfortnately I haven't got a picture but it was yummy. The prawns and the mushrooms were my favourite. The Mushrooms had an amazing creamy sauce yumyum.

For my main course I had Sirloin Steak with their iceberg lettuce wedge drizzled with Caesar Dressing with Parmesan and Croutons, I think the picture sums up how awesome it was...

Their special recipe onion loaf was delicious and the steak was a-m-a-z-i-n-g my boyfriend had the Smoky Barbecue Chicken which he said was very good but he had major food envy and we both decided that when we go back again we will both be ordering steak!

The current offer on with the mailbox rewards card got us a free glass of Champagne each so that was another bonus! If you do visit the mailbox and don't have one of their reward cards sign up for the free card by following this link- http://www.mailboxlife.com/rewards/

We were way too full to have a dessert so we will have to try and leave room for one next time as we will definitely be back!

For more info on the restaurant and their other restaurants click the link below:


http://www.millerandcarter.co.uk/millerandcartermailbox/

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