Birmingham is home to a handful of Michelin Starred restaurants. Purnells was one of the very first to achieve a star back in 2009 and has continued to hold it ever since. We headed along for lunch, our first Michelin lunch in The Midlands. Glynn Purnell is known for his slightly odd combinations of flavour. A starter of cornflakes with smoked haddock doesn’t exactly prompt you to order it at first glance. Similar dishes were exhibited on the television show ‘Great British Menu’ on which Glynn regularly featured for The Central Region.
Comfortable restaurant with interesting food and good service.
Ingredients well sourced some dishes fairly simple others reley on gimmicks. Good wine and beverage list.
Blame it all on Purnell. My food obsession. This blog. It all stems from him. Some thirteen years back I was a slender twenty-year-old with a food knowledge that amounted to knowing what should be ordered at Nando’s (I now know the real answer; nothing). Good food was yet to find a way into my life, along with humility and fitted jeans. It took a girl and a Jay Rayner write-up for me to book a table at Jessica’s in Edgbaston that would alter my view forever. Behind the stove was a young Glynn Purnell, a talented chef with what I now understand to be considerable experience in some very serious kitchens. A main of chicken with gamborini prawn would instantly convert me and slowly lead me on a path that had accumulated in four extra inches on my waistband, forty or so Michelin starred restaurants and, more recently, this restaurant blog.
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