34. Good Food Guide - Who's In Here In The West Midlands?

  Following on from Blog 31 let's see who gets listed in The Good Food Guide 2019  - 

Birmingham - Adam's, Carters of Moseley, Folium, Harborne Kitchen, Lasan, Opus, Purnell's, Purnell's Bistro and Simpsons.

Elsewhere in West Midlands county - The Forest (Dorridge).

Gloucestershire (north) - The Potager (Barnsley), The Village Pub (Barnsley), Le Champignon Sauvage, Koj, Lumière, Purslane (all in Cheltenham), The Butcher's Arms (Eldersfield), The Wheatsheaf Inn (Northleach), The Painswick (Painswick), The Churchill Arms (Paxford), The Bell Inn (Selsley), The Swan at Southrop (Southrop), The Old Butchers (Stow-on-the-Wold), The Woolpack Inn (Stroud), Lords of the Manor (Upper Slaughter), North Street, Wesley House (both at Winchcombe).

Herefordshire - The Riverside (Aymestrey), The Madam & Adam (Hereford), The Cider Barn (Pembridge), The Stagg Inn (Titley), The Baiting House (Upper Sapey), The Oak (Wigmore).

Shropshire - The King & Thai (Broseley), Forelles at Fishmore Hall, Mortimer's, Old Downton Lodge, CSONS at The Green Cafe (all in Ludlow), Sebastian's (Oswestry).

Staffordshire - The George (Alstonefield), 99 Station Street (Burton upon Trent), The Duncombe Arms (Ellastone).

Warwickshire - Cheal's of Henley (Henley-in-Arden), The Cross at Kenilworth (Kenilworth), No. 9 Church St., Salt (both in Stratford-upon-Avon), Tailors (Warwick), The Royal Oak (Whatcote).

Worcestershire - The Lygon Arms, Russell's of Broadway (Broadway), The Venture In (Ombersley), Belle House (Pershore), The Inn at Welland (Welland), Saffrons Bistro (Worcester).

  You'll note that Alex Claridge's remarkable The Wilderness in Birmingham is not included in the above list and this has nothing to do, I should think, with the brilliance of his cooking but rather with him having upset some customers by his responses to carping comments on the lamentable Tripadvisor. I shall be dining at The Wilderness in the immediate future and report on what an evening in his all black restaurant is like exactly.

  Birmingham had 11 restaurants in the list in the 2018 edition but now only has nine because of the closure of Two Cats Kitchen, Edmund's and Turner's at 69 while only one, Folium, has been added. Perhaps next year Richard Turner's new place of work, Maribel, will swell the number and someone will realise that The Wilderness is a serious omission.

  The Good Food Guide for some unknown reason includes two restaurants located in Wales at Hay-on-Wye and Glasbury-on-Wye in its Herefordshire listing - I have excluded them from this list of West Midlands restaurants. I have also taken it on myself to include northern Gloucestershire in this list as it's plainly in the West Midlands and not the West Country as some would try to make out. In fact without northern Gloucestershire the number of restaurants in the list would be reduced by a third.