It’s the time of the month.
The last Wednesday to be exact. The Michelin Guide has now published its latest list of new entries to the Guide (this is the third such list) and while twelve new restaurants are featured absolutely none of them are located in the West Midlands. Nor is there a mention for the East Midlands, Apart from East Anglia and the East Midlands every other region has a mention - 2 in Scotland, one in Northern Ireland, one in Ireland (of course), two in London (of course) and one each in the West Country, the South, the South-east, the Home Counties, the North-west plus and the North-east/Yorkshire. The West Midlands is the only region not to have been included in any of these updates. For the Michelin inspectors at least, it seems, the West Midlands remains a culinary desert though it may just be that they represent the sneering metropolitan elite, similar to those who work for the BBC, and really just can not be bothered to come here though no doubt one of them will turn up in a picturesque Cotswold or Shropshire village eventually. They do like to visit the Cotswolds.
Meanwhile, here in Birmingham:-
I am pleased to say I have a reservation to try out this rather special-looking restaurant in the next few days though my knowledge of Persian food is practically non-existent.Culinary desert - really?
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