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Colmore Food Festival is free to attend. From 11am 'til 7pm on Friday, July 6 and Saturday, July 7. The latest
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Venue: Wok To Walk,109 New Street, B2 4EU; website
Choice: It's complicated Chooser: You!
Lunch happens every day, and with it, big decisioning. Long story short, this week's 'You Choose' is going to make that process tougher, but you'll ultimately thank us. It's basically impossible not to like the food at Wok To Walk, because a lot like an Asian pic'n'mix, you select each element yourself. For your 'base', there are four types of noodle, two rice and a vegetables option. Next up, you pick your main events — think duck, prawns, tofu and shitake. Sweet, spicy, peanuty sort of sauce options are your next ponderer. And finally it's a question of toppings. All items are priced individually, and no combos are off limits. Each dish is then cooked up in the theatre-like trio of woks, and despite there basically always being something of a queue, you won't wait more than five minutes, and we waited way less. For us, it was all about the rice noodles, hot Asian sauce, prawns, pak choi and fried onion topper. But we're not here to dictate to you — go forth and enjoy getting exactly. Chop'N'Wok this ain't. Menu
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FIVE MILLION BRICKS
It's a very personal thing, but we've always been more BRIO than LEGO. But then LEGO went and built a load of brillo Birmingham landmarks, like the BT Tower (pictured) and the greater Grand Central area, then put them in their new discovery centre. MINILAND opens today at the bottom of Birmingham Arena. It took nine people nine months to build, has a population of 2,500 minifigures and more than 5,000,000 bricks. Your move, BRIO.
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FILM — SICARIO 2: SOLADO
Like the film it follows, this sequel is being marketed as a thriller, when really it’s a kind of horror film where the oppressive dread comes not from some supernatural beastie, but the Mexican border country’s bad luck in being close to America. This time, Emily Blunt’s squeamish Fed is written out as Josh Brolin and Benicio Del Toro set up an elaborate plan to foster a cartel civil war. The Byzantine plot isn’t really the point, other than as the basis for a mood piece on how hopeless the war on drugs is for all concerned. Not as terrifying as the first film, tense as anything. Times & trailer
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A MINI MISADVENTURE
Here's how you build a wood-fired pizza oven. If all goes according to plan, it'll take you a minimum of nineteen hours, not including the material buying and inevitable screw ups. Alternatively, Baked in Brick opens a perma-home tomorrow, a fifteen-minute amble from New Street Station. And the winner of ‘Best Street Food Trader’ at the British and European Street Food Awards'll do the washing up and everything. Lee DeSanges' 60-seater restaurant in the Custard Factory is majoring on pizza and his opening menu includes a choice of seven combos, including his Shire Meadows beef shin ragu and wild mushroom calzone with a Colston Bassett Stilton dip. There'll be a lighter menu at lunchtime, with chicken tikka wraps, charcuterie and pizza by the slice. Get Lawless on draught and Longhorn IPA, Mad Goose and UBU by the bottle, or take direct aim at the cocktail menu. And if you're wondering why the F there's a full size Mini Cooper in the wall, Lee used to grill over one, after he'd outgrown the wood-fired pizza oven in his garden that is.
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ADAM'S CRAB (3/1)
WAYLAND'S WONDER (33/1)
MICHELIN MAN (7/2)
MOTHER'S RUIN (20/1)
LUDWIG'S OPUS (4/1) STABLE: OPUS
INDIAN SUMMER (16/1)
MISCHIEF MAKER (22/1)
