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BARBECUE
HARE & HOUNDS
Chill out. Nobody's barbecuing large wild rabbits and domesticated dogs and feeding them to crazed Brummies. What's actually happening is that many-angled, meaty man Andy Low'N'Slow is getting his Mexican on at the award-greedy Hare & Hounds. The menu, which will make your back teeth vibrate, includes sweet heat BBQ chicken tostados, burnt pineapple and Scotch bonnet salsa and lime crema, as well as oak-smoked beef rib with burnt tomatillo and morita chilli. Presumably he's burning these ingredients on purpose, right? It's £25 a throw which includes dessert. Email Donna Low'N'Slow on lownslowbookings@gmail.com. Donna's lovely by the way. Andy's punching well above his weight.
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FILM OF THE WEEK:
THE LOST CITY OF Z
You might expect a true story about one man’s obsessive quest to prove the existence of a lost civilisation in the Amazon – a quest that ultimately cost both him and his son their lives – to be some Werner Herzog-esque journey into madness. Instead, this is a subdued and strangely well-behaved affair, given its subject matter, but there’s much to recommend, not least a superb supporting turn from Robert Pattinson as a boozy professional explorer. Charlie Hunnam is solid in the lead, and Sienna Miller continues her run of overshadowing on-screen husbands, but what lingers in the mind is the skilfully-constructed sense of just how dangerous it was for Edwardians to mount these expeditions – the Apollo programmes of their day. Times
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Venue: The Wolf, 2-10 Constitution Hill, B19 3LY; website
Choice: The Men Who Stare at Oats (£6.30) Chooser: Josh (owner)
Each of the bespoke pump handles at The Wolf costs about $50. We know because we were rude enough to ask and the owners were too polite to not answer. The brother and sister team behind this beaut of a pub clearly love what they do and that level of passion exudes. Food-wise the cheese and meat boards are tip-top (menu), but The Wolf is about the beers. We toured all ten of the regularly changing pump options and were properly stumped by Twisted Barrel's Lime and Chipotle Soup Dragon. The name is pretty much the most normal thing about this 'order-it-once-probably-not-twice' tongue jolter of a saison. Universally adored, though, was Wild Beer and Magic Rock's The Men Who Stare At Oats. A 6% American IPA, it's refreshing, hoppy and citrusy and terribly, terribly morish. They were running low on the good stuff when we visited and — to keep the offering fresh — The Wolf don't restock any beer immediately, however well it sells. Support this indy gem; it's what Birmingham needs and they don't have bucketloads of brewery bucks to play with.
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BIRMINGHAM-BASED ARTISTS, HI!
The Mailbox's Art Wall (pictured) is 8.4 metres by 5.3 metres, and while we've undertaken a sustained campaign to simply adorn it with our beautiful visages, we'll cede to the superior suggestion that an inspirational piece of art is probably more suitable. So paintbrushes, moulding tools, and blow torches at the ready — if you're a Brum-based artist, you've got four weeks from today to create a piece using any medium which you are able to photograph and blow up to fill the wall. For your trouble, the chosen winner will receive a Mailbox experience kind of deal with a value of £500 (which includes an overnight stay, shopping voucher, meal at Tom's Kitchen and tickets to the sofa-filled Everyman, all for two). Your piece will be displayed in this totally inconspicuous spot right through until October. Register your interest and get the detailed brief by emailing Mailbox@rewiredpr.com. There's no rule that your entry can't include our faces.
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