"You Choose" — The Pint Shop

Venue: Pint Shop, 38 Bennetts Hill, Birmingham, B2 5SN; website 
Choice: Coriander Chicken Kebab (£12.50) Chooser: Waitress

Scaffolding — gone. Old menu — gone. Pints — gone. One of those statements is not true, and fortunately for you, the good people of Pint Shop will still hit you up with 568ml from their most glorious of beer boards to knock back with their brand-spanking-new menu. And if you’re anything like us, when you think ‘pints’ there’s a good chance you'll soon after be thinking ‘kebab’ — because you're a right lad — so we were right proper chuffed when the waitress recommended we go for the chicken coriander kebab. Charry chicken thigh comes on a coal-baked flatbread with garlic yoghurt and green sriracha: fresh, zingy and with the right amount of spice to have us reaching for our Chorlton Mango Special Sour (5.8%), picked out by Pint Shop's head brewer. Ah, pints. Ah, kebabs. And with temperatures seriously threatening to creep over 15°C it only seemed appropriate to take our top off and nail a sundae with gin-soaked strawberries (£6) for pud, while gazing out of those unobstructed windows. The clotted cream ice-cream, meringue and gin made us feel more British than David Attenborough watching Only Fools and Horses with — oh we don't know — the Queen? Menu