Posted on Jul 4, 2009
We went to Piccolinos in Brindley Place a couple of days ago and on the whole it was a very pleasant experience.
It was a balmy evening and Oozell Square with it’s quartet of restaurants — Ikon, Thai Edge, Cielo and Piccolinos –was buzzing with diners enjoying their meals.
We ordered some bread and calamari for starters. The bread was fine enough, nothing special, however the calamari was excellent. The staff were at this stage courteous, knowledgable, attentive and unobtrusive and we had no complaints with the service when our mains were brought out. I ordered a mushroom and cheese pasta dish which was supurb and my better half enjoyed a beautifully cooked crispy duck and apple dish.
Unfortunately the service just fell away towards the end of our meal with no one paying us much attention when we were in the mood for a desert. Which is a shame as it meant that they missed out as I expect did we.
Would we go again? … Yes but we’ll get a seat inside where they might be less inclined to forget about us.
Tags: birmingham, food, review
Posted on Jun 27, 2009
I’ve yet to transfer the old posts to the new bongovongo but I will. Anyway, we were at the food festival in brum today — it’s been running for a week now — it’s like a cousin of the extremely successful Christmas Market except that it is slightly more international. There’s French biscuits, Caribbean chicken, Spanish paella (delicious) as well as local farm produce — hot pork sandwiches, ostrich burgers and local speciality cheeses.
It finishes tomorrow but I hope and expect that it will be back next year.
Tags: bimingham, food, iPhone
Posted on May 17, 2009
I hate Hackers! — The rest of this site will rise phoenix-like from the ashes of the Previous Bongo Vongo sometime in early June.
Thanks for your patience.
Posted on Mar 24, 2009
Forget this world and all its troubles and if
possible its multitudinous Charlatans — every thing
in short but the Enchantress of Numbers.
– Charles Babbage, 1843
Tags: adalovelace, computers, history, poetry, programmimg, technology
Posted on Mar 6, 2009
It’s 25 years since the miners’ strike and the media turn their mayfly-like attention spans to those events from 25 years ago. They’ll not mention it again till the 30th anniversary I expect.
I’ve just listened to someone comment on how there’s a whole generation now growing up who know nothing about Arthur Scargill’s battle royale with the evil Baroness Thatcher.
I expect hose who are interested in history do know and the rest are like young peole anywhere far more interested in the future than the past. The past is the land of their parents and grandparents and the future, ‘the undiscovered country’, is theirs to explore.
Arthur’s class war inspired battle against the reactionary forces of capitalism ended in defeat as did the hopes of all of us deluded young people of those days who thought that a socialist utopia was just a revolutionary battle away. Well, we were wrong. Arthur was wrong and eventually it has to be said Maggie was wrong too.
Socialism collapsed and now capitalism appears to be collapsing about our ears so what did any of us actually know — not a lot — so to paraphrase an Bowie, ‘All the young dudes (should) Carry the news. Boogaloo dudes. Carry the news’
Tags: britain, history, strike
