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Breaking Bread Podcast- The Podcast For Food Lovers In Birmingham

Posted on May 4, 2022May 4, 2022 by admin

Toffs By Chef Rob Palmer

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Listen to this episode of Birmingham food podcast Breaking Bread with the owner of brand new restaurant Toffs, Chef Rob Palmer. Press play on the player above, alternatively, you can listen on your favorite podcast app, just select from the list on this LINK

Welcome To Birmingham Food Podcast Breaking Bread, Chef Rob Palmer

Hello & a very warm welcome back to the Birmingham food podcast breaking bread. Co-hosted by food-obsessed mates Liam & Carl, Breaking Bread gives you long-form interviews & discussions with the incredible people that make Brums food scene so amazing. We break bread with the excellent chef & owner of Solihull’s most exciting new opening Toffs, Rob Palmer this week.

Who Is Chef Rob Palmer?

Birmingham native Rob took his passion for food & started cooking in the kitchens of some of the best known hotels around the city. The young chef got his first taste of the finer end of cooking working at 2-AA rosette forest hotel Dorridge. (now Butchers Social)

After a few years of going through the ranks at the forest, Rob moved on to the exciting Peel’s restaurant. Under a couple of head chefs, Rob kept his head down grafting & learning from all of them until it was time for him to step up & lead the kitchen.

As head chef Rob Palmer took everything he learned & merged it with his restrained style of cooking, making sure everything on the plate made sense & brought something to the dish. An approach that won the restaurant acclaimed praise culminating in a Michelin Star.

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Toffs By Chef Rob Palmer

Covid brought about a lot of time for people in the industry to reflect on how they work & do things, unfortunately, a lot of people left the industry. Thankfully Rob went the other way and made plans to open his own restaurant, deciding it was time for a change.

A few months and negotiations later & Rob has his new place, named Toffs after his dad, in the heart of Solihull town centre. Other then some awesome street food & a couple of decent independents Solihull is flooded with mediocre chains. Toffs ingredient led quality tasting menus will be a much needed breath of fresh air in the town.

Chef Rob Palmer beetroot dish from new solihull restaurant Toffs

Toffs Need To Know

Location- 16, Drury Lane, Solihull, B91 3BG
Menu & Price- Tasting Menu Only. Lunch- 4 Course £55/5 Course £65 Dinner- 5 Course £75/7 Course £95
Opening Times- Dinner- Tues-Saturday 18.30-21.00 Lunch- Thurs/Fri/Sat- 12.00-13.30

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Breaking Bread Podcast- The Podcast For Food Lovers In Birmingham

Posted on March 23, 2022March 23, 2022 by admin

Masterchef Professionals Champion Daniel Lee

Listen to this episode of Birmingham food podcast Breaking Bread with Masterchef Professionals champion chef Daniel Lee. Press play on the player above, alternatively, you can listen on your favorite podcast app, just select from the list on this LINK

Welcome To Birmingham Food Podcast Breaking Bread, Chef Daniel Lee

Hello & a very warm welcome back to the Birmingham food podcast breaking bread. Co-hosted by food-obsessed mates Liam & Carl, Breaking Bread gives you long-form interviews & discussions with the incredible people that make Brums food scene so amazing. We break bread with the excellent reigning Masterchef Professionals Champion Daniel Lee this week.

Who Is Masterchef Professionals Champion Daniel Lee?

It felt like this talented Brummie chef come out of nowhere to win the latest season of hit BBC show Masterchef Professionals. However, for Dan, Masterchef was a chance to display all the hard graft & experience with different kinds of cuisine & ingredients that he picked up in his years working around the world.

After training at UCB Daniel got the itch to go travelling, finding work in New Zealand before using his career as a way of seeing the world. From ski lodges to cruise ships Dan gained experience, learning something everywhere he went, even if the job wasn’t enjoyable.

The young chef settled in Singapore, a city that took a piece of his heart & made a huge impression on him. Even though he was working in Michelin Star epic restaurants, it was the Hawker Yards selling affordable amazing street food to everybody that really inspired Dan. Most of his dishes on Masterchef Professionals were inspired by the hawker yard & presented in a more refined way.

hawker yard inspired food from masterchef professionals champion Daniel Lee

What Made Daniel Lee Enter Masterchef Professionals?

Dan came home to Hall Green in Birmingham at the start of the covid pandemic to be closer to his family. While hospitality jobs were scarce due to lockdown Dan kept busy working in his local supermarket. When one day he spotted a post on social media for chefs to enter Masterchef. Always looking to challenge himself Dan went for it.

The road to the final was a bit shakey for Dan, but he improved every episode. With every positive comment from judges, Monica & Marcus Dan gained confidence in his own ability & in his style of food.

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Breaking Bread Podcast- The Podcast For Food Lovers In Birmingham

Posted on March 9, 2022March 9, 2022 by admin

Working In Hospitality With Jana & Vic International Women’s Day 2022

Wine Freedom

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Welcome To Breaking Bread Jana & Vic & Happy International Women’s Day 20222

Hello & a very warm welcome back to the Birmingham food podcast breaking bread. Co-hosted by food-obsessed mates Liam & Carl, Breaking Bread gives you long-form interviews & discussions with the incredible people that make Brums food & hospitality scene so amazing. This week we break bread with the awesome Jana & Vic from the brilliant Wine Freedom.

Today is International Women’s Day 2022, & we wanted to do something special to mark such a special day. As two men we were apprehensive of what we could do or if it was right for us to do anything at all. Luckily our good friend Jo (The Relationship) & Jana told us about an awesome month-long event being held at natural wine bar Wine Freedom in Digbeth, to celebrate International Women’s Day,

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Katie Fishlock Art At Wine Freedom

We decided to get Wine Freedom GM Vic & Events Manager Jana on the podcast & tell us all about the exciting nights & events going on at the bar including an art exhibition by super talented artist Katie Fishlock, Wine flights made up of wines made by female owned wineries as well as a female singer-songwriter performing.

As well as talking us through what we can expect from Wine Freedom Jana & Vic gave us an honest account of what it’s really like working in the industry as a woman, as well as offering their thoughts on why there aren’t more women at higher levels of hospitality.

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Breaking Bread Podcast- The Podcast For Food Lovers In Birmingham

Posted on February 23, 2022February 23, 2022 by admin

Zoe Punks & Chancers

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Welcome To Breaking Bread Zoe, Punks & Chancers

Hello & a very warm welcome back to the Birmingham food podcast breaking bread. Co-hosted by food-obsessed mates Liam & Carl, Breaking Bread gives you long-form interviews & discussions with the incredible people that make Brums food scene so amazing. This week we break bread with the awesome Zoe, from Punks & Chancers.

YES BAB, I’m pretty sure you have all heard of the brilliant Brum-based clothing brand Punks & Chancers. They make witty, positive, in your face, quality, punk as fu*ck T-shirts, beer mugs, as well as other sorts of clothing & accessories. Punks & Chancers is a brand that we love, so we used the food of Brum as an excuse to get to know their owner Zoe a bit better.

This is a podcast of two halves, one half about the Punks story, packed full of advice for businesses but very much tailored towards hospitality, & the second half all about where the awesome Zoe likes to eat in Brum.

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Being Punk, Building A Brand & Finding Your Tribe Punks & Chancers Style

Work is a giant part of our lives you have to enjoy it, Zoe beams. Through Instagram, it certainly looks like Zoe loves what she does. Zoe designs makes and creates awesome products. On top of all the admin & business things an owner has to do and being an amazing mom to her two children, Zoe is a real life superhero.

Everything Punks & Chancers does is 100% aligned with Zoe’s beliefs. Often saying things publicly or designing products that could alienate future money-making opportunities, Zoe has no regrets. It is her loyalty to her core beliefs & absolute authenticity in everything she does that has won Punks & Chancers an army of loyal customers who absolutely love everything she does.

You should know exactly who you are & what you stand for and everything should radiate from there, this is true in business as it is for individuals in everyday life. You won’t be for everyone, but the people who love you will love you fanatically.

Where Does Zoe From Punks & Chancers Like To Go Out In Brum

Away from punks & chancers, Zoe loves getting out & about socialising. Her love of craft beer has resulted in two collabs with local brewers Brum Brewery & Attic Brewery, both a massive success rapidly selling out. Zoe enjoys eating at a few plant-based diet friendly eateries including Caneat in Stirchley, Land in the Great Western Arcade & The Plough in Harborne. The cocktails at Harborne Kitchen get a special mention as does Tropea & craft beer specialists The Paper Duck.

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Breaking Bread Podcast- The Podcast For Food Lovers In Birmingham

Posted on January 24, 2022January 24, 2022 by admin

Pip’s Hotsauce

Listen to this episode of Birmingham food podcast Breaking Bread with the director, creator & all-around amazing person Pip from multi-award-winning Chilli sauces Pip’s Hotsauce. Press play on the player above, alternatively, you can listen on your favorite podcast app, just select from the list on this LINK

Welcome To Breaking Bread Pip (AKA Pip’s Hotsauce)

Hello & a very warm welcome back to the Birmingham food podcast breaking bread. Co-hosted by food-obsessed mates Liam & Carl, Breaking Bread gives you long-form interviews & discussions with the incredible people that make Brums food scene so amazing. This week we break bread with award-winning chili sauce legend Pip creator of Brum institution Pip’s Hotsauce

We start by diving into Pip’s early life & food experiences including the epic sounding ‘dad sandwich’ before we get into Pip’s time at university and her travelling. While travelling & living in the US Pip developed an obsession for hot sauce.

Pip’s Hotsauce Is Born, La Boca del Diablo

While eating out one evening Pip got annoyed by the lack of any decent hot sauces around, not only in the venue she was eating in, but the country in general. Challenged by her partner Matt, Pip wrote down on the back of a napkin what she thought a good sauce should taste like & the ingredients she believed would achieve this.

A few tweaks & this rough recipe went on to become a massive hit with the people of Brum as Pip sold her Pip’s Hotsauce at farmers market in the city. In 2017 La Boca del Diablo’s awesomeness was recognised by the Guild Of Fine Foods & awarded a two star Great Taste Award. A very well balanced sauce with a subtle well rounded heat, heavy on the garlic and chilli with a quiet smokiness, this sauce goes well on EVERYTHING!

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Creating New Sauces & Collabs

Being a creative, it wasn’t long before Pip was experimenting with new recipes to add to the Pip’s Hotsauce collection. As summertime approached it seemed logical to create a BBQ sauce. While living in Las Vegas A neighbour shared her family recipe for BBQ sauce with Pip, a recipe that became the base for La Barbacoa.

Collabs have become a feature for Pip’s Hotsauce. Born out of a desire to support people & businesses that she loves, the resulting sauces have been epic. The boca Grande sweet pineapple sauce collab with The Plough in Harborne & the folka wolf/provide Cure for Life Caribean inspired CBD sauce both won Great Taste Awards.

Breaking Bread Podcast guest Pip's Hotsauce collab with Birmingham artists Folka Wolf & Provide Cure For Life

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Breaking Bread Podcast- The Podcast For Food Lovers In Birmingham

Posted on December 6, 2021December 7, 2021 by admin

Albert’s Schloss Birmingham

Neil Macleod Mission Mars Director

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Listen to this episode of Birmingham food podcast Breaking Bread with the director of award-winning bar group Mission Mars Neil Macleod, and hear all about their new bar Albert’s Schloss Birmingham. Press play on the player above, alternatively, you can listen on your favorite podcast app, just select from the list on this LINK

Welcome to Breaking Bread Neil Macleod

Hello & a very warm welcome back to the Birmingham food podcast breaking bread. Co-hosted by food-obsessed mates Liam & Carl, Breaking Bread gives you long-form interviews & discussions with the incredible people that make Brums food scene so amazing. This week we break bread with award-winning bar group Mission Mars director Neil Macleod.

We talk a bit about Neil’s career, starting out in his parents’ hotel in Inverness before moving on to start his own businesses, including Vodka Revolution & Revolucion de Cuba. Neil’s next chapter was launching Mission Mars & opening Albert’s Schloss a Bavarian beer palace in Manchester. We talk about their other brands including the much loved Rudy’s Pizza before we focus on what Birmingham can expect from Albert’s Schloss Birmingham.

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Welcome To Birmingham Albert’s Schloss

Brummies like to have fun, Neil proclaims. Just one of the reasons they picked Birmingham as the location for their second beer palace Albert’s Schloss, and we are mega excited about it. We were very lucky to get a look around Brum’s most exciting opening of 2021, and we were seriously impressed.

Alpine-inspired interior with a Bavarian heart. Great big wooden benches made for dancing on in front of a sizeable stage which we are told will host live entertainment seven days a week. Giant cozy open fires, comfy sofas all surrounding the huge centerpiece of a bar slinging Chzech Pilsner in frozen glasses, home-brewed schnapps & cocktails.

What To Expect From Albert’s Schloss Birmingham

The Food

The menu at Albert’s Schloss is exactly what you would expect. Bratwurst, krokettes, schnitzel alongside epic dishes such as schweinshaxe (Pork Knuckle) & sauerbraten (slow braised short rib of beef). If the menu was predictable, the awesome quality of the food was less so. Pretty much everything on the is cooked in house, a team of bakers rise with the lark to bake pretzels, sourdough, garlic bread & bratwurst buns. Theres real talent in the kitchen brigade.

The Entertainment

A huge part of the magic of Albert’s Schloss is their live entertainment. The stage is rocking seven days a week. Birmingham is notoriously quiet Monday Tuesday, but with their Back To The Mein DJ sets & Kunst Kabaret they hope breath some life into the start of the week. Wednesday brings Baby Grand Slam, Thursday sees the best local live bands & Friday Saturday is DJ sets & the house band helping you dance the night away. Families become the centre of attention on Sundays with banging roast dinners washed down with live choirs & Disney inspiered classics.

A pint of unpasturised Pilsner urquell beer at Albert's Schloss Birmingham

The Drink

Albert’s Schloss Birmingham will be getting unpasturised Pilsner Urquell delivered straight from their Plzen brewery weekly, once delivered the beer must be consumed within seven days, not that it ever lasts that long Neil jests. Although big on beer Albert’s also have a wide selection of original cocktails & even a schnapps menu. Exlusively to Albert’s Schloss Birmingham is Ludwigs Tavern. The upstairs tavern hosts a curated list of bavarian biers, vermouths & some crazy cocktails.

Albert’s Birmingham Need To Know

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Breaking Bread Podcast- The Podcast For Food Lovers In Birmingham

Posted on November 29, 2021November 29, 2021 by admin

Sonal Clare

Award Winning Sommelier & General Manager At Wilderness

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Sonal Clare, Welcome To Breaking Bread

Hello & a very warm welcome back to the Birmingham food podcast breaking bread. Co-hosted by food-obsessed mates Liam & Carl, Breaking Bread gives you long-form interviews & discussions with the incredible people that make Brums food scene so amazing. This week we break bread with the awesome Sonal Clare.

From Birmingham collage of food to GQ Sommelier of year, brand ambassador for one of the best champagnes in the world & general manager of some of the best Michelin level fine dining restaurants in the city. Sonal is one of the most respected talents in the industry.

Sonal’s Career

Sonal’s love for hospitality materialised when he started training at Birmingham’s famous collage of food. After gaining real-world experience in high-end restaurants in Ireland Sonal returned to Brum, where he made it his mission to work for Glynn Purnell. A decision he made instantly after eating the Brummie legends food.

After constant hounding, the Purnells restaurant manager relented & gave Sonal a job in his front-of-house team. During his time at Purnell’s Sonal became a student of hospitality, a sponge for knowledge & worked his way up to general manager.

Sonal Clare GQ sommelier of the year Wilderness general Manager

On his way to becoming manager Sonal started paying more attention to the wine side of front of house. Wine quickly became his passion & his talent for matching wine to food & love of champagne gained Sonal Clare the role of ambassador for Krug as well as been named sommelier of the year by GQ magazine.

After a successful time at legendary Purnells, Sonal decided to take on new challenges at the exciting & original fine dining restaurant The Wilderness in Birmingham’s JQ. The Wilderness brings the opportunity for Sonal Clare to show more of his creative personality. Along with mega talented cocktail magician Rob Wood Sonal has been challenged to disrupt the traditional drinks pairing, a challenge that has truly captured Sonals imagination.

Choose Hospitality

Choose Hospitality is a collection of industry professional who are fed up with the old negative conetations connected to hospitality. They are on a mission to tell as many as will listen that hospitality is a special exciting career, with lots of unique advantages that more people really should consider.

It may look like I have the dream job, & I do have the dream job Sonal proclaims, but its just reward for a career of hard graft in hospitality. This is why Sonal has become an ambassador for the new Choose Hospitality collective. He wants to spread the message that hospitality is a legit career choice, a career that if you put the work in, has unbelievable rewards.

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Breaking Bread Podcast- The Podcast For Food Lovers In Birmingham

Posted on November 17, 2021 by admin

Chef Nitisha

Dhalings Kitchen

Listen to this episode of Birmingham food podcast Breaking Bread with chef Nitisha, & hear all about her incredible career as well as the awesome Dhalings Kitchen. Press play on the player above, alternatively, you can listen on your favorite podcast app, just select from the list on this LINK

Chef Nitisha, Welcome To Breaking Bread

Hello & a very warm welcome back to the Birmingham food podcast breaking bread. Co-hosted by food-obsessed mates Liam & Carl, Breaking Bread gives you long-form interviews & discussions with the incredible people that make Brums food scene so amazing. This week we talk to the inspirational Chef Nitisha.

Author of two awesome books, food consultant, entrepreneur & chef, Nitisha has gained vast experience & is recognized as one of the most talented people in the culinary world. Chef Nitisha started her humane vegan food business Dhalings kitchen during lockdown listen to her amazing story now.

Chilli Mogo From Vegan Indian Dhalings Kitchen Birmingham from chef Nitisha Patel

Chef Nitisha Books

My Modern Indian Kitchen

While working as a very successful food consultant Nitisha started writing down recipes as a form of escapism. Nitisha began to write her life story but in recipe form, expressing her culture, her family life, her heritage through a love of food. My Indian Kitchen is packed full of delicious recipes that actually work.

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The Delicious Book Of Dhal

It was during lockdown chef Nitisha, while eating a comforting bowl of her moms homemade dhal Nitisha put a photo on social media describing the feelings the food stirred inside her & describing how wholesome the versatile humble lentil could be. A publisher seen this and contacted Nitisha withe the idea of her writing a book about dhal.

The resulting book is jam packed with health friendly & earth friendly dhal classics along side reimagined favourites.

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Dhalings Kitchen By Chef Nitisha

The delicious book of dhal combined with a new found interest in veganism inspired entrepreneur Nitisha to start her own business. Delivering delicious, fresh humane Indian inspired food to the people of Birmingham. Dhalings is a play on words, not Eglish nor Indian a kind of mix of both. It grew into an affectionate term used to describe her followers. Dhalings Kitchen is built with a conscious. Sustainability, eco-friendly, environmentally friendly, equal oppertunities are all pillars of this amazing business

Dhalings Kitchen Need To Know

Where– All B postcodes, all of Birmingham
Opening Times– Wed-Fri 5-9 Sat-Sun- 4-9
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