The first restaurant ever to be built in Birmingham’s China Town, Japanese eatery Miyako Teppanyaki was established in 1992 and is located in the Arcadian centre on Hurst Street.
Featuring traditional food and drink, including green tea, sake (rice wine), plum wine, shochu (barley-based spirit), Asahi, Kirin and Sapporo Japanese lager, as well as a selection of Japanese whiskies, Miyako Teppanyaki source all their ingredients locally. The restaurant is conveniently located just a stone’s throw from the city’s outdoor market and wholesale market, meaning their fruit, vegetables, meat and seafood is always fresh.
Teppanyaki is a unique culinary art which has established itself as one of the most popular forms of Japanese cuisine. 
Its preparation and presentation take place before your eyes on a heated steel plate, giving the conventional dining experience a fun and theatrical twist.
wHaving enjoyed stunning food at Miyako Teppanyaki twice previously, I was confident that we were in for a real treat on our third visit to this city-centre favourite. We perused the menu over two bottles of our Japanese lager of choice, Sapporo. Japanese cuisine is undoubtedly one of my favourites, a fact that makes choosing which dishes to order a real challenge.
To start, we had the sushi platter, comprising eight pieces of nigiri sushi with California roll and ebi (king prawn) tempura to share. The tempura batter was soft and light and in no way hindered the taste of the meaty king prawns. The platter, comprising salmon, scallop, tuna, octopus, prawn, eel and sea bass nigiri, tasted beautifully fresh and was certainly one of the nicest sushi platters I’ve enjoyed in quite a while.
With both of us being huge meat and seafood fans, we thought we’d mix things up a bit for the main event. We chose the chicken, sirloin and lamb, which were grilled teriyaki style with stir-fried vegetables, and a Teppanyaki speciality – lobster and scallops with spring onion and garlic oil, accompanied by a Teppanyaki fried rice. Every element was cooked to absolute perfection, bursting with immense, mouthwatering flavour. Lobster is a firm favourite of ours, and I could’ve eaten those little chunks of heaven three times over. The scallops were soft and juicy, the garlic strong but not overpowering. The chicken and the beef were tender, melting in the mouth, the lamb simply divine.
With the high-quality fresh produce that 
Miyako Teppanyaki serve, it’s no wonder that Birmingham’s first Japanese restaurant is still going strong after 26 years. The staff are friendly and welcoming, the layout contemporary – both the interior and signage make use of the colours of the Japanese flag.
If you’re a fan of Japanese cuisine, I thoroughly recommend paying Miyako Teppanyaki a visit the next time you’re in town.
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“A small, boutique city hotel with a country house ambiance and 12 individually styled rooms in a listed Victorian villa. The hotel is next to sister pub The High Field in the heart of Edgbaston’s burgeoning food quarter, just a mile from the central Birmingham.”
The hotel, formerly a grand private residence, is in Highfield Road, part of Edgbaston’s tree-lined Calthorpe Estate, with free car parking for guests. There are regular buses to the city centre. For amateur horticulturalists, Birmingham Botanical Gardens, a pioneering 19th century green space, is five minutes’ walk. Michelin-starred restaurant Simpsons, the grande dame of Birmingham’s gastronomic scene, is opposite.
As a refreshing antidote to the corporate hotel experience, the Town House, part of the independent Peach Pub Company, feels like an exclusive home. Guests are provided with digital entry codes for the front door and bedrooms. The listed building’s original 1860s’ features have been retained, complemented by antique walnut and mahogany furniture. The muted aqua and grey colour scheme is enlivened by bright fabrics and hand-painted English wallpaper.
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