The best restaurants in West Midlands

Best indian meal I've ever had, and I've eaten a lot of Indian food. Great staff, more dishes than the "standard" Indian restaurant, even though they had those too. So good!

Visited Spices tonight had another fantastic meal the food and service was fantastic. Took my brother and his wife and they both enjoyed their meal. Spices is the best Indian restaurant around, great food & wonderful friendly staff who can’t do enough for you. Give it a try, you won’t be disappointed. Sending my dear friend a very happy birthday 🎂

We loved this place. It was friendly, no problem parking, food was great. We visited several times and were never disappointed. Very busy so good idea to book a table.

Lovely friendly and cosy pub. Great selection of meals and beer, all fairly priced. Easily my favourite pub in Shipston.

I have been coming to this restaurant for many years and it’s never changed the food has always been lovely staff are always polite and very friendly this is the only place I will eat a curry x

Enjoyed our stay but the site could do with a little tidy up

The room was delightful and the bed very comfortable but the food was more than disappointing. Very very limited menu. We were there 3 nights and I had to have asparagus on two nights as nothing else appealed. Chef came up with an extra starter the second night, steak tartare… no ty. (Third night we ate elsewhere) same with main course. Two fish options, pork chop, duck, which we both had to have, or veg option. No steak or chicken . Deserts weren’t appealing and cheese course of Brie was £12! Matt was exceptional and made our stay! So professional and likeable. So eager to please. The owner was around much of the time but found it impossible to be friendly or welcoming although staff were great.

Lovely local country pub Make it part of my Friday end of week to have a pint after a long week me and my dog Lovely place and great friendly staff come summer or winter

Overall a nice experience but there were a few things that could have made this exceptional. Firstly, I do think the artichoke starter presentation could be re-thought....perhaps I'm just childish, but it's appearance was quite off putting! (Photo attached). I chose cheese for dessert but they were all bland. They were all served straight from the refrigerator and I really felt they should have been room temperature to bring out the flavours. We chose the wine pairing and all were delicious, that was good. Finally, I really object to a service charge being added. Tipping should be discretionary. The service was very good and we would have left a tip but when it's added to the bill I find this very cheeky - we don't tip shelf stackers or check out staff, I don't think this should become the norm that we have to pay extra for people to just do their jobs. It always leaves me feeling like the establishment is somewhat money grabbing.

If for a fresh pizza or a quality burger - you got to try this place. You can tell they are nuts by the missile & Alien costume - but they do good food & & v friendly

Best Ethiopian / Eritrean restaurant I ever been to in the UK second time visiting and the food is always fresh and tasty particularly loved the injera soooo homeeemade tasty would definitely come visit again so recommended don’t miss out

Excellent food, very friendly staff, atmosphere really nice. Will go again soon, and would recommend it.

We were booked into a different restaurant, but our need for Thai styler food was greater, we searched for Thai style and happened to come across Bombos. We did our checking of previous reviews and were impressed. We booked and went there Friday night (7th Feb 2025). The greeting from Spike was genuine, warm, friendly, and with a grace to make you feel appreciated. Spike was helpful with the menu and genuinely engaged in a general chatter with enthusiasm, a nice touch as some places don't engage. The menu was a delight to read, mouthwatering stories of each dish. The delight was that the menu was not vast, which in my opinion is a great thing, as you get quality from the dishes they do and do well, rather than a myriad of dishes that could do better. So, a top score from us. We ordered, my wife and I, starters of Chicken Tatsutaage and I had Octopus Balls. All I can say here is...... OMG. My wife doesn't go overboard for a fish dish, but she absolutely loved the Octopus Balls. We both loved the two starters. They arrived, well presented, with clearly both love and attention, with an almost painted finish, they looked that nice. What a fabulous start to our experience of Bombos. The mains we ordered were Chicken Katsu Curry together with Bibimbap (Chicken) . We were NOT disappointed. The presentation was sublime, careful, delicate, with panache from someone who loves their job and takes pride. The flavours were an abudance of sensor hitting delights, there was nothing to fault. We will be back to enjoy the rest of the menu, we cannot wait to get there again. Thank you, Bombos.

Super delicious English breakfast