Ludlow and Brum

Great news that Ludlow's La Becasse will be among e restaurants showing off their signature dishes at the Taste of Birmingham festival at Cannon Hill Park this July.

I hear great things about the cooking at the restaurant and it would be a grave dereliction of duty were I not to drive to the Shropshire town to review the place ahead of the festival.

Last time I ate in the premises it was occupied by Hibiscus - owned by Claude Bossi with a youthful Glynn Purnell working there, too. It was a superb meal, I remember. The flavour, texture and fragrance of bread made with roasted white flour still lingers in my memory.

Which probably says something about my obsession with food...