Results tagged “UCB” from Birmingham Mail - Restaurant Spy

True modesty is a rare quality but Bill Farnsworth, recently retired from the post of director of catering studies at University College Birmingham, possesses it in abundance.

He was sitting in the front row as the restaurant awards were announced at last night's VIP launch of Taste of Birmingham.

It took him an age to realise that the CV being read out as the award for a lifetime's contribution to this city's culinary scheme was his own.

Then be broke into a broad - and slightly embarrassed - grin as he walked on stage to pick up the trophy from Joanne Malin and Antony Worrall Thompson.