Families, friends gather for once-in-a-lifetime experience

Kimberly Murphy was eager to see a solar eclipse with her daughter Chloe on Monday. But the Kitchener resident wasn’t looking forward to battling traffic jams and large crowds to enjoy the once-in-a-lifetime experience. “I thought about heading to Niagara Falls and Port Dover but then I thought about the traffic and and the huge […]

Cuubo, Birmingham: ‘A storming talent’ – restaurant review

This new restaurant in Birmingham is tiny, but its ambition and bursts of flavour are extra large Cuubo, 47 High Street, Harborne, Birmingham B17 9NT (cuubo.co.uk). Three-course lunch £30; three-course dinner £50; tasting menus £75; wines from £25Until 6pm that day, chef Dan Sweet, an intense sliver of a man, was moonlighting as a builder. His site: the restaurant we had just eaten in. There were walls that needed an extra lick of paint. There was some grouting that needed doing. The few narrow, slatted wooden panels, which are practically the room’s only design feature, needed a little…