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…

Documentary to shed light on 1950s Dresden workplace tragedy

A feature documentary currently under development aims to tell the story of one of Ontario’s worst workplace tragedies, while memorializing the immigrant workers who lost their lives nearly 70 years ago. Dresden 1957 explores the disaster that occurred during the construction of a pumping station in the North Kent community. On Aug. 14 of that […]

Bulldogs owner Andlauer named Brantford’s Sportsperson of the Year

Michael Andlauer may not be from Brantford but the impact he’s had on the sports community has earned him the Frank Tomlin Memorial Award winner as Brantford’s Sportsperson of the Year. The Brantford Bulldogs owner was honoured on Saturday with the Tomlin award as the person who has contributed the most to sports in the […]