Annexe has been in and around the top 10 restaurants in Birmingham on Tripadvisor for a while now. We've had a couple of nice dinners there and have always fancied trying it for lunch when it does a very good value menu (£11.50 for two courses). To start I opted for melon and prosciutto which was accompanied by some interesting pickled raspberries. For the main course I had confit duck and leek tarte with sauté potatoes, and fennel, grapefruit and pistachio salad. The tarte was very nice, but I wasn't at all sure about the salad. Overall you can't really complain too much when you're getting freshly cooked food for £11.50.
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| Confit duck and leek tarte, saute potatoes, fennel, grapefruit and pistachio salad |
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I don't think I was expecting to be blogging about a meal at the NEC but it was actually very good so I felt I couldn't really leave it out. I'd bought tickets to see Maroon 5 that included a two course dinner package. I had cod on risotto to start, the cod was cooked well and the risotto very tasty. For dessert I had chocolate truffle with Morello cherry ice-cream-it was difficult but somehow I managed to polish it all off.
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| The programme |
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| Baked fillet of cod, sun-touched tomato risotto, pan roasted chorizo, mariner king prawns |
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| Individual chocolate truffle, honeycomb crumb, Morello cherry ice-cream |
Next up was the entertainment. We got out in time to see most of Robin Thicke's set, which was a nice (if slightly loud) warm up before Maroon 5, who put on a good show.
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