Turners

Turners is a class act that brings seriously accomplished dining to the prosaic Birmingham suburb of Harborne. The setting is glossy, with large mirrors on black and navy blue panelled walls, and old quarry-tiled floors, while skilled service ups the ante still further. There's some pretty labour-intensive stuff going on in the kitchen, where a skilled team delivers refined modern French dishes wrought from top-drawer ingredients. Whether you pull out all the stops with the tasting menu, or go for the good-value set lunch option, you can expect confident, ambitious and creative cooking, starting with a beautifully creamy wild garlic leaf risotto served with a poached duck egg and garlic milk foam. Next up, perfectly-timed sea bass arrives with plump roasted scallops and langoustines, crushed Jersey Royals, wild asparagus, and sauce vierge. Desserts, too, show real class: deeply decadent bitter chocolate tart comes with silky praline ice cream and white chocolate jelly.