Ahead of the festive period, The Grand Hotel Birmingham is enhancing its culinary credentials with the launch of a new trend-led menu at Isaac’s, the restaurant where New York meets Brum.
This restaurant trend, set to take hold in 2024, is all about elevated comfort food. Gone are the days of polarised choice, where the options were high end heaven, or familiar food that comes with compromises. Now, the comfort food we all know and love is having a makeover.
Adam Bateman, Culinary Director of The Grand Hotel Birmingham, who designed the menu with his team, says the shift towards sophisticated simplicity may be in its infancy, but is firmly here to stay. He comments: “It began as the emergence of dining options that go deep on delivering specific cuisines, such as Vietnamese or Indian, in an elevated way.
“Now, the concept is being applied to British and US comfort food, and because that’s the food that many of us grew up with, it also draws on a sense of nostalgia. This is about delivering familiar dishes like burgers and macaroni cheese of a superior quality, that’s hard to resist. It’s also the food we really love to eat.”
The new menu will bring something new to the thriving food scene in Birmingham that complements the incredible array of restaurants and dining options on offer within walking distance of the hotel.
The Isaac’s concept is deliberately down to earth and packed with familiar flavours — small plates and mains that will make mouths water, and where every dish is prepared with the best possible ingredients, sourced from the finest suppliers.
From mac and cheese with slow cooked, melt-in-your-mouth beef brisket to New York style meatballs, grandma’s tomato sauce, spaghetti and evoo, this menu will leave guests spoiled for choice. The menu is available on Tuesdays and Wednesdays for dinner, and all day on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays.
