Jamie's Italian Restaurant Review

Photo courtesy of http://www.jamieoliver.com/italian/

Last Friday I had the opportunity to be a VIP Blogger for Jamie's Italian . If you are unfamiliar  with the restaurant , it is a franchise created by celebrity chef Jamie Oliver, featuring authentic Italian food at an affordable and reasonable price.  I shared my experience with several family members, although it was not my first time visiting the restaurant, it was my first time going with my family. 

PRICE AND FOOD QUALITY

To jump right in , I felt the prices for all the meals were very appealing , typically if i go to a restaurant i expect to pay anywhere from £15 - £20 for my meal and an additional £5-10 for my daughters meal  (£10 being the ultimate maximum). I chose to order the  Jamie's Italian  Signature Burger (shown in the image above)  which was priced at £10.95 plus an additional £3 for chips. for a fine dining experience i'm willing to pay that much for a burger , but in another situation I wouldn't spend more than £5 on a burger alone.  The kids menu is a set price of just over £5 and that includes a meal with a drink which i also thought was great. other meals ordered were the Fish of the day which featured a sample size of each style of fish they offer and varies in price, and the other meal was the prawn linguini priced at £7.75 . Following my main meal I had the Epic Brownie priced at £5.45, which I felt like the brownie should have been bigger , however it was the perfect end to a satisfying meal. The quality overall was superb , I could tell they paid extra attention to the presentation of the food to make it look visually appealing. All of our meals were brilliantly crafted visually and tasted great.

CLEANLINESS

I have to admit the restaurant was not the cleanest in the environment , I felt as though the wait staff did not clean the surrounding areas quick enough. there were some tables with a lot of mess on the floor, or the baby seats not wiped off properly. other than that it was very respectable.

OVERALL EXPERIENCE

overall i found my experience there to be great! would I recommend this restaurant to another , YES! 

I give Jamie's Italian  FOUR out of FIVE STARS!  

Photo from http://www.jamieoliver.com/italian/ -EPIC BROWNIE

have you ever been there before? check out their website for a full menu and more  http://www.jamieoliver.com/italian/restaurants/birmingham

How I Mastered The 600D | Goodman Photography Workshop!

Hey everyone
Although we are now in Septemeber , I thought I would take it back to August for just one more day!

This Sunday I was invited to a Photography workshop hosted by Goodman in Birmingham.
In the workshop we learned how to REALLY use our camera . 

In other words we kissed good old Auto Mode goodbye! 

We all met up outside of Selfridges Bright and early at 10:15 

(Of course I made my Starbucks run before I headed over there! .. I can't go to Birmignham and not stop at Starbucks)

I was all geared up to go with my cannon 600D camera & Galaxy Tab so I could post to Instagram right away!! 

As soon as we all met we introduced ourselves and headed over to the "Floosie" lol

Thats what us Brums call the Fountain at town hall :-) & we had our first camera lesson!

We learned about symmetrical buildings and the best way to capture them!  Town Hall was our first subject. After taking a few pictures I finally got my "masterpiece"

Next we took a walk over to the new Birmingham Library, which was a harder subject to catch because of the levels and angles of the building! This is where we were all looking like "crazies" because we were practically laying on the floor to get a good picture!

#goodmanmeetup my second picture from the photography workshop :-) pic.twitter.com/cG3Rf6GZRa

— Abbigayle Warner (@abbigaylewarner) August 31, 2014

A few of us took a cheeky selfie too :-)

Not exactly the most flattering picture of my face! lol 

After we headed to Jamie's Resaturant for lunch! 

[My first time going so I was really stoked!]

I wanted to try something different and unique ...... but I didn't know what half of the things on the menu were! lol So I kept it simple and went with a Burger  !! LOL

Once again we all whipped out our cameras and took Photos of our plates! :-)

Although we were all stuffed from our yummy meals , the workshop wasn't over! We then had to capture the iconic Selfridges Building!

Once again ... we were laying on the floor lol  It was a tough building to capture but I think I got a some good Shots! :-)

We then headed up to the Bull. This area was tricky as there were four different views we could have captured I tired every angle but ultimately I think I chose the best angle here ... possibly ....

To finish up we headed back to the "Floosie" to work on how to blur out the annoying public in a shot. I could not get this one right so I have no picture to show you lol ! 

We were also given goodie bags!!

Overall the workshop was just awesome! I learned a lot and had a great time!

Loved the #goodmanmeetup ! Took some fab pics , Learned loads n will definitely blog about it this week !!

— Abbigayle Warner (@abbigaylewarner) August 31, 2014

I'm really happy that I was invited and would love to do one again! 

Have you ever been to a workshop like this before?

AND how well do you REALLY know your camera? lol 

Leave a comment down below and lets chat! xo

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