It starts
at the coals

The West Midlands has been doing this better than anywhere for forty years. The desi pub is ours. We grew up in them.

Legends started with a simple thought. Everything we loved about those rooms, the charcoal, the generosity, the noise on a Saturday, deserved a space built properly around it. Good lighting. Room to sit. A bar worth standing at.

So we took the food seriously first. Lamb marinated overnight. A tandoor that runs hot all service. Chilli chicken and chilli paneer done the way this region does them, hot and sharp and nothing like a takeaway. Then we built the room around that.