Long-run Italian is well pest-o its best; Restaurant Spy SAN CARLO, 4 TEMPLE STREET, BIRMINGHAM. 0121 633 0251.(Features) From: Birmingham Mail (England) | Date: May 15, 2008 | COPYRIGHT 2008 Birmingham Post & Mail Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Byline: By Paul Fulford

FROM among the photographs of famous people who have eaten at San Carlo stares the chubby chops of John Prescott.

How would the former Deputy Prime Minister - known neither for patience nor a lack of appetite - have coped with the delay my group endured on the night we ate at a long established city centre restaurant?

A full 45 minutes passed between the placing of our order and the arrival of any food. And not once in that ...