{"id":994074,"date":"2026-05-30T09:20:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T09:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/994074\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T09:20:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T09:20:12","slug":"william-sitwell-reviews-vieni-in-birmingham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/994074\/","title":{"rendered":"William Sitwell reviews Vieni in Birmingham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s an issue that divides the nation. So, helpfully, I shall rule on it. Feature walls. Nope. Don\u2019t do it, don\u2019t be tempted, don\u2019t listen to any interior designer that suggests it. Just do not countenance it. Feature walls, by which I refer to a part of a room which has a distinct and different paint colour or wallpaper, and which looks like you couldn\u2019t make up your mind, or that you could only afford to paper one part of the room. By all means hang wallpaper sections, framed, as works of art, or like tapestry. But feature walls? Just don\u2019t do it.<\/p>\n<p>And thus we arrive at Vieni in <a class=\"ck-custom-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/birmingham\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Birmingham<\/a>, a new place promising <a class=\"ck-custom-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/italian-food\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sicilian food<\/a> in the Jewellery Quarter of this great city. In a refurbished brick-built building with much of the place being glass walls, it beams with warmth as you approach. Inside, the modest-sized dining room has walls that attack you, like a titanic clash of ideas. As if the designer has flicked the owner through a chart or spec of colours and design and the answer has been: \u201cYes, please, I\u2019ll have all of them.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s an issue that divides the nation. So, helpfully, I shall rule on it. Feature walls. Nope. Don\u2019t&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":994075,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,786,4884,280,6080,14717,16,15,256372],"class_list":["post-994074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-birmingham","tag-birmingham","tag-britain","tag-england","tag-food-and-drink","tag-great-britain","tag-restaurants","tag-review","tag-sicily","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-william-sitwell"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116662791643090759","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=994074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/994075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=994074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=994074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=994074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}