in the mid-2010s there was a growing trend to the establishment of "pop-up" restaurants in birmingham whereby a chef would establish a temporary restaurant for varying periods of time in non-permanent and different locations. for the period that "adam's" restaurant existed in bennett's hill it termed itself a "pop-up" restaurant. as mentioned above, both niki astley and alex claridge used the device of serving their food in pop-up restaurants before opening their own more permanent establishments. the kitchen garden cafe in kings heath has often hosted pop-up restaurants. the chef, ben tesh, worked from a pop-up restaurant at the kitchen garden. he had initially trained at colin mcgurran's michelin-starred "winteringham fields" restaurant in north east lincolnshire and then been head chef at "anthony's restaurant" in leeds as well as gaining experience at "noma" in denmark under rene redzepi. in 2013 he worked under alex bond at "turner's" restaurant in harborne. he later ran his pop-up restaurant in birmingham from 2016 until 8 april 2017 for nine months at the "urban coffee company" in church street and eventually opened his first permanent restaurant, "folium", in caroline street in the jewellery quarter in late november 2017.