These colourful pictures show the inside of Sutton Coldfield’s newest restaurant which has open-end in Mere Green.

The new Thai tapas-style restaurant, Giggling Squid, took over from a former Italian restaurant in Mulberry Walk, and opened to the public on July 26 and is already proving popular with its novel cuisine.

The Giggling Squid chain, began in the basement of a fishmerman’s cottage in Brighton in 2002 and has grown since then, operating at 38 venues across the UK.