in Union Street and other councillors often met there. At that time the Woodman Tavern in Easy Row was also a favoured meeting place for Allday and his colleagues. A more recent hostelry of note is The Garrison in Dale End which served as a model for the public house by that name featured in the BBC television drama series Peaky Blinders. The real public house was sold at auction for £183,000 in May 2014. A fish restaurant was opened in Warwick Passage in 1883. In 1896 a new building in the Arts and Crafts style was erected in Corporation Street to house James Henry Cook's vegetarian restaurant, one of the first in England. In 1898, The Pitman Vegetarian Hotel, named after the famous vegetarian Sir Isaac Pitman, was opened on the same site, and the proprietors subsequently opened a long-running health food store. It is said that Mahatma Gandhi dined at the restaurant when he visited Birmingham on 18 October 1931. In the latter years of the Victorian era, a number of Italians migrated to Birmingham and occupied a small number of streets off Digbeth and by 1914 they numbered about 700 people, mostly originating from villages around Rome. Many were street-traders and sold the first ice cream in the city using broken eggs from the egg market in Moor Street and ice from Fazeley Street. Camillo Biglio opened a confectioner's shop in Cannon Street in 1878 and, afterwards, is thought to have opened the first Italian restaurant in Birmingham, . An edition of the Michelin Guide for the British Isles was first published in 1911 and stars were first awarded for restaurants in the mid-1920s. The edition published in 1925 recommended a single restaurant in Birmingham – The Exchange in Stephenson Place – which was awarded 3 stars which were interpreted as signifying that the establishment was a "luxurious, well appointed restaurant". Subsequently no Michelin Guides were published for Great Britain from 1931 to 1974. Birmingham is home to a wide variety of Asian eateries which have served the people of Birmingham since the 1940s. The first Chinese restaurant was the Tong Kung on Holloway Head, which opened in 1956. In the late 1950s there were also Kam Ling in Livery Street and Tung Hing at 15 Snow Hill. Notable also were The Slow Boat, opened in 1961 under St. Martin's car park (this business failed after a