Restaurants, hotels, bars and wineries in Birmingham from the En Primeur Club guide.
Accolades in Birmingham
Three restaurants in our guide hold Michelin stars, four stars in total. The 2026 awards are at Opheem in Summer Row, Adam's in city centre and The Wilderness in the Jewellery Quarter.
Opheem in Summer Row holds two Michelin stars in the 2026 guide. Aktar Islam cooks a modern Indian tasting menu from seasonal British produce, with precise spicing, a sommelier and a wine list. The Good Food Guide rates the restaurant Exceptional for 2025, and SquareMeal ranks it at UK Top 100 Restaurants #21 (2026).
Adam's in city centre holds one Michelin star in the 2026 guide and AA Rosettes the same year. Tasting menus sit alongside an a la carte menu. The wine programme is exceptional, with an extensive list. Opinionated About Dining ranked the restaurant among the top restaurants in Europe in 2024.
The Wilderness in the Jewellery Quarter holds one Michelin star in the 2026 guide, with AA Rosettes the same year. Alex Claridge's tasting menu runs in an all-black room with an open kitchen and a punk and metal soundtrack. A prix fixe menu sits alongside the tasting menu. The wine programme is sommelier-led, with an extensive list, wine pairings and creative non-alcoholic flights.
Five restaurants citywide carry exceptional wine programmes. Folium in the Jewellery Quarter, Trillium in Snow Hill / Business District and The Oyster Club by Adam Stokes in Ladywood are three of them.
Folium in the Jewellery Quarter holds a Michelin Plate in the 2026 guide and AA Rosettes the same year. Ben Tesh cooks a modern British tasting menu in an open kitchen, and Lucy Hanlon runs front of house. The wine programme is exceptional and sommelier-led, with pairings for the menu. The Good Food Guide rates the restaurant Very Good for 2025.
Trillium in Snow Hill / Business District holds a Michelin Plate in the 2026 guide. The restaurant is by chef Glynn Purnell, with seasonal small plates and large sharing plates on the menu. The wine programme is exceptional, with an extensive list and a sommelier.
The Oyster Club by Adam Stokes in Ladywood holds a Michelin Plate in the 2026 guide. Adam Stokes runs an oyster and seafood restaurant, with oysters from named sources, caviar and classically prepared fish, served as small plates and a la carte. The wine programme is exceptional, with an extensive list, and champagne is served as well.
Our guide counts three Michelin-starred restaurants in Birmingham, holding four Michelin stars in total. They are Opheem in Summer Row, Adam's in city centre and The Wilderness in the Jewellery Quarter. Each of those restaurants has a dated Michelin star award for 2026.
Jewellery Quarter has the most venues of any neighbourhood in our guide, with ten. The cluster includes The Wilderness, which holds a Michelin star, Folium and Albatross Death Cult, both with exceptional sommelier-led wine programmes, the cocktail bar Lucky7, and Hotel du Vin Birmingham. No other neighbourhood in the guide reaches that venue count.
Tasting menus in our guide sit in Summer Row, city centre, the Jewellery Quarter, Great Western Arcade, Digbeth, Moseley, Harborne, Ladywood and Edgbaston. The starred tasting menus are at Opheem in Summer Row, Adam's in city centre and The Wilderness in the Jewellery Quarter. Folium, Albatross Death Cult and Lasan are also in the Jewellery Quarter.
The five exceptional wine programmes in our guide are Adam's in city centre, Folium and Albatross Death Cult in the Jewellery Quarter, Trillium in Snow Hill / Business District, and The Oyster Club by Adam Stokes in Ladywood. Adam's, Trillium and The Oyster Club by Adam Stokes have extensive lists. Folium and Albatross Death Cult are sommelier-led, and Albatross Death Cult also pours sake.
By Emmett Haley · Updated October 8, 2026 · Editorial standards
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Opheem holds two Michelin stars and a La Liste score of 84 points, placing it firmly among Britain's leading Indian restaurants. Chef Aktar Islam's multi-course menus at this Jewellery Quarter address work with British seasonal produce and precise spicing across five or ten courses. The team's coordination between kitchen, sommelier, and floor service defines the experience as much as the food itself.
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Adam's holds a Michelin star and an Opinionated About Dining Top Restaurants in Europe ranking (2024), placing it among Birmingham's most decorated fine-dining addresses. Tasting menus of five or seven courses anchor the format, with à la carte available alongside. The art deco–inflected dining room on Waterloo Street operates Tuesday through Saturday for lunch and dinner, closed Monday and Sunday.
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On Warstone Lane in Birmingham's Jewellery Quarter, The Wilderness runs a six- or nine-course tasting menu under Chef Alex Claridge that reads as a sustained argument for originality over convention. The all-black interior, pumping soundtrack, and a menu titled 'All Pleasure is Fleeting' signal a restaurant that earns Michelin Plate recognition while operating on its own terms. Wine pairings and creative non-alcoholic flights complete the picture.
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COUCH occupies a modest shopfront on Pershore Road in Stirchley, one of Birmingham's most quietly consequential dining streets. Operating in a neighbourhood where independent food culture has deepened steadily over the past decade, it sits in the tier of intimate, format-driven venues that prioritise product and technique over spectacle. For Birmingham's serious dining circuit, Stirchley's rise is a story worth following.
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In Birmingham's Jewellery Quarter, Folium operates as a two-person tasting menu restaurant where Ben Tesh cooks solo in an open kitchen and Lucy Hanlon runs front of house with evident warmth. The format is tight, the ambition is high, and the cooking earns Michelin Plate recognition for ingredients-led Modern British cuisine that consistently overdelivers at its price point.
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Albatross Death Cult occupies a 14-seat counter inside a converted Jewellery Quarter canalside factory, serving a Japanese-inflected seafood tasting menu that earned a Michelin Plate in both 2024 and 2025. From Alex Claridge, the chef behind nearby Wilderness, the format pairs pared-back, ingredient-led courses with sake, wine, and marine-themed cocktails in a setting that makes strangers talk to each other.
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Tropea brings Michelin Bib Gourmand-recognised Italian regional cooking to Harborne, Birmingham's most settled neighbourhood dining strip. The sharing-plate format, housemade pastas, and an all-Italian wine list priced well below comparable city-centre restaurants make this the area's clearest case for the neighbourhood trattoria model done right. Opened in 2021, it has expanded into next-door premises and earned back-to-back Bib Gourmand recognition in 2024 and 2025.
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Inside Great Western Arcade, a Grade II-listed Victorian shopping gallery in Birmingham city centre, Land serves four- and six-course vegetarian and vegan tasting menus that draw a broad, loyal audience well beyond the plant-focused dining crowd. Holding a Michelin Plate and a place in the We're Smart Green Guide, it sits at the serious end of Birmingham's tasting-menu tier, priced at £££ and booking ahead is advisable.
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670 Grams operates from a two-floor unit inside Digbeth's Custard Factory, where graffiti-covered walls, a monochrome palette, and loud rap music set the context for Kray Treadwell's daily tasting menu. Seventeen-plus courses combine playful flavour contrasts with precise technique, earning consecutive Michelin Plates in 2024 and 2025. The wine list is compact and fruit-forward; the experience is deliberately not for everyone.
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A Michelin Bib Gourmand holder for two consecutive years, Riverine Rabbit brings flavour-forward modern cooking to Stirchley at prices that sit well below Birmingham's starred tier. Chef Ash Valenzuela-Heeger draws on South African and Asian influences to produce a menu that travels wider than its suburban postcode suggests, while Erin's front-of-house warmth keeps the room feeling genuinely welcoming rather than performatively relaxed.
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A Michelin Plate-recognised Peruvian restaurant in Moseley, Chakana brings Lima-trained technique to Birmingham's neighbourhood dining scene. Housed in a converted Lloyd's bank, the vault repurposed as a private dining room, it serves ceviches, tiraditos, and ambitious main plates alongside one of the UK's most extensive pisco collections. At the ££ price point, it sits comfortably among Birmingham's most serious casual-formal options.
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Asha's on Newhall Street holds consecutive Michelin Plates (2024 and 2025) and draws a consistently full room for cooking that spans the Indian subcontinent. Tandoori kebabs anchor an extensive menu, while the Muscat gosht, a recipe attributed to Asha Bhosle herself, illustrates the kitchen's ambition. At £££, it sits a tier below Birmingham's starred Indian option, Opheem, but above the city's mid-market crowd.
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A Georgian townhouse on Highfield Road, Edgbaston, BALOCI brings an Indo-Persian menu to Birmingham's established fine-dining corridor. The cooking draws on Afghan, Turkish, and Balochistan traditions alongside Western technique, earning consecutive Michelin Plate recognition in 2024 and 2025. The tasting menu offers the fullest survey of the kitchen's range; the Sultani lamb chops are the à la carte anchor.
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Ranked #329 in Opinionated About Dining's 2024 European list and Highly Recommended among Europe's best new openings in 2023, Carters of Moseley sits in Birmingham's tightest tier of chef-driven Modern British cooking. Brad Carter's kitchen draws on the same instinct for produce-led restraint that defines the genre's most credible practitioners, framed by a wine approach that rewards closer attention than the room's neighbourhood character might first suggest.
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Chapter operates from the Artisan Market in Edgbaston, running a full-day programme from weekend breakfasts through cocktails to dinner in a room defined by op-art banquettes and an open kitchen. The menu moves through modern brasserie territory, smoked mackerel Caesar, ham hock rarebit, Sunday dry-aged beef rump, with Drappier Champagne anchoring a by-the-glass wine list that keeps things approachable rather than academic.
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Cuubo is a Kickstarter-funded Modern British bistro on Harborne High Street, holding the Michelin Plate in both 2024 and 2025. The small, stylish room runs a proudly seasonal menu where restraint does the heavy lifting, earning. For mid-range dining in Birmingham's suburbs, it sits above the neighbourhood average.
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On a stretch of Pershore Road that has become one of Birmingham's most talked-about independent dining corridors, Eat Vietnam occupies a former greasy spoon in Stirchley and serves a focused Vietnamese menu built around noodles, curries, and low-intervention wines. Chef/owner Ming Nham brings a background in music and fashion that shapes the room's energy as much as its food. The short, seasonally adjusted menu and a Birmingham Brewing Company collaboration lager make it one of the neighbourhood's more considered independent openings.
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A Michelin Plate-recognised tapas bar on Edmund Street, Plates by Purnell's brings a focused Spanish small-plates format to Birmingham's city centre dining scene. The narrow, atmospheric room pairs gambas, croquetas and patatas bravas with a predominantly Spanish wine list, sitting at the accessible end of Glynn Purnell's Birmingham portfolio. A sensible choice for informal Spanish eating without the formality of the city's tasting-menu circuit.
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A Michelin Plate-recognised Japanese restaurant in Moseley, Satori pulls a committed local crowd with a wide-ranging à la carte spanning sushi, sashimi, tempura, and robata grill cuts alongside a well-priced tasting menu.For Birmingham's south suburbs, it occupies a rare niche.
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Birmingham's dedicated seafood counter on Temple Street, The Oyster Club by Adam Stokes holds a Michelin Plate for its classically grounded approach to British shellfish and fish. Oysters arrive from multiple named sources, caviar and champagne anchor the luxury tier, and a split-level room, marble-topped tables below, counter seating in Aphrodite's Bar above, gives the place a dual character that few UK seafood restaurants manage at this price point.
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Trillium sits in Birmingham’s business-core dining circuit, where polished modern British cooking competes with counter-led creative rooms, vegetarian tasting menus and chef-driven neighbourhood restaurants. Its clearest signal is the Glynn Purnell connection, placing it within the city’s contemporary Midlands conversation rather than a generic hotel-dining category.
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Fawsley Hall is a Michelin Selected country house hotel in the Northamptonshire countryside, listed under Birmingham in Michelin's 2025 guide. A Tudor manor with centuries of architectural layering, it sits in the quieter tier of British country house hotels that prioritise setting and heritage over urban convenience. For travellers working out of the Midlands, it offers a substantive alternative to the city-centre options.
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Michelin Selected for 2025, Hotel du Vin Birmingham occupies a converted Victorian building on Church Street in the city's historic Colmore Row quarter. The property's wine-led identity and bistro format set it apart from the corporate hotel tier that dominates Birmingham's centre. Bookings should be made well in advance, particularly for weekends and during the city's conference and exhibition season.
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Carrying a MICHELIN Selected designation for 2025, the Hyatt Regency Birmingham occupies a city-centre address at 2 Bridge Street that puts guests within walking distance of Brindleyplace, the International Convention Centre, and Centenary Square. Against Birmingham's growing field of design-led boutique properties, it competes on scale, full-service infrastructure, and transport proximity rather than on character.
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If you are not from the UK (or even if you are a particularly chauvinistic Londoner) it is possible that your image of Birmingham is stuck in the past. But this once-drab industrial city has had a makeover, we'll spare you the full Economist treatment, but, put plainly, the old, dreary Birmingham is nearly gone. Thanks to an influx of EU funding, cranes dot the skyline, and the city is re-styling itself as a thoroughly modern cosmopolis. The Malmaison chain has long been at the advance guard of the boutique hotel revolution, at least outside of London, and it's fitting that they have set up an outpost in this newly chic town. The hotel itself is located in a converted Royal Mail sorting facility, now Birmingham's upscale shopping destination, The Mailbox, alongside the canal and right next to New Street station. Quite appropriately you will walk past Harvey Nichols or Armani on your way to reception, and the rest of the Mailbox's designer shops are never more than a short walk from your room. The décor is cool and crisp, all dark woods, rich earthy tones and white linens, in the Malmaison house style, which is, despite what you may gather from trying to translate the name, not a “bad house” style at all. The chief luxury here is space, as anyone who has been to a London hotel room lately can attest; rooms here are large and public spaces are larger, a far cry from the perfunctory spaces found in many of the capital's trendy but cramped hotels. The calm, insulated atmosphere inside the hotel belies its central location, though the nightlife may carry on outside, once in your room you will be blissfully oblivious to the panic on the streets of Birmingham. Malmaison-branded toiletries and CDs in the rooms complete the hard sell, but, it's not necessary. By any other name, this hotel's mix of modern style and classic luxury would be a winner, and the brasserie and spa don't hurt either.
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Selected entries from the current guide for Birmingham.
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Passing Fancies in Birmingham is a boutique cocktail bar serving approachable, flavor-forward drinks and small plates. The 12-drink menu features highlights like the Nectarine Bellini, Salt & Rye and Apple Highball. Known for approachable luxury and community-led hospitality, Passing Fancies earned Top 50 Cocktail Bars recognition in 2023 and holds a 4.6/5 TripAdvisor score. Expect warm service from passionate bartenders, glass-front counter seating opposite the 'Foliage Man' sculpture, and seasonal small plates such as blue cheese croquettes and arancini that match each cocktail. It’s an intimate, unpretentious mixology venue in Digbeth with a new Jewellery Quarter site under construction, ideal for curious travelers and cocktail lovers seeking quality without pretense.
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Lucky7 on Frederick Street brings East Asian pantry ingredients into conversation with Western cocktail traditions, producing a programme shaped by seasonal thinking and cross-cultural technique. The bar sits within Birmingham's growing independent drinks scene, offering a format that rewards curiosity over familiarity. It is the kind of place that assumes its guests have already tired of predictable gin lists.
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