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Best Contemporary food near Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
Reviews on Contemporary food in Birmingham, England, United Kingdom. The geographical heart of England, Birmingham started life as a sixth- century Anglo-Saxon village. Today, much of this city of over a million dates back to post-WWII redevelopment in the 1950s and 60s. Cutting edge museums and galleries, innovative theaters and excellent shopping have contributed to Birmingham's appeal as a weekend break destination. Don't miss the hopping bars and cafes of Gas Street Basin or the fascinating creatures at the National Sea Life Centre.
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1. Rico Libre
Overall Ratings
4 based on 1224 reviews
Contemporary, non-pretentious, and some say other-wordly - offering Tapas 'with a twist'. A delectable selection of sumptuous specials and tapas style dishes with a friendly service alongside! Added touch of a Bring Your Own Alcohol policy.
Reviewed By hmeera
Great Mediterranean restaurant in a great location . The service was excellent.The tapas was simply amazing and tasty . The restaurant also allows own alcohol with no corkage charge .Great tasting experience highly recommend thank you for your kind review and hope to see you again soon
2. Aluna
Overall Ratings
4 based on 985 reviews
Our main objective is to be the best at what we do! We aim to be the best establishment in birmingham serving high quality food and cocktails. We only use the best ingredients to ensure top quality for all our guests! Aluna is a perfect venue to have a ma
Reviewed By Emme H
Abbie is the best babe ever, we've now got two bottles of prosecco to finish and we're already drunk. Having the best Sunday afternoon to celebrate our friends birthday and couldn't recommend this place enough. Thank you abbie x
3. The Warehouse Cafe
Overall Ratings
4 based on 917 reviews
Birmingham's original award winning vegetarian restaurant & cafe. Situated at Birmingham Friends of the Earth in the heart of Birmingham's Digbeth area - the cafe has served vegetarian food for over 30 years. Now a community interest company and having be
Reviewed By Dr_Bob1
A mid-week visit (with a Groupon) â sadly, not a review of the food because we never got any.This Vegan-ish café/restaurant which, while being close to the city centre, is in the unprepossessing back streets of Digbeth.I thought that the dining area was pretty scruffy (the state of the doors to the kitchen left a lot to be desired) and unattractive. It was quite busy, though a large area was occupied by people doing crafts.We were eventually greeted and seated and the limited menu âexplainedâ to us â there had been significant changes since Iâd purchased the Groupon, so we couldnât order the meal weâd expected. Nevertheless, we chose and ordered (at the counter). You collect your own cutlery and water. The person who took our order (I assume) passed it to the kitchen and then joined in the socialising around the craft table.So we waited...Then we waited...Then we waited some more...Some food came out to other tables, but not to ours...We were promised that âyours is nextâ, but nothing came. An hour after we arrived (we were, admittedly, a little early for our booking) we gave up and left. The whole time, I didnât feel that the staff were really engaged with their roles or their customers. It seems that this place is a co-operative, which should be a great idea but in practice seems to lack the organisation of somewhere that (presumably) wants to be taken seriously as a restaurant.I certainly wouldnât visit here again and I do not recommend it.Hi Dr_Bob1, Thank you for your honest feedback, we are sorry to hear that you had an unenjoyable time and had to wait so long for food. Our one staff member that evening was feeling under the weather and admits their service wasn't as good as it usually is and apologises for this, and we were understaffed in the kitchen that day meaning that the wait on food took longer than normal, and although this was communicated to all customers before ordering perhaps this was missed in your case so we are sorry about that. We would say that unlike the old establishment that shut down, our cafe is a bar/cafe that serves hot food rather than a sit down restaurant with table service, and as such we don't offer table service but offer a more bar style casual approach with a self-service bar for cutlery. We hope this explains the change of service style perhaps you expected differently. Our cafe-bar style allows us to be more of a community space and hold events for all sorts of groups and organisations, which is important for our ethos. Sometimes this means that when events run, event attendees help out which may have caused you confusion over staff roles that evening. Regarding your feedback on our menu: Our food menu changes seasonally and gets adapted with new twists and specials all the time, and this aspect is important to us as an establishment so we have variation, and cook according to seasons, and it also allows creativity for our chefs to experiment and offer a more interesting menu to our customers. Having a limited menu size also enables our chefs to prepare all of our food freshly and cook it to order. It's always worth checking our website for new menu information or calling to check if there are dishes you are particularly wanting, but we always have on our classic Warehouse favorites.Our food menu is fully vegan, as is our bar and our cakes! Running a co-op is a full time job for everyone involved, but at the end of the day just because our structure is slightly different to most we are very much a regular business, and we believe that each and every member of our co-op having ownership, feeling involved in our project and gaining the skills and experience of running a catering business is worth the hard work - we have only been open since March and sometimes we make mistakes (like everyone does!) but we also get outstanding feedback much of the time and are sorry that you didn't get to experience this.We hope to see you back another time. Sorry for any inconveniences,Sam
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