The best restaurants, cafés, bakeries, markets, breweries and food producers in Birmingham, from the city centre and Digbeth to the Jewellery Quarter, Moseley and Harborne.
Alex Claridge's rock and roll restaurant in a restored Jewellery Quarter factory earned its first Michelin star in February 2026, a long-awaited moment for one of Birmingham's boldest kitchens.
Aktar Islam's Summer Row restaurant held on to both its Michelin stars in 2026, cementing Opheem's place as one of the finest Indian restaurants anywhere in the world.
Birmingham's Attic Brew Co has bought the 56,000 sq ft Stirchley site that houses its brewery and taproom, backed by a seven-figure funding package and a 60 per cent rise in trade sales.
The Birmingham bakery that grew out of a Custard Factory bar has opened a café at Ikon Gallery in Brindleyplace, bringing croissants, cocktails and culture together under one roof.
Since 1987 Shababs has served authentic baltis in the heart of the Balti Triangle, keeping alive a dish that Birmingham can proudly call its own.
From a handful of traders under the Digbeth arches in 2012 to venues such as Herberts Yard, Digbeth Dining Club remains the place where the Midlands comes to eat.
Birmingham's much-loved burger joint is marking a decade at its Digbeth home with ten limited-time collaborations over ten months, plus a second site at Stirchley's British Oak.
Restored by the Hill family since 2008, Hampton Manor in Hampton-in-Arden pairs the Michelin-starred Grace & Savour with fire cooking, a bakery and a walled garden, just minutes from the city.
Stirchley's worker-run bakery and cookery school has been baking for the community since 2009, and is now preparing to move into the new Stirchley Co-operative Development.
The Old Swan in Netherton, known to all as Ma Pardoe's, has brewed its own beer behind the pub since 1863 and holds one of the finest historic pub interiors in England.