All Bar One, Brindley Placeback to pub details please note - reviews on this site are purely the opinion of site visitors, so don't take them too seriously.
Looked in here for about 10 seconds - all the handpulls have gone. No point going there at all now.
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Crowded canalside bar with the usual chain-pub (lack of) character and too many beers on -- for which you will pay, e.g. for Sierra Nevada GBP5.10 a pint. How. Fucking. Much??? This is Birmingham, get over yourselves.
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All Bar One. City centre. Posers� Paradise.
Pubs like this amuse me really. They do everything possible to disassociate themselves from being a pub, starting with calling themselves a bar through to serving ill attempts at gastronomic finesse, described by pretentious menus unequalled in their verbosity. Mainly just so they can alleviate their patrons of as much money as possible for piss poor beer and service.
Still, if you�re a City Boy and constrained by the City Boy terms of service, which preclude you from entering anywhere other than faceless, soulless and uninspiring pubs, where everyone is more concerned with what shoes they�re wearing rather than if their drink actually tastes nice, this is definitely the place for you.
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Incompetent, unbearably slow ,rude bar staff more concerned with their own reflection than keeping a check on whose next or what your order is. After being overlooked 3 times for various rude, pretentious morons, we walked out and went to the Slug and Lettuce.
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Been there again recently, nothing much has changed from my prebious review apart from the prices.
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A clone of the P & P and the Slug and Lettuce, which rub shoulders with each other in this trendy little patch of Brindley Place. Invariably crowded as previously noted, but now has TWO token real ales, one of which has invariably "just gone off, sorry". Not bad if you want to mingle with Brummies pretending they're really in London.
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Selection of 10 draught beers. You know you are near this bar (it isn't what I would call a pub), especially on a warm night because you can hear the loud braying Hooray Henry sound of the pretentious customers, sitting at the tables on the large slab of concrete outside (no grass so it aint a beer garden). Quiet inside as everyone is outside, though in winter the wooden floors echo and amplify the cacophony. The array of beer pumps, each with an "authentic" mini blackboard attached, detailing the price, ABV etc initially looks impressive, but, what's this!!!! 9 pumps in a row, 8 lagers and 1 Guinness. In the dunces corner, stuck on it's own with the token draught cider, the token bitter, London Pride. This will go down well in the Wellington! Cheapest beer was �3.20 for the London Pride, which they ran out of. Think the dearest lager was �3.80. The Guinness, �3.30 looked flat, so the barman was stirring it to whip up a head. I must assume most of the glasses were oversized, as they were rarely full to the brim. Barstaff served beer in nearest glass that could be found, so for one of our rounds, the 4 Guinness' bcame in 3 different types of glass (none remotely shaped like a Guinness glass). If paying a premium price for a pint, I expect a good pint,served correctly. On a plus point, plenty of eye candy in there, even on a Thursday night.
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We went to lunch here today and ended up waiting 45 mintues. We chased the food twice but it never turned up. Ended up leaving early.... Very poor.
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Nice pint of Staropramen, �2.90 is ok but not exactly the cheapest pint there is, expected up town and in Brindley Place. Good place but takes the edgy pub sting out of a crawl as this is place has a bar/cafe feel about it but worth going all the same.....
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There's better eye-candy walking around outside so dont bother going into this soulless, expensive, rip-off hole. If you're on the pull, stick to Broad Street. If you're over 21, you'll feel too old in here anyway.
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PROS:
Beautiful bar staff,
good selection of drinks,
decent food,
great atmosphere and location
CONS:
A bit pricey
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Eye candy excellent on a Friday & Saturday Night,bar servie excellent,plenty of beer options for all,a bit pricey but overall well worth a visit.
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Nice enough for a chain place. Pricey as it's in town and in Brindley place obviously. Food is always v.nice and plenty of seating/tables.
Chris - 21 Sep 2004 18:01 |
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