Museums? OK, the Ikon Gallery is modern art and very good cafe underneath too. Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery is very good, has some odd stuff that is somewhat fascinating. Barber Institute of Fine Art is over by the University and has some astonishingly good pieces. The New library is worth a visit too
Transport wise, you have the motorcycle museum over be the NEC, just off the A45. You’ve also got Think Tank which the science museum, it aimed at kids but works for big kids too, lots of train and planes to look at. Cosford, the RAF museum is about 40 mins away as well, though that may be a tad too far.
And there is obviously a Spearmint Rhino which is a bit out of town, Legs 11 or Medusa are more central…apparently…
Beer wise, for real ale head to The Wellington on Bennett’s Hill which has 10 or 15 real ales on tap. On New Street you have the Post Office Vaults that specialises in more continental beer, they have around 400 (yes, 400, no typo) different beers ranging from normal Belgian stuff to 10% Norwegian filth, try the smoked German beer, it’s, well, odd yet very moreish. There’s also Edmunds on Edmund Street that has recently started brewing their own beer. Generally, stay around the streets either side of of Colemore Row and you’ll be fine, don’t be draw to Broad Street, it’s a meat market, you have been warned.
If none of this appeals post again and I’ll think of somewhere else.
