Birmingham town centre pubs

tomparker95 · 11 Aug 2013 at 21:27

Decent pubs in and around Birmingham town centre? preferable somewhere without bouncers on the doors in the daytime.

Thanks

Skeptic · 11 Aug 2013 at 21:34

tomparker95 said:
Decent pubs in and around Birmingham town centre? preferable somewhere without bouncers on the doors in the daytime.

Thanks

Brew dog, post office vaults, the wellington. End.

tomparker95 · 11 Aug 2013 at 21:37

Will have a look thanks

Suarez7 · 11 Aug 2013 at 21:39

Been to Birmingham once and would never go again, full of "gangsters", saw some guy pull a knife in the toilets.

Last night at the circo loco event in Birmingham someone got shot as well.

tom_e · 11 Aug 2013 at 21:47

Island bar, the Victoria, the Jekyll and Hyde, sunflower lounge, post office vaults, the old joint stock

XeNoN89 · 11 Aug 2013 at 21:51

Suarez7 said:
Been to Birmingham once and would never go again, full of "gangsters", saw some guy pull a knife in the toilets.

Last night at the circo loco event in Birmingham someone got shot as well.

Yep, CircoLoco has been ruined by idiots in the UK. I only go in Ibiza now, and I'm going to give it one more chance in the UK at warehouse project

tom_e · 11 Aug 2013 at 22:12

To be fair events in digbeth are always a bit dicy,I spent a few years on the security team at the custard factory and you never turned up without your vest on

ElliottJames · 11 Aug 2013 at 22:35

tom_e said:
To be fair events in digbeth are always a bit dicy,I spent a few years on the security team at the custard factory and you never turned up without your vest on

Really? Digbeth, 10;31 and 02;31 i've never seen trouble, custard factory perhaps

tomparker95 · 12 Aug 2013 at 10:27

Ta for the heads up haha

elmarko · 12 Aug 2013 at 10:37

It depends, if you like rock music the Flapper & Firkin isn't bad during the day - Bacchus bar is a bit more upmarket & tends to be full of businessmen having affairs & hipsters (but it's not a bad little place).

Brindleyplace has a fair few reasonable bars during the day which shouldn't have security during the day & tends to again be chav free.

tom_e · 12 Aug 2013 at 10:40

I take it not all your mates are going to be over 18 if you don't want places with door staff in the day time?
To be fair unless you choose a big football weekend then pretty much all of the bars and pubs in the city centre don't have door staff before about 8pm.

tomparker95 · 12 Aug 2013 at 10:43

It will be a football weekend but it's not a "big" weekend as such. Of course we will all be over 18 otherwise we would be breaking the law.....

pingwing · 12 Aug 2013 at 10:46

Skeptic said:
Brew dog, post office vaults, the wellington. End.

There's a brewdog in brum?!?! Quality!

jack.mitchell · 12 Aug 2013 at 10:51

When I was in Brum I used to go the Actress and Bishop, which was a nice little watering hole. A little bit out from the centre, but walkable.

Hilly · 12 Aug 2013 at 10:53

pingwing said:
There's a brewdog in brum?!?! Quality!

Yup, not far away from New Street station.

Also, you have the Wellington (real ale), Old Joint Stock (a mix of lager, ale, wine etc), Post Office Vaults (lots of foreign bottled beer), Old Contemptables (Real Ale),

Lots of bars around too, like Pub Du Vin etc,

If you fancy a little walk, the back of Symphony Hall is a place called Bridnley Place (not far from Broad street - but worlds away). Which is a lovely little place, lots of places to choose from

Atari · 12 Aug 2013 at 10:55

ElliottJames said:
Really? Digbeth, 10;31 and 02;31 i've never seen trouble, custard factory perhaps

Someone got shot outside the Rainbow complex the other day. Isolated incident of course but it's still a shady part of Birmingham.

Hilly · 12 Aug 2013 at 11:04

Stick to the centre and you'll be fine. The pubs I've listed above should be pretty much trouble free

malachi · 12 Aug 2013 at 11:07

Atari said:
Someone got shot outside the Rainbow complex the other day. Isolated incident of course but it's still a shady part of Birmingham.

Shame too many pill heads go there.

tom_e · 12 Aug 2013 at 11:12

malachi said:
Shame too many pill heads go there.

It's not the pill heads you have to worry about, they're too busy loving everyone, chewing their own faces off and trying to climb into their own shoe at the end of the night to cause any real problems

elmarko · 12 Aug 2013 at 11:18

tom_e said:
It's not the pill heads you have to worry about, they're too busy loving everyone, chewing their own faces off and trying to climb into their own shoe at the end of the night to cause any real problems

Indeed.