Hardens Guide to the Best Restaurants in West Midlands
Hardens guides have spent 15 years compiling reviews of the best West Midlands restaurants. On Hardens.com you'll find details and reviews of 221 restaurants in West Midlands and our unique survey based approach to rating and reviewing West Midlands restaurants gives you the best insight into the top restaurants in every area and of every type of cuisine.
Featured West Midlands Restaurants
1. Opus Restaurant
British, Modern restaurant in Birmingham
54 Cornwall Street - B3
Despite being on the roomy side, this Colmore Business District brasserie still retains a “great” atmosphere, and it’s “very good value given the standard of the food”.
2. Marco Pierre White Steakhouse Birmingham
Steaks & grills restaurant in Birmingham
200 Wharfside St, The Cube - B1
2014 Review: “Fantastic views (even if they are only of Birmingham!)” underpin the popularity of this city-centre steakhouse; most reporters approve its “high end chain” experience, but they acknowledge its “amateurish” service, and critics find it “very average all-round”.
3. Sabai Sabai
Thai restaurant in Birmingham
268 High Street - B17
More reports please on Torquil and Juree Chidwick’s stylish modern Harborne Thai: part of a local mini-chain of upmarket Thai restaurants founded in Moseley in 2003.
4. Nozomi
restaurant in Birmingham City Centre
5 - 11 Fleet Street - B3
A unique dining experience in the heart of Birmingham, serving contemporary Japanese cuisine....
5. Sabai Sabai
Thai restaurant in Moseley
25 Woodbridge Road - B13
Husband and wife team, Torquil and Juree Chidwick, first opened Sabai Sabai as a small, cosy, family-run Thai restaurant in Moseley 10 years ago. Proving a real hit with the locals they opened the Harborne restaurant, oozing a subtle eastern sophistication with carved wooden b...
6. Adam's
British, Modern restaurant in Birmingham
16 Waterloo St - B2
“If it was in France it would have its second star already!” – Adam & Natasha Stokes’s “smart, elegant and well-spaced” venture in the city centre delivers an “outstanding” all-round experience, and is now firmly established not only as Brum’s best, but also as one of the UK’s top dining destinations. “Sensational and eclectic” dishes (from a 3-course or more extensive 8-course taster menu) “never fail to wow even for the most jaded palates” and service is “immaculate”. For “the pinnacle of fine dining” fans recommend the 10-seater Chef’s Table, “which sits in full view of the vast kitchen where Adam and his young team prepare their tiny creations with military precision”. When it comes to the wine: “Trust in Lionel! (the sommelier) whose knowledge but also personality will enhance your visit, with recommendations delivered with insight, warmth and humour!”
7. Purnells
British, Modern restaurant in Birmingham
55 Cornwall St - B3
“Stunning flavours, contrasting combinations and presentation… by the time you reach the dry ice, dried mint leaves and theatre of the final course, you’re a convert!” – TV-chef Glynn Purnell creates an experience that’s “special but not stuffy” at his “understatedly luxurious” (and “romantic”) city-centre HQ, providing “great menu options that deliver on their promise and friendly but unobtrusive staff” who show “attention to detail at its best”. The competition in this “much under-rated culinary city” is fierce nowadays, but for its fan club it’s “the top choice in town”.
8. Spice Club
Indian restaurant in Solihull
2015 Review: A buzzing South East Asian outfit offering “unusual dishes, cooked perfectly”; those “complimentary ice cream and liqueurs” are a “lovely touch” too!
9. Peel's
British, Modern restaurant in Solihull
Shadowbrook Lane - B92
This very stately manor set in 45 acres on the outer fringes of Brum received a gong from the tyre men last year, but still inspires very few reviews. Such as came through are ecstatic however: “with a recently awarded star you expect the food to be of a high standard, but it is the innovative nature of the menu and the warm and welcoming service which makes Peel’s a truly marvellous dining experience. (Oh! And take a good look at the silk hand embroidered wallpaper in the dining room)”.
10. Lasan
Indian restaurant in Birmingham
3-4 Dakota Buildings, James Street - B3
“A distinct cut above the normal Brummie Indian” – Jabbar Khan’s “upmarket” Jewellery Quarter destination is the survey’s most-commented-on curry house in town, delivering “a twist on the usual fare” with “challenging” and “really different” flavours. Just before we went to press in autumn 2017 there was big upheaval here: first the restaurant closed for a major overhaul and nothing short of a ‘rebirth’ was promised with a new interior and menu to match; then it was announced that the business’s ‘front man’ Aktar Islam was to leave.
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