EACH YEAR WE COMPILE THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO COMPLETING YOUR CHRISTMAS SHOPPING IN BIRMINGHAM. We’ve curated a hugely extensive gift guide to show you that there is something for every single person on your list that can be bought from a local shop, artist, creative or small business. Birmingham is bursting at the seams with talent and personality, and your money is so much more valuable to these small businesses than it is to the big corporations who multiply their profits at this time of year. After a difficult couple of years, it is more important than ever to shop local and celebrate […]

It’s safe to say that the Independent Birmingham Festival 2023 was a smash hit! We saw thousands of you descend on the stunning canal-side site at The Bond for this huge foodie event and it filled us with such joy to see so many of you enjoying yourselves across the weekend, eating and drinking amazing dishes and drinks from some of the city’s finest independents, shopping local in our artisan market, and rocking out to the awesome bands on our stage. Not to mention all the cute doggos who turned up to join in the fun too! On behalf of ourselves and Seasonal Markets we want to thank each […]

It’s time to plan your feasting! With just over a week to go until the hotly anticipated Independent Birmingham Festival (taking place at The Bond on 11-12 November), we decided it was time to showcase some of the utterly mouth-watering dishes and drinks you can enjoy at Brum’s best foodie festival. SATURDAY IS COMPLETELY SOLD OUT – WITH ONLY A SMALL HANDFUL OF SUNDAY DAYTIME TICKETS LEFT – GRAB YOUR TICKETS FAST HERE TO AVOID MISSING OUT, THIS EVENT WILL SELL OUT To help you plan your feasting, here are 19 mouth-watering dishes and drinks for you to devour at this year’s IB […]

It’s time to plan your feasting! We’ve created an insanely epic food/drink line-up (one of the very best we’ve ever seen for any event before in Brum), and it can be all yours at this year’s Independent Birmingham Festival (11-12 November). **SATURDAY IS NOW COMPLETELY SOLD OUT – WITH A LIMITED AMOUNT OF SUNDAY DAYTIME LEFT – GRAB YOUR TICKETS FAST HERE TO AVOID MISSING OUT, THIS EVENT WILL SELL OUT** With a month to go until Brum’s ultimate foodie festival returns, we thought it was time for you to plan your feasting, and behold the EPIC dishes and drinks you can stuff your […]

It’s one of the most British things to exist, along with Fish and Chips, apologising for everything, queuing, and talking about the weather. We’re talking about the Sunday Roast. Whether it’s gathered around the family table each week, or cosied up in a country pub on a blustery day, we can’t get enough of that good old traditional Sunday Roast. It’s pretty easy to see why – it’s comfort food at it’s finest, like a warm hug from your nan on a plate. Succulent roast meats, crispy, fluffy roasties, seasonal veggies, lashings of rich gravy, and huge Yorkshire puddings – we like […]