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 everyth ..read more

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 and e ..read more

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 Festival. Onwards ..read more

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 18 mouth-watering dishes and drinks for you to devour at this year’s IB Festival. Onwards ..read more

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 EVENING IS NOW SOLD OUT – WITH ONLY A SMALL HANDFUL OF SATURDAY DAYTIME AND 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 dr ..read more

It’s time to plan your feasting! We’ve created the greatest food/drink line-up we’ve ever seen for any event in Birmingham ever before – and it can be all yours at this year’s Independent Birmingham Festival (24-25 September). With just a week 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 face with and quaff amidst the good company of friends at this iconic location. We seriously cannot decide what we’re going to eat – all we know is that we’re going to eat a lot! There are onl ..read more

The Independent Birmingham Festival is less than 4 weeks away and we can’t wait to welcome thousands of you back to this iconic heritage site! To get you excited for this year’s unmissable foodie event, we’ve compiled a list of 36 reasons why you NEED to grab your tickets and come along to celebrate all things indie with us on 24-25 September! Read on to find out why a ticket to this year’s IB Festival is essential – you don’t want to miss out (you can grab your tickets here). At the time of writing there are less than 200 tickets left for Saturday daytime and over 3/4 of total tickets have al ..read more

There’s so much feasting to be done at this year’s Independent Birmingham Festival at Aston Hall. Here’s just a taste of what to expect at this year’s HUGE foodie festival (which is only 4 weeks away!!!)  If you’ve been to any of our events before, you know they ALWAYS sell out. At the time of writing this article, there are only 200 tickets left for the Saturday daytime session (with 3/4 of our total tickets now gone) – so grab yours fast HERE – as you seriously, seriously don’t want to miss this. We’ve created the greatest food/drink line-up for any event of any kind in Birmingham ever ..read more

The fantastic JQ Festival is back on 23 July for the sixth instalment of this brilliant celebration of the wonderful Jewellery Quarter. Returning for the first time since 2019, this year’s festival has a packed programme of fun events taking place across this historic area of Birmingham, with activities for all ages and interests. To get you excited for the JQ Festival, here are just 10 reasons why you need to attend this fantastic, free event… Live Theatre One of the most awesome events taking place at this year’s JQ Festival, and one that we’re most excited about, will be brilliant live thea ..read more

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 Brits 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 ours with al ..read more