Cheap Food in Birmingham, West Midlands*

Corner eateries, quick bites and the local chippy

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• kaspians
• GREGS! LOL
• benjys near house of frasers cheap reasonable priced sandwiches
• Hi-Tide fishbar in Kings Heath, proper greasy-ass chip shop but the chicken kebab meat is the best in Brum and cheap too. Just make sure you don't get the last dried up morsels from the tube. If you want something healthy then there a couple of cafes up priory road but paying £3.00 for a toasted cheese sandwich and waiting half an hour for it isn't my idea of value.
• Chinese Quarter, superb food at good value. Selly Sausage in Selly Oak.
• Ummmm Big Wok..£7 chineese buffet
• Mokhams of Digbeth Balti house -seemed to have shut up shop,its got scaffold and boards inside.Does anyone know if they have moved somewhere else ? Otherwise for cheap muchie's in the Mornings wot above the hole-in-the wall- Satisfaction in Hurst Street ! opposite Mr.Egg -the only place where you get a full salad(cress,SPANISH Onion,tom,lettice,Q))on brown or white bread,fast service.Just follow the taxi drivers !
• Shanghi Wok i would recommend in the Fox Hollies/Acocks Green area for Chinese take-aways,althought for meaty spare ribs i prefer the one down the road(Shaftsmoor Rd)towards the Straford Road /Sparkhill area. They are by a outdoor,mini-supermarket open to 11pm.
• Mr. Eggggggggggggggg............ Subway... anywhere!
• Chippie on Dale End (Toys R Us, Academy) is about a quid for loads of chips, everything goes up by about 50p after gigs though, so it's worth queueing a bit early and eating before you go in. Cheap chilli is nice. Also underneath New Street (round the side of the ramp in that dingy looking undergroundy type place) has a chippi with lovely cheap chilli too.
• Hoagies in Kings Heath makes the best sandwiches ever, and Ronnies down by Ideal is pretty decent too.
• Tiger Wok
• Subway on Queensway kicks ass. There are two more in town, but the staff dont seem to be as good there.
• Fantastic choice of Indian food, but not great for other cuisine's, e.g. no quality, resonably-priced Thai restaurants
• kfc they are every where and there food rocks
• there are some really nice restaurants in teh mailbox. the noodle/sushi bar is a bit scary, tho food is lovely! also Toyk in shirley- mmmmmmmmmm:)
• Home of the balti!!!
• king krbab great nice kebabs mc donald ok for a milk shake or the loo
• the 'monsoon' restaurant on may lane in wythall. best curry i've ever had! very nice interior and exterior as well.
• Zebs Mirpuri Cuisine is one of the finest cusine with the taste of Punjab. This restaurant which is based in Ladypool Road in Birmingham has the best quality and irresistible food.
• MOST DEFINETLY CASPIAN PIZZA!!!
• Pizza Hut!!!
• Old Orleans, very nice Brasshouse, expensive for what you get but not bad.
• Someone said for a good feed try Coffee And Cream by the aston university.........honestly the person who told you that needs shooting man everyone i know who has had food from there has been on the S**thouse the next morning spraying the pan. I swear that greasy elephant leg (called the kebab) that's rotating on the grill has been there for a few weeks. Afford at all costs unless you have an indestructable stomach.
• Shimla Pinks has been closed due to cockroach infestation. Closed on 14/5/03
• Mongolian bar, pick your own stirfry.
• Le Baguette Du Monde....yummy!
• Las Iguananas in Arcadian is very very nice good food, good portions and very nice drinks..all very reasonably priced. Big Wok in Chinatown, all you can eat for £7.99...really nice food and loads o it..also very fun ice cream machine!!
• Asteries = classic sandwich and baguette shop/chain that's been around before sandwich shops were profitable and trendy.
• Wetherspoons...oh, we like.
• hmmm...greggs....doughnuts...yuuummm...
• the cotteridge village inn do yummy food as does bella pasta
• Balti and Chinese food. Go where the Indians and Chinese eat not where the Friday/ Saturday night crowd go.
• Dawat is my favourite balti house in b'ham. Good ones in town are the Taj on Bristol Road and the one at the top of digbeth by the Royal George (which isn't called the Royal George anymore)
• Mr Egg, cheap fry ups.
• MCDONALDS!!! COOOOOOMEEEE ON!
• Rubies in Edgbaston for nifty Cantonese
• bar 2 sixty
• If your palate stretches to beyond a curry on a Friday and Saturday you'll be disappointed
• Juice.com in Selly Oak has fabulous sandwiches and salads...Go there!
• Just go to Pizza Hut, it takes a while in the one on the main high street for your pizza to arrive, so go to the underground one in the station. If you want soemthing a bit more safis then check out Costa!
• Theres about 5 maccies in the city centre alone. Various balti places around, Stirchley has some v.nice ones check out Bengal chaa or Balti Bazzar
• Snax in Digbeth. A plate of food as big as your car for £3
• Bar Room Bar in new Mailbox complex Broad Street area has lovely Pizzas and you are giveen a pager when it bleeps food is ready cost around £5.00
• Fish! Coffee and Cream, Aston Students' Guild
• McDonalds x 4
• Theres so many. KFC, Maccie D's. burger king and the like.
• Two fantastic belly-busting sandwich shops are: 1) City Pantry outside New Street Station Victoria Square entrance. 2) The tiny hatch place in Union Passage, next to the Post Office. Both do fantastic chicken salad sandwiches to bloat for.
• Birmingham is home of the balti! Try 'Punjab Paradise' or anywhere else on Ladypool Road, Sparkbrook. Or any of the student-friendly places on Bristol Rd.
• Zaffs in Balsall Heath does the finest Chicken Kebab I have ever... ever eaten! Add a dab of mayo for a touch of cosmipolitan charm and you have one of the finest pieces of cuisine in the world...
• McDonalds right next to Paradise Forum. Quick and easy, but sometimes very big queues- beat the rush and it's good.
• Pret A Manger on Corporation Street and next to the Library- decent sushi and fresh organic sarnies.
• Try Stirchley (on the Pershore Road) for new, cheap Baltis.
• Joshuas -funky cheap and fresh baguettes
• St.Pauls Restaurant and Bar is a fashionable Manhattan style locale in an elegant Georgian square in Hockley; not far is also The Mongolian Bar and Grill. For Italian fans, Primitivo in Barwick Street. is the best place, and for affordable French try Chez Jules in Ethel Street. Plenty of Chinese restaurants in Brum's disappointing Chinatown, and a huge concentration of native Balti restaurants in Sparkhill and Sparkbrook, the Balti Belt. The best Indian, though, is Shimla Pinks on Broad Street (Brum's Golden Mile, chock full of eaty/clubby places and home to Leftbank, another good eating place). For Pizza Express, Cafe Rouge et al, go to Brindley Place, also just off Broad Street.
• Baskin Robbins and Dunkin Donuts on street towards library (New Street) who needs anything else.? Totally desperate for food? -- Try wandering onto Aston Uni campus (end of Corporation Street) during term time: there's a place called Oscars (4pm-10pm) which is cheap big time, the food ain't great though. Supposed to be only for students so keep stumm!
• The Diner in Hall Street, Hockley - open 24 hours at the weekend, close to major clubs. Pret A Manger, New Street - London's famous sandwich bars open a branch in Brum; no superlatives are enough, this place is SO clued up, the food is f***ing amazing. Key Largo, Broad Street - huge new tapas bar. Casa Paco, Fletcher's Walk - Brum's no. 1 Spanish. The Warehouse Cafe - Veggie, Digbeth. Wild Oats - Veggie, Selly Oak. Cafe Des Artistes - Custard Factory, Digbeth La Bastille - French, Corporation Street.
• Healthfood Shop: Sage Wholefoods, Moseley New Age shops: the best by far in my opinion is Zen, in Brindleyplace, but also check out Shared Earth in New Street.
• When a McD opens, the local chippies suddenly shut up shop or change hands a few times prior to shutting up shop or drifting violently down market. That's certainly true in my part of Birmingham, anyway. The (not so bad, now shut) round the corner from what is now the Northfield McD has shut, and it appears that the Longbridge one has delivered a fairly powerful kicking to the previously marvellous Southside Fish Bar. New owners, at least once, and a distinct drop in prices and quality. A Friday take-away for us used to be the Southside, now it's usually a curry from the Chamon. The kebabs and chips are marvellous from Sophie's Choice in Cotteridge, but the fish isn't so great and my wife's not a kebab fan... so I only eat from there when she's away.
• MR EGG!!!! cheap greasy spoon in china town
• I've yet to find a better Indian restaurant in Brum than J.Jays at Five Ways.(£30-£40 for 2) On weekdays they do a fantastic value buffet lunch. The best Balti can be found at Yasser's in Stirchley.(about £6 a head)
• The Mud Cafe in Selly Oak.
• Try going to BOSS HOGS at the Ennerdale Hotel in Acocks Green.The meals are cheap & massive !!
• Nardini's ; Pubs
• The telephone number of the Warehouse Cafe is (0121 633 0261) Health Food Shops: my favourite is the One Earth Shop next to the Warehouse Cafe (vegan).
• chung ying's(chinese qtr)-very good food,but very moody waiters
• Bella Pasta - new street
• Poco Loco in Moseley - good Mexican food.
• You can find balti houses all over the place, but for my money the best are in the Sparkbrook 'balti triangle' formed by the Stratford and Ladypool Roads and Stoney Lane. My personal favourites are The Minar on Walford Road and I Am The King Of Baltis on Ladypool. The best central one is Mokhams of Digbeth. All these premises are unlicensed, as any self respecting balti house should be.
• shimla pinks is pricey, not great. and is alledgedly owned by lee dixon, arsenal full-back. in selly oak (student land) there is mud cafe (cheap pasta) and the selly sausage (trad caff food and veggie versions). Both excellent california pizza factory in harborne (ironically) does Italian syle pizzas, good salads and has some really friendly, helpful staff.

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Last updated: 2008-10-14