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If you haven’t heard, Birmingham has loudly become one of the most exciting food destinations in the UK. Stirchley, in particular, has more quietly been collecting some of the city’s most interesting restaurants. Be it...
Since The Electric Cinema in Birmingham showed its first silent film just a few days after Christmas in 1909, the country’s been in two world wars, won one World Cup, and joined and left the EU. It’s seen a lot. So it w...
If you ever find yourself in Bristol or Cardiff hankering for a steak, your first choice has to be Pasture. You can get your hands on everything from sirloins and ribeyes to the ‘dinosaur cut’ tomahawk and prized chatea...
While complimentary public transport sounds like a utopian fantasy, it could become a reality. Glasgow City Council could soon start a free public transport trial for people aged 22 to 59, and we’re certain the co...
As you might have noticed, here at Secret Birmingham, we’ve got a bit of a soft spot for our city. There’s nowhere quite like it. And certainly nowhere else we could imagine ourselves living. Unless, of cour...
Birmingham has one of the most diverse and exciting food cultures in the country. The city is famous for everything from beef burgers to curries – much of which is halal. Muslims make up 1/5th of Birmingham’...
Let’s be real – we all love a full moon, don’t we? Who hasn’t been walking down the street at night (drunk or otherwise) and stopped to just stare at the moon for a bit? There’s something r...
Okay, we don’t want to stir up any trouble, but with National Tea Day (April 21) fast approaching, we’ve been inundated with tea-related studies. The most shocking of all is the latest study by supermarket experts...
We’re so much closer to last year’s Christmas (115 days) than we are to this one (251 days). So why are we talking about the Birmingham Frankfurt Christmas Market? Well, it’s undeniably the biggest event in Birmingham a...
I used to roll my eyes when generations my senior used to harp on about the ‘good old days’, but now, I totally get it. We Millenials remember the good old days, too, but for us, we describe them as the days...