{"id":6535,"date":"2026-08-10T19:15:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T18:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/birminghamka.com\/blank-street-coffee-birmingham"},"modified":"2026-08-10T19:15:57","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T18:15:57","slug":"blank-street-coffee-birmingham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/birminghamka.com\/en\/blank-street-coffee-birmingham","title":{"rendered":"Blank Street Coffee \u26059.7"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"padrino-inject-root\">\n<div class=\"padrino-inject-inner\">\n<div data-padrino-shell=\"1\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n<p><a href=\"\/en\/top-cafes\">\u2190 Guide to Birmingham 2026: 10 cafes worth knowing<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n<p><strong>Caf\u00e9<\/strong> \u00b7 <span>Birmingham<\/span> \u00b7 \u2b50 9.7\/10 \u00b7 1024 reviews  \u00b7 <em>updated: 2026-08-10 15:35:18<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n<p><strong>Address:<\/strong> <span>Moor Street Queensway, Birmingham B5 4BU, United Kingdom<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex is-nowrap wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/dir\/?api=1&amp;destination=52.4780111,-1.8943433\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Get directions<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\">\n<p>Almost every other caf\u00e9 worth queuing for in this city is small, independent and rooted in a single room. <strong>Blank Street Coffee<\/strong> is none of those things, and that is exactly why it is worth understanding rather than dismissing. It is a young New York company that began life as a battery-powered cart in the garden of a Brooklyn diner, crossed the Atlantic in 2022, and has since spread across British high streets faster than any coffee brand of its generation. The Birmingham shop stands at the foot of the Bullring, and it does one job with unusual clarity: put a drink that tastes the same as yesterday&#8217;s into your hand in the time it takes to walk past.<\/p>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_74 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a83bbd25cd37\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #090909;color:#090909\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #090909;color:#090909\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" 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ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/birminghamka.com\/en\/blank-street-coffee-birmingham\/#Whos_behind_it\" >Who&#8217;s behind it<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/birminghamka.com\/en\/blank-street-coffee-birmingham\/#What_it_suits\" >What it suits<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/birminghamka.com\/en\/blank-street-coffee-birmingham\/#The_room_and_the_atmosphere\" >The room and the atmosphere<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/birminghamka.com\/en\/blank-street-coffee-birmingham\/#What_to_eat_with_it\" >What to eat with it<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-7\" href=\"https:\/\/birminghamka.com\/en\/blank-street-coffee-birmingham\/#When_to_come\" >When to come<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-8\" href=\"https:\/\/birminghamka.com\/en\/blank-street-coffee-birmingham\/#Getting_there\" >Getting there<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-9\" href=\"https:\/\/birminghamka.com\/en\/blank-street-coffee-birmingham\/#Good_to_know\" >Good to know<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-10\" href=\"https:\/\/birminghamka.com\/en\/blank-street-coffee-birmingham\/#Questions_and_answers\" >Questions and answers<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-3' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-11\" href=\"https:\/\/birminghamka.com\/en\/blank-street-coffee-birmingham\/#Opening_hours\" >Opening hours<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-12\" href=\"https:\/\/birminghamka.com\/en\/blank-street-coffee-birmingham\/#Photos\" >Photos<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-13\" href=\"https:\/\/birminghamka.com\/en\/blank-street-coffee-birmingham\/#Visitor_reviews\" >Visitor reviews<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-14\" href=\"https:\/\/birminghamka.com\/en\/blank-street-coffee-birmingham\/#Similar_places\" >Similar places<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Highlights\"><\/span>Highlights<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>A format descended from a cart<\/strong> \u2014 the whole company grew out of a five-by-ten mobile unit, and the shops still behave that way: a long counter doing almost all the work, with seating treated as a bonus rather than the point.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Matcha is the headline, not a footnote<\/strong> \u2014 the green drinks account for something close to half the business chain-wide, and the blueberry version is the single item that carried the brand across social media into cities like this one.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Automated espresso, deliberately<\/strong> \u2014 the machines handle dosing and extraction, which takes the barista&#8217;s hand out of the shot and takes the day-to-day variability out with it.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Order-ahead through the app<\/strong> \u2014 the visible queue is not the only queue, and a large share of regulars never join it.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Above-market barista pay<\/strong> is one of the very few operational promises the company puts in writing about itself.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Not the city&#8217;s only branch<\/strong> \u2014 the brand runs more than one site in central Birmingham, so this is a location rather than the location, and the two behave slightly differently.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Whats_in_the_cup\"><\/span>What&#8217;s in the cup<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>It would be dishonest to write about this coffee the way you would write about a micro-lot on a single-origin bar down the arcade. Blank Street is not built on terroir, on a rotating filter list, or on a conversation about processing method. It is built on a house blend brewed to a fixed recipe, and the whole system exists to make sure that recipe survives contact with volume. The beans are a bespoke blend roasted to the company&#8217;s specification by a British specialty roaster; the company does not name its roasting partner anywhere on its own site, which is telling in itself \u2014 the blend is treated as a component of the product, not as the story of it.<\/p>\n<p>The espresso is pulled on automated machines rather than by hand. Purists will read that as a shortcut, and in one sense it is, but it is a shortcut chosen for a specific reason. A traditional bar lives and dies by whoever is on the group head that morning; an automated system removes that person from the equation and produces the same shot at the first order of the day and the six hundredth. What you gain is reliability. What you lose is the ceiling \u2014 you will never get the extraordinary cup here, because the machine is not set up to chase it. If you want a bar where somebody dials in a new lot in front of you, this list contains several, and they are a short walk away.<\/p>\n<p>The roast profile follows the logic of the format: it is built to hold its shape under milk, because the overwhelming majority of what leaves this counter has milk in it. Oat is treated as a default rather than a surcharge-shaped afterthought, which matters more than it sounds \u2014 a great deal of the brand&#8217;s audience simply does not drink dairy, and the drinks are formulated with that in mind rather than adapted for it. Black coffee exists, and is perfectly decent, but it is not what the room is for.<\/p>\n<p>The other half of the counter is where the brand actually distinguishes itself. Matcha here is a properly developed line rather than a token green option, with a spread of flavoured versions built on top of the plain one, and it is the reason a good proportion of the queue is standing there at all. Whether a heavily flavoured matcha is a betrayal of the drink is a fair argument and one the internet has been having for a while; what is not in dispute is that this is a matcha bar that also sells coffee, and reading it any other way will lead you to order the wrong thing.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Whos_behind_it\"><\/span>Who&#8217;s behind it<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The company was founded in 2020 by Vinay Menda and Issam Freiha, two friends who met through the New York university system, with Ignacio Llado joining as part of the founding group. Neither of the two principals came out of the traditional coffee trade. Their stated model was drawn less from European caf\u00e9 culture than from small-format, mobile-first drinks retail in Asia \u2014 the sort of operation that sells enormous volume through a tiny footprint and an app, rather than through a room full of tables.<\/p>\n<p>That origin explains nearly everything about the shop you are standing in. The first site, in August 2020, was a cart parked beside a Brooklyn diner; the first fixed shop followed in Williamsburg the next winter. Venture funding arrived quickly and in quantity, and with it a rate of expansion no independent could match: London in the summer of 2022, Scotland in early 2025, and a British estate that has grown into the dozens of shops. Birmingham is part of that regional wave rather than a bespoke project, and the company has never pretended otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>It is worth being blunt about what this means for the visitor. You are not buying into a founder&#8217;s personal room, a family recipe or a local story. You are buying into a system that has been engineered to remove exactly those variables. Some days that is precisely what you want, and on those days it is very good at it.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_it_suits\"><\/span>What it suits<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>This is a takeaway bar first, and understanding that will save you a lot of frustration. If you are walking from the station to a meeting, cutting through the shopping centre, or catching a train with ten minutes in hand, it is close to ideal: order on the phone before you arrive, collect, and keep moving. The service pattern is built around exactly that journey, and it is fast in a way that a hand-built espresso bar structurally cannot be at peak.<\/p>\n<p>For laptop work it is the wrong choice, and it is fairer to say so than to let you find out with a half-charged battery. The seating is limited, the turnover is deliberately quick, power sockets are not a design priority in a footprint this small, and the whole room is arranged around a moving queue rather than around people settling in. Nobody will be rude to you, but you will feel the current of the place pushing against you within the hour. Two of the independents in this list are far better set up for a working morning.<\/p>\n<p>For meeting a friend, it works for a short, casual catch-up rather than a long one \u2014 the kind where you both have somewhere to be afterwards and the shopping bags are already in hand. For sitting alone with a book, it depends entirely on timing: at the wrong moment the queue runs past your shoulder and the room is essentially a corridor. And for the specific mission of &#8220;I want the drink I saw online, and I want it now&#8221;, it is the only place in central Birmingham that will reliably deliver it.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_room_and_the_atmosphere\"><\/span>The room and the atmosphere<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The design language is consistent across the whole estate and will be familiar to anyone who has seen a branch elsewhere: pale surfaces, green branding, clean lines, everything wipeable and everything legible from the door. It is pleasant, competent and entirely impersonal, which is the intended effect \u2014 the point of a chain is that you know what you are walking into before you walk in.<\/p>\n<p>Space is the honest constraint. This is a compact unit by the standards of the caf\u00e9s around it, with a small number of seats and a good deal of standing and passing traffic. At quiet moments it feels calm and bright; at the middle of a Saturday, with the shopping centre in full flow beside it, it feels like a busy station concourse, because functionally that is what the surrounding area is. Noise comes mostly from the door and the queue rather than from the machines, which are quieter than a traditional grinder-and-steam-wand bar.<\/p>\n<p>Nobody would call it atmospheric, and the brand would probably not want them to. There is no vinyl, no house cat, no wall of regulars&#8217; photographs. What there is instead is light, cleanliness and speed, and a crowd that skews noticeably younger than the surrounding coffee scene \u2014 students, shoppers, people between trains, and a steady stream of people who came specifically for a green drink.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_to_eat_with_it\"><\/span>What to eat with it<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Food is a supporting act and is treated as such. The counter carries a bought-in range rather than anything baked on the premises \u2014 there is no kitchen behind the wall and the company has never claimed there is. What arrives is fresh, sensibly chosen and reliable, and it is designed to be picked up with one hand and eaten somewhere else.<\/p>\n<p>What this means practically: come here hungry and you will leave adequately fed but unmoved. If breakfast is the actual objective rather than the drink, several places within a few minutes&#8217; walk cook to order, and the difference is not subtle. Judge this counter on the cup, order something to carry alongside it, and the balance works.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"When_to_come\"><\/span>When to come<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The rhythm is set entirely by the neighbours. Early on a weekday the shop belongs to commuters coming off the trains, and service is at its quickest even though the queue looks long \u2014 the line moves at a pace a small independent cannot match. The middle of the day brings the office crowd and then the shoppers, and that overlap is the least comfortable window if you wanted to sit.<\/p>\n<p>Weekends invert the usual city-centre pattern. Unlike the caf\u00e9s in the business district, which empty out when the offices close for the week, this one gets busier, because the shopping centre next door is the busiest retail destination in the region and the caf\u00e9 inherits its footfall. If your priority is a seat and a quiet quarter of an hour, aim for the early part of a weekday or the flat stretch of the afternoon after the lunch rush has passed. If your priority is simply the drink, the app makes the timing largely irrelevant.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Getting_there\"><\/span>Getting there<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The shop sits on the eastern edge of the city core, wrapped around the base of the Bullring, and it is one of the easiest addresses in Birmingham to find without directions. The older of the two central railway stations \u2014 the restored inter-war one with the wooden canopies \u2014 is directly opposite, so anyone arriving from the surrounding towns is at the door within a minute of leaving the platform. The main station beneath the Grand Central complex is a short covered walk through the shopping centre in the other direction.<\/p>\n<p>On foot it is at the bottom of the hill from the cathedral quarter, below the markets, and immediately above the ramp down towards Digbeth. Buses along the inner ring stop within sight of it, and the tram terminus at the main station is a few minutes away under cover. Driving is possible in the sense that the shopping centre has substantial parking, and pointless in the sense that everything else about this location is designed for people arriving on foot or by rail.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Good_to_know\"><\/span>Good to know<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Download the app before you go if speed is the reason you are coming \u2014 order-ahead is genuinely the intended way to use the place, and standing in the physical queue when you did not have to is the most common mistake newcomers make. Rewards accrue through the same app, which is also why the brand knows so much about what its customers actually order.<\/p>\n<p>Be clear-eyed about the trade-off. This is a competent, fast, extremely consistent operation with a genuinely strong non-coffee menu and no pretensions to being a specialty destination. Within a five-minute walk you can find a bar that will hand-brew a single origin and talk you through it, and if that is what you came to Birmingham&#8217;s coffee scene for, go there instead \u2014 the two are answering different questions. Where this one wins is the unglamorous stuff: it will be open when you need it, it will be quick, and the drink will taste exactly as it did last time.<\/p>\n<p>One further practical note: because there is more than one branch in the city centre, check which one your order has gone to before you set off. They are close enough together that the mistake is easy and far enough apart to be annoying.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Questions_and_answers\"><\/span>Questions and answers<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Is this a specialty coffee shop?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Not in the sense the term is used by the independents nearby. The beans are specialty-graded and the blend is roasted to the company&#8217;s own brief, but the extraction is automated and there is no rotating single-origin filter programme. Think of it as a very reliable everyday cup rather than a tasting experience.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why do so many people order matcha here?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Because it is the brand&#8217;s signature. The green drinks make up roughly half the trade across the chain, the flavoured versions built on top of them are what spread the name online, and this is one of the few counters in central Birmingham where matcha is treated as a main line rather than a courtesy option.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Can I work here with a laptop?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You can, briefly, but the room is not designed for it. Seating is limited, power is scarce and the turnover is fast by design. For a working morning, choose one of the larger independents on this list instead.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Do they roast their own coffee?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>No. The house blend is roasted to their specification by a specialty roaster in Britain, and the company does not publicise the partnership on its own website. Roasting is not part of the proposition here.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Is there plant-based milk?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yes, and it is treated as a normal choice rather than a substitution. Oat in particular is central to how the drinks are formulated, which is unusual among chains of this size.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How long is the wait at busy times?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Shorter than the visible queue suggests, because the automated machines and the order-ahead system are both built for throughput. If you order through the app on your way over, you are collecting rather than waiting.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Is the food made on site?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>No. The counter carries a bought-in range chosen to travel well. It is fine, and it is not the reason to come; if you want a cooked breakfast, several kitchens within a few minutes serve one.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Is it good with children or dogs?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is easy with a pushchair in the sense that you are in and out quickly, and the surrounding shopping centre is set up for families. It is less good as a place to settle with either, simply because of the size of the room and the pace of the queue.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why include a chain in a list of the city&#8217;s best caf\u00e9s?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Because it does something none of the independents does, and does it well: guaranteed consistency, at speed, on the busiest pedestrian corner in the city, with a non-coffee menu people travel for. A city&#8217;s coffee map is not only its best cups \u2014 it is also the places you actually use.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Opening_hours\"><\/span>Opening hours<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\">\n<table class=\"has-fixed-layout\">\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Day<\/th>\n<th>Hours<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Monday<\/td>\n<td>07:30\u201320:00<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Tuesday<\/td>\n<td>07:30\u201320:00<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Wednesday<\/td>\n<td>07:30\u201320:00<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Thursday<\/td>\n<td>07:30\u201320:00<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Friday<\/td>\n<td>07:30\u201320:00<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Saturday<\/td>\n<td>07:30\u201320:00<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Sunday<\/td>\n<td>08:00\u201318:00<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<section id=\"entity-gallery\" class=\"padrino-entity-gallery\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Photos\"><\/span>Photos<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.birminghamka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/73\/2026\/08\/blank-street-coffee-birmingham-1.jpg\" alt=\"Blank Street Coffee\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.birminghamka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/73\/2026\/08\/blank-street-coffee-birmingham-2.jpg\" alt=\"Blank Street Coffee\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.birminghamka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/73\/2026\/08\/blank-street-coffee-birmingham-3.jpg\" alt=\"Blank Street Coffee\" 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class=\"comment-author vcard\">\n<b class=\"fn\"><span>Caroline Barnes<\/span><\/b>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"comment-metadata\">\n31 May 2026<br \/>\n \u00b7 <span>\u2605 10.0\/10<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/footer>\n<div class=\"comment-content\">\n<p>\u0429\u043e\u0439\u043d\u043e \u0437\u0430\u043c\u043e\u0432\u0438\u043b\u0438 \u0443 \u0425\u0443\u0440\u0440\u0435\u0439\u043d, \u0432\u043e\u043d\u0430 \u0431\u0443\u043b\u0430 \u0442\u0430\u043a\u0430 \u043c\u0438\u043b\u0430 \u0456 \u0440\u0430\u0434\u0430 \u043f\u043e\u0441\u043f\u0456\u043b\u043a\u0443\u0432\u0430\u0442\u0438\u0441\u044f \u0437 \u043d\u0430\u043c\u0438, \u043f\u043e\u043a\u0438 \u043c\u0438 \u0437\u0430\u043c\u043e\u0432\u043b\u044f\u043b\u0438. \u0425\u043e\u0447\u0430 \u0447\u0435\u0440\u0433\u0430 \u0442\u0440\u043e\u0445\u0438 \u0437\u0430\u0439\u043d\u044f\u043b\u0430 \u043f\u0456\u0441\u043b\u044f \u0437\u0430\u043c\u043e\u0432\u043b\u0435\u043d\u043d\u044f, \u0441\u0430\u043c\u043e\u0432\u0438\u0432\u0456\u0437 \u0431\u0443\u0432 \u0448\u0432\u0438\u0434\u043a\u0438\u043c. \u0414\u044f\u043a\u0443\u0454\u043c\u043e!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li id=\"comment-padrino-1\" class=\"comment odd alt thread-odd thread-alt depth-1\">\n<article id=\"div-comment-padrino-1\" class=\"comment-body\">\n<footer class=\"comment-meta\">\n<div class=\"comment-author vcard\">\n<b class=\"fn\"><span>Keagan Kurien<\/span><\/b>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"comment-metadata\">\n2 May 2026<br \/>\n \u00b7 <span>\u2605 10.0\/10<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/footer>\n<div class=\"comment-content\">\n<p>\u0417\u0430\u0432\u0456\u0442\u0430\u043b\u0438 \u043f\u0456\u0434 \u0447\u0430\u0441 \u0441\u043f\u0440\u0430\u0432\u0436\u043d\u044c\u043e\u0433\u043e \u043f\u0456\u043a\u0443 \u0456 \u0445\u043e\u0442\u0456\u043b\u0438 \u0432\u0438\u0441\u043b\u043e\u0432\u0438\u0442\u0438 \u043f\u043e\u0434\u044f\u043a\u0443 \u043e\u0434\u043d\u0456\u0439 \u0437 \u0431\u0430\u0440\u0438\u0441\u0442 \u0437\u0430 \u0457\u0457 \u0447\u0443\u0434\u043e\u0432\u0435 \u043e\u0431\u0441\u043b\u0443\u0433\u043e\u0432\u0443\u0432\u0430\u043d\u043d\u044f.<\/p>\n<p>\u0412\u0415\u041b\u0418\u0427\u0415\u0417\u041d\u0415 \u041f\u041e\u0414\u042f\u041a\u0423\u042e \u0428\u0410\u041d\u0410\u0419\u0407!<\/p>\n<p>\u041d\u0435\u0437\u0432\u0430\u0436\u0430\u044e\u0447\u0438 \u043d\u0430 \u0442\u0435, \u0449\u043e \u043c\u0430\u0433\u0430\u0437\u0438\u043d \u0431\u0443\u0432 \u043f\u0435\u0440\u0435\u043f\u043e\u0432\u043d\u0435\u043d\u0438\u0439 \u0456 \u0431\u0443\u043b\u0430 \u0434\u043e\u0432\u0433\u0430 \u0447\u0435\u0440\u0433\u0430, \u0432\u043e\u043d\u0430 \u0431\u0443\u043b\u0430 \u043d\u0435\u0439\u043c\u043e\u0432\u0456\u0440\u043d\u043e \u0442\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li id=\"comment-padrino-2\" class=\"comment odd alt thread-odd thread-alt depth-1\">\n<article id=\"div-comment-padrino-2\" class=\"comment-body\">\n<footer class=\"comment-meta\">\n<div class=\"comment-author vcard\">\n<b class=\"fn\"><span>Malaika Hussain<\/span><\/b>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"comment-metadata\">\n20 April 2026<br \/>\n \u00b7 <span>\u2605 10.0\/10<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/footer>\n<div class=\"comment-content\">\n<p>\u041c\u0435\u043d\u0456 \u0434\u0443\u0436\u0435 \u043f\u043e\u0434\u043e\u0431\u0430\u0454\u0442\u044c\u0441\u044f \u0432\u0456\u0434\u0432\u0456\u0434\u0443\u0432\u0430\u0442\u0438 \u0446\u0435\u0439 \u043c\u0430\u0433\u0430\u0437\u0438\u043d \u043d\u0430 \u0411\u043b\u0430\u043d\u043a-\u0441\u0442\u0440\u0456\u0442. \u041f\u0435\u0440\u0441\u043e\u043d\u0430\u043b \u0434\u0443\u0436\u0435 \u043f\u0440\u0438\u0454\u043c\u043d\u0438\u0439 \u0456 \u0433\u043e\u0441\u0442\u0438\u043d\u043d\u0438\u0439, \u0456 \u044f \u0434\u044f\u043a\u0443\u044e \u0415\u043b\u0456\u0437 \u0442\u0430 \u041b\u0456\u0437\u0437\u0456 \u0437\u0430 \u0442\u0435, \u0449\u043e \u0437\u0440\u043e\u0431\u0438\u043b\u0438 \u043c\u0456\u0439 \u0434\u0435\u043d\u044c. \u041b\u0456\u0437 \u0442\u0430 \u0415\u043b\u0456\u0437 \u043d\u0430\u0434\u0430\u043b\u0438 \u0447\u0443\u0434\u043e\u0432\u0435 \u043e\u0431\u0441\u043b\u0443\u0433\u043e\u0432\u0443\u0432\u0430\u043d\u043d\u044f \u043a\u043b\u0456\u0454\u043d\u0442\u0430\u043c. \u041d\u0430\u0441\u0442\u0456\u0439\u043d\u043e \u0440\u0435\u043a\u043e\u043c\u0435\u043d\u0434\u0443\u044e\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li id=\"comment-padrino-3\" class=\"comment odd alt thread-odd thread-alt depth-1\">\n<article id=\"div-comment-padrino-3\" class=\"comment-body\">\n<footer class=\"comment-meta\">\n<div class=\"comment-author vcard\">\n<b class=\"fn\"><span>Casey Burke<\/span><\/b>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"comment-metadata\">\n17 March 2026<br \/>\n \u00b7 <span>\u2605 10.0\/10<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/footer>\n<div class=\"comment-content\">\n<p>\u0411\u0443\u0432 \u0443 \u043a\u0456\u043b\u044c\u043a\u043e\u0445 \u0437\u0430\u043a\u043b\u0430\u0434\u0430\u0445 \u043d\u0430 \u0411\u043b\u0430\u043d\u043a-\u0441\u0442\u0440\u0456\u0442, \u0456 \u0446\u0435\u0439, \u0431\u0435\u0437\u0443\u043c\u043e\u0432\u043d\u043e, \u043d\u0430\u0439\u043a\u0440\u0430\u0449\u0438\u0439, \u044f\u043a\u0438\u0439 \u044f \u043a\u043e\u043b\u0438-\u043d\u0435\u0431\u0443\u0434\u044c \u0432\u0456\u0434\u0432\u0456\u0434\u0443\u0432\u0430\u0432. \u041d\u0430\u043f\u043e\u0457 \u0431\u0443\u043b\u0438 \u0447\u0443\u0434\u043e\u0432\u0438\u043c\u0438, \u044f\u043a \u0437\u0430\u0432\u0436\u0434\u0438, \u0430\u043b\u0435, \u0447\u0435\u0441\u043d\u043e \u043a\u0430\u0436\u0443\u0447\u0438, \u0441\u0430\u043c\u0435 \u043f\u0435\u0440\u0441\u043e\u043d\u0430\u043b \u0440\u043e\u0431\u0438\u0442\u044c \u0446\u0435 \u043c\u0456\u0441\u0446\u0435 \u0442\u0430\u043a\u0438\u043c \u043f\u0440\u0438\u0454\u043c\u043d\u0438\u043c. \u0415\u0440\u0456\u043d, \u0422\u0430\u0444, \u041a\u0456\u0430\u043d\u043d\u0430 \u0442\u0430 \u0425\u0430\u0440\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li id=\"comment-padrino-4\" class=\"comment odd alt thread-odd thread-alt depth-1\">\n<article id=\"div-comment-padrino-4\" class=\"comment-body\">\n<footer class=\"comment-meta\">\n<div class=\"comment-author vcard\">\n<b class=\"fn\"><span>Vijay B Sambasivam<\/span><\/b>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"comment-metadata\">\n15 December 2025<br \/>\n \u00b7 <span>\u2605 10.0\/10<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/footer>\n<div class=\"comment-content\">\n<p>\u0417\u0430\u0432\u0456\u0442\u0430\u0432 \u0434\u043e Blank Street Coffee \u043d\u0430 \u0441\u0442\u0430\u0434\u0456\u043e\u043d\u0456 Bullring \u0443 \u0411\u0456\u0440\u043c\u0456\u043d\u0433\u0435\u043c\u0456 \u0442\u0430 \u043c\u0435\u043d\u0456 \u0434\u0443\u0436\u0435 \u0441\u043f\u043e\u0434\u043e\u0431\u0430\u043b\u043e\u0441\u044f. \u0422\u0430\u043c \u0442\u043e\u0447\u043d\u043e \u043b\u044e\u0434\u043d\u043e \u0442\u0430 \u0431\u0430\u0433\u0430\u0442\u043e\u043b\u044e\u0434\u043d\u043e, \u0449\u043e \u0432\u0436\u0435 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href=\"\/en\/damascena-coffee-house-birmingham-city-centre-birmingham\"><span>Damascena Coffee House Birmingham City Centre<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/en\/200-degrees-coffee-shop-barista-school-birmingham\"><span>200 Degrees Coffee Shop &amp; Barista School<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/en\/the-coffee-bar-collective-birmingham\"><span>The Coffee Bar Collective<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/en\/faculty-coffee-birmingham\"><span>Faculty Coffee<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/en\/saint-kitchen-jq-birmingham\"><span>Saint Kitchen &#8211; JQ<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/en\/black-sheep-coffee-ac-hotel-by-marriott-the-mailbox-birmingham\"><span>Black Sheep Coffee &#8211; AC Hotel by Marriott, The Mailbox<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/en\/morridge-oats-coffee-birmingham\"><span>morridge oats + coffee<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/en\/rising-cafe-birmingham\"><span>Rising Cafe<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/en\/coffee-joint-birmingham\"><span>Coffee Joint<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/nav>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n<p><small>Data is refreshed monthly. Sources: birminghamka.com and editorial picks based on reviews.<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2190 Guide to Birmingham 2026: 10 cafes worth knowing Caf\u00e9 \u00b7 Birmingham \u00b7 \u2b50 9.7\/10 \u00b7 1024 reviews \u00b7 updated: 2026-08-10 15:35:18 Address: Moor Street Queensway, Birmingham B5 4BU, United Kingdom Get directions Almost every other caf\u00e9 worth queuing for in this city is small, independent and rooted in a single room. 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