Feeling hungry, indecisive or just want to work your way through the menu? Birmingham's tasting menus are the perfect answer. There’s plenty up for grabs, from countryside retreats to city centre gems and Michelin star spots, with prices to suit most budgets.
Take your pick of bold Asian flavours, traditional British cooking, fantastic fusions and plenty more. Here are a few of the restaurants showcasing the best tasting menus in the city.
Best Tasting Menus Birmingham Has To Offer
1. Opheem
- Location: Opheem, 48, Summer Row, B3 1JJ
- Price: five courses for £145, ten courses for £195
- Cuisine: Indian
- Best for: date nights, special celebrations, group dining, family meals, creative dining
- Why we recommend: I love the combo of fresh, local British ingredients with the aromatic spices and bold flavours of India
The Michelin-starred Opheem takes you on a journey across space, time and continents. Created by the former head chef of Lasan, Aktar Islam, it draws inspiration from the progressive cooking of historical Indian royal courts via fresh British ingredients.
Take your pick of its five and ten-course seasonal tasting menus to taste your way through a bit of the best of everything. You can expect punchy dishes like the Orkney scallop with mooli and apple, seabass with gourd and mylor prawns, and guinea fowl seekh kebab. To make it extra special, add the wine flight to pair with your plate.
Enjoy beautifully prepared dishes as part of Opheem's tasting menu.
2. Lasan
- Location: St Paul’s Square, 3-4 Dakota Buildings, James Street, B3 1SD
- Price: Six course for £69
- Cuisine: Indian
- Best for: special celebrations, group dining, family meals, affordable option
- Why we recommend: Lasan serves up award-winning dishes without the fine dining price tag. I love that you can tuck into six courses and paired wine for a little over 100 quid.
Lasan has been a firm Birmingham favourite for over 20 years. Voted Gordon Ramsay’s Best Local Restaurant in the UK and a five-time British Curry Awards winner, its reputation has travelled far beyond the city too.
For a true taste of the place, tuck into its stunning six-course tasting menu. It packs in everything from papads and puris to mahi salmon, slow-cooked beef gaal, Sikandari lamb and sea bass pappu – all for just £69 per person. Feeling fancy? Add the pairing wine flight for just £35.
Head to Birmingham favourite Lasan for beautifully grilled meats and more.
3. 670 Grams
- Location: 670 Grams, Unit 3030, Zellig, The Custard Factory, Gibb Street, B9 4AU
- Price: from £80
- Cuisine: British
- Best for: date nights, special celebrations, creative dining, affordable option
- Why we recommend: I love the intimate feel of 670 Grams, with just 16 covers and a two-seater chef’s table looking straight into the open kitchen
Over in Digbeth, 670 Grams is committed to fine dining without the sky-high price tag. Founded by Kray Treadwell, former head chef of Michelin-starred Man Behind The Curtain and a Great British Menu finalist, the décor is as beautiful as the dishes, with roaring firepits and art across every wall.
When it’s time to tuck in, you can expect stunning small plates of Orkney scallop, miso custard, Hampshire breed pork loin and mushroom agnolotti. The ten-course tasting menu starts from just £55 and packs in bites like these and plenty more besides.
You can expect 10 stunning courses as part of 670 Grams' tasting menu.
4. Adam’s Restaurant
- Location: 16 Waterloo Street, B2 5UG
- Price: Five courses for £115, Seven courses for £145
- Cuisine: British
- Best for: date nights, special celebrations, group dining, family meals
- Why we recommend: I love the amazingly elegant dining room at Adam’s. From its horseshoe chef’s table to its quiet corners, it’s the perfect backdrop to a beautiful meal
Beautifully blending art deco with statement floors and retro finishes, it’s safe to say Adam’s is rather good-looking - and the dishes are just as dreamy.
From Midlands-born foodie and head chef Adam Stokes, this Michelin star spot serves up perfectly plated British cuisine across multi-course lunches and evening tasting menus. We’re talking John Dory morel, salt marsh lamb, Jérôme Galis asparagus and smoked halibut. Five courses set you back just £115 or you can take seven for an extra £30.
Adam's offers Michelin star tasting menus for lunch and dinner.
5. The Wilderness
- Location: 27 Warstone Lane, B18 6JQ
- Price: £100
- Cuisine: British, European
- Best for: date nights, special celebrations, creative dining, sustainable dining, local produce
- Why we recommend: I love the focus on seasonality and sustainability. Whatever the time of year, you’re sure of comforting dishes made with the very best fresh produce
Escape the city for The Wilderness. A beautifully bougie restaurant on Warstone Lane, it’s a gloriously green oasis of countryside calm. The menu takes you back to nature too, with locally sourced ingredients – many grown in their own allotment.
Expect hearty, homely and wholesome dishes that don’t hold back on the flavour. The ever-changing tasting menu comes in three forms: signature, pescetarian and vegetarian. Whatever the season, you can expect fresh veg, prime cuts of meat and seafood cooked to perfection.
For those who love seasonality and sustainability, The Wilderness is the perfect dining option.
6. Grace & Savour
- Location: Hampton Manor, Shadowbrook Lane, Hampton-In-Arden, B92 0EN
- Price: Lunch from £110, Dinner from £195
- Cuisine: European, modern British
- Best for: date nights, special celebrations, creative dining
- Why we recommend: from the perfectly plated dishes to the incredible flavour combinations and stunning garden setting, everything about Grace & Savour is showstopping.
Built into the Victorian walled garden of Hampton Manor, Grace & Savour sets the Birmingham tasting menu bar sky-high. Chef director, David Taylor, studied under Glynn Purnell before working in some of North America and Scandinavia’s best kitchens. Part of the team that racked up three Michelin stars at Norway’s Maaemo, he’s already bagged another two here.
The 14-dish tasting menu is made from a library of ingredients preserved from the land. Think jars full of carrot nectar, camomile and apple kombucha, and pickled magnolia. Signature dishes like wild boar or grass-fed beef brisket are cooked over open fire, while its buttery monkfish and creel-caught red prawns are shipped in on small day boats.
Get ready for premium dishes served with creative flair here.
7. Six by Nico
- Location: 81 Colmore Row, B3 2BA
- Price: typically from £45
- Cuisine: fusion, international, various
- Best for: special celebrations, date nights, group dining, creating dining, affordable option
- Why we recommend: Dining at Six by Nico is much more than a meal. With every course built around a concept, it’s a carefully curated dinner party meets immersive theatre.
In a Grade II-listed building at 81 Colmore Row, Six by Nico Birmingham combines rich history with modern décor and timeless culinary flair. Its six-course tasting menus are inspired by a different place, memory, destination or concept. Previous themes include Murder Mystery, Italian Roadtrip, Mad Hatter’s and Six Wonders.
If you’re looking for an affordable tasting menu in Birmingham, this is it. Whatever the theme, you can expect fine dining with an experimental twist. Think smoked meats, vegetable veloutés, hearty pies, confits and compotes. It could be anything – but it’s always delicious.
Six by Nico offers a new tasting menu every six weeks.
8. Qavali
- Location: 9 Brindley Place, B1 2HJ
- Price: £70
- Cuisine: Indo-Persian
- Best for: special celebrations, group dining, family meals, date nights
- Why we recommend: I love the falling foliage, inviting lighting and shareable dishes at Qavali – perfect for dreamy date nights
A beautiful Indo-Persian fine dining restaurant and cocktail bar, Qavali brings music, mysticism and a mega menu to Brindleyplace. Its interiors are as dramatic as the dishes. Think dark green tones, velvet drapes, Persian rugs, stained-glass lighting, and hanging foliage.
The Sunday to Friday tasting menu takes your ‘buds on a tour from zesty shabat to sticky and sweet baklava. Along the way, you’ll tuck into the likes of sultani chaat and makhani prawns, plus a choice of butter chicken, paneer karahari or keema gosht – all served up with daal, makhani bukhara, saffron rice, naan and shirazi salad.
Qavali's dishes are known to be fragrant and flavoursome.
9. Baloci
- Location: 18 Highfield Rd, Birmingham B15 3DU
- Price: Five courses for £80
- Cuisine: Italian, Persian, South Asian
- Best for: group dining, special occasions, fusion dining, date nights
- Why we recommend: the Merchant concept really adds to the fun of a night out at Baloci’s, giving you a taste of the flavours enjoyed by Marco Polo and co all those years ago.
Combining Italian culinary craft with the aromatic flavours of Persia and South Asia, Baloci’s menu is inspired by the legendary Merchants of Venice and the voyages of Marco Polo. Think fresh seafood, succulent meats and perfectly prepped veg cooked in all manner of sauces and spices.
The Merchant’s Tasting Journey takes you through the lot. We’re talking saffron and sweet potato canapes, pan-seared scallops, chicken with polenta fondant, a Silk Road ragu, and tangy mango sorbet. Five courses sets you back £80 – for just £45 more, you can add wine to pair with every plate.
For high-end fusion fare, there's nothing like Baloci - perfect for date nights and special occasions.
10. Black & Green
- Location: 49 Hewell Road, Barnt Green, Worcestershire, B45 8NE
- Price: Six courses for £75, Eight courses for £85
- Cuisine: British
- Best for: local produce, wine pairing, group dining, special occasions, sustainable dining, local produce
- Why we recommend: I love the focus on simplicity at Black and Green. The classic cooking style really shows off the freshness of the local ingredients – and the British wine flight is the icing on the cake.
Part of the Open Group, created by acclaimed chef Andy Sheridan alongside Sam and Emma Morgan, every element of Black & Green is carefully curated. Well worthy of its spot in the Michelin Guide, its tasting menu is hyper-seasonal and always high quality.
Built around the concept of classical cooking, the ‘Black’, and sustainable, locally sourced produce, the ‘Green’, it packs in six or eight courses of regionally rooted dishes. Expect the likes of Cornish crab tart, Shetland cod, Staffordshire lamb, jersey royals and treacle tart. For the full fancy shebang, pair it with a wine flight from just £50.
We love the hyper-seasonal menus and stunning presentation here.
