Brindleyplace

Brindley place is one of the best areas you can visit in Birmingham city centre.
All of the places located here are of a great quality, even the chain restaurants in the area seem to have a better design and presentation than other locations I have been to in the city. The squares and streets around here are also beautifully designed with water featured and sculptures making this a very lovely place to sit and relax or just walk through.
If you are looking for a night out, a great lunch or a first date destination give Brindley Place a visit. My biggest recommendation are the occasional food markets that happen here from time to time, check the Brindley Place website for more details of times and traders.

What a great location this place is at, a big tourist magnet. It’s probably one of the best places to go in city for a tourist or just hang out.
Lots of restaurants and bars. Art Galleries and a National Sea Life Centre which is fantastic. Very busy in weekends as you can imagine. There is live music playing sometimes.
Beautiful place to do a walk alongside the canal or sit by canal, people watch or boats go by. You’ll also find NIA, ICC and Symphony Hall around. Go see a show and hang out around after. And Boad Street is right around corner

It’s pretty, it’s a tourist trap, mostly made chain bars and restaurants if you want to eat or drink. I do recommend visiting Café Opus though. Central Square can be relaxing in the summer and has a good market on once in a while.
If you live or work in the city you’ll likely avoid this place as it is usually full of visitors to the convention centres or those that live in the suburbs such as the Black Country.

Brindleyplace is an area of Birmingham Centre with shops, restaurants and cafes. It’s not somewhere I tend to visit very often (as many of the places up here are chain businesses), but from todays visit, I’m definitely wondering if I should make more of an effort.
Situated off the canal, the mixture of old and new architecture makes this a genuinely lovely place. Between the water features, the benches (to allow people to sit and enjoy the sunshine) and the well kept and clean styling; it really is a gem of Birmingham.
As well as various retail outlets, there are attractions such as the Sealife Centre and the Ikon Gallery within a stones throw from each other. During the year various festivals are held around this area, including the Dragonboat festival, the Chili festival and open air film showings; which are mostly free to enter. Many art and cultural events take place in Brindley over the Summer too, so it’s worth keeping an eye on their website for information on whats coming up.
Brindleyplace is a slightly more expensive side to Birmingham (with expensive restaurants such as Bank and more pricey bars), but you can still grab a coffee or a meal for a reasonable price. At lunchtime there are several venues which do special lunch deals (mainly catering to the many offices), so you can grab an express lunch with a drink for a fiver.
All in all, well worth a visit in the daytime. In the evening and weekends it becomes a busy hubbub of people visiting the various bars and eateries for a night out. Again, due to the slightly higher cost of many of the establishments; you don’t tend to get the inebriated youfs which are present on Broad Street. It’s not somewhere I would tend to go (as it’s a bit mainstream), but if I was invited out for a special occasion I wouldn’t say no.
It’s pretty, light and clean. Nice to grab a coffee or some lunch and enjoy the sunshine *Weather permitting.

this is one of the more cooler, posher places in birmingham. few bars, some upscale and other chains, few restaurants, all different cuisines so lots to choose from. really smart area, yes more expensive but very nice.

Brindley Place has a number of restaurants and bars which prove particularly popular at the weekend, and are often visited by hen and stag parties.
There are a choice of bars to choose from such as Slug and Lettuce, All Bar One, and Pitcher and Piano. Eateries include Wagamamas, Pizza Express and Café Rouge.
With regards to entertainment the Sea Life centre is in the vicinity along with the Ikon Gallery, Bannatynes Health Club and Spa, and Number Nine the gallery.
There is also a Dragonboat race that takes place every year around June time, which is a great spectacle.
Certainly lots to do here and in the Summer months there is live music at the bandstand.

Brindleyplace was redeveloped just before I arrived in Birmingham. Which is nice. I’m sure that it wasn’t entirely for my benefit, but either way, I appreciate the results.
Work began in 1992 to turn this area of, essentially, industrial wasteland near the canals into a smart business and leisure area — replete with canalside bars and resturants, some nice little public squares (Oozells, Central and Brunswick), fountains, shiny offices, hotels, boutique shops and an art gallery and theatre thrown in for good measure. The NIA, Symphony Hall and the SEa Life Centre all rub shoulders with Brindleyplace also — making it a popular and important destination in the city.
It also makes the best use of Birmingham’s canals: showing them off at their best, with bars and restaurants lining the edges and bridges for admiring locals and tourists to walk across and take photos from. It’s a really successful and attractive re-​development, and has made the most of a lot of Birmingham’s great features, such as the canals, cultural landmarks and Grade A listed offices.

I remember when Brindley Place was first built; I was under eighteen so I couldn’t drink, so I used to sit outside of the bars with a coffee soaking in the sights and sounds of the local area.
A few bars have come and gone since its inception, but they have all been based in the most pleasant of surroundings. The Birmingham canal system has more miles of canals than Venice, and Brindleyplace feels like the hub of all of these canal networks.
I especially like sitting here in the hot sun, watching life go by right up to this day.
The charm of the surroundings are such a draw that I often bring friends from out of the area here. I believe that is a sure sign of a legendary spot.
I have many memories of Brindley Place all of them fond. There are not only bars in the area, but shops and stores selling a wide variety of goods.

Brindley Place is oen of the most up and coming districts in Birmingham, becoming extremely popular along the way.
Whether it be for work, a spot of lunch or a few drinks on the weekend, Brindley Place has acquired a reputation as one of the smartest areas in the whole of the city.
Places such as Bank and Edmunds offer the chance to experience fine dining at a fraction of the price at some places. By no means should it be considered cheap, just a delightful opportunity to enjoy amazing food, in a great location for less than you may think.
Other places such as Pitcher and Piano and Slug and Lettuce offer the chance to have a leisurely drink beside the canal, perfect for these summer months approaching.

Once something of an industrial wasteland, Brindley Place is now one of Birmingham’s smartest and most desirable business and leisure destinations. The area sits on a prime spot next to the Worcester and Birmingham Canal. The pedestrianized area consists of attractive squares and lanes lined with restaurants and bars.
The buildings have a vaguely Venetian feel about them, especially in the main square, with its campanile and porticos. I love the main square’s modern fountain and the tree lined piazza in front of the Ikon Gallery.
There’s a great choice of food and drink, mainly of the higher-​end chain variety (All Bar One, Carluccios, Café Rouge etc.). There are some top-​notch cultural destinations too, with the Ikon Gallery at the heart of the area and the Symphony Hall just a stone’s throw over the canal.
This will sound very dull, but the Brindley Place multi-​storey car park is probably Birmingham’s finest. Though take care not to leave shortly after kicking-​out time at the nearby NIA, two hour waits for the exit are not unheard of.

Brindley Place is very shiny and slick but a lot of that has to do with the level of big businesses around here. As a visitor you will be spoilt for places to eat as Brindley Place extends down to the canal waterfront that also offers a free boat service up to the Mailbox too.
As a regular to Brindley Place it is always spotlessly clean and regularly being hosed down. This is down to it being a privately managed space with security dotted around the place.
With The Sealife Centre, Ikon Gallery, NIA, The Rep and Symphony Hall all on it’s doorstep you can easily visit an attraction or see a show and get a bite to eat too.
If parking on the Brindley Place car park though, whilst the colour coded floors are fun to help you remember where you parked it is one pricey car park.

Brindley Place is the perfect go-​to destination for a summer Sunday. With plenty of eateries to choose from, outdoor seating, lawns to bask on, art galleries and other attractions; it’s one of Birmingham’s nicest, cleanest and, understandably, busiest areas.
I think that food-​wise, it caters to most budgets. I usually end up at Pizza Express or All Bar One, which has a great tapas style menu. Handmade Burger Co. is also good and they usually have an offer on Vouchercloud; I think the current one is ‘buy one, get one for £1′.
As I live in the Jewellery Quarter, I like to take a leisurely walk up the canal from St Paul’s Square to the Sealife Centre, head to Ikon Gallery to see what’s on and browse their amazing bookshop then go for dinner and drinks by the canal before heading up to Cineworld at Fiveways.
That’s one of my top 3 Sundays — you should try it!