Where to Eat & Drink in Digbeth, Birmingham 2026
The top independent spots to eat and drink in Digbeth right now: Pho Birmingham, Vietnamese Street Kitchen and Savanna Restaurant & Cocktail Bar.
| Restaurants · ranked | ||
| 1 | Pho Birmingham | ★4.74,278 |
Very lovely service from Helen, and amazing foood!!!!! Especially the crab 🦀 tomato soup and seafood spring roll! Authentic taste with innovation 😍Google review · S. · verbatim | ||
| 2 | Vietnamese Street Kitchen | ★4.62,334 |
| 3 | Savanna Restaurant & Cocktail Bar | ★4.6355 |
| 4 | 670 Grams | ★4.5201 |
| Bars · ranked | ||
| 1 | The Big Bulls Head | ★4.5724 |
| 2 | Phoenix Live Music Restaurant & Bar | ★4.659 |
6 independent venues, re-ranked monthly from real reviews — no national chains, no paid placements.
Digbeth Venue Map
Visiting Birmingham, United Kingdom? Digbeth — Creative quarter, street food scene, emerging — is the neighbourhood with 6 ranked independent restaurants and bars our review-velocity ranking is tracking right now. 5 are trending hot this week. Rankings refreshed monthly from 7,951 live reviews — no national chains, no ads.
How to Get There
From Birmingham New Street station:
- Walking:10 mins east through the Bullring to Digbeth High Street
- Bus:Multiple routes from city centre, or walk from Digbeth Coach Station
- Train:Birmingham New Street - 1hr 20mins from London Euston, 1hr 30mins from Manchester
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Single bus fare cap. Digbeth is easily walkable from New Street station - most people walk through the Bullring.
Local tip: Enter via the Custard Factory on Gibb Street for the best first impression. The main courtyard gives you immediate access to several food and drink venues, and you can explore outward from there.
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Pho Birmingham holds the #1 spot, turning out rich 12-hour broths and beef brisket noodles on Stephenson Pl for €14. The consistency of their kitchen keeps seats full from midday to evening.
Grab a stool at The Big Bulls Head on Digbeth for traditional pints poured into no-nonsense glassware for €5. For live sets and mixed drinks around €10, head to Phoenix Live Music Restaurant & Bar on Masshouse Ln.
You can find Vietnamese bowls at Pho Birmingham on Stephenson Pl and Vietnamese Street Kitchen on St Martins Sq. For East African dishes, Savanna Restaurant & Cocktail Bar on Bristol St serves rich Eritrean stews, while 670 Grams on Gibb St focuses on Modern European tasting menus.
Book a counter seat at 670 Grams on Gibb St for an intimate, creative tasting menu setting. If you prefer sharing food with your hands in a relaxed space, head to Savanna Restaurant & Cocktail Bar on Bristol St for generous platters.
Vietnamese Street Kitchen on St Martins Sq offers filling rice bowls and noodle plates around €13. Over on Stephenson Pl, Pho Birmingham serves substantial soup bowls for €14 that easily cover dinner.
Pho Birmingham leads the restaurant chart at #1, while Vietnamese Street Kitchen holds firm at #2. Phoenix Live Music Restaurant & Bar enters the bar chart at #2 on Masshouse Ln to begin its fresh run.
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Ask DOW on ChatGPTDOW ranks venues with a 100-point Hot Score, recalculated monthly from live Google data. Three signals, in this order: written review activity — text reviews over 50 characters in the last 90 days, the heaviest by some distance; the standing Google rating from 4.0 up; and Google Business Profile completeness — phone, website, opening hours, description, photos and categories. In Portugal and Spain, reviews written in the city's own language carry more weight than English ones. We don't publish the exact weightings: a formula you can compute backwards is one you can farm. No editorial picks, no paid placements, no national chains.