At Independent Birmingham, we love to champion local and encourage people to support independent businesses. We believe in Birmingham and the wonderful, talented, creative individuals who live here and are...
Here at IB, we love a bit of door porn – a highly photogenic door that you just really want to look inside. The humble door may not be everyone’s...
“Don’t bother with churches, government buildings or city squares; if you want to know about a culture, spend a night in its bars” – Ernest Hemingway Located somewhere on Thorp...
What does the cheese say when it looks in the mirror? Halloumi. We may as well start as we mean to go on – with a cheese joke. This article...
Wow! What an incredible weekend! It felt like the entirety of Brum’s foodies were at the Independent Birmingham Festival at Aston Hall. The wonderful and iconic Jacobean manor was the...
SHOP LOCAL. CELEBRATE THE UNIQUE. BELIEVE IN BIRMINGHAM. So far, we’ve told you a LOT about the utterly immense food and drink line-up we’ve curated for The Independent Birmingham Festival...
WE’VE BEEN ON THE GIN DIET RECENTLY, SO FAR WE’VE LOST THREE DAYS. Cometh 9 June, cometh World Gin Day. Our favourite day of the year, and one which we...
FOODIES OF BIRMINGHAM, YOU NEED TO BE AT THIS EVENT. IT’S SERIOUSLY UNMISSABLE. Following the huge success of last year’s sold out Independent Birmingham Festival At Aston Hall (where upon...
‘Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time’ – Thomas Merton Birmingham is a city in the midst of a foodie revolution. It seems like...
We never signed up for this whole ‘adulting’ thing. Let’s face it, being an adult really sucks sometimes. Constant bills that need paying, the boss breathing down your neck, having...
Had a blast at the Independent Birmingham Festival at The Bond? Us too Birmingham, us too. With what felt like the entirety of Brum’s foodies at our first festival for...
The Independent Birmingham Festival At The Bond is just over a week away! We’re super excited! Between our incredible food/drink line-up (with each trader creating a special one-off IB dish...