The Goose @ The OVT in Birmingham

First time i been in here in about 18 years. myself and my wife came here for lunch. the food was ok and good value. we had a pint of coke each and it was the best. really fizzy and nice and cold. the staff were very friendly and always made sure we were ok

Never ever visit this place in a Friday or a Saturday, you will interrupt the little Nazis on the door personal fiefdom. The sooner this place goes bust and gets new management the better.

Mis amigos y yo siempre íbamos aquí los viernes por la noche porque no tocaban música a todo volumen todo el tiempo. Ahora apenas puedes pensar en un viernes por la noche, así que vamos al circo.Además, nunca hay suficientes camareros en turno

Upon ordering a 10£ burger meal the fool behind the bar wanted to charge me 80 whole pence for some bbq sauce i strongly recommend you bring your own if you dont want to be mugged off ttfn

Voy a la universidad por aquí, he estado en este lugar varias veces por la noche durante la semana, un lugar encantador y un personal encantador,Mi amiga quería ir un viernes por la noche para celebrar su cumpleaños, así que nos vestimos y esperamos una noche allí. Desafortunadamente, tan pronto como entramos, era un lugar completamente diferente, el personal de la puerta de Pervy, demasiado ego masculino, y en todos los lugares donde miraba, las drogas se vendían y se usaban abiertamente: (

Éramos una mesa de 5 y una en una silla de ruedas y vimos Birmingham para el día de la universidad. Solo en busca de un almuerzo, pedimos un poco de pescado y papas fritas y café / coca-cola - las bebidas aparecieron 10 minutos después y prácticamente las arrojamos a la mesa derramándolas, la comida otros diez minutos fue realmente pobre - recocida y suave, y dejamos la mayor parte de eso. Mirando alrededor, nadie más estaba comiendo (eran alrededor de las 2 de la tarde de un domingo), así que deduje que los lugareños evitaban el lugar como deberíamos haberlo hecho nosotros.

We have been waiting almost an hour for our food as have many other annoyed customers by the looks of it! Shocking manners from the waitress. Would avoid in future!

When I was a student this was the local pub, I didn’t really like the feel of it in here as the atmosphere can be hostile. The food is average but reasonably priced

Entré y había una atmósfera tan mala de testosterona y ego masculino. Se sentía como si fuera a arrancar en cualquier momento. ¡Nunca he querido dejar un pub tan rápido! ! ! Mierda elección de bebidas también. No vayas a menos que quieras un ojo morado.

Visité el Goose por primera vez mientras visitaba a mi hija esta semana. El pub tiene un buen ambiente por las noches y es muy popular entre los estudiantes que viven en el área. Las bebidas tienen un precio razonable, y usualmente hay algunas ofertas especiales para cervezas y cócteles. Teníamos el desayuno inglés completo al día siguiente, que era excelente. Definitivamente tendría otro de sus desayunos! El servicio aquí también es excelente, especialmente Rocky que hizo todo lo posible para asegurarse de que mi perro fuera atendido. Él le consiguió un poco de agua y una manta para que se sentara mientras estaba empapada. Nos hizo sentir muy bienvenidos e hizo nuestras visitas a las experiencias agradables de Goose.

Very poor customer service, not quite welcoming and the food was below expected standard. Very disappointed

Tuvimos un gran sábado por la noche en la OVT. El personal había salvado nuestra gran mesa, aunque estábamos unos minutos tarde y estaban ocupados. Vey ambiente animado, deporte en TV grande seguido de música, así que un poco ruidoso para charlar. La comida era buena. Precios de comida y bebida muy razonables. Personal amable

Había oído buenas críticas, y me apetecía mucho visitarlo. Superó mis expectativas en cuanto a decoración y ambiente. En el interior una terraza al aire libre.

Estando en Birmingham no podíamos dejar de tomarnos unas pintas y pastel de carne en Goose....magnífico ambiente de pub inglés....

I was greeted by professional and outgoing bar staff who couldn't do more to make me feel welcome, however midway through my meal a member of the kitchen staff (red bandana) came charging into the bar area causing unecessary commotion. I wouldn't mind but the food prepared by her was well below average. I would happily go back to the goose on her days off...

Having had a brutal day at work I arrived at the bar just in time to be told that the kitchen had closed, and I did not react particularly well. Rocky was incredibly sympathetic and went out of his way to make sure I got fed... a lovely guy, I cannot thank him enough! 10/10 I will be back!

the goose in Selly Oak is a super pub with a member of staff call Liz she is the most helpful and friendly member of staff you could wish to meet

Bank holiday Monday around 1pm sat out in the beer garden for a quiet drink and it was very plesent....good choice on bottled cider as well as lots of offers on drinks and food.

They didny give me no steak knife to eat me steak and it fell off the table. Absolute rip off food taste wee bit rank

Nice old pub,good atmosphere. The food was really good and the service was excellent. They had a good variety of craft beers on tap. Overall a great place to visit!

No where else I'd rather be. Great for friends, cheap enough for predrinks and some of the staff with break your heart with their generosity and charm! A big hit for students with reasonably priced food and great ales always available. It is by far the hub of Selly Oak, when someone hears your going to the Goose without them tears begin to gush out of their eyes. Great place to start the day as well as end it with an outstanding hangover curing breakfast; I mean what more yould you ask for?!

More of a student environment, drinks are cheap enough not sure on the food as I didn’t order. Can get very busy especially on a weekend but would return

Просторный и уютный паб, весьма недорогой для Брума. Студенты никого не игнорируют - там и зрелые граждане пробавляются эльчиком. Место для курения, забавный туалетное, неплохое седьмым можно заснять. Ассортимент пива хороший. Обычный карлсберг - там пальчики оближешь. Есть и более английские сорта. Не забудьте - льют пинту 0,564. Еда тоже хорошая. Одному посидеть, хорошо выпить и поесть порядка 25 фунтов. Пропустить несколько пинт - десятки хватит. Пробуйте имбирное пиво из Шотландии - краббис например

Went with friends, found the food good, very good value, good vibe to the place, cheap drinks, nice easy place.

Locale molto accogliente, tipico pub inglese, ottima selezione di birre chiare e scure, cibo molto buono e anche una buona varietà di dolci punto un cameriere parla italiano consigliato se si vuole uscire dal centro della città di Birmingham

Estuvimos allí con amigos para una discoteca donde algunos alma y Motown estaba jugado. Es un lugar muy comida, sin embargo en esta noche en particular se quedaron sin hielo. Pedimos que era cálido como prececco no habían sido refrigerados. Este estropeó nuestra noche como tales establecimientos deberían de tener las necesidades básicas cubiertas de negocios. Nos iremos de nuevo? Sí, por supuesto

Es más, pensé. Desde el personal hasta los asiduos todos gente fantástica. Me hizo sentir como en casa.

El menú típico de comida de pub, pero era bastante barato. Usted ordenar comida en el bar y se dieron una botella con un número para poner en su mesa. Elegí el bacalao y patatas fritas, pero no tenían cod disponibles ese día así que me fui para el pescado y patatas fritas. La comida estaba bien, pero nada especial. Las patatas fritas eran sólo cálido y sabía como si hubieran sido preparado bastante tiempo antes de ser servido. Había por lo menos 3 pantallas de TV (una muy grande) mostrando el fútbol cuando estuve allí. El sonido era muy alto y la conversación era difícil.

El personal del bar (estudiantes) ignora cualquiera que no es un estudiante, música demasiado alta, la comida mediocre y quemado!

Ambiente muy agradable, el jardín de la cerveza, especialmente cuando el sol! Pero no esperes mucho de la comida. Vienen aquí por las bebidas y compañía. Un agradable lugar para relajarse cuando no es muy concurrido.

Comencé a hacer cola en aproximadamente 11. 50 de la mañana y llegamos a las 12 hasta. 03:00 que quieran un desayuno inglés, que costaba £2. 99. . . Usted tendrá que pagar £6. 29 ya no hay flexibilidad (más del doble del precio después de las 12:00). Además, habría estado bien de ellos para decirnos que no había croquetas de patata, así que nos dieron patatas fritas. Bueno ambiente

De haber sido regular en este pub durante años creo que mucho del crédito tiene que ir a Liz y rocosa para apagar el pub te proporcionan un gran servicio nada es demasiado problema y satisfacer a todos los clientes. Todo el ambiente ha mejorado y no sólo después de que los estudiantes que utilizan este pub en una base regular se asegura que los clientes habituales de todas las edades son atendidos también. Sigan con el buen trabajo es agradable tener el ganso volver a cómo era hace años!

You would expect nothing less than a pub to be busy on a Saturday afternoon so why was there only one person serving when a friend and I visited? Perhaps the reason is that, if you are a regular, all you have to do is to stroll up to the bar, indicate how many pints you wish to purchase by holding up the requisite number of fingers and you will get served very quickly despite the fact that others have been waiting much longer than you. It was also rather chaotic in that we witnessed a member of staff wandering around for quite a few minutes with two platefuls of food; he was clearly unaware of the table to which the meals had to be taken to - by the time he found the customers the food must have been cold. Prices are good and the one lady behind the bar was very friendly and doing her best but I didn't think the quality of the drinks was very good. My friend and I were thinking about having a second drink but when we realised there was something like 20+ people at the bar and only one barperson we decided that elsewhere deserved our custom.

Great pub for anyone wanting to have a drink with friends. Staff are friendly and socialise with the customers. The beer garden out the back is lovely to sit out in when it gets warm and stuffy. They serve a brilliant Cookie Pizza which is better than those bought in the store such as the 'Good-fellas Chocolate Pizza'.

Just a couple of drinks at the Goose, I was on Amstel a pint £2.70 , don't know whether it was alcoholic enough for me might avoid it next time perhaps, we stayed a while, a large pub, not been in here before, huge pub, traditional sort of place, take a look at those amazing ceiling lights, the screens were showing a football game Southampton v Man City, I was disappointed that no good music was playing it was Saturday night, need some good music on every night of the week, all you could hear was people talking, the tables were a bit cluttered for too long with other peoples old drinks and plates, not taken away quick enough, when I was sitting down at a table, the bar girl seemed oblivious of where she was sticking her bottom, I presume she was oblivious, there is a menu, you can get food here also, I suppose the pub seems an older style inside. Overall it was ok, but not great, there is a pool table also. It seems to attract students and an older patronage also, various ages overall. Drinking at the Goose.

Good student pub, had a great manager Mikey, was a shame when he left. Major plus is has a decent beer garden.

This please is cheap - it serves students from Birmingham University so it has to keep its costs down. I took the fish and chips, and with a pint the cost came to just over £10. But the food is distinctly average. Fills a gap, but don't expect haute cuisine.

I've been there twice, once for lunch with my ma and once for breakfast with friends. The veggie burger I had tasted cheap, cold and was overpriced. On the other hand, the £2.99 veggie breakfast was amazing value for money, steaming and quickly served. Just a question of making the right choice on what to get folks!

It's cheap so I guess that's the only selling point as the food is gross! The worst nachos I've ever had, no cheese and burnt! The burger, as huge as it was, was very dry and was difficult to swallow.Waited over half an hour for burnt dry food.Won't be coming back.

This is a decent, classic pub. The inside isn't great as it could do with updating but in a way, the decor gives it an option of pub feel. Hey have great food deals every day of the week and the food is actually nice with great portions for the price. Not the best place ever, but definitely a great bargain!

I love the goose, it's a proper cheap pub and have been coming here for my two uni years. Although now it's trying to change its image for the worse! Awful 'cocktails' which are not cheap and staff have had no training in it yet, tacky inspirational quotes dotted around the beer garden and in the ladies and now they are deciding to paint the walls lilac and paint things brightly coloured to try and go more 'classy' or funky. It isn't working! It just looks messy and confused. The goose is proud to be the classic local, don't make it something it's not. Bring back the 241 on pina colada in a carton!

We watched burgers and fried breakfasts coming out of the kitchen which all looked good, so we were hopeful that our cooked meal would be equally tasty. The menu offered a choice of beef, turkey or half a roast chicken. However, we were told that only turkey was available. We should have taken this as a warning...After waiting 30 minutes, the food arrived and it looked ok but that's about where the pleasure ended. Each plate only contained two small slices of turkey roll (certainly not comparable to half a roast chicken). The mash and yorkshire pudding were ok but the peas were tasteless, the roast potatoes were dry in the middle and the carrot batons were barely cooked. I'm not one to complain but in this instance (and at £6.79 each; a great deal more than charged by many high street carveries) I had to comment on the carrots being poor, so our plates were taken away to have the meal replaced. After about 10 minutes our original meals were returned with a top-up of gravy but with the carrots still uncooked. I run a food business myself and they tasted as if they had been cooked from frozen in a microwave, and could only be described as 'wet and spongy'.We ate what we could of the meal, leaving the carrots and peas and made a speedy exit. WIth the boast that "We have a fantastic menu, packed full of delicious dishes which will cater to your every need." I think the owner should randomly sample some of these dishes to ensure quality is maintained. Eating at the Goose at the OVT was definitely NOT a good start to 2017 for us.

Really nice pub. Came here with a few friends from university and had a very nice meal. Really nice staff and amazing value for money.

For £5.79 .. not a bad price for what you get they do a veggie option too which the boyfriend enjoyed as he doesn't eat porkAll in all a great breakfast not greasy and a nice big portion! Left feeling satisfied and stuffedWill definitely come back and recommendThe deco is very out dated but its a nice cosy pub to spend a chilled out Saturday afternoon after Christmas shopping

Love it Nice pub, real x Friendly staff always smiling lovely welcome, great atmosphere, love the heated beer garden and food so lovely I even licked my plate lol.... Ace thanks guys xx

great atmosphere on weekend. Not tried the food but it's a ball having a drink with all the students.

My only complaint is that the bar service is painfully slow at times and the music is often way too loud to have a normal conversation - save it for the clubs! I do like this place though.

I love everything about the place. It feels just like your living room. Cheapest pint in Selly and the atmosphere in the place is always warmer and more friendly than other pubs in the area. This is due to the staff, the crowd and the decor. It feels like a proper pub rather than like you're sitting in an ikea show room (Pear/S'oak). The place is unpretentious and simply a bloody brilliant place to get on the beers, maybe have a crack at the quizzie and whack some Thin Lizzy on the jukebox. Long live the Goose.

An absolute institution in the vibrant town of Selly Oak. This pub is often described as 'the beating heart' of the local area. Great staff such as Rockie, Holly and Jaz make this a great place to drink, eat and unwind after lectures.My highest recommendations to the goose!

Friendly staff, cheap beer and food, big beer garden. What more is there to want! The food is just like you'd expect from chain owned pub, everything I've had there was good, expect for the roast dinner but Apart from that would recommend!

Walked in this pub for food but walked back out as the music was so loud it is as impossible to sit and eat. Don't get me wrong I live music and loud but this was awful treble base wrong and so loud you couldn't hear the music. A very rough pub

Great choice of drinks and decent food menu.Staff friendly and always on hand to offer advice.Pub needs to be restored to its glory days when The Varsity can do with renovation!!!

Great traditional boozer, unspoilt by the mindless rush towards so called modern improvements.Some people have described it as dirty, tired, old - I think they are missing the point.If you want posh, up-to-date and over-priced, where you can't find a seat or feel awkward having a laugh, then go elsewhere.This is a proper old pub, with seating, laughter, music, pool, beer garden, good beer & food - and great value for money.Extremely friendly staff, welcoming locals, and generally fab!

just get there if you want to see people fighting. it's an extremely rough place, frequented by very unfriendly locals No wonder there are always police cars and ambulances out there! Just don't go there!

This is a great deal with the best food and real ales. curry and grills are some of the best we have had. But the most outstanding is the real ales HPA for 1 £3.11 a pint if you have a Camra Card. Management and the staff so helpful. Cheers for the Choose.

I frequently visit this pub with friends and i love it. Some may be put off by the 'old man' feel, especially in the mornings when most of the customers are made up of old regulars watching the horse racing. But pop in during the evening and the pub is brought to life. With live music events, a pub quiz, and good value food and drink it has a great atmosphere. But even better are the staff. I often go to pubs and bars where the staff never have a smile on their face and don't really interact with customers at all. At the Goose the staff are always in a good mood, know most of the regulars (old men and students alike) by their names, and are always up for a joke and good conversation. When they aren't too busy of course! Well worth a visit!

Went for lunch with my partner today. We both had steak which was cooked well and the 2 for 1 desserts were lovely, especially the apple crumble. Food was served promptly. Downside: the place could do with a good clean. It always feels dirty. The condiments were served in a 6-bottle beer carrier. Not sure if hipster or trampy, but as it's made of cardboard it can't be cleaned, so will be a germ fest.

The pub over all is perfectly situated & could do so very well given some tweaks. The locals are lary & the staff didn't really help because they were pretty loud & out there too however they were very friendly & attentive. The overall feeling is that the place could do with a good clean! We did order lunch & both had the £7.49 Steak, chips, onion rings, peas & grilled tomato which was really nice. My partner had the curly fries instead of chips & they were lovely. The food was excellent really the dessert was extremely tasty too. Condiments were served in a card beer holder which didn't seem very hygienic. The food was served fast & arrived very hot. The seating is vast & comfortable & the pub is generally nice but it really needs a good clean along with modernising.

The staff are the best thing going for this pub, from there on its all downhill unfortunately. The smell as you walk in the door is that of toilets that need a good clean. Despite the smell, I did order a burger for lunch - that was cheap as far as eating out goes, the burger was ok but the bun was very stale. The pub could be lovely with a good clean as it has loads of character. Will visit again as this is local for friends to meet up, but will make sure I've eaten before I go as don't want to risk being ill.

Dopo innumerevoli serate in questo pub, chiedo per una limonata e si presentano con acqua e limone per poveri, io mi rifiuto cari inglesi! Ciao POVERY!

Great company, friendly staff!!! Would recommend to anyone visiting Selly Oak.Will be back very soon, keep up the good work.

Nella media dei pub inglesi come qualità, prezzi e igiene. Non male, se non si ha la pretesa di una pulizia eccessiva... i tavoli sono appiccicosi, e anche i menù, e le poltrone in condizioni pessime.Ma ci ho passato un paio di serate gradevoli.

Easily best pub in Selly Oak.Cheap beer, good service and you can always get somewhere to sit. It actually feels like a pub too.Food is cheap and is good value.

A friendly hostelry, the friendly efficient staff are customer focussed and led well. A good selection of food and drinks.

Well new manager, new menu but the same old problem. Refurbishment not so long ago but the stench from the ladies toilet awful, makes me worry about kitchen !!!!!!.Only go to meet up with friends.

i visited this pub for the second time when visiting a friend in Birmingham. inside has beautiful lighting, shame about the tv's everywhere!! but thats just me. The food is worth it!!! i had a burger the first time which was awesome! Absolutely gives the 'posh' burger places a run for their money!! this time we had a sharing platter.... beer battered onion rings... loaded potato skins, deep fried prawns, fried chicken.. fries topped with pulled pork... all very very very naughty!!! but oh so delicious!!!!! Staff are really lovely and didnt bat an eyelid when informed of my milk allergy. What to try next .............

Haven't visited here in ages. Staff were polite and good atmosphere. Prices are good. The men's toilets were an absolute disgrace. I informed the bar staff.

Pub stracolmo di gente di tutte le nazioni e di tutti i gusti birrai. Ho bevuto un'ottima guiness (i prezzi sono altrettanto ottimi). Consigliato a chi è alla ricerca di un pub giovanile e abbastanza caotico.

Ok so it isn't lavishly furnished and the local clientele aren't the trendy types but by god it's good value, always fast good service and th manager always has a smile

Average pub food for UK standards. Very old decor and a very dirty. The building look good from the outside though. It could use some interior renovation. However, it offers good meal deals and very affordable prices. It doesn't offer free wifi.

Visited this pub as part of a Uni reunion. It was the OVT back then and a very popular student pub. Later became a Firkin pub. Had changed a little but seem more like a locals pub now but this was a Sat afternoon. Decent enough though.

This is a stereotypical pub - where older men go to drink beer and watch darts. It has the typical 'pub' smell, and is nothing special. In fact, it feels a little like stepping back in time, to when pubs served a purpose but did little else.

It’s worth a visit if only to look at the unusual Victorian ceramic murals on the wall. Especially eye-catching is the Baccus-like figure with the Latin inscription to the left of the main door. Then from there on it tends to go a bit downhill. On the plus side the pub is clearly well kept, and the range of real ales look extremely tempting. Regretfully I was driving and couldn’t try them – perhaps worth a return visit, but only after I’ve eaten first. There’s a beer garden of sorts at the back, that seemed to be populated by smoking students. The food…my wife had the mixed grill, which was large enough, but the chicken breast and the steak had clearly languished overlong on the grill, and appeared as dry shrivelled burnt offerings. The chips were out of a packet – I’m always amazed how restauranteurs seem to think we can’t tell the difference. My meat pie was okay but nothing to return for; the filling had that mucus-like appearance of the ingredients inside cheap meat pies. But maybe we’re being a tad unfair. The meal prices were not extravagant, Selly Oak is largely a student suburb, and the pub is surrounded by cheap eateries. It is a large pub and I imagine to survive they need to cater to the students, so quantity and price were the determinants, not quality. Having a full belly and a few beers as cheaply as possible was my aim when I was a student many years ago.

a few of us went to the goose on sat afternoon the staff were fantastic so was the food people kept on joining us and a lady kept on just bring chairs all the time I don't know her name but she is an accet to your company thankyou again for a memorable afternoon

The Goose is one of the only decent pubs in the area, recommended by the students and obviously popular with a younger clientele. Fish, chips and mushy peas £7.50 two for one meal offer. Nice pub ambience and reasonably good typical pub food, my US geology colleagues over for a conference loved it- even the mushy peas!! Three draught beers on including Marstons Pedigree. Pleasant evening had by all outside the back in the beer garden

Great UBU, great staff. It has changed since 1990, obviously, but not rammed with students, a good range of beer, and lively. I din't try the food but it looked like good bar food.

I went there with my daughter to have a small lunch…the food was just ok, the table we got was even not proper. The only good thing is the ambient like in a pub…

This was without doubt the worst meal I’ve eaten in a long time. I was staying at the university so I went up the Bristol Road to find something to eat. The Goose looked OK from the outside. Inside it proclaimed ‘real pub, real food, real ale’. I had a decent pint of Marstons Pedigree while I waited for my food order to arrive. I ordered the Nachos and a baked potato. The pub was lively enough with plenty of students in, though I noticed few were eating. The carpet was filthy.The Nachos was a bowlful of tortilla chips with meagre amounts of cheese, salsa, guacamole, sour cream and jalapeños. This was Ok apart from the overwhelming ratio of tortillas to the rest, and the overall portion size being too small. I turned my attention to the baked potato I had ordered. This was a small spud backed up by a nasty side salad of lettuce leaf with sliced cabbage stalks. The coleslaw filling was barely present. As I cut into the spud, I could see there was something wrong. The flesh was 50 shades of grey with a distinct black area. I beckoned the waitress who took the plate away. I ordered a pint of Mad Goose Purity Pale Ale to keep me occupied until a replacement meal arrived. The nasty side salad was unchanged, with the dollop of mayonnaise I had already added. This time, the spud was a similar size and there was no more coleslaw, but I was relieved to see that the flesh was a creamy yellow. I was hungry so I ate the spud and much of the lettuce. I was still hungry but I did not want to order more food here and went elsewhere.So, in summary I’ve rated this place as poor rather than terrible – because there was real ale and it was drinkable – but I would never go back to eat there.

Quartiere universitario, c'è da aspettarsi un pub pieno di giovani e difatti è loro che troverete. Qualche adulto ed anzianotto non manca mai, ma la maggior parte qui sono ragazzi che studiano. Le birre ci sono, vastissima scelta, consiglio quelle in bottiglia perché il personale non è decisamente qualificato nella spillatura, almeno non tutti. Cibo nella media, stiamo parlando di un pub, non siamo al ristorante, ma se avete fame potete fidarvi del menu, si mangia abbastanza bene. Prezzi non esagerati anzi sono moltissime le offerte sia sui drink che sul cibo. Che dire, unico grande pub qui a Selly Oak, passateci ..

This used to be a great pub but ever since Stonegate took over it has gone downhill. The ever changing staff are rude and inattentive and are more interested in chatting with each other. it seems this place doesn't like locals as they are more focused on student trade. Can't comment on the food but when I have been in there there have been plenty of half full plates of food left on tables - that speaks volumes. Beer ok ish but real ales over priced. This used to be one of the cheapest pubs in England! Shame, this place has so much potential - a big dance hall upstairs and a basement none of them used.

Saturday night foray for the two meals for £8.45 (was a couple of pounds cheaper until recently). Had Cheese and Bacon Burger with Chips. Pint of Timothy Taylor Boltmaker at £3.35 was glorious.Students all gone home so much quieter. Staff efficient and friendly.

Working near the place now, so thought I'd try it as I've eaten all round selly oak apart from in here.. and I won't be eating here again, nearly 5 pounds for a jacket potato with chilli and cheese which when it came out looked like a new potato minus the cheese and with no exaggeration 2 table spoons of chilli :( I never had chance to ask because the waitress dashed off very quickly. With the competition they have in the area for food, I can't see much revenue coming in to this place from food if that's the effort of a quiet lunch time :( won't go back

2人で頼むとお得なメニューがあります。ハンバーガーセットとかですね。普通にダラダラ飲むなら、近所にもっといいパブあります。ここは入り口から入って、中を抜けると外の席があるので、喫煙者とかがいると便利かも。

I can only believe that this commercial enterprise has been established by an anti-capitalist militant or prohibitionist intent on proving that Capitalism just doesn't work and alcohol is evil, it is la lovely old building albeit unsympathetically renovated, located in a prime position with potential for business from locals and students. NOTHING about this place works well, except the darkness that allows the regulars to slip their own spirits into their soft drinks. None of the staff seem located in this time zone or on this planet, customers seem to be a mere irritant distracting their attention away from the giant TV screens that dominate the place. The British Boozer is an endangered species, and I felt sorry for the student tourists from other countries who popped in to explore the place only to find they could not escape and ended up overstaying their VISAs as they had stuck to the tables, chairs and carpets. I wouldn't dare to eat here, and had to send back two chipped glasses for fear of catching gingivitis. This could be a great place, selling Englishness back to the tourists, providing a music venue and providing a haven for the few locals left in the transient world that is Selly Oak. What a waste.

Had to wait an hour for mains, in which time 4 parties had arrived, ordered and ate. Chicken skewer bone dry. No reimbursement offered. It's the best Selly Oak has to offer but we'll avoid in the future. It's a shame as the food could be decent and it's cheap.

I went for a quick bite with some friends.It was fine- nothing special, nothing particularly bad...Just fine!

We popped in for lunch on a Sunday. The menu was pretty pub standard, but with a wide range, suiting most tastes. One little thing that impressed me was that the beer taps had the prices on, so no surprises. The pub sits in the middle of studentville, so I guess that's why. I wish more pubs did it. Food was, again, decent pub food, served fairly promptly. Staff were all very helpful. There was soccer on the screens around, if that's your thing, and easy to ignore if it isn't. I'll go back next time I'm in Selly Oak.

Um dos lugares mais baratos para se tomar um Pint de cerveja em Birmingham.Os lanches e refeições são bons e baratos.Excelente lugar!

The food is ok , it is a normal pub with a friendly staff and if it is a sunny day I recommend you to go there cause they have a good sitting area at the back .