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Birmingham's dining scene has matured fast, and its wine lists have kept pace — Michelin kitchens, independent merchants and Jewellery Quarter tasting counters that take wine by the glass seriously. This guide gathers seven of the city's most compelling wine bars and restaurants, chosen for the depth of their lists and the care behind every pour, from the Great Western Arcade to Edgbaston.
2 Glass Rating: Outstanding
Adam's
Restaurant · 16 Waterloo St, Birmingham B2 5UG
Adam's earned its Michelin star in 2013, just six months after opening, and has held it ever since — a run that makes this Waterloo Street dining room one of Birmingham's most decorated. The cellar keeps pace with the kitchen: a classical, deeply considered list anchored in Bordeaux, Burgundy and Champagne, with Port and sweet wines held in reserve for the close of a tasting menu. Between 41 and 60 wines pour by the glass, unusual depth for a restaurant at this level and a quiet gift for anyone who wants their pairings to roam. The room is intimate, the service polished, the whole experience built to linger in the memory. In Birmingham's fast-rising wine scene, Adam's remains the benchmark for fine drinking.
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Loki Wine, Birmingham
Restaurant · 36 Great Western Arcade, Birmingham B2 5HU
Birmingham's most awarded independent wine merchant hides — not very well, as the team happily admits — in the Victorian splendour of the Great Western Arcade. Loki is part bottle shop, part wine bar, with more than 600 wines from over 20 countries on the shelves and a by-the-glass operation running to between 41 and 60 pours at any time. The range is the point: Barolo and Barbaresco next to Jura whites, English sparkling alongside Champagne, pét-nat and orange wines for the curious, sherry for the converted. Come for a post-work glass, a date-night bottle or one of the expert-led tastings that built its reputation. For drinking widely by the glass in Birmingham, this arcade doorway is the essential starting point.
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Trillium
Restaurant · 1 Snow Hill Queensway, Birmingham B4 6GH
Trillium takes the formality out of fine drinking at Snow Hill: seasonal sharing plates in the modern British style, European influences, bold flavours and a vibrant, laid-back room with a heated terrace for catching the sunset. The wine list roams with intent — Alsace and Burgundy through the Rhône to California, plus English sparkling and a handful of natural and orange wines — and everything is chosen for balance and friendliness with food. With between 41 and 60 wines available by the glass, it is one of central Birmingham's most flexible places to drink: pair each plate differently, or settle on the terrace with a single glass and let the evening stretch. Exactly the kind of easy ambition Birmingham's dining scene does so well now.
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Arch 13 at Connolly's
Restaurant · 220 Livery St, Birmingham B3 1EU
Arch 13 is the wine-bar arm of Connolly's, a family-owned Birmingham importer whose history of shipping wine into the city stretches back to the late 1800s. On Livery Street, it doubles as bar and bottle shop, and the leaning is clear: organic and biodynamic producers, off-the-beaten-track finds, wines with a story behind them. British cheeses and meats plus a range of small plates keep the focus where it belongs. The by-the-glass list sits in the 20-to-40 range — enough breadth to wander without losing the thread — and because everything arrives through the family's own importing, the pours often feature bottles you won't meet elsewhere in the city. A quietly essential fixture of Birmingham's wine landscape.
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Loki Wine, Edgbaston
Restaurant · 10 Greenfield Cres, Birmingham B15 3AU
Loki's Edgbaston outpost brings Birmingham's most awarded independent wine merchant to Greenfield Crescent, trading city-centre bustle for a relaxed neighbourhood pace. The formula is the one that made the name: over 600 wines from more than 20 countries, shelves running from Barolo, Burgundy and Rioja to the Jura, Grosses Gewächs Riesling and pét-nat, and a team happy to steer you towards a post-work glass, a date-night bottle or an expert-led tasting. By the glass, expect a rotating 20 to 40 wines — a manageable window onto that globe-spanning stock. For Edgbaston locals it means world-class drinking without the trip into town, and it says plenty about how far Birmingham's wine culture now reaches beyond the centre.
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Opheem
Restaurant · 65 Summer Row, Birmingham B3 1JJ
Opheem opened on Summer Row in 2018 as Aktar Islam's first solo restaurant, and within five years it held two Michelin stars — recognition for a kitchen exploring Indian flavours through heritage and personal experience. Wine is treated as part of the discovery. The list is built for pairing, with aromatic whites — Riesling above all — chosen to carry spice and perfume, and plenty of off-the-beaten-track bottles that reward putting yourself in the sommelier's hands. A by-the-glass selection of 20 to 40 wines keeps the pairing route flexible across the arc of a tasting menu. The experience is centred on interaction and exceptional flavour, and the drinking rises to meet it. Few restaurants make a stronger case for Birmingham as a serious wine city.
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The Wilderness
Restaurant · 27 Warstone Ln, Birmingham B18 6JQ
Rock and roll fine dining is The Wilderness's own billing, and the Jewellery Quarter restaurant lives up to it: provocative, playful tasting menus served in a restored factory on Warstone Lane, soundtracked by rock, punk and heavy metal. The wine matches the attitude. Between 20 and 40 pours by the glass give the adventurous plenty of rope — orange wines, Alsace and German Riesling, cool-climate finds and English sparkling — while Barolo, Bordeaux and Burgundy hold the line for traditionalists who wandered in. Alex Claridge's come-as-you-are, stay-weird ethos extends to the list: nothing is poured to impress a critic, everything to provoke a reaction. In Birmingham's increasingly confident wine scene, this is its loudest and most entertaining corner.
View Full DetailsWine by the glass turns a single evening into a tasting flight, and the wine bars in Birmingham above show how far a thoughtful by-the-glass programme can travel — from grower Champagne to bio-dynamic reds. Use the map to plan a crawl by neighbourhood, and open each venue for opening hours, the current pour list, and booking details.
The Coravin Guide reviews each venue independently, focusing on the ambition and depth of what they pour by the glass. No venue pays to be included.