Top 5 Menus of Birmingham Restaurant Festival 2026

Top 5 Menus of Birmingham Restaurant Festival 2026

We are thrilled to announce the winners of this year’s public vote.

We asked you to help us crown the top 5 menus of Birmingham Restaurant Festival 2026 and over the last week, festivalgoers have been busy voting! We asked voters to consider lots of different factors including:

• Flavour: Did each dish on the menu taste great?

• Presentation: Was each dish well presented, did the food look appealing?

• Value for money: Was the menu great value for money in the context of what it would normally cost to dine at that restaurant?

In addition to thinking about the menu itself, we asked voters to consider their overall enjoyment of the dining experience! Was the service fantastic? Did they enjoy the ambience of the restaurant?

The votes have now been counted, so without further ado, here is the 2026 Top 5:

NUMBER 1:
The Wilderness

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PART I

Kohlrabi – Cucumber – Apple – Wild Mint
Duck Liver – Crab – Grilled Red Pepper
Grilled Potato – Allotment Herbs – Trout Roe

PART II

Ajo Blanco – Beetroot – Smoked Eel – Green Chilli
Smoked Chalk Stream Trout – Pigeon Sauce – Maitake – Red Prawn
French Quail – Vin Jaune – Sesame Dashi – Grilled Apricot – Cauliflower

PART III

Gooseberry Tart – Furikake – Pistachio
Petit Four

NUMBER 2:
Samo Bistro

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NUMBER 3:
670 Grams

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Our Daily Bread
Milk loaf, herb butter, Digbeth honey

Savoury Miso Custard
Truffle chicken sauce, pea, pickled Yorkshire rhubarb

BBQ Jersey Royal
Seaweed condiment, smoked eel jersey cream

Cornish Cod
Koji onion fondue, lacto fermented white asparagus, elderflower ponzu

English Wagyu Fillet
Gordal olive, shiso, roasted bone sauce

Toasted Rice
Manor Farm strawberry, pandan & elderflower jelly

‘Treats from the kitchen’

NUMBER 4:
Restaurant Folium

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NUMBER 5:
Adam’s

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Bluefin Tuna, Oyster & Finger Lime

Roasted Lamb Dinner with Mint

Bovril Brioche Sourdough
Marmite and cultured butter

Cheese & Onion
Perl wen and truffle

Cornish Mackerel
Gooseberry, fennel, lovage

Mushroom Agnolotti
Leek, comté, truffle

Middle White Pork
Scottish girolle, sweetcorn, chorizo

Apricot
Fig leaf, meringue, almond

We also wanted to draw out which were the absolute showstoppers when it came to specific dishes and there were five dishes that you guys wrote home about the most.

Dunwood Chargrilled Bavette
Vecchia Romagna sauce

BY VIENI

Chicken Liver Parfait
with burnt onion

BY RESTAURANT FOLIUM

Chicken Ruby
Tender chicken in a rich, silky makhani sauce. A good and proper curry redolent with spice and flavour

BY DISHOOM

Momo
Authentic Nepalese street food, stuffed with minced vegetables OR chicken with spicy tomato chutney

BY BHANCHA

Tonkotsu Pork Ramen
Shoyu tonkotsu pork broth, 12hr chashu pork belly, Tokyo noodles, smoked beansprouts, half ajitama egg, scallions, pickled ginger, burnt ginger oil, smoked bacon tare

BY MANEKI RAMEN

A huge congratulations to this year’s top 5 and a huge thank you both to everyone who voted and to everyone at our partner restaurants for their hard work and passion throughout BFR2026.

1—31 Aug 2027

A month of great value menus and dining experiences at restaurants across the city.

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1—31 Aug 2027

A month of great value menus and dining experiences at restaurants across the city. #birminghamrestaurantfestival