Actress & Bishop, Birmingham

Smart bar just off St. Pauls square. We were the first customers in just after 12 - it is more of a night time place with regular live music etc.. Only Doom Bar on the beer front so we opted for a quick Madri and moved on.

Official site of Actress & Bishop - theactressandbishop.co.uk

Official site of Actress & Bishop - theactressandbishop.co.uk

No cask - some outdoor seating on the pavement. A downstairs modern bar, with some nice chesterfields. An upstairs rooms for bands.

The actress and the bishop went to this pub... and that's about as decent as this place gets. 3 handpumps dispensing just 1 which had Doom Bore. An upstairs bit seemed to be available. Wooden floored with a bit that looks like its for bands. A staircase is to your left as you enter with crap rubbish like Adele being blasted out upstairs. And this was a Thursday afternoon.

Large music pub, with sparse seating and rustic wood decor. Small stage to one side, with more space upstairs (not visited). Continental-style decking seating area out on the pavement at the front. Two of three handpumps had clips, but the Pedigree went off as it was being poured so just over-cold Doom Bar available.

Once inside there is a large oblong shaped room with the bar on the left side,the large main drinking area was bare boarded and seemed pretty bare with hardly any tables or chairs,there were a couple of tables and bucket chairs and one tall table with low backed stools,there was a small raised area to the right which had a dj rig on it. There was only one real ale on the bar which was Pedigree,this was decent enough. The bar was almost empty on my early evening visit. I thought this was a pretty poor bar compared to the other bars i went in on my tour of Hockley. Pub visited 17/8/2013