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The Ruin, Birmingham
Digbeth
Postal town: Birmingham
B5 5SR
Reviews (Current Rating Average: 6½ of 10) see review guidelines
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Ian Mapp left this review about The Ruin
Birmingham's interesting attempt at Budapest Ruin Bar. Gets the model down to a tee - all mismatched distressed furniture and old technology nailed to the walls.
Quirky - lovely staff - and a decent pint of Staropramen.
On 13th September 2021
- rating: 7
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Gill Smith left this review about The Ruin
Called in on 4.1.20 to see what real ales were on in this quirky looking corner pub, and chose a local Dig Brew beer which was fine.
On 8th August 2021
- rating: 6
[User has posted 1339 recommendations about 1222 pubs]
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Danny O'Revey left this review about The Ruin
Bit hidden away, but close to the Digbeth Brewery Tap, a corner pub with a few different areas despite being small. Homemade DJ booth, there is an outside space and the back room has various distressed former computers on the walls. A distressed look!
Different and quirky, there are 4 real ales
On 6th December 2017
- rating: 7
[User has posted 1542 recommendations about 1519 pubs]
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Just a quick pint, then I'm off left this review about The Ruin
Looks like a really old-school corner pub suited to a very rundown light industrial area, but the bar and side / rear rooms have been given a surprising, if notional, 'distressed' refresh. Better still, there are now four handpumps on the counter, offering Doom Bar, Oakham Citra and pair from Two Towers - Hockley Gold (£3.70) and Complete Muppetry. Probably still finding its feet, but its good to see a place like this back open again.
On 12th November 2017
- rating: 6
[User has posted 8679 recommendations about 8678 pubs]
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Mikee Evans left this review about Floodgate Tavern
Now back open and called The Ruin. Was in last night. Well worth a visit.
On 28th October 2017
- no rating submitted
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Danny O'Revey left this review about Floodgate Tavern
Closed and boarded up & signage taken away. Doesn't look to have been used for some time
On 6th May 2014
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Soup Dragon left this review about The Eagle
A terraced Victorian pub with a brown frontage and an upper in white render with large sash windows. It has been renamed several times; Horans, Floogate Tavern and with it’s re-opening after a year, now the Eagle.
The pub has three areas. You enter into a bar room with the bar in front, to the left. This room is in coffee, cream, wood panel, with a cream ceiling and a wood floor and a fireplace in the corner. Pictures of the Blues and old Brum adorn the walls. A small side room has a pool table in it and nearly enough room to play it. There is a lounge at the top of a few stairs; with coffee and cream walls, cream ceiling, red carpet floor and a grey chimney breast with a red brick fire. It also had photos of old Brum and was definitely quieter.
They serve cobs. There was a TV, which had the news on. The music was loud and charty. I had a ham cob. It was really nice. The service was fine and the clientele mainly younger based.
Beer; usual tap stuff with four taps, though only two were on; with Bombardier and ABC’s Heartlands Bitter. The bitter was ok. Spekky Hen and Doombar were to go on according to the bloke behind the bar.
I was happy enough to have visited – it was just a bit loud. I am sure I will pop back.
On 16th November 2011
- no rating submitted
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General Staal left this review about The Eagle
A back street boozer in Digbeth, clearly a Birmingham City FC pub, given that the barman was wearing a Blues shirt.
The Eagle is a Victorian/Edwardian pub. The 'extensive refurbishment' seems to be a paint job. The pub is tidy, but clearly 'lived in'.
There are three rooms, the rectangular bar, which had most of the customers in. Then up a step to the right of the counter is another small room with a pool/snooker table and a couple of fruit machines in it. Continuing on and round to the right is the lounge, effectively behind the bar. The music in the bar was a little loud, so we settled in the lounge.
Beer wise, there are the usual suspects. Alewise, there were four taps. Two were off and two were on. They were serving Aston Brewery Bitter and Pedigree. We had the Aston Bitter. Two of us enjoyed the Bitter, one of us thought it a little too warm. I actually really liked it.
They were serving ham or cheese cobs behind the bar. I had a ham cob. It was really nice.
I personally quite liked this pub. Might be a bit raucous on a match day, but I would definitely come back for another pint.
On 10th September 2011
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General Staal left this review about Horans Tavern
Refurbished and reopened as the Eagle and serving real ales.
On 4th September 2011
- no rating submitted
[User has posted 142 recommendations about 125 pubs]