Bars and restaurants across the region closed their doors to customers in the first few months of the yearWingers High Street, Harborne.

It’s been a challenging year so far for Birmingham’s hospitality businesses.

As we ticked over into a new financial year, restaurants have been open about the challenges they face, with many adapting to accommodate rising business costs.

Others have closed completely, though not all due to cost pressures.

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In this feature, we’re taking a look at the restaurants and bars that Birmingham lost so far in 2025, along with the reasons given for the closures.

You’ll find there are links in each one, so you can click through for the full story, if you’d like more information.

Meanwhile, you can click here to learn how one business is adjusting its opening hours to help alleviate the strain, and the story of another who is putting prices up – plus how the community reacted to the news.

Even Birmingham’s elite restaurants, like Michelin Star spot Simpsons, are adjusting menus to adapt to the fact Brummies just don’t always have the money to splash out on expensive meals – read about how they’ve dropped their prices here.

In the meantime, here’s that list of closures:

Tapas Revolution

Tapas Revolution closed in Grand Central back in January, months after getting a ‘zero’ food hygiene rating.

It remains closed to this day, with no sign of a new occupier.

Kilo Ziro

Digbeth bar Kilo Ziro shut in February for an altogether happier reason.

The bosses, Jeanette Wong and Tom Pell, said they were shutting down to focus on their young family after welcoming a new baby.

The space was quickly snapped up by Sophy, a female-operated bar that is working to provide a safe space for women in particular.

Roadhouse Diner

Another February closure, Roadhouse Diner shut up shop over in Tyseley.

The burger and balti spot had only been operating for a year and it cited ‘personal’ reasons for shutting.

Bosses did say at the time that it might be back in the future but there have been no updates as yet.

Bistrot Pierre

In early March, Bistrot Pierre confirmed it had closed eight restaurants across the country.

That included the Gas Street branch in birmingham-city-centre>Birmingham city centre and the newly-rebranded Pierre’s café bar in Sutton Coldfield‘s Mulberry Walk development, in Mere Green.

Bodega Cantina

After 14 years in Birmingham city centre, Bodega Cantina closed down on Bennetts Hill in March.

The spot, which served food inspired by North and South America, blamed the cost of living crisis as one of the reasons it could no longer continue to operate.

The unit remains empty on Bennetts Hill.

Morrisons Cafe

Later in March, just after Stirchley residents ran McDonald’s out of the neighbourhood, another chain closed in the trendy ‘independent republic’.

The Morrisons Cafe, set within the supermarket, is now blocked off and closed to customers.

The change came as part of a series of closures across Morrisons stores. Stirchley Morrisons will also lose its flower shop.

Chai Ra

A cafe on Kings Heath High Street closed down after six years at the end of March.

Chai Ra coffee host posted a sign in the window to say ‘we’ll be back soon’ though the status changed to ‘permanently closed’ online.

Later, a note from the landlord suggested the lease had been forfeited.

Wingers Taproom

Last month it was revealed that Wingers Taproom was up for sale.

The old Bun and Barrel restaurant in Harborne became a branch of the chicken chain after ‘Birmingham’s best burger bar’ shut down.

Now its future is unknown.

Ask Italian

Situated on that big old prominent unit on the corner of New Street and Bennetts Hill, Ask Italian has been a major restaurant feature of one of our busiest streets for more than 10 years.

It closed only this week, with very little in the way of explanation.

The current rumours swirling are that another restaurant will take over the space – here’s everything we know about that so far.