The neighbourhood venue is known for its excellent ales, but Cob Week will see big baps with the beers
Home made pork pies and scotch eggs are being served alongside top cobs(Image: Cork and Cage)
A neighbourhood bar known as being one of the very best in Birmingham is dedicating an entire week to one of the region’s most beloved foods: Cobs.
Cork and Cage, on Pershore Road in Stirchley, has launched Christmas Cob Week this week, celebrating the ‘unfussy’ boozer morsel.
On Wednesday, December 17 and Thursday, December 18, Cork and Cage is serving up traditional big cobs alongside its range of beers.
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It’s also hosting Kings Heath restaurant Perro on Tuesday, December 16 for a sold-out cob celebration.
The employee-owned venue is already one of the most underrated foodie destinations in a neighbourhood known for its high quality, serving clever plates a couple of times a week alongside a specially-curated menu of beers and ales.
On Wednesday and Thursdays this week the cob options are cheese and onion, prawn cocktail, rare beef with tomato, dripping and horseradish and roast pork with chicken liver stuffing and gravy, all priced at £5 or less.
Then there’s home made scotch eggs, pork pies and ‘chicken in a basket’ on the menu, described as ‘a highly niche regional classic which is actually just a pickled egg in a packet of ready salted crisps’.
Cork and Cage in Stirchley(Image: Darren Quinton/Birmingham Live)
Meanwhile, those lucky enough to get a spot in the Perro collaboration evening on Tuesday can choose from options like ‘The Black Country’, filled with roast pork, stuffing, apple sauce and crackling’ and the ‘Fish Finger’, with battered cod, guandilla and pickle tartare, lettuce, hot sauce and ‘s**t cheese’.
Co-owner Richard Sadler said that Cob Weeks – which Cork and Cage runs throughout the year – are a ‘love letter’ to traditional boozers.
“Cob Week is our love letter to the pubs we grew up in around Wolverhampton and the Black Country,” he said.
“They are brilliant because they are unfussy, excellent value and provide way more satisfaction than they have any right to.
“Nothing can turn a bad day around quite like a good pint and a cob in a cosy corner of your favourite boozer.”
Cork and Cage can be found at 1373 Pershore Road, Birmingham, B30 2JR.