{"id":1004966,"date":"2026-06-04T13:56:59","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T13:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1004966\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T13:56:59","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T13:56:59","slug":"secret-birmingham-restaurant-garden-that-makes-you-forget-youre-in-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1004966\/","title":{"rendered":"Secret Birmingham restaurant garden that ‘makes you forget you’re in the UK’"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you want to escape the city but a holiday to Greece isn’t in your budget this side of the school holidays, there’s an option a 12 minute train ride away worth considering.<\/p>\n

Greek Aura on Alcester Road in Moseley<\/a> is a pretty new addition to the neighbourhood, opening a short walk<\/a> from the new Moseley Village train station last September.<\/p>\n

Now the family-run independent is preparing for its first summer by opening a Greek garden for diners that reviewers say ‘makes you forget you’re in the UK’.<\/p>\n

Read more: New Birmingham restaurant to open – and it’ll have one of the best views in the city<\/a> <\/b><\/p>\n

While dining on meze, souvlaki, moussaka and dolmades, you can soak in the Birmingham<\/a> sun and sup Greek wines and beers like you’re on holiday.<\/p>\n

To continue tradition, Moza Cela – mum to owner Admir ‘Miri’ Cela – is leading the kitchen with their family recipes.<\/p>\n

Miri said: “Opening this garden feels like bringing a piece of the Greek islands to Birmingham.<\/p>\n

“In Greece, we say ‘philoxenia’ – it means love of strangers. But here at Greek Aura, there are no strangers.<\/p>\n

“The moment you walk through our doors, you’re family.<\/p>\n

“This garden is our gift to Moseley; a place where the community can gather, celebrate and experience the true spirit of Greece under the stars.”<\/p>\n

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The Cela family in the ‘gift to Moseley’ garden (L-R) Admir ‘Miri’, Deti, head chef Moza and Ola -Credit:Greek Aura<\/p>\n

As well as evening dining, Greek Aura serves breakfast from 9am until midday, every day.<\/p>\n

Dinner is served from midday until 11pm.<\/p>\n

Reviewing the restaurant on Google and contributing to its near-perfect 4.8 star rating, Ilir Pergjoka wrote: “Went for morning coffee and breakfast, I loved their new garden.<\/p>\n

“Makes you forget that you’re in UK! Highly recommend, will come back for sure!”<\/p>\n

Uendy Uesla added: “I came here a couple of times, but with garden opening I’m impressed!<\/p>\n

“They have put so much effort in it and you can tell. A true family business, glad that we have them in Moseley!”<\/p>\n

You can find Greek Aura at 112 Alcester Road, Moseley, B13 8EF. <\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you want to escape the city but a holiday to Greece isn’t in your budget this side…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1004967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,278579,16555,16,15],"class_list":["post-1004966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-birmingham","tag-birmingham","tag-britain","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-greek-garden","tag-moseley","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116692193400143422","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1004966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1004967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1004966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1004966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1004966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}