{"id":135808,"date":"2025-05-27T11:38:14","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T11:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/135808\/"},"modified":"2025-05-27T11:38:14","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T11:38:14","slug":"birmingham-city-centre-lunch-spot-with-unmatched-views-named-among-best-in-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/135808\/","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham city centre lunch spot with &#8216;unmatched views&#8217; named among best in the UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two Midlands restaurants featured in OpenTable&#8217;s top 100, one of them towering 24 floors above Birmingham city centre<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20230414_123438.jpg\" alt=\"The Tomate starter at Orelle\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Lunch with a view at Orella(Image: Kirsty Bosley)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A lavish restaurant that towers 100 metres over Birmingham city centre has been named among the best lunch spots in the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Birmingham<\/a> is crammed with great places for daytime meal &#8211; from charming old boozers serving hearty Sunday roasts to trendy cafes &#8211; but only one city venue made OpenTable&#8217;s 2025 list of the Top 100 Restaurants for Brunch and Lunch in the UK.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Orelle is the contemporary French restaurant that occupies the 24th floor of the 103 Colmore Row skyscraper.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Its floor-to-ceiling glass windows offer 360-degree views across the city.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">Read more:<\/strong> <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/whats-on\/food-drink-news\/fan-queues-27-hours-outside-31711576\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Fan queues for 27 hours outside new Birmingham restaurant<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Open for lunch and dinner, the glamorous restaurant and cocktail bar offers an a la carte menu of French-inspired dishes and grills, Sunday lunch and bottomless brunch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">There&#8217;s also an all-day caf\u00e9 located on the ground floor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Reviews from diners often mention the &#8216;unmatched&#8217; and &#8216;amazing&#8217; views and attentive service, with one customer describing the pork Sunday roast as &#8216;delicious and cooked to perfection&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20230414_120604.jpg\" alt=\"The view over towards south Birmingham from Orelle\" loading=\"lazy\"  \/>The view over towards south Birmingham from Orelle(Image: Kirsty Bosley)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Brunch options include pan-seared salmon, sirloin steak and French toast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Elsewhere in the Midlands, the Farmhouse Restaurant in Coventry was also featured in <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.opentable.co.uk\/c\/top-restaurants\/top-100-brunch-and-lunch\/\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">the top 100<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The flashy Asian steakhouse has garnered a reputation for its beautifully-presented meals and attentive service.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">OpenTable based its list on more than 850,000 reviews, taking into account diner ratings, the percentage of five-star reviews.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The qualified restaurants were then ranked based on their lunch and brunch reviews and Sunday lunch availability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two Midlands restaurants featured in OpenTable&#8217;s top 100, one of them towering 24 floors above Birmingham city centreLunch&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135809,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,983,10314,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-135808","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-birmingham-city-centre","10":"tag-birmingham-restaurants","11":"tag-britain","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114579603783240366","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135808","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=135808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}