{"id":32728,"date":"2025-04-19T10:45:23","date_gmt":"2025-04-19T10:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/32728\/"},"modified":"2025-04-19T10:45:23","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T10:45:23","slug":"the-glass-blower-puts-record-straight-about-black-country-bar-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/32728\/","title":{"rendered":"The Glass Blower &#8216;puts record straight&#8217; about Black Country bar plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new microbar planned to open in October last year but has faced a number of delays<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/1_Screenshot-2025-04-14-135228.jpg\" alt=\"The Glass Blower is 'working hard' to get the coffee shop &amp; microbar 'open as soon as possible'\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>The Glass Blower is &#8216;working hard&#8217; to get the coffee shop &amp; microbar &#8216;open as soon as possible'(Image: Google Street View)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A Black Country bar which planned to open last year shared an update and said it has &#8216;come across some obstacles&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">In July, The Glass Blower announced it would move in to the former Memory Lane Antiques shop on Brettell Lane, Stourbridge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The microbar and coffee lounge aimed to be open by October, but a number of &#8216;obstacles&#8217; has led to a further delay.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">Read More: <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/whats-on\/food-drink-news\/icing-cake-iconic-birmingham-pub-31394876\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/strong><a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/whats-on\/food-drink-news\/icing-cake-iconic-birmingham-pub-31394876\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">&#8216;Icing on the cake&#8217; as iconic Birmingham pub reopens<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The eventual opening will be a dream come true for Mitchell Bolton who dreamed of owning his own microbrewery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Outside of The Glass Blower, Mitchell is the landlord at the Hare &amp; Hounds Inn in <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/all-about\/stourbridge\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Stourbridge<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">On social media, The Glass Blower provided a fresh update this week and addressed why the bar has yet to open.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The Glass Blower posted: &#8220;Morning you beautiful lot. I just wanted to address a few things as we&#8217;ve recently received a few messages.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;We are working extremely hard to get The Glass Blower open as soon as possible, but like any major project, you come across obstacles along the way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;We&#8217;ve encountered quite a few as you can appreciate with a extremely old building.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;The main focus as of late has been to get the upstairs ready for some additional rental income and that is now nearly finished.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;With walls coming down in the bar, we&#8217;ve obviously had to go through the right channels as we don&#8217;t want any issues once open.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;My motto, get it right the first time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;But to set the record straight, we&#8217;re still here and we&#8217;re working hard. No date set in stone yet unfortunately.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The new microbar planned to open in October last year but has faced a number of delaysThe Glass&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32729,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[9163,748,393,4884,257,16823,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-32728","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-black-country","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-london","13":"tag-stourbridge","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114364227567941540","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32728","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=32728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}