The 7 Best Things to do at The Cube

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Suspend reality (and yourself)

We’re yet to find a place more comforting than the relaxation pods at The Club & Spa. Available as part of any package or spa day, dive in, cocoon yourself in cushions and make sure you’ve got precisely nowhere for a few hours following – getting out of those little havens of happy is not to be undertaken speedily. Packages, treatments and happenings involving mud this way.

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Drink these

Bun & Bowl serves lots of things in buns and in bowls – but for us – it’s all about the one thing. Complete with Absolut Blue, Tabasco, Worcester sauce and thick, luxuriant tomato juice, the punchy little numbers are served up in a chilled, celery-salt rimmed glass. Cue whole grilled prawn. *And the crowd goes wild*. The Bloody Mary shot is not on the menu, but tell them we sent you and good things will follow.

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Eat 16 different types of meat

Get some smoky Brazilian churrascaria flavour, minus the 5,767 mile journey at Rodizio Rico. Quite literally, all the meat you can eat is served to your table by a team of knife-wielding Passadors. Be sure to hold out for some picanha (rump cap steak) and leave space for the hot and cold sides and salads, as well as the dessert trolley. Because everything tastes better when served directly to you from a trolley.

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Find the lovely people

Locate all seven of artist Temper’s The Lovely People. The life size bronze casts – all with hearts for heads – measure people on the size of their compassion, bravery and all round loveliness, rather than physical appearance. An insider tip if you’re missing the final member of the Temper family: look up.

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Live there

A few apartments remain available for reservation on The Cube’s residential floors. As standard, the properties come with Poggenpohl kitchens, Bosch appliances and infrared controlled mood lighting. You can probably draw your own conclusions about the views. There’s a concierge and regularly rotating deals available to residents. And purchase of a new abode will make you do precisely 63.2% better with girls. Probably.

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Sit here

Here being Geisha. A cocktail bar and late night venue peddling house, r’n’b and some of the most ambitious outfits on the Birmingham weekend circuit. Open until midnight in the week and until closer to 3am on a Friday and Saturday, indoor sparklers are pretty much de rigueur at Geisha, such is their quantity.

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Afternoon tea with a view

Choose from Brum’s best balcony or the dedicated Laurent Perrier champagne bar for afternoon tea at Marco Pierre White, which – if you’ve somehow missed it – sits on the twenty-fifth floor of The Cube. On top of the required finger sandwiches, expect a daily changing selection of cakes and dessert (macaroons being a particular favourite from the MPW kitchens) and pick from LP brut or brut rose. Offers available until mid-March.