New Launch Cheat Sheet

If you can keep up with the openings in this here town, give yourself a gold star. For everyone else, here's how the rest of your year looks in launches — we've got bao, a mahousive taproom and Yorkshire pudding wraps comin' atcha, like Cleopatra.

SEPTEMBER

The Mill: Opens September 28. A music venue with mezzanine warehouse, open-top roof terrace and plenty of late-night happenings. Live art forms part of their October 3 club night. More
Finders Keepers: Though technically open, a lot is being added to the current bar-only setup at this Digbo venue. The kitchen, cellar space and courtyard will open, with an emphasis on live music, performance arts and art art. Natural vin by Wine Freedom also incoming. More 

OCTOBER

Tiger Bites Pig: It's looking like an October 1st (ish) opening, with some soft launchy sort of stuff on the DL before that. Bao, bowls and beers are what The Church alumni are serving, and we're doing internal back-flips over their opening menu. Braised short rib, shiitake, chilli and cured egg yolk bao anyone? More
The Pint Shop: Opens at 5pm on October 10 after a week of (yes, fully booked) soft launching. There'll be 26 lines of beer, over 100 gins and a huge game in kebabs cooked over charcoal. More
Pig & Apple: Opening in the second half of the month in Grand Central. A local team banging out Yorkshire pudding wraps, proper pork sandwiches and basically everything your breakfast and lunch didn't know it needed yet. More

NOVEMBER

Nocturnal Animals: From the team behind The Wilderness, bookings go live on October 1, for reservations from November 7. Expect a stellar team, plucked from bars in London, Leicester, Nottingham and The Church, plus a very different sort of cocktail menu. There'll be nine pages, each a colour representing one flavour, available three ways. More
Legna: On the site of Mi Amore on Summer Row, the second permanent restaurant in Aktar Islam's arsenal is Italiano, and opening proper in November (though don't be surprised to see soft launch activity before that). The main menu will focus on eight starters and eight mains, with two regularly changing varieties of homemade pasta, utilising seasonal produce. And the early signs are this place is going to look totally beaut. How the exterior will look, pictured top. More

BREWERIES 

Attic Brew Co: Mere metres from the less and less dry Bournville, a sizeable tap house and brewery is coming together, off Mary Vale Road. Pals Oli and Sam have moved on from brewing in buckets, to attics (can you guess where the name for the brewery came from) to their own gaff, focussing on wheat beers, Belgians and Saisons. The tap room will initially be open Fridays and Saturdays with rotating street food vendors planned on dinns. Did somebody say Stirchley Beer Mile? More
Glass House Beer Co: Somebody *did* say Stirchley Beer Mile. Glass House Beer Co is already making the brown, bubbly stuff. They'll also have a tap room. And they're but a 0.4 mile walk from Attic Brew Co. We measured it. More