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We've compiled the best of the best in Birmingham - browse our top choices for the top things to see or do during your stay.
This huge dual complex consists of the Bullring, built on the site of a medieval marketplace, and Grand Central, based in Birmingham New Street Station; together they offer over 200 stores, with many familiar names, at different price points. Don’t miss the stunningly curved architecture of Selfridge’s and its awesome food hall.
In the heart of the Jewellery Quarter, this shop sells a range of interesting silver jewelry and gifts. It also currently stocks its wares in sales outlets at Highgrove (King Charles’s private home) and royal palaces.
This Victorian shopping center near Snow Hill Station is a nice respite from the city’s chain stores. Built with a similar design as Galleria Vittorio Emanuele in Milan, it’s a more elegant place to shop than most. Peruse the charming boutiques and specialist shops, and you may end up going back with a couture hat, some Scottish whisky, or even a cigar or two.
Once a Royal Mail sorting office, the Mailbox is now filled with trendy shops and designer outlets such as Harvey Nichols and Savile Row tailor Gieves & Hawkes, as well as some fine restaurants.
An entertaining and quirky treasure trove, St. Paul’s Gallery specializes in hand-signed fine-art prints of album covers, past and present. It also carries fine art, limited-edition photographs, and different kinds of prints.
