I always feel a little sorry for Bearwood (despite its European-style-cafe-bar), it sits a little uneasily between the Black Country and Birmingham, and I definitely feel sorry for Dexy’s Midnight Runners – who seem to slip down the cracks of music history despite being one of the most wonderfully constructed bands ever. Two reasons then, to mourn the closing of ‘The Little Nibble’ – the café on Bearwood High St – which is given a , ahem, ‘shout out’ in “This is What She’s Like” from Don’t Stand Me Down (the name-check even more wonderful when you consider the band were all Wall Street in look by that time). Independent cafés are being squeezed out by development and chains across the country, but it will be a shame if it is replaced by “mobile ‘phone shop, Poundland or ‘Amusement’ Arcade.” Photo snaffled from The Hearing Aid, where we first heard the sad news.
We like cafes here at BiNS, even if we rarely actually go into them, from Mr Egg to the Titanic Cafe to York Rd in Kings Heath (nice chips) – but none of these have their own blog. Rosa’s Cafe in Fox St (round by Millennium Point) does tho’. Double egg please.
Radio WM’s breakfast show are trying to find Brum’s best cafe. Phil Upton is sending a reporter out all week and then there’s yet another ‘pop idol’ type vote. Round here, leaving out Mr EGG (which surely qualifies for it’s own national yolk-based award), our favourite is “The Knife & Fork” on the Bristol Road. Also know as the Titanic Cafe: Photo by Matt Murtagh
