Posts Tagged ‘ Revolution ’

Danny Smith was writing lots of guides to Brum for the Itchy guide, last year. It never happened, so we present his guide to the past in a number of parts (see all the parts): The Rectory Bar and Restaurant 50-54 St Paul’s Square, The Jewellery Quarter, Birmingham, B3 1QS +44 (0)121 605 1001 “Can we have some bread while we decide?” “We don’t do bread” “You don’t do bread” Confused “No?” walks away,10 minutes later “Yeah we do have bread but you have to pay for it” Fixed Dinner – £17 (2 courses) to £20 (3 courses) Mon – Fri, 12pm–2.30pm, 5pm–10pm; Sat, 12pm–10pm; Sun, 1pm – 8pm Revolution Vodka bar Five Ways Broad Street Birmingham B1 2HF Tel: 0121 665 6508 Fax: 0121 665 6507 When Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels sat down in the 19th century and thrashed out The Communist Manifesto as a way of inspiring future generations I’m willing to bet neither of them imaged that nearly 200 hundred years later what they have actually inspired was a series of failed totalitarian regimes and a chain of vodka bars, Where the proletariat go after a hard week of work and be sick on each other. It’s a shame that this place is generally full of the usual Broad...

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