New Street Eats: Birmingham Street Food Festival

New Street shuts down to traffic and fills instead with the smell of a dozen different cuisines at once — Caribbean jerk chicken next to Neapolitan pizza, bubble tea next to a proper Brummie bacon cob. It's the kind of street food market that works whether you've got twenty minutes between meetings or a whole afternoon to graze your way down the strip.

There's no ticket, no gate, no faff — you just turn up. Bring the kids, bring a friend for lunch, or make a proper evening of it with the live music that runs alongside the stalls each day.