Bournville Café

You'll find yourself on Bournville Lane in Stirchley, surrounded by the kind of residential calm that makes you wonder why you don't venture out this way more often. Bournville Café is the sort of place where regulars outnumber tourists (there aren't many tourists), and the staff know what you're having before you order. The coffee's properly pulled—none of that burnt espresso nonsense—and the breakfast menu reads like someone actually cooked it rather than assembled it from a supplier's catalogue. Expect straightforward, satisfying food at prices that won't make you wince. It's got that rare quality of feeling genuinely local rather than performatively so.