McDonald's

You know exactly what you're getting when you pull into this Lea Road outpost at 3am after a night out in town. The fluorescent lights buzz overhead as you queue behind taxi drivers grabbing coffee between fares and hospital staff from New Cross picking up breakfast before their shifts. It's nothing fancy, but the chips are always hot and the ice cream machine actually works more often than not. The drive-thru moves at a decent clip, which matters when you're rushing to catch the last bus back to Tettenhall or Penn. Inside, the usual mix of families with screaming toddlers and teenagers spending their pocket money on McFlurries creates that familiar McDonald's atmosphere. It does what it says on the tin – reliable fast food that hits the spot when you need it most, whether that's 6am or midnight.