Talk about going from the sublime to the ridiculous, we moved from a ghastly pub (The Jewellers Arms) to a gastro pub, The Drop Forge. The variety of different pubs in The Jewellery Quarter is what makes it, in my view, the best place to go drinking in Brum and this tastefully converted industrial workshop is definitely one of the areas better pubs, okay it's a bit more up market aka pricier but it's well worth it. They pride themselves on the quality of their beer and, although it was a November afternoon my pint of Banks's Sunbeam made me think of the summer.....aaah, warm days, the cricket, long nights, women wearing very little. Ooops, have I given away too much?!!
We were out on a pub crawl of the Jewellery Quarter with Shelley's brother Craig and sister in law Maria. Craig had suggested we eat two pubs before we got to The Drop Forge and the contrast between the menu at previous pub The Jewellers Arms (a pub that is literally over the road) and The Drop Forge could not have been greater. Cottage pie was the sole item on the menu at The Jewellers Arms, whereas there was a veritable smorgasbord of delights of The Drop Forge though maybe by this stage (in basic terms we'd had a few !!) it was wasted on us, I mean who wants fillet of cod, confit fennel, crab beignet, pak choi and parsnip puree after a belly full of beer?!!
I left the place as quickly as my confit duck legs (another item off the menu) would take me, stopping for a quick photo outside..
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