There are restaurants. And then there are the ones that have quietly helped redefine a city. This week, we're giving one of you the chance to experience the latter - a five-course tasting menu for two at Adam's, the Michelin-starred restaurant tucked just off Colmore Row that has spent more than a decade making the case for Birmingham as a serious food city. (Spoiler: the case has been thoroughly made.) Here's everything you need to know, plus why this giveaway is really a story about the place Birmingham has become.

The prize: dinner for two at Adam's

Five courses. Two seats. One unforgettable evening at one of Birmingham's most celebrated restaurants. To enter:
  • Follow @millerroseproperty and @restaurantadams on Instagram
  • Like the giveaway post
  • Tag the person you'd bring with you in the comments
  • Bonus entry: share the post to your story and tag us
Entries close on Thursday 18th May. The winner will be announced shortly after.

Inside Adam's

Adam's sits inside New Oxford House on Waterloo Street, on the edge of the Colmore Business District. From the outside, it's understated - almost easy to miss. Inside, it's a different story: art deco lines, a smart cocktail bar, a plush dining room, and a kitchen run by chef-patron Adam Stokes alongside his wife Natasha, who leads front of house. Stokes earned his first Michelin star at Glenapp Castle in Scotland before his 30th birthday. When he and Natasha opened Adam's as a Birmingham pop-up in 2013, the star followed within six months. The restaurant has held it every year since - alongside three AA Rosettes and a place in the Good Food Guide's top tier. The cooking is modern British, built around seasonal produce and the kind of confidence that only comes from doing something well for a long time. Familiar dishes arrive looking like nothing you've seen before, with primary flavours left clean and uncrowded. There's a five-course tasting menu, longer tasters at lunch and dinner, and a chef's table downstairs that overlooks the kitchen. It is, quite simply, one of the best meals you can eat in this city.

Birmingham's food story is bigger than ever

Adam's is part of a much wider shift. Birmingham now holds more Michelin stars than any UK city outside London. Condé Nast Traveller named it the most exciting food destination in the country for 2025. And in early 2024, Opheem became the first Indian restaurant outside London to earn two stars - a moment that arguably said as much about the city as it did about the kitchen. And that's just the top end. Across Birmingham, the independent scene is doing something genuinely interesting. Harborne has quietly become one of the most exciting neighbourhoods to eat in the UK. Stirchley is full of small, sharp, owner-run kitchens that wouldn't be out of place in east London. Digbeth is the city's creative engine, with everything from Vietnamese to Neapolitan pizza to live-fire cooking. And Society Birmingham, the new 9,000 sq ft food hall at One Colmore Square, has brought five independent kitchens under one roof a stone's throw from Adam's front door. The numbers back it up. Birmingham's restaurant count has grown by around 86% in just over a decade - at a time when the national trend has moved in the opposite direction.

Why this matters (and yes, this is a property blog)

This isn't just about where to eat on a Friday night. It's about what kind of city Birmingham is becoming. For a long time, Birmingham was a place people came to work. Train in, sit in a meeting room off Colmore Row, train back out. That story is changing - fast. The food scene is part of it, but so are the new neighbourhoods, the canal-side developments, the green space, the cultural programming, and the simple fact that the city now offers something to do at the end of the working day that isn't a chain pub on the way to New Street. The cities people choose to live in are the ones that give them a reason to stay after 6pm. Birmingham, increasingly, is one of them. And the fact that you can walk from your front door to a Michelin-starred dining room on a Tuesday evening is, quite genuinely, part of why.

Don't miss your chance

Adam's. Two of you. Five courses. Head over to Instagram, follow the steps above, and tag the person you'd take with you. Entries close Thursday 18th May. Good luck - and we'll see you at the table. For full T&Cs, click here.