Rose Villa Tavern, Birmingham - pub details
Address: 172 Warstone Lane, Jewellery Quarter, Birmingham, West Midlands, B18 6JW [map] [gmap]
Tel: 0871 951 1000 (ref 34347) - calls cost 10p per minute plus network extras
Jewellery Quarter (0.3 miles), Birmingham Snow Hill (0.7 miles), Birmingham New Street (1 mile)
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> Current user rating: 5.0/10 (rated by 21 users)
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user reviews of Rose Villa Tavern, Birmingham
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| A fine old pub with nice stained glass windows and a wonderful interior with three separate rooms, each with beautiful tiling. 4 ales were on today - Brakspear Bitter, Wasworth 6X, Sharps Doom Bar & Oakham Citra. There are no real cider. Although Stowford Press is an adequate subsititute. I don't remember any music. So the atmosphere was quite soothing. There's also a good range of spirits and a few cocktails advertised. Would give this place another go. But the ale range was fairly bog standard. blue_scrumpy - 14 Jan 2012 22:17 |
| I like the renovation, staff fine, wi-fi didn't work, beer (Thornbridge Sequoia and Lord Marples) far too cold. Richard49 - 1 Jan 2012 13:47 |
| Visited this pub yesterday (29 Dec 11) and had an excellent pint of Thornbridge Lord Marples, chilled and effervescaent as a properly kept cask ale should be. The people next to me were drinking Thornbridge Sequoia which looked super too. First time in this pub - a real cracker - stained glass windows - airy, high ceilings, but with plenty of little alcoves if you want something more cosy. Recommended. john8pr - 30 Dec 2011 18:02 |
| When they announced that the Rose Villa Tavern was having a refurbishment, and changing hands, we had great expectations!! Especially as myself and a number of friends (who live in and around the JQ) frequently enjoy it's sister venues Victoria and the Jekyll and Hyde. I didn't know that you could still get a drink in Birmingham where after asking for a top-up, the bar girl uses her finger to wipe the top of the glass!... the last time I experienced that was at my uni bar in 1996, and the beer was more like 99p a pint rather than over £3. Poor..... very poor.... The owners of the Rose Villa seem to be pulling the bar in a direction it reluctantly wants to go. The interior does not have the warmth and welcoming aura of its sister venues and when competing with Lord Cliffden and The Lion, fails miserably. The fact that it gets busy I'm assuming is because of it's location. Seek a little harder my friends and you will be rewarded with venues 10 times better! I won't be visiting this venue again... Maybe the owners should consider dropping this venue before it completely ruins the groups perceived ethos. JuJuJuice - 2 Dec 2011 12:57 |
| Update of my review July 10th. I really wanted to like this pub as in theory it would make a good mini crawl, forming an arc between the two shades of Lions. So I was persuaded to return under the assurance that my last posting was harsh and that the teething problems had been ironed out. Well I managed to get served, but not in turn, and for the princely sum of £3.10 I was treated to a freezing, on the turn pint of 3.4 Brakspear. All this to a pounding soundtrack of a synthetic salsoul version of Sunshine of Your Love on the speakers we sat under. I think CatherineElizabeth's succinct comment just about sums it up, and as the Rose Villa was pretty well populated it does indeed seem this is the sort of standard Jewellery Quarter residents are eager to embrace for their pubs. I hope they'll be very happy with each other, but I'll keep out of their way. ILooklikeme - 27 Nov 2011 10:04 |
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