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  • Stephen C.7 reviews

    February 10, 2025

    10/10
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    Service and views are unbeatable.

  • Paul P.1 review

    February 2, 2025

    10/10

    Excellent customer service

  • Kate J.1 review

    January 31, 2025

    10/10
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    Superb! The place, the view, the staff and the food!! Really special venue. Well worth a visit!

  • Leandre M.1 review

    January 17, 2025

    10/10

    Great

  • Surinder C.1 review

    January 17, 2025

    10/10

    Very articulate service, communication & of course the food was lovely.

  • Jane M.6 reviews

    January 9, 2025

    10/10

    Lovely meal, perfect celebration for my daughters graduation

  • M Y.1 review

    December 30, 2024

    8.5/10

    good service and delicious food

  • joy b.1 review

    December 24, 2024

    10/10

    food, service and ambience

  • Stuart R.1 review

    December 17, 2024

    9.5/10

    The food and service were both impeccable

  • Patricia P.1 review

    December 12, 2024

    10/10

    Great venue. Good food and wine. Great vibe

  • Jacqueline D.1 review

    December 6, 2024

    10/10

    I visited ORELLE as a Christmas treat with my 2 friend’s, and we really enjoyed the whole experience.

  • Jon J.1 review

    November 29, 2024

    6.5/10

    Disappointed in the food probably not to my taste. Very expensive for what it was and limited menu choices. Overcharged on our bill for wine and charging for the mixed nuts at the bar seemed excessive. Atmosphere and decor both nice. The salad tomatoes were soft I would have thrown them out at home. Perhaps we just picked a poor night.

  • Adrian C.1 review

    November 24, 2024

    7/10

    Really good service maybe a bit too attentive because they were coming too often to our table to ensure all was fine. Excellent starter but the main course a bit disappointing. I had better Sunday roast at country pubs.

  • Marisa R.1 review

    November 20, 2024

    9.5/10

    delicious food and attentive service

  • Joan P.1 review

    November 13, 2024

    10/10

    Good service without being obtrusive. Excellent food quality and innovative.

  • Nicola F.3 reviews

    November 8, 2024

    10/10

    It was a birthday lunch and the team were highly attentive and made the right level of fuss for the birthday girl. Everyone there is so lovely :-)

  • Manuella A.1 review

    November 6, 2024

    10/10

    On the pricier side but worth every bit of it, from the food to ambience to service, I cannot fault it.

  • Liberta R.1 review

    October 31, 2024

    5/10
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    I had booked Orelle for my Fiancè 28th Birthday, I did request a Happy Birthday once his desert was out, but had nothing which was very disappointing considering how expensive the place is. The food was nice and actually place had stunning views however I feel the staff was a let down

  • James S.1 review

    October 27, 2024

    10/10

    Excellent food, excellent service, lovely restaurant and atmosphere - will definitely visit again.

  • George R.1 review

    October 25, 2024

    9/10

    Superb food and views. Prix fixe excellent value. Erratic service. The food is superb. Perfectly prepared and presented. While the A la Carte is a tad pricey, the Prix Fixe is excellent value-even with supplements of £13, for the steak tartare and pork cutlet, £52 for a three-course meal is exceptional value. For a restaurant which has been open for some time the service, while pleasant and attentive, was erratic. My, and the adjacent table’s, cocktail seemed to be involved in a mix up with the waiter going back and forth between our tables and the bar. The red wine which I ordered with my starter had to be chased up several minutes after the starter had been served. Conversely, the white wine for my main course arrived a good fifteen minutes before my main course. The food, views and ambience compensated for these minor shortcomings

  • Laura B.4 reviews

    October 25, 2024

    10/10
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    Everything was amazing, we had a very special meal .

  • Linda D.1 review

    October 23, 2024

    10/10

    Food was delicious and service very good.

  • Tallen S.1 review

    October 18, 2024

    10/10

    restaurant as a whole couldn't fault however phoned the restaurant as running late because of parking issues they advised me to park at a carpark but failed to mention it closes at 10pm so now me and my newly partner are now stranded in Birmingham cheers

  • Vicky L.3 reviews

    October 17, 2024

    9.5/10

    The food was interesting and beautifully presented . Very tasty. Ambience was good- I went once before and I think the decor has been toned down a bit which I preferred. The service was excellent- attentive but not overly intrusive

  • Andy O.1 review

    October 4, 2024

    5.5/10

    The service from arrival 40 mins ( the receptionist was partially unhelpful) to be seated at our table, only given daily menu, massive wait between started and main course, gave up on desert, to give you an idea of timing our reservation was 1pm at the end of our main course it was 4pm. Asked for service charge to be removed, and at no point did anyone from management came to discuss our concerns, poor show.

  • Louise S.1 review

    September 23, 2024

    3.5/10

    Table was 12.15pm, waited 45mins to have our drinks order taken. Didn't receive our main courses until 1.45pm, food was not warm enough. Restaurant was quite cold too. So disappointing.

  • Chris B.1 review

    September 11, 2024

    10/10

    Everything about our visit was perfect

  • Jo P.1 review

    September 3, 2024

    10/10
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    Excellent experience 👍

  • Candice L.7 reviews

    August 27, 2024

    2.5/10

    Bad experience and not Worth 1: I made a booking through the fork and received a confirmation email already. However, I suddenly received an SMS link on Open Table asking me to pay a deposit on another app for a deposit, which made me super confused. 2: I informed the downstairs and upstairs waiter that the booking was on the Fork and had a discount menu, but they did not provide me with it until I asked. 3: The fork app clearly stated that the 2-course menu is 29 and the 3-course is 35, and both include a drink (wine). I ordered the 2-course menu and showed the fork menu to the waiter, who confirmed that the drink would be included. However, when the bill arrived, I was informed that the drink was only included with the 3-course meal and it was going to charge 17 for 2 glasses of wine. They did not tell me when I placed the order, which forced me to order a dessert to make it into the 3 courses. 4: They cancel my booking in the fork app which I dont know why

  • Akeel S.1 review

    August 19, 2024

    10/10

    Amazing food Amazing service Beautiful location and view Romantic setting Totally perfect

  • Erin C.1 review

    August 20, 2024

    4/10

    Not worth the money

  • Jin W.1 review

    August 11, 2024

    8.5/10

    Great atmosphere and foods were decent. However, our chips were too dry.

  • Stephen S.1 review

    August 11, 2024

    10/10

    The food is excellent, good service and fantastic views over the city.

  • Stephen G.1 review

    July 31, 2024

    4.5/10

    The view over Birmingham is fabulous, it is probably the highlight of my visit, the food was bland, under seasoned and the meat poorly cooked, not tender nor treated with any care to bring out its full potential.

  • Gabriel J.

    Gabriel J.3 reviews

    July 31, 2024

    10/10

    fantastic food, excellent service, lovely atmosphere

  • John C.1 review

    July 26, 2024

    6/10

    We had the Prix Fixe lunch. My 'coq au vin' was nothing like coq au vin. Far too expensive for what was served.

  • Winnie L.1 review

    July 25, 2024

    10/10
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    Good foods and good services

  • Lorraine G.1 review

    July 20, 2024

    10/10

    Good was fantastic , very attentive service , fantastic view

  • Roger L.1 review

    July 19, 2024

    10/10
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    Attentive friendly staff. Beautiful food, beautifully presented. Reasonably priced for fine dining experience.

  • Matthew M.1 review

    July 16, 2024

    3.5/10

    After a fairly combative greeting demanding that I removed my hat, I was delighted to receive an ‘hello’, before being chastised that I wasn’t quite early enough for my 7pm booking. I arrived at 6.57. Determined not to let my evening catching up with a dear friend be too soured, we headed to the restaurant and were staggered by the wonderful views. That’s really all I can say was positive about my experience at Orelle. It took a long time to order, even longer to get the food and throughout my protracted evening I seldom felt attended to. Our mains came well past 9pm, and it was only in getting up from our seats to speak to a server that we received an apology for the delay and were given a small bowl of bread as an apology. The food was okay, my starter was underseasoned, the main was nothing special. By this point we were seeking redemption via any possible means and so elected to get a dessert, which was a highlight. Our server was gracious enough to remove the charge for the dessert from our bill, which went some way towards an apology however not enough that my experience wasn’t still fundamentally quite poor. Given the cost of the experience, even without the desserts on the bill, I’d struggle to recommend Orelle. Style over substance, perhaps, a bad night, teething issues? - I’d like to say I’d give it another go and see if they could do better but it doesn’t feel worthwhile. A resoundingly above-its-station experience. Not recommended.

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