Cafe Gazette

good coffee in birmingham's city centre is easier to find than people give it credit for, and cafe gazette on corporation street is a solid reason why. the street runs through the commercial heart of the city, busy in the way that central birmingham always is, and yet this place holds a crowd that keeps coming back with the kind of loyalty that's hard to fake. you don't build that with mediocre flat whites. the regulars here are genuinely fond of it, not just habitual about it, which matters more than it sounds. corporation street, b4, weekday morning, a long black before the city fully wakes up.