Stryx Community Art Cafe and Gallery

a good few people in birmingham's coffee scene will point you toward the jewellery quarter before they're done talking, and vyse street has a way of coming up twice. stryx sits at number 90, where the independent gallery side of things gives the space a different kind of weight than your usual sit-down-and-scroll setup. this isn't a place that happened by accident, and the combination of art and specialty coffee isn't a gimmick either, it's just what the address has become. the reviews are consistent enough that you'd feel confident making the trip from further afield. worth arriving when you've got time to stay, not just grab and go, because the gallery element earns the slower pace. b18 on a quiet afternoon.