Eden Bar

About this place Eden Bar

Eden Bar is on Hurst Street — the main drag of Birmingham's Gay Village — and functions as the street's most accessible and relaxed venue: open from noon daily, mixed gay/lesbian/queer crowd, a large ground-floor bar with reasonable prices. The bar doesn't compete with the Nightingale on scale or the more specialist venues on atmosphere; its role is accessibility. It is the bar you go to first, where you meet before moving on, where you end up for a final drink after the clubs close. The Hurst Street location means it is equidistant from the Nightingale and the other village venues, and the bar's broad appeal means the crowd is genuinely mixed across age, gender and sexuality in a way that more specialist venues are not.