Byzantium - Birmingham

Many, many thanks for the staff in Byzantium to make our dinner a great experience. Food was amazing!

Fabulous evening out with my family including my little boy, who was well looked after by the staff! Food was amazing great selection of tapas we ordered a big selection and everything tasted so good! Service was excellent, and our waiter was very friendly. Great atmosphere. We will be returning.

An unexpected delight. Great food, great ambience, excellent service. Not what I expected but delighted by the experience.

A party of 12 attended the restaurant in May for a special occasion. Before I wrote a review I wanted to give the restaurant an opportunity to respond to our complaint and concerns and after 2 weeks non were forthcoming therefore we need to advise other people of the issues. The main issue is that our daughter suffers from a peanut allergy and at no-point did anyone ask about allergies when booking or when taking orders as other restaurants do and the menu online or at the restaurant does not state which items may contain nuts or lists any other allergies, it just tells the consumer to ask about allergies. This is not the way it should be or the way other restaurants work. My daughter ordered the chocolate pudding and it was only when it arrived that my I saw visible nuts and asked about the ingredients, immediately the waiter did not know. He went away to ask and then advised us that the pudding contained nuts on the surface and within the pudding. If I had not noticed this, it could have resulted in my daughter having a very serious reaction. I really do not feel that the restaurant is doing sufficient to protect customers and should really review and change the policy with regards to allergies. The other issue is, that we were seated upstairs, which is fine but from previous experience we feared that the service would not be very good as we had experienced last time when seated upstairs. The waiters appear to forget about you and we had to go downstairs on several occasions to chase for drinks, insufficient wine glasses for the wine and then the food took so long to arrive that we ended up having to leave without the final dishes as by 9.30 the children were very tired, considering we were seated by 6.30. I feel really disappointed about the entire thing, particularly when it was for a special occasion and when my daughters health was put at risk. Having visited a few times before, unfortunately we won’t be returning.

We needed something fairly quick but not junk food, at 6pm. Byzantium was perfect. Their range of meat, fish and vegetable tapas dishes for £6-£9 each is served in a pleasantly authentic restaurant in Kings Heath within walking distance of the pay and display car park. We didn't reserve, but I should think it's a good idea later in the evening. Will come back here for a proper meal.