Fat Hippo Birmingham

Great place for a walk in lunch. Ordered from the "smaller" options, but as you can see from the photos, the portions were more than enough to fill you up for lunch. Great range of ales and beers, along with the expected array of interesting beef and chicken burgers with a good choice of different fries options for sides. Service was good with friendly attentive staff. And the burgers were tasty. 👌🏻

New place, decent prices for Birmingham. Food wise, it was quite alright. It is not the best when it comes to the vegan options, but at least there is an offer there which is tasty, but dry. The regular beef burgers, were really nice with quite a good variety of flavour profiles. Peanut butter & jam is always a winner.
Also options for the more classic burger approach.

Visited on their opening day, booked for 7.15 - very easy booking system.

Food was superb. An excellent range of burgers, fries and sides to choose from, all executed well and clearly cooked fresh. The milkshakes are also worth a mention as they were absolutely delicious.

The service was outstanding, Mike was charming, witty, attentive without being overbearing and made us feel very welcome.

We will definitely be back soon!

That was probably the best vegan burger I've had in ages and the fries and onion rings were perfectly cooked and crisp.

They had a great selection of meat and vegan options and it was difficult to choose because they all sounded great.

I'm not vegan but the Oprah Sin-Free burger sounded too good not to try. The burger and fries arrived quick and hot. The table service speed and friendliness was top notch.

I heard such great reviews about Fat Hippo but maybe because it's so new, the didn't live up to the hype. I ordered a salted caramel milkshake which turned out to be a chocolate milkshake with a bit of salted caramel sauce on top! Seriously!!!! I asked the waitress to change it, I swapped it for a basic strawberry milkshake which wasn't sweet enough and lacked strawberry flavour. OK onto the main meal. I have to admit, food looked amazing but tasted horrible, I mean horrid. The chicken thigh was brown, greasy and not easy on the stomach. The cheese wasn't melted properly. The dirty fries were cheap and tasted like they were a supermarket's own frozen fries. The staff didn't look like they wanted to be there and didn't even query when I asked for the bill after taking a bite of my food and dissecting the rest to see what was edible.
Best part of dinner was leaving the restaurant and deciding where else to go!

All of the chicken we use across all of our restaurants and concessions is certified halal. However, none of our beef products used at any locations are certified halal.

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