Food and Drink: Chameleon offers colourful evening
TRANSFORMING between bar, restaurant and club in one large room, the very adaptable The Chameleon is an apt name for Birmingham’s newest venue.
Despite first thinking up the idea three decades ago, friends Jan Miruszenko, the man behind Summer Row bar Mechu and Studibakers, and property developer Robbie Bell have finally seen their vision become reality.
At the corner of Victoria Square and Hill Street in the city centre, this lively venue, once Henry’s Cafe Bar, is aiming for vibrancy of all the senses.
Music, shows, food, wine. Never quiet, never dull.
It is the produce of a £1 million investment in the eatery and it shows.
It has been open for just eight weeks and its long bar is already enticing gaggles of girls in for cocktails and suited gents for after-work drinks.
The bar cuts between the white linen of restaurant tables and the stage where dangles a magnificent custom-made huge glitter ball. While two massive modern chandeliers, which constantly change colour, hang prominently near the entrance.
Izzy Grey, a maitre d’ at The Chameleon, says: “The bespoke chandeliers are the main reason we are calling it The Chameleon. They explode in colour and are always changing.
“Eat, drink, dance all in one place, that’s what this is all about.
“We want people to come and enjoy themselves here, whether it is drinking and dancing or for excellent food, as we have a chef who is serious about food and want to bring back that old fashioned service.
“If someone books in and needs to eat late, we can adapt and keep the kitchen open until midnight and he has come up with a wonderful range of food for the menu.
