Chakana

We had an absolutely wonderful Sunday lunch here yesterday. The service from Erika was charming, informative and attentive. The restaurant is very well designed. We had delicious cocktails to start and then two courses of truly delicious food. Highly recommended, I would most certainly go back.

Lovely experience and food. Will visit again. Don't be intimidated by the plate presentation, the servers are friendly and not stuck up. You can definitely feel satisfied after an appetizer and main. I feel like the meat could've been seasoned a bit more but that's my only criticism (it's quite bland without any sauces).

We went for the tasting menu as it was a special occasion. Food was full of interesting flavours, utterly delicious, and beautifully presented. I had made a mistake on the booking and it could all have gone horribly wrong but the staff sorted it brilliantly with kindness and grace. Compliments and thanks to all the staff - was a wonderful experience and well worth the long journey to get there.

Delicious food, presented beautifully. Unique menu. Cocktails were great, very tasty and inventive, lots of choice of bespoke cocktails. Tried ceviche and wouldn’t recommend if you aren’t expecting large chunks of fish. Quite pricy but a unique dining experience. The Sunday dinner was a strange choice but was still tasty.

Literally joy on a plate. The food was exceptional. The team kind, knowledgeable and passionate about what they do. AND dog friendly. Words are normally my thing but this food is so bonkersly good, that it defies words. Just try Chakana, if you are lucky enough to be in Birmingham. If not, travel to Birmingham to try it. It really is that good.

Fantastic restaurant where I always love to come back for a special meal. Me and my husband were celebrating a wedding anniversary so we came for dinner on a Thursday evening. The service was great and attentive and food came relatively quickly. We ordered a pisco and a cocktail and they were both superb. Then we had a delicious complimentary bread with a dip and starters - seabream ceviche, tuna nikkei and salmon ceviche. All of them were excellent but I would say the salmon was the best (my husband said that for him it was the classic seabream). We then had suckling pig and hot red mullet ceviche. Again, both were superb, very interesting and creative flavour combinations and beautiful plating. For dessert we had picarones (doughnuts with ice cream) and they were a perfect sweet ending of a special meal. We even got complimentary anniversary plate with ice cream! :)

We had a date night at Chakana. The food was amazing, very bright, very different, a fusion between Japanese and South American cuisines, fantastic for exploration! The service was also very attentive, they refilled our tigers milk because we couldnt stop dipping our food into it.

A return to this restaurant produced a much improved experience. As before, the food was original and abfab, but today it was much warmed and was better lit. Service from young, well trained, engaging staff was lovely. I recommend this place wholeheartedly.