re: Birmingham eats and drinks recommendations?

I don't understand the love for the garage. It has a neat courtyard I guess but there's no draft beer and it is cash only. If you want a simple pub without dipshit bartenders and decent draft selection head to Dave' (5 points). If you like bar food with your drinks, Black Market is across the street.

Nikki's west is perfectly safe. There's a drug treatment facility next door but its locked down at night (it's well staffed and a lot of Nikki's West employees are actually from that program), the rest is mostly industrial. I still wouldn't recommend it for anyone visiting just because its too far out from Birmingham. It's not worth the hassle of finding it.