Tara Chirpy / 27 February 2025 / Categories: Travel and Holidays, Food & Drink, Restaurants

Bottega Prosecco Bar and Cafe

Better than experience than the Kitchen

The last time I told you we ate at the Factory Bar and Kitchen in Birmingham Airport. That doesn’t exist anymore and has been replaced by a Peaky Blinders inspired restaurant called Shelby and Co bar and kitchen and even though it’s a new franchise we swerved that joint after the last experience and chose another new offering Bottega instead.

Bottega you cannot miss as it is the first cafe bar restaurant you see when you emerge from security and duty free. You may have stumbled across this brand offering in Marco Polo Airport in Venice, the flagship location. I haven’t been but looking at the pictures it’s quite fancy.

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The company is located less than 50 miles from Venice Italy and is the proud owner of four Italian wineries and distilleries and the Italian chic is apparent even in the bowels of Birmingham airport still under construction with broken air conditioning. It was very hot inside, not the restaurants fault considering it’s February in UK.

First things first in a world where airport food is rubbish and expensive we had two breakfasts, scrambled eggs on toast, and one scrambled eggs tomatoes and mushrooms, with two cups of tea for under £20.

We were blown away. Affordable luxury.We expected £30 at least.

The food wasn’t gourmet although the marketing pictures of the food are very attractive and appealing.

The service was good and quick and although the toast was sliced processed bread it was brown and the eggs slightly over cooked and rubbery they were cooked to order and at 5am I was grateful and scoffed the lot.

Would I pick Bottega Prosecco cafe again. When I looked in to the background of the company, their ethos and what they are passionate about I discovered they are a “green” company with open and transparent supply chains, trying to do things differently to reduce CO2 emissions so Sure. It was a nice vibe and a good way to kick off a few days in the sunshine.