Thai Cocktail Bar Orbit

I have spent more nights than I care to count hunched over sticky bar tops in the city centre, sipping the same old gin and tonic while the jukebox repeats its greatest hits from 2012. So when a friend dragged me to a small place near the canal in Birmingham's Jewellery Quarter, I expected more of the same. What I found instead was a room where the air smelled of lime leaf and lemongrass, where the ice was a single clear block and the menu read like a street food market cros