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Ranked shortlist · 10 of 268 fast food restaurants
Best fast food restaurants in Birmingham
The 10 most notable fast food restaurants in Birmingham, in rank order. The order is curation quality — how well attested and how complete each record is — not popularity, and no place on this list paid to be on it.
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1
Pepe's Birmingham Bristol Road
596 Bristol Road
446 m from Selly Oak railway station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.312, percentile 100 of 268
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2
Pepe's Piri Piri - Stratford Road
850 Stratford Road
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.309, percentile 99.63 of 268
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3
Adams Pizza Birmingham
40 Horse Fair
358 m from Birmingham New Street railway station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.309, percentile 99.25 of 268
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4
Pearl Fish Bar
73 Milton St
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.308, percentile 98.88 of 268
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5
Pearls Peri Peri
2 Caldmore Grn
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.308, percentile 98.5 of 268
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6
Urban Feast
14 Navigation St
135 m from Birmingham New Street railway station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.307, percentile 98.13 of 268
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7
Pepe's Piri Piri - Corporation Street
159 Corporation Street
389 m from Birmingham Snow Hill station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.306, percentile 97.75 of 268
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8
Shakehouse Stoney Lane
17 Stoney Ln
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.303, percentile 97.38 of 268
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9
Pepe's Piri Piri Chicken
354 Bradford Road
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.301, percentile 97 of 268
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10
Monty's Deli Sandwich Bar
5 Bull Street
262 m from Birmingham Snow Hill station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.296, percentile 96.63 of 268
How this list is made
Every place in this group was scored by the same model, with each term z-normalised inside the group and capped, so a famous chain cannot win by being famous everywhere. The weights, verbatim:
- attestation by independent providers
- +0.35
- record completeness (website, phone, address)
- +0.25
- Overture existence confidence
- +0.20
- Michelin designation (Wikidata, CC0)
- +0.40
- brand fame (Wikidata sitelinks)
- −0.15
- same-name chain collision
- −0.30
Curation quality, not popularity: how well attested and how complete a record is.
No licensable popularity signal; this ranks curation quality, not taste
Independent check: 5,951 places listed in Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0; validation only, never published or scored) were matched to our records by name within 250 m. Across the 5,651 that fall in groups of at least 10, the median matched place sits at percentile 73 and 24.2% are in the top decile, against 10% by chance; five families have enough anchors to report (arts, food and drink, lodging, shopping, sport), while health care (5), lifestyle services (17), travel (26) have too few and are not validated. A match needs both the guide and the catalogue to name the same place, which favours well-attested places — a term this rank itself rewards — so these are lower bounds; Michelin's 528 in-group anchors have a median percentile of 100, but that is partly circular: across the Wikivoyage matches, the 17 that also carry the designation term this rank scores sit at 99.93, against 72.55 for the 5,934 without it.
The catalogue carries no rating, review count, price or opening hours, so this file has none.
Station locations from Wikidata (CC0-1.0). Nearest station, not service: no frequency, timetable or departures.
Nobody paid for placement: no ads, no sponsored results, no ratings for sale.
Data: AllThePlaces (CC0-1.0), BrightQuery (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), DAC (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Foursquare Open Source Places (Apache-2.0), Meta (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Microsoft (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), PinMeTo (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), RenderSEO (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).