Digbeth Dining Club

[dave.woodhall]

Did anyone use it and was it worth the hype?

[PeterWithe]

No, the queues were so long I didn’t bother. Seemed to be a success from a popularity point of view.

[tomd2103]

Didn't use it myself Dave, but there were fairly lengthy queues so it seemed pretty popular and the band seemed to be getting a decent reception. 

[Flin5tone]

at least 100 people in queue  so gave up, guess that's a good thing (for them)

[AlexAlexCropley]

When I arrived at 6.30 and saw the queues I thought wtf. Decided to give it a go.Took about 19 minutes and then a banging crispy chicken from Buddha Belly.
Think it was too cramped an area, but it was a 1000% improvement on any normal food experience.More please!

[The Edge]

I give it a miss as it looked too rammed. Great idea though but a bigger space needs to be found. Maybe when they get round to flattening the whole of the villa village/ stumps area something can be done to accomodate a decent fanzone.

[Flin5tone]

When they flatten the Village where will the club shop be? We certainly have enough space for a DDC fan zone.

[chrisw1]

Yep, queues to long so ended up with the usual too doughey pie in the Holte End.  Wished they hadn't changed suppliers.

[JJ-AV]

Loved it. Really good idea, gets people to the ground early and makes more of an event of the day.

I go to DDC a couple of times a month anyway so chuffed to bits with it being there.

There's so much more Villa can do in terms of integration, Purity and this have been a good start. Having a band out there was good too.

Get the other games/Soccer Saturday/Football Focus on the big screens outside too

[cdbearsfan]

Is this the thing that was creating the drumming noise I noticed before the kick off?

[itbrvilla]

One of the big differences between football in the UK and other countries in Europe I've watched live football is that everything around the game helps make it feel like a much bigger event. Some reason we've struggled in the UK but glad to see things improving.

[Pete3206]

Gave up when I saw the queue, so I went to the bar in the Witton Upper and had an 'early bird' lager for £3. It wasn't a great pint to be honest.

[exigo]

Walked straight up to get served at about quarter past six. Ten minutes later there were queues everywhere.

[frank black]

Not suited to an environment when so many turn up in a short space of time. Gave up on the wait

[paul_e]

Not suited to an environment when so many turn up in a short space of time. Gave up on the wait

I was there from 6 and was for people turning up earlier so they could get some good food, listen to some music and have a beer or 2 rather than just sitting in the cold. I think it's a great idea.